Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 394191 times)

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #125 on:** 17 September, 2011, 11:30:10 am »

eep!

glad he's ok, and hope he has indeed learnt from it!

clarion · « **Reply #126 on:** 17 September, 2011, 11:33:39 am »

Very pleased to hear he wasn't more badly hurt.

thelazycyclist · « **Reply #127 on:** 17 September, 2011, 04:05:39 pm »

Good news! Just had a letter telling me that following a 3 year pay freeze I have finaly been awarded a pay rise.

Bad news! This is from the job I quit 3 weeks ago.

Valiant · « **Reply #128 on:** 17 September, 2011, 05:34:51 pm »

Our latest project has been a massive success

http://fwords.co.uk/2011/09/16/arms-trade-hoax-is-outed-as-organisers-admit-it-was-%E2%80%9Can-elaborate-stunt%E2%80%9D-to-embarrass-weapons-dealers/

LindaG · « **Reply #129 on:** 17 September, 2011, 05:38:23 pm »

Quote from: Valiant on 17 September, 2011, 05:34:51 pm

Our latest project has been a massive success http://fwords.co.uk/2011/09/16/arms-trade-hoax-is-outed-as-organisers-admit-it-was-%E2%80%9Can-elaborate-stunt%E2%80%9D-to-embarrass-weapons-dealers/

You are Life Neutral? Kudos Valiant

Fuckin' A

Valiant · « **Reply #130 on:** 17 September, 2011, 05:58:20 pm »

The Space Hijackers are

of which I might be a member. It was great, we're on various media, including BBC World Service, and on Drive Time with Eddie Nestor, meaning hundreds of thousands of more people now know about the Arms Fair which was our main aim.

clarion · « **Reply #131 on:** 17 September, 2011, 08:38:51 pm »

It was an excellent action. The media seemed happy to let the Death Trade Fair pass by without comment, but you got it on the airwaves.

Thank you to all the Space Hijackers

why1040 · « **Reply #132 on:** 17 September, 2011, 11:21:44 pm »

Good news: nice early night so I'm well rested for my first forum ride tomorrow!

Bad news: I have a mosquito in my bedroom which is going to drive me insane!

rogerzilla · « **Reply #133 on:** 18 September, 2011, 02:02:33 pm »

Good: the cat has survived and recovered from an iliac embolism, which is in "Never tell me the odds!" territory.

Bad: although he's fully functional again, he may drop dead at any time when another clot gets stuck somewhere vital. Definitely on his ninth life.

Basil · « **Reply #134 on:** 18 September, 2011, 10:04:17 pm »

Bad. Mrs. B has to get up early for work tomorrow.
Good. I don't.

Being old is brilliant!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #135 on:** 21 September, 2011, 06:49:38 pm »

Bad news: Tetley's Yorkshire Tea Loaf, which I spotted in a supermarket and thought might be a pale imitation of the tea bread my mother used to make, is actually a completely different thing. And it's really not that nice. Far too sweet, not enough dried fruit and far too little tea (10% Yorkshire tea infusion according to the ingredients, whereas my mother's was soaked in a pint of tea overnight).

Good news: well, it is nevertheless cake!

Arch · « **Reply #136 on:** 21 September, 2011, 07:06:27 pm »

Good news: I've got my sense of smell back.
Bad news: I work with bins. I've got my sense of smell back...

Butterfly · « **Reply #137 on:** 21 September, 2011, 10:37:24 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 21 September, 2011, 06:49:38 pm

Bad news: Tetley's Yorkshire Tea Loaf, which I spotted in a supermarket and thought might be a pale imitation of the tea bread my mother used to make, is actually a completely different thing. And it's really not that nice. Far too sweet, not enough dried fruit and far too little tea (10% Yorkshire tea infusion according to the ingredients, whereas my mother's was soaked in a pint of tea overnight).

Good news: well, it is nevertheless cake!

Your mum's sounds like barm brack.

3/4 pint cold tea
10oz sultanas
2oz of peel or other dried fruit (I usually use 12oz sultanas unless I'm running out)
7oz dark or soft brown sugar

Soaked together overnight.

