Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

I've just come back n from outside, it is the most beautiful night possible. The grass has started to sparkle...looks good where I cut on the lawn nearest the house and the sky is clear and the moon is so bright. Tomorrow morning should be fantastically beautiful, but tonight is delicious enough.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also, since the "chalet" thread, I've been off googling and totting things up. I need to move ... so been looking into it again. Chalet/static caravan is completely out of the question (cost/restrictions), but I then reverted to a plan I spotted in April, but it was the wrong time of year for that, so I am now formulating my plan for next year.... re moving. I'm going to 'invest' one year's rent in a touring caravan, now looking for a site to stick it on. First I need a site, then a man who can tow it for a fee, then I find a van. Gonna live like a gypsy

It's cheaper than renting after the first 12 months.... and I think this is a 2 year plan.

I wish I had a proper plan, but I don't. Renting is way too expensive, it really is - and you get to live among scum, without any outdoor space or parking. And I am "a little on the nice side", so require a modicum of a better life than renting a 1-bed flat could bring me. Destination Devon.

ON, can you not get a winter let in a holiday place near you? Like on a farm where they are summer holiday lets but let for a six month AST over winter? Suppose its a little late in the year now.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

ON, can you not get a winter let in a holiday place near you? Like on a farm where they are summer holiday lets but let for a six month AST over winter? Suppose its a little late in the year now.

Yes, but it's no cheaper. You still have to go through agents, be credit checked, pay the full going rate - and yet you still know you'll be out on your ear in six months, except, actually, by now, it's less than 6 months as it's only until Easter.

Holiday lets are posh, so will still command a high price as a winter let.

Let's say the experience would cost £4k for six months, and there's all the hassle of moving twice and paying fees twice etc. Time to just go feral

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, the sweet potato is mashed into a over to table dish and marsh mallows put on the top and put back in the oven. Its a delicious once a year only kind of thing. A little sickly. Goes well with white bird and gravy...

Ahhh... Do you have a hankering to celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow?

PasturesNew

Oh, I forgot... £4k PLUS bills. Less bills on a site......

A flat works out, inc bills, at about £9k/year. Tourer £5k, Site/towing/insurance £2k. Year 2, £2k. Two years for the price of one.... and you still have the van.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Ahhh... Do you have a hankering to celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow?

Yes, but going to do it at the weekend, when DH is home - I guess he'll have a work thanksgiving tomorrow, canteen turkey lunch. Anytime is a good time to give thanks I think, but I just feel a longing for the ritual, the tradition of it all.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't even know what sociology is... certainly it wasn't on our school syllabus back in the 60s/70s.

You can get popcorn beads, which'd be long lasting, dog-dog and kitty safe, e.g. here's somewhere http://store.goodybeads.com/store/products/A005970.html and there are some on etsy. But I'm sure a good google session would yield others.

Here's another version, a whole necklace http://www.partycheap.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=50954&click=6103

Popcorn garland http://bayberrycove.com/poga9.html

9 feet of garland $7 http://www.mileskimball.com/MilesKimball/Shopping/ProductDetail.aspx?TID=_MilesKimball&CID=MKChristmasandHolidays&SCID=MKChristmas&TCID=MKIndoorAccentsandDecor&CollectionID=DC0000610

see what I mean about one of us always having an answer to everything. They are really sensible, I'd never thought of fake popcorn! I'd prefer to do it with real this year, but the fake ones should definitely go on a wish list. So much more sensible. Maybe I'll forgo popcorn this year and get those for next year.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, but going to do it at the weekend, when DH is home - I guess he'll have a work thanksgiving tomorrow, canteen turkey lunch. Anytime is a good time to give thanks I think, but I just feel a longing for the ritual, the tradition of it all.

It's funny how you can have lived in a different country for years, but you still have a hankering for doing things that you did when you lived in a different country. One of the traditions when I was a kid, is we'd be taken out of bed when it became dark and went to watch the Christmas lights in the posh houses on The Boulevard, in Ivanhoe a suburb of Melbourne. You couldn't do that here because it would be too cold. It was such a lovely thing to do I really miss it, even now.

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/lVYpP2r1qWd/Boulevard+Christmas+Lights+Display+Illuminates/gMKCgvqCkXN

If it happened here it would be totally naff of course...

Have a lovely Thanksgiving when DH comes home lir, and all the best to any Americans who may be lurking here about.

misskool

if anyone is doing thanksgiving can i please please please have a slice of pumpkin pie?

michaels

I wish I had known you were looking PN, my parents are away a lot over the winter and might have been interested in someone to stay in their holiday let and keep an eye on things - it is fairly remote tho and I'm not sure if you drive?

I have never wet the bed anywhere but my DW (at the time hot GF) and I did manage to break the toilet seat in a chalet* once...

*Ski chalet in Meribel rather than holiday chalet in Canvey Island!