Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

Malcolm.

No snow here atm, however there's plenty of ice around (I think I'm not far from misskool). Fortunately the cars are kept under cover, so I don't have to de-ice them of a morning. I purchased my winter rock salt supplies earlier today, it seems many shops have sold out.

Malcolm.

lemonjelly wrote: »

I never quite got into trivial pursuit.

This has always been my favourite board game:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_(game)

Have played games with friends for hours - all nighters even.

Last year I bought myself this board game which I haven't had the opportunity to play yet:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22609/whitechapel-1888

I know Risk well , the combat side (rolling dice) could be a little repetitive, however deciding where to attack and place units and the diplomacy side interested me.

Speaking of which, have you ever played the game by the same name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_%28game%29 ? That's thoroughly enjoyable too (caveat. I haven't played since University).

One friend has given positive feedback about this one http://www.waronterrortheboardgame.com/thegame/ .

michaels

Much prefer real trees but can't take the hassle and this year again we will probably use the 4 foot one on a table to keep it out of the clutches of DS - we for some reason have 4 artificial trees (standard green, narrow green, black and the 4 footer - I did say elsewhere that my ideal Christmas present would be someone coming in to declutter...

Sue, on Christmas day when you are all sitting down to eat and there is a sudden silence it won't be an angel flying over the table, it will be all of us thinking of you.

misskool

Real tree here too but we need to actually go out and buy one.

Board games, Axis and Allies is my favorite. We used to spend one evening a week, eating pizza and playing it. good ole days

PasturesNew

1am, randomly logged into my email ... and I had one there from my site monitoring software saying my site had been down since 11pm. Bl00dy nuisance. Luckily I was straight onto the online support and it was fixed within 5 minutes. Just one of those things ... but lucky I checked my email

I love automation.

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

This illustrates what I love about this thread.

When I drive into Watford I now wonder whether that woman in the car taking the underpass to the Harlequin centre is silvercar, and whether carolt is in the car that stopped short without getting there.

When I go to my favourite Asda I wonder if that's michaels with the trolley with the kids hanging off it.

When I think of bookstores I wonder if that was jelly standing next to me looking at the same books.

And I think of when DH was at uni in Brighton and when I ever went into fc's shop and chatted to her.

When I think back to my time studying with the OU, I wonder if tomterm8 stood at the back of the class, waiting for his dad.

When I think back to my days of visiting the Ladies Pond in Hampstead, I wonder if lir was one of the naked swimmers.

Then there's all the ssss, who apparently once went out with a woman that looks like me.

Now I'm wondering if it was Pastures New who pulled all the gorgeous blokes in the Hertfordshire nightclubs I'd hang out in during the late 70s.

Oh, and whether dopester is really my brother, who when Russia invaded Afghanistan was so concerned for the safety of the family that he disappeared for several hours and tried to build a nuclear bunker.

I love this kinda post!:)

I'm not terribly au fait with where people are in the country. That said I do, occasionally people watch. Whenever I do, I regularly think "there's lir, there's treliac, there's inspector monkfish, that removal van is taking LydiaJ's stuff...bet Viva is in her house watching motor sports, those 2 people arguing are graham/chucky.:D People out there do act in ways which remind me of how I imagine people I meet here.:)

lemonjelly

On the christmas trees & decorations. Everybody stop. Go & look at your calendars.

IT IS STILL ONLY NOVEMBER!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:

Way too early yet. Get a real one, you'll only have a skeleton left by the 25th.

People doing christmas early bugs me. Partially because I still have 4 peoples birthdays yet to go this year (all before christmas:mad:), and partly because almost all christmas music really gets on my nerves with the fact that you can't escape it and it is so repetitive!

And that is not a suggestion for a new topic before you all start!"!!!;)

SingleSue

Snow!

Woke this morning to a lovely blanket of snow...well it was lovely until I thought about having to drive in it.

Great fun clearing the car off and then tippy toe out of the village onto the main road to the school where we find the area where the school is, only had a small amount of what we had had, barely enough to dust the car park...here you walked and your feet disappeared!

Even on the way home, you could see the difference...could blast down the bypass at nearly normal speed but once back in the village, snow covered roads and down to 10mph. Mind you, it was great to rediscover the art of slip sliding into the parking space outside the house, I got it down to a fine art last year and I haven't forgotten how to do it this year.

Oh and my gas ran out some time during the early morning.....grrr (I had checked and there had been enough to get us through to at least tomorrow so wonder if it has developed a fault....again!)

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Snow....revelaing the insulation problems in the roof. but very pretty!

I have damaged my hand so I'm going to go and find a chemist to give me something, anything, to cure the pain.

I have a friend who has been in hospital the past few days. I won't bore you with the details, but I went visiting this weekend. Saturday, there was a lot of really hard ice on the windscreen. I don't like pouring water on them to remove the ice as it'll all puddle around your car & be a bigger problem later (plus I spoke to someone at work friday who poured a hot kettle on their car & their windscreen cracked). So out I go, with the scraper. Now in doing this, I did slip & my hand ran down the windscreen. I did say "Ow!" at the time, but carried on (I was cold). When I walked into the hospital, they thought I was presenting myself as my hand was covered in blood!:eek: The ice had cut it in various places.

lemonjelly

GDB2222 wrote: »

Why not use an electric underblanket then?

lostinrates wrote: »

OK, two reasons.

1. I have heard they increase the risk of ''female'' cancers.

2. I used to have a korean? one made of jade that got REALLY hot. It was amazing. I got seriously and weirdly addicted to it, having it on top whack, drenching the sheets with sweat (water and electricity...nice mix) and still seemingy unable to turn it down. I had the windows open wide, in sub zero temperatures with nothing but a sweat drenched sheet over me, steaming. All very unhealthy, seriously unattractive and rather worrying.

TBH one is probably already cancelled out by two for me...it was a weird fortnight or so. Eventually the jade blanket gave me an electric shock then died.

As a child, we had electric blankets. Parents swore by them. Like lir, I had a thing for turning them up to maximum (though I would turn them down). Parents used to nag me about it.

Anyway, I also have always taken a long time to drift off to sleep. So when young, I used to listen to music on earphones.

One night, slightly the worse for wear (:o) I was listening to a cd & in an interlude on the disc there is the sound of rain & then a thunderclap. Now, it was winter, & chilly. So I had got home, turned the blanket up to full, & just about (in my state) managed to press play. Fats forward a bit, next thing I know, I'm lying there, feeling very hot, & can hear a crackling type noise, followed by what sounded to me like a rushing of flames:eek:

I sat bolt upright, with the immediate thought that I'd set the blanket on fire. Fortunately(!) an earphone dropped out of my ear, & I realized I'd been dozing, & the crackling sound was the rain on the cd, & the rushing sound was the thunderclap.:o & I was hot because of the blanket.:o

On another note, when I was, erm, clearer headed one night I was in bed, bout to sleep, & without earphones heard a different crackling sound. When I looked, I could see lots of electric current/sparks inside the wire of the electric blanket.:eek:

I turned it off & binned it. