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Loungers who Lunch; Cake, Bovril and Penguins...

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  • #3212
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    To wear wellies or not to wear wellies, that is the question!

    Looked outside this morning, didn't look too bad. Decided against the wellies. Que 3 o'clock shower just as I leave college. Feet/socks/shoes soaked. :(

    Went to the shop there. Put on wellies. Completely dry. Not a drop of rain. :mad:


  • #3213
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    SueBoom wrote: »
    Have you noticed many positives from not eating it?

    Nope, none!


  • #3214
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    ellieh1 wrote: »
    Hi All,

    It has been soooo long since I lasted posted here, life has been way too crazy, however I wanted to drop in to tell you all two big pieces of news.

    Many of you will remember my reluctance to go and meet "Mr. Boyfriend" for the very first time two years ago. Many of the ladies of TLL gave me loads of encouragement and on Jan 22nd 2011 I met him for the first time. My first piece of news is that we celebrated our second anniversary last Tuesday :D:D

    Yay! Congrats :)
    Unforunately we didnt really get to celebrate it as on Thursday last week I went to the courthouse to try and get my divorce after 4 long years of back and forth between solicitors. Many of you know the hard time I have been through with regards to my ex-husband and have been very supportive through many rough times I have had. After an extremely long day, filled with every emotion possible, exhaustion from not sleeping for the week and a half previous and with the love and supoort of Mr.Boyfriend and my two closest friends, my exhusband and I finally reached an agreement.

    I went back to the courthouse on Friday and finally I heard the words I have longed to hear "I hearby grant a decree of divorce". I am emotionally and physically exhausted but finally feeling ok. I am starting a new chapter in my life and it feels FANTASTIC!!!!!

    I just wanted to thank everyone who has been so supportive to me during the past few years. While I havent been around here much, I have been thinking of you all and I hope I will be able to post a lot more regularly in the future.

    :D:D:D:D

    That's brilliant ellie, I'm so glad it's finally come through. 4 years is a long time to be in limbo.

    Think this calls for cake!

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    :)


  • #3215
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    How awful is it that you have to go through such exhaustion and emotional turmoil to get a divorce. Is it the same in other countries??


  • #3216
    Conor Kind Iron
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Conor Kind Iron


    Don't think so, esp not the 5 year wait


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  • #3217
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Larianne wrote: »
    How awful is it that you have to go through such exhaustion and emotional turmoil to get a divorce. Is it the same in other countries??

    No, in the US it is much easier; especially in states that allow no contest divorces. My parent's was over in a few months since they agreed to everything through lawyers.


  • #3218
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    Watching The Clinic. Forgot how good it was but hate that it was cancelled before storylines were wrapped up.


  • #3219
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Can't figure out how to save my progress in AC3. After spending the crux of an hour and a half just trying to install, update and create a goddamn Ubiplay account, I got about 15 minutes of gameplay in the tutorial level and whilst it was fun to watch my character perform parkour moves around a trippy Tron-like world, SWEET JEBUS THE CONTROLS ARE FIDDLY! I rage-quited. Feck this, I'm sticking to Fallout New Vegas!


  • #3220
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Ellieh2, that's brilliant. I'm so happy for you.

    Does anyone know how long Chocolate Biscuit Cake lasts after it has been made? I have all the ingredients in the kitchen and I can hear them mocking me. They think I can't make them into a cake. But I'll show them! (Provided it'll still be at its best on Sunday)


  • #3221
    Starokan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Starokan


    LenaClaire wrote: »
    I found some cool photos of my grandpa's fighter group and his plane from WWII on-line. I am happy to have found them but it is making me sad cause I really miss him :o:(

    It's only when I read something like that that I stop and think what it must have been like for that generation going through the whole world war period. It must have been pretty surreal when they looked back on it in later years


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  • #3222
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    LenaClaire wrote: »
    No, in the US it is much easier; especially in states that allow no contest divorces. My parent's was over in a few months since they agreed to everything through lawyers.
    Larianne wrote: »
    How awful is it that you have to go through such exhaustion and emotional turmoil to get a divorce. Is it the same in other countries??
    bluewolf wrote: »
    Don't think so, esp not the 5 year wait

    Italy is actually worse.

    7
    A divorced woman must wait nine months or obtain dispensation from a local court before she can remarry in Italy, because she could be pregnant by her former husband at the time of the divorce.

    Their waiting times:
    A couple divorcing by consent must wait three years to be divorced but couples not divorcing by consent must wait five years after fault has been proved.

    Malta has the same rules as us.


  • #3223
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    Starokan wrote: »
    It's only when I read something like that that I stop and think what it must have been like for that generation going through the whole world war period. It must have been pretty surreal when they looked back on it in later years

    I find that whole era fascinating. My English great-grandmother worked in a munitions factory in Sheffield, and my great-grandfather on the same side was a Desert Rat in Africa. My Irish grand-uncle served in the British army in both wars, and escaped from a German POW camp three times :cool:

    EDIT: I should probably add that they all survived the war!


  • #3224
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,141 ✭✭✭✭cena


    I had a young lady at the door today for a chairty thing. I went to the door and she said you look very happy. sHE THAN WENT ON WHY SHE WAS THERE and than asked what age I was cause she thought I was I looked very young and than asked me too guess her age which was 20.

    Not sure if she was flirting with me?


  • #3225
    Conor Kind Iron
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Conor Kind Iron


    cena wrote: »
    I had a young lady at the door today for a chairty thing. I went to the door and she said you look very happy. sHE THAN WENT ON WHY SHE WAS THERE and than asked what age I was cause she thought I was I looked very young and than asked me too guess her age which was 20.

    Not sure if she was flirting with me?

    She wanted to sell you stuff, sorry


  • #3226
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,141 ✭✭✭✭cena


    bluewolf wrote: »
    She wanted to sell you stuff, sorry

    I was thinking that. But couldn't be too sure


  • #3227
    Starokan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Starokan


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    I find that whole era fascinating. My English great-grandmother worked in a munitions factory in Sheffield, and my great-grandfather on the same side was a Desert Rat in Africa. My Irish grand-uncle served in the British army in both wars, and escaped from a German POW camp three times :cool:

    i'm the same :) I can spend hours on end watching the history channel programs on WWI & II

    They must have had some great stories between them


  • #3228
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Hmmph weird one here, months ago (must have been august) I applied for a job, got a first interview (of FIVE), passed it, and wasn't available due to travel commitments

    They emailed me today, asking if I'd reconsider going through the process as they are very interested.

    Thoughts?


  • #3229
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    Ellieh2, that's brilliant. I'm so happy for you.

    Does anyone know how long Chocolate Biscuit Cake lasts after it has been made? I have all the ingredients in the kitchen and I can hear them mocking me. They think I can't make them into a cake. But I'll show them! (Provided it'll still be at its best on Sunday)

    3-4 weeks if kept in the fridge, about 7 days out of the fridge, all that happens then is the biscuits go soft.


  • #3230
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    Starokan wrote: »
    i'm the same :) I can spend hours on end watching the history channel programs on WWI & II

    They must have had some great stories between them

    Me too, I'm currently working my way through The World At War, such a brilliant series yet heartbreaking in many ways.

    Yeah I wish I could have heard them, they've all since passed away so I never got to ask them about their experiences. The grand-uncle who served in both wars was a complete nutter though, from what I've been told :pac:


  • #3231
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Cerulean Chicken wrote: »
    3-4 weeks if kept in the fridge, about 7 days out of the fridge, all that happens then is the biscuits go soft.

    <3 Thank you!

    I think I'll hold off until tomorrow or Thursday. Got all the chocolate in Tesco this evening. :)


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  • #3232
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    Me too, I'm currently working my way through The World At War, such a brilliant series yet heartbreaking in many ways.