In the morning, whisk in one egg and 10oz self raising flour.
Bake in a loaf tin at about 170 or a little less for between one hour 30 and one hour 45.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #138 on:** 21 September, 2011, 10:45:21 pm »

This is my mum's tea bread recipe:
500g dried fruit
1 mug dark brown sugar (muscovado)
1 mug black tea

soak overnight

add 2 mugs self-raising flour
mix well

bake in medium oven 45-90 mins (depends on size, quantity of tea, etc)

So pretty similar but no egg.
Barm brack sounds a pretty northern name - my mum never lived north of mid-Wales, but her dad's family had connections in the north-west, so maybe it came from there.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #139 on:** 22 September, 2011, 07:32:31 am »

The good news is that I've had a rebate of more than £200 from my electricity supplier. This is the second or third year that this has happened, and is mostly down to my younger daughter leaving home.

The bad news is that my VISA bill this month will be over £2000, boosted hugely by car insurance (>£600) and car service and repair (>£350).

Canardly · « **Reply #140 on:** 22 September, 2011, 08:33:35 pm »

Car insurance £600!!! You need to shop around old thing.

Quisling · « **Reply #141 on:** 22 September, 2011, 08:36:12 pm »

Good news - I've finally figured out what sort of boss I have

Bad news - knob

jogler · « **Reply #142 on:** 22 September, 2011, 09:15:01 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 22 September, 2011, 07:32:31 am

boosted hugely by car insurance (>£600)

f uckapig

what are you driving,a space shuttle?

a 2.5 litre Volvo costs only half of that to insure.
Someone,somewhere must be able to offer you a better deal.

Ham · « **Reply #143 on:** 22 September, 2011, 09:31:28 pm »

Bad news, I'm not going to be able to make the FNRttS on the 30th

Good news, it's coz I'm being bunged some cash to do stuff I like.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #144 on:** 27 September, 2011, 01:08:58 pm »

Hurrah! HMRC have sorted out the bugger-up with half the BigCo's employees' tax codes

Bah! I've just discovered I'm a higher-rate tax-payer

Bang goes my street cred...

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #145 on:** 28 September, 2011, 02:12:50 pm »

The SRAM Spectro hub gear turned up today & a neighbour took it in whilst I was out on a motorbike ride through the leafy lanes of Warwickshire. Bless.

Because I wasn't in & didn't get it early enough, I can't get the rim I want in time to have the Pompino ready for the weekend! I'm thinking of swapping the tyres on the Orbit that I'll have to take from Schwalbe Land cruisers to Schwalbe Delta Cruisers. There be hills in Shropshire.

Double bollocks: My LBS can't get hold of the rim for 4-5 days. Ho-hum.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #146 on:** 30 September, 2011, 05:53:03 am »

good news - my order is on its way!
bad news - so am i! in one sense this is good news, for i shall have an adventure, but it does mean that next week will now start with attempting redelivery or collection from parcelfarce....

LindaG · « **Reply #147 on:** 30 September, 2011, 10:37:36 am »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 30 September, 2011, 05:53:03 am

good news - my order is on its way!
bad news - so am i! in one sense this is good news, for i shall have an adventure, but it does mean that next week will now start with attempting redelivery or collection from parcelfarce....

Ooh, brown paper packages tied up with ~~string~~ tape, what you getting Crinkly?

tiermat · « **Reply #148 on:** 05 October, 2011, 10:21:42 am »

The house that myself and Mrs T love, not that far from the current THoFC, has come up for sale.

It is £450k

I will let you guess which is which

Torslanda · « **Reply #149 on:** 05 October, 2011, 10:32:09 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 05 October, 2011, 10:21:42 am

The house that myself and Mrs T love, not that far from the current THoFC, has come up for sale.

It is £450k

I will let you guess which is which

My Mrs T managed to fall in love with a building in Brompton when we drove past on Sunday. BIG boarded up Victorian pile. For sale by auction. Lottery winners only, I suspect.

PS. I seriously want to take a photo of our folders outside the Brompton General Store . . .

Author Topic: The Good News / Bad News Thread (Read 394191 times)

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