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Oatmeal - we are not old...we are well seasoned.
Ok, Lesley. Is J taking on flatmates again or he is going solo? I get very excited when people move house. It's a new beginning.
Reply #3281. Sep 02 11, 9:03 AM
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| Oatmeal25
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Oatmeal by definition is not well-seasoned. Oatmeal is pasty and lukewarm. :(
Reply #3282. Sep 02 11, 9:15 AM
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daymare
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I forgot...you can add cinnamon or allspice or nutmeg.
Reply #3284. Sep 02 11, 10:06 AM
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| Oatmeal25
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I was talking about Oatmeal(25), not oatmeal! I love the food, or I wouldn't have plighted my FT troth to it.:)
I use a tiny bit of brown sugar, and I'm in heaven!
Reply #3285. Sep 02 11, 10:53 AM
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daymare
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Oh! Sorry! I misunderstood.
My face is red.....
Reply #3286. Sep 02 11, 11:13 AM
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| lesley153
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Porridge made with thick-cut oats and finished with a little milk and a drop of honey - most enjoyable.
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Left the house just after three with Jonathan in the passenger seat, and the back seat and boot crammed with his belongings. Drove to his new flat in south London. That took about three hours because of all the traffic and road works.
Unloaded and went out to eat. Found a promising-looking Italian restaurant. Spent ten minutes waiting for water and reading the menu, and walked out. Walked on a bit, found a lot of busy restaurants and bars, and one Chinese/Japanese/Thai restaurant with space. Got instant attention, attentive and charming service, and a completely delicious meal. Left the flat at about 11.30 and got home at 1.30. Tired now.
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On the last stretch of the M1 coming home, we saw a few FedEx lorries and joked that any one of them might have my lamp on it. We might have been right! We know that it arrived at Wellingborough early Friday morning, and left for delivery, but an hour later was not there and had never arrived. We have now seen that it went to another delivery hub at Junction 13 of the M1, which is the junction we leave at. The J13 hub has sent it back to Wellingborough. When I get it, if I get it, its journey will look like a cat's cradle.
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Reply #3287. Sep 02 11, 7:12 PM
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daymare
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So, what does everyone think of the strange route Lesley's lamp is taking?
Reply #3288. Sep 02 11, 7:56 PM
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| Oatmeal25
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Methinks the lamp may be on the lam, as circuitous as its route is.
Reply #3289. Sep 02 11, 8:22 PM
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| C30
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Glad you got Jonathan & assorted gear, into new flat in "Sarf Lunnon". Amazing thing eating out in London (or anywhere else in UK I suppose), you can find Chinese, Indian, Thai, Italian restaurants by the dozen..try finding an English one!
Had missive from Tesco.........."This item was a discontinued range and should not have been on display"............appologies - nil, offers of compensation - nil and "We are sorry to lose a customer", conspicuous by absence! Terse, take it or leave it! Just about usual level of "service" one has come to expect this day and age.
"Lesley's Lamp"..........hypothetical situation, presuming you were capable of it...........Bedford-Cambridge-Bedford...round trip of 60 miles? Standard marching speed in British forces is 120 paces to minute, which equals out to around 3mph. So, you could have walked to Cambridge, collected lamp, and walked back home in less than a day!
Using the car of course you could have done it in about an hour!
Total change of subject.........and a usually infinite source of interest to the male sex........"knickers" or "panties". I always considered the former to be British term and the latter an imported Americanism.
Reply #3290. Sep 03 11, 1:57 AM
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Professer
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The company should be mentioned in dispatches on Watchdog amd sure the queen of mean would have a feild day with the delivery firm.
Reply #3291. Sep 03 11, 2:22 AM
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| lesley153
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The lamp is getting tantalisingly close. It was sent to Marston Gate, less than ten miles from where I live, back to Wellingborough 20 miles away, where it sits, presumably till Monday.
 http://g.co/maps/uagc
Either the driver’s on the lam or he’s learning about asymptotes. Its route is looking more and more like a maths lesson.
I don’t think FedEx deliver at weekends. Their customer service is only available phone Monday to Friday, and the boy on the phone said I could expect to get it Monday or Tuesday - possibly Friday, but more likely Monday or Tuesday. Nor do I know why I persist in adding Bedford to the route. Anyone would think I was expecting to get the lamp one day.