    Yeah I wish I could have heard them, they've all since passed away so I never got to ask them about their experiences. The grand-uncle who served in both wars was a complete nutter though, from what I've been told :pac:

    I wrote a paper when I was 15 on d-day from the air and I got my grandpa to let me interview him. It was eye opening. He would tell me the happier stories when I was younger but would not tell me the sad ones until I was in my late teens.

    He said he saw the best and the worst of humanity in those years.


  • #3233
    Starokan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Starokan


    Ilyana 2.0 wrote: »
    Me too, I'm currently working my way through The World At War, such a brilliant series yet heartbreaking in many ways.

    Yeah I wish I could have heard them, they've all since passed away so I never got to ask them about their experiences. The grand-uncle who served in both wars was a complete nutter though, from what I've been told :pac:

    Great series, so informative, did you watch band of brothers , fictional show obviously but i thought it really portrayed that era well, the start of each episode where actual veterans talk about the events of the time is super


  • #3234
    Cerulean Chicken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,565 ✭✭✭Cerulean Chicken


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    <3 Thank you!

    I think I'll hold off until tomorrow or Thursday. Got all the chocolate in Tesco this evening. :)

    If you're ever making it again Lidl chocolate is the best in terms of quality, choice and price IMO, they have a perfect milk and a perfect dark chocolate that are very cheap for the quality of them.


  • #3235
    Conor Kind Iron
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Conor Kind Iron


    Cerulean Chicken wrote: »
    If you're ever making it again Lidl chocolate is the best in terms of quality, choice and price IMO, they have a perfect milk and a perfect dark chocolate that are very cheap for the quality of them.

    Does it beat bourneville?


  • #3236
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Starokan wrote: »
    Great series, so informative, did you watch band of brothers , fictional show obviously but i thought it really portrayed that era well, the start of each episode where actual veterans talk about the events of the time is super

    That is such a good show!


  • #3237
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    bluewolf wrote: »
    Does it beat bourneville?

    Yep it's better than Lindt

    Any thoughts on that email?


  • #3238
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Cerulean Chicken wrote: »
    If you're ever making it again Lidl chocolate is the best in terms of quality, choice and price IMO, they have a perfect milk and a perfect dark chocolate that are very cheap for the quality of them.

    I got the own brand Tesco at a euro a bar. Milk and dark. Is it 50/50 the mix of the two?


  • #3239
    Ah_Yeah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,020 ✭✭✭Ah_Yeah


    Howdy all!

    What did I miss?


  • #3240
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,369 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Stheno wrote: »
    Hmmph weird one here, months ago (must have been august) I applied for a job, got a first interview (of FIVE), passed it, and wasn't available due to travel commitments

    They emailed me today, asking if I'd reconsider going through the process as they are very interested.

    Thoughts?

    Go for it.
    Cerulean Chicken wrote: »
    If you're ever making it again Lidl chocolate is the best in terms of quality, choice and price IMO, they have a perfect milk and a perfect dark chocolate that are very cheap for the quality of them.

    Love lidl choc their 60% and higher stuff is mega. Same price for dark choc in Aldi too.

    Recently discovered an awesome creamy milk choc in aldi. It's heaven. :)


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  • #3241
    Ilyana 2.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Ilyana 2.0


    LenaClaire wrote: »
    I wrote a paper when I was 15 on d-day from the air and I got my grandpa to let me interview him. It was eye opening. He would tell me the happier stories when I was younger but would not tell me the sad ones until I was in my late teens.

    He said he saw the best and the worst of humanity in those years.

    He probably saw things that most of us will never witness now. I guess normal behaviour just vanished back then. It must have been a fascinating interview though.
    Starokan wrote: »
    Great series, so informative, did you watch band of brothers , fictional show obviously but i thought it really portrayed that era well, the start of each episode where actual veterans talk about the events of the time is super

    I've been meaning to watch that actually, it's supposed to be very good. I'm doing a module in college called War and Peace in the 20th Century, I'm learning about ALL the history!


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