Lentil Guru - is it stew? - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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congrats alarka

I had a very good melon and some grapes

I am having my hair done at Aveda tomorrow
oooooOOOOOoooooh
now you know why I can't afford those vegan shoes!

you know I think they would bicker
and snore
and gang up on you about gutters and stuff
and eat all the biscuits and leave the toilet seat up
one decent one is probably best

Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall quite a nice seeming chap, but if you married him he'd be forever trapping badgers and making you eat hedgehog and woodlouse risotto.

We've got ants. I've put poison down [murderer] but I wondered to myself what all you non-killers would do about ants in the kitchen?

I am sitting here bravely gnawing rather overcooked fruit bread. I need to catch up on a lot of sleep. I have been tetchy and impatient

I don't know Pink. I'd never use poison anyway because poison scares me.
Can't you entice them out with a cunning trail of sugar? [hopeful]

You people who like soya beans - do you mean the frozen ones that you cook inthemicrowave like frozen peas? I'm just eating some. They're really nice and kind of rich.

Yes I like those, they are pleasantly nubbly.

Who's pomegranate? I don't know if I should be taking such advice from a stranger

I think it's Avi

I'll be quite glad when everyone is back to normal, or at least recogniseable.
Hey, you could be YellowSpottyBananas

I ignore and leave ants to dp who is mildly phobic about them and puts down poison
it's a quite good kind of poison as poisons go because it's just a drop of gel and they take it back to their nests really quickly
I can't stand it when you go round someone's house and there is ant powder everywhere, all over the patio, and the children are playing there

anyway morning chaps

pineapple, very good melon indeed, grapes, raisins

cyteen I have lost the skirt [fkn useless]
I will hunt
I had it! then put somewhere cunning

We have ants. I put down ant death at the doors. We now have fewer ants.

Have just had museli and apple juice.

Really must get dressed, as we need to go to school in less than 15 min

i pour bleach on ants

i very much doubt if this ticks any 10/10 boxes

ds used to put wd 40 or any flammable substance and light it

but he is a liability

and not related to me

my real child was stolen by some sort of politically incorrect band of neer do wells in the woods

ughh at ants in the house. Strangely enough ants and loofahs and other assorted beasties are fine in the garden... but if they dare to cross my threshhold... ZZZzzzzzap

DH gets some Uber Stuff from work to do the deed. Very un 10/10

zip have you read Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman? I am reading it atm. The antichrist is born in Oxfordshire but accidentally swapped with another child. Perhaps it was your ds?

i havent

not sure if i could open a book with terry pratchett name on

i did attempt a discworld book once and expired of tedium

ds also has a fascination with guns from his underworld parents

i have been into the general maelstrom of mn lately

people dont half have some bizarre points of argument

do they do this just out of extreme cussedness

Cussedness, yes. Some people live entirely by cussedness.

I find I have to be in a particular mood to read Terry Pratchett, otherwise it seems too higgledy-piggledy. My grandmother adores him.

Oooh oooh oohh.

TF - have you read American Gods by Neil Gaiman? I loved it so much I had to restrict myself to a few pages a night cos I didn't want it to end.

I am actually laughing out loud at the image of Zip'z asbo ridden nonDS setting light to small critters. I know I shouldn't. It's the way you tell em Zip. You seem happier today, yay for email bloke getting back to you. You do let things get to you to much though methinks.

I am Handing In My Notice today. I have written a series of points so I don't get flustered and forget all the good stuff and just go 'yeah but no but' as we Briz types tend to do if you would believe Messers Walliams and Lucas.

MN is quite funky at the mo innit? Weird arguments. I love that. Much better than the usual structured arguments that seem to go on.

Good luck OB

Love Terry Pratchett. Love neil Gamain.

Really am fantasising about lots of alternate husbands now...
I love DH, but it would be nice to have different ones for my different moods. One who was good at DIY perhaps. And one who enjoyed gardening. And one who didn't snore....

WEST COUNTRY MEET UP

This is looking a bit sparse atm. I think we have LittleRach, Avi and OB. And me. We could do with a few more if possible or it may not be worth Avi travelling so far.
Don't know if we could/should move it a little to the right - Bristol area maybe - would that help anybody?
Avi, there is v. good bus service from airport to Bristol.
OB, you and I could think of possioble rendezvous points in Bristol..?

So, in the absence of a bossy efficient person like Franny being involved, could any interested parties please shout!