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Sprog told his ex-flatmates in central London that he was moving Sarf, and they were horrified. How can you bear to live Sarf - it’s so awful! How about Norf? Oh no, Norf is just too, too terrible too! (I’ve only ever lived Norf and Norf-West, but this flat is very smart and in a rather lovely area.)
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Where indeed is indigenous cooking? A few years ago, I was talking to a new local restaurateur, and I asked him what sort of food he’d be offering:
“Oh just normal British food,” he said: “ Spag bol, curries, lasagne, kebabs, chili con carne, sweet and sour, all the usual stuff.”
Probably the only way to get traditional indigenous food now is to go to Simpsons in the Strand for a lump of roast cow and a whisky tasting, or up the road to the chippie.
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Sainsburys are better at that sort of thing. If I grumble about an employee’s behaviour or attitude, they talk as though they care, and say they will refer it to management to be discussed at the next meeting. If I grumble about a product, they often refund the cost, whether I want them to or not. A duty manager in the store, who annoyed me a couple of years ago, and I’ve avoided ever since, has been “promoted” to manager of the petrol station, where she annoyed the living daylights out of me again last week. I rang the careline and got someone who said what she had done, and the way she had spoken, was unprofessional and unacceptable, and told a deputy manager about it, so that he could Have a Word. Then, out of the blue, I got a letter containing money. Of course I spent it on petrol, but the annoying woman wasn’t there so the purchase was seamless and fast.
Tesco, less so. A few years ago, I found a water snail in their thrice washed “ready to eat” watercress. The squirt on the phone said “We always recommend washing salads.”
Oh really - is that what “washed and ready to eat” means?
"Huh?"
No, I thought not. They eventually sent me a fiver! Usually, though, the response is a letter saying they’re sorry about what went wrong, or the fact that they no longer stock something I’ve been buying for years, and there’s nothing they can do about it, but they look forward to the pleasure of my continuing custom. Indeed.
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Had I thought of “panties” as an Americanism? No, not consciously; I just thought of it as an irritating diminutive used as an unnecessary euphemism. I suppose I should have guessed.
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Watchdog might like it, and Esther Rantzen would have had fun with it too. Let me wait and see if I get my lamp, first; then I’ll have a think about it.
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Reply #3292. Sep 03 11, 10:19 AM
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| lesley153
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| PS My magic dashboard tells me that I drove about 155 miles yesterday. The lamp is winning. |
Reply #3293. Sep 03 11, 10:20 AM
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bloodandsand
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Could get a few tv series/books with this, Lesley:
The Lady with the Lamp
Travels with my Lamp :)
Reply #3294. Sep 03 11, 2:41 PM
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daymare
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Lesley's Lamp Travels the World....
even though it didn't want to....lol
Monday...it better be Monday or, or...it will be Tuesday...
Reply #3295. Sep 03 11, 3:34 PM
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| lesley153
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| Have lamp, will travel... Hmmm - people keep telling me to Write a Book. Could this be it? |
Reply #3296. Sep 03 11, 4:11 PM
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satguru
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South of the river may be foreign but has as many decent areas as north- I'd have been there myself had I not been let down in 1995. And as anyone here knows you can cross a main road and be from heaven to hell in a few hundred yards. The areas can change suddenly just like being on the edge of a rain cloud where each side of the road is wet or dry. Peckham and Dulwich for instance over that way, or even Bexley and Bexleyheath. I should write a book on it but think people must have beaten me to it.
Reply #3297. Sep 03 11, 4:27 PM
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daymare
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bloodandsand....what about 'The Lady Without the Lamp'?
Lesley, is this lamp one of a kind or what?
By the way, I use LEDs if possible. Mercury anything just makes me nervous considering how many things I drop. Can't touch mercury with hands so have to use a syringe to collect. Yet, these are good for our use? -shaking head no-
Reply #3298. Sep 03 11, 4:50 PM
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bloodandsand
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Daymare, I was going down the Florence Lightingale route (groan!)
Reply #3299. Sep 03 11, 5:13 PM
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daymare
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At least her lamp arrived.....
Reply #3300. Sep 03 11, 5:29 PM
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