2010 YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread.

[Maggi Young]

 A good day for you, Chloe! Hope you've got a nice name for your new car...... our "Verity" gets upset if she thinks folks haven't named their cars.......

Well "Lola" is taken.

I can't say that it has ever occurred to me to give a name to a car    But logically the previous one would have been "Blue Period" and this one would be "Grey Period", which isn't exactly a name ... 

 There's often a clue.... Chloe, your new car must be 'Gandalf the Grey'......

[Maggi Young]

Huh! I only got one very small slice after my married daughter and her husband turned up to help us (me, wife and two kids) scoff one shallow plate-pie almost as soon as it came out of the oven!

Excuses, Martin, excuses! We're not impressed

[angie]

Huh! I only got one very small slice after my married daughter and her husband turned up to help us (me, wife and two kids) scoff one shallow plate-pie almost as soon as it came out of the oven!

Excuses, Martin, excuses! We're not impressed

Yes Maggi we are not at all impressed, he could have cooked TWO if he new he his wife and two kids would eat one to themselves.


Mark  I am way behind everyone else but good luck with your interview...fingers and toes crossed for you.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

Huh! I only got one very small slice after my married daughter and her husband turned up to help us (me, wife and two kids) scoff one shallow plate-pie almost as soon as it came out of the oven!

You should have been standing by the oven door, camera at the ready.

[Martin Baxendale]

Huh! I only got one very small slice after my married daughter and her husband turned up to help us (me, wife and two kids) scoff one shallow plate-pie almost as soon as it came out of the oven!

You should have been standing by the oven door, camera at the ready.

They were all at the table, spoons and forks at the ready.

[mark smyth]

Thanks everyone!

[Martin Baxendale]

Huh! I only got one very small slice after my married daughter and her husband turned up to help us (me, wife and two kids) scoff one shallow plate-pie almost as soon as it came out of the oven!

You should have been standing by the oven door, camera at the ready.

They were all at the table, spoons and forks at the ready.

Also, it wasn't a very photogenic pie. I remembered as I was making it that two of the people who were going to eat it have wheat intolerances so, to minimise the pastry element I decided at the last moment not to put a lid on the pie. So instead of cutting the bottom crust around the plate edge, I rolled up the surplus pastry to make a very rough crusty edging to hold the fruit in - looked really quite messy, but still delicious.

[Lesley Cox]

OK Martin, you're absolved. We don't need this harrowing tale of blood and slaughter.

Wheat intolerance is a very real problem nowadays, for a growing number of people. For some, it is just about life-threatening and there is a huge demand for gluten-freen products of all kinds. Not my problem, I'm happy to say but at my market we get dozens of enquiries for the vendors who supply gluten-free baking and meat products et al. What is it, I wonder, about our modern society that produces such intolerance, and so many relatively "new" allergies for so many people?

[Martin Baxendale]

One theory is that the incredible cocktail of new chemicals and pollutants that we're all exposed to these days (in our food, furnishings, buildings, cars, the air we breathe, etc) is causing our bodies' defences to become ever more confused and trigger-happy, so much quicker to develop an "allergic" reaction to all kinds of things.

[Lesley Cox]

I imagine that's the most likely explanation, though personally, I blame the government.

[David Nicholson]

.......... and the media

[Maggi Young]

.......... and the media

David, in the common parlance, I think that should be  "meeejaaa, Dahling"! 

[Paddy Tobin]

I imagine that's the most likely explanation, though personally, I blame the government.

Ha, ha, I love it, Lesley. I think I'll leave instructions for it to be carved on my gravestone, "I blame the government."

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Oh yes Paddy. That's a brilliant idea. I'll go for that as well.

[Lesley Cox]

This is NOT something I'm happy about but there's still a small laugh in it.

Yesterday Roger was dismissed from his job ostensibly because he went to a work site (to sort a job badly done by a fellow staff member) when he shouldn't have. The fact that he had been phoned and asked to come, apparently counted for nothing. As a result, Roger is talking to Dept of Labour about an unfair dismissal case.

Later in the day, his (late) boss phoned and asked him to come in today and discuss it and gave some reason to think he is back-tracking. He has had a number of small incidents recently of blackouts, and other odd behaviour and yesterday was to have a brain scan at the hospital. When he phoned, he told Roger he'd had the scan and Roger, always considerate, asked how did it go and "did they find one?" then coughed hastily and amended it to "anything?"

The boss has been looking for a reason to dismiss Roger for some time because of his injured ankle and R's difficulty with walking at present but he has never refused to do anything asked of him, so the injury can't be used as a reason to dismiss, even though many tasks take longer to do than they would a fully mobile person. Roger has got the boss out of many difficulties over a couple of years, caused by the boss's mental state, including picking him up at home and delivering him back again, when the boss lost his driving licence for 6 months, having crashed into another car and admitted in court that he "didn't even see the car in front of him." The man's a menace on the road.