No I haven’t been to many either, those I have seem to be a bit ‘samey’ - and not keen on formal gardens either.Voiceoftreason? wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 12:22 Not been to Chatsworth either but would like to. Can’t say I’ve been to any stately homes or NT property.
I would say someone with more money than sense. But there do seem a lot of those aboutVoiceoftreason? wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 13:00 . Who orders so little so late? Surely you must have the makings of something on toast at least.
Waitrose sell most veg loose - yes there’s packs of green beans, and one or two others things , but the majority is loose… I won’t shop for veg in a supermarket that doesn’t sell them looselizwing wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 14:33 I think another cause of waste is supermarkets only selling things in packs, you can’t buy one orange or one lettuce you have to buy a bagful and potatoes don’t last even in a dark bag and unless you eat lettuce with every meal one of them is going to go bad. Sadly not everyone has a local greengrocer.
I know what you mean - shift workers too, and we all get a case of the munchies and we can all forget things don’t we. As it was local, I pretty much know if people work and which car is theirs etc, so was surprised by the small quantity they had delivered. Not many people have supermarket deliveries here, maybe three houses in the whole street? It’s the same people having these deliveries as well - makes me sound like a curtain twitcher but hearing a bike or seeing lights late at night gets you up.lizwing wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 14:33 My son as a freelance often works through the night and into the next day and there are times when he can’t get out to do shopping, he sometimes gets things like milk or eggs delivered and even, when he had terrible hay fever and had run out of tablets a nice chap on a moped brought him some Benadryl. It’s a different world out there folks.
I think another cause of waste is supermarkets only selling things in packs, you can’t buy one orange or one lettuce you have to buy a bagful and potatoes don’t last even in a dark bag and unless you eat lettuce with every meal one of them is going to go bad. Sadly not everyone has a local greengrocer.
Makes me wonder if they can cook - not that toast is cooking, despite what himself claims. I know a few women who say they don’t or can’t cook. How can you not? Men maybe - the Alledged can cook bacon sarnies and toast and that’s is it -but women IMHO are generally more interested in food? If not the seemingly everlasting dieting they do, then in magazines, on TV and ‘celeb chef books, not to mention probably being responsible for the feeding of children.mikejee wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 14:16I would say someone with more money than sense. But there do seem a lot of those aboutVoiceoftreason? wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 13:00 . Who orders so little so late? Surely you must have the makings of something on toast at least.
And me VoT. I can honestly say I might that the last time I bought a ready meal would be about the 1960s or 70s when i thought I'd see what they were like and was not impressed. Do occasionally eat take aways of restricted sorts . If there was a decent fish and chip shop around here that used drippingVoiceoftreason? wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 15:41 I think you, D5, Windy and OM are the only men I know that do cook.
No, not many supermarkets do sell loose veg it seems…. Thinking of themselves not the customer IMO! That or just laziness, can’t be bothered. Then it wouldn’t be quite so bad if they were sold in small packs - we don’t all have 4 children at home - or even 4 adults! Very few cater for single people or even couples, but Waitrose do at least try… including having a Deli, Fish and Meat counters so you can see what you’re buying and as small a quantity as you want.
piwacket wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 13:01No I haven’t been to many either, those I have seem to be a bit ‘samey’ - and not keen on formal gardens either.Voiceoftreason? wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022 12:22 Not been to Chatsworth either but would like to. Can’t say I’ve been to any stately homes or NT property.
Having been to Versailles several times I think has spoiled me for looking around the ones here. Although I believe Chatsworth would come fairly high up the ranking.
Oh yes, know Greys Court - the owner is ex-Gurds as was late OH, so visited quite often….. Cliveden - yes been there too, different, yes, but neither remotely comparable to Versailles
although the garden at Greys is very attractive.Jaunty slang?
Both the Duchess and the Duke at that time were very hands on, they were well liked by the staff and many of Mrs W's relatives lived and worked on the estate and still live in tied cottages now they have retired. It was the Duchess who actually saved Chatsworth, it had fallen into dissrepair as the Cavendish 'family home' was actually in Yorkshire but she spotted the potential and planned its ressurection into the jewel of the county that it is now. In the late eighties they held a large steam rally on the estate, very successfull but it wasn't repeated and rumour has it that a group of steam lads were a little worse for wear of an evening and took the mickey out of an elderly chap wandering the grounds. That chap was the Duke.....no more rallies..
Both had a sad early married life with four children who died soon after birth but they overcame that.It’s been about a long time now as a modernism term for Reading..............The Ding
The attraction ofNT properties is that they are different, each has its own highs and lows, frankly the catering at Greys is the pits afaiac . One I liked a lot was Hughendon, they discovered, quite by chance, that it was a mapping hub during WW2 . Just seeing how many local airfields we had was interesting…All secret - no one said anything and it was only a guide that overheard an elderly gentleman talking his adult son, that discovered what activities had taken place there.
grey and cloudy, but no rain.
…our visits were organised by the Guards Association, so on a more personal basis - and the food was very good
as with many other similar places, where there was/is a Guards connection. 
Haha, I don't like a lot of being fussed over vot.
Just a bit, then, eh
I have panniers on the moped and the polo does not have a roof rack. 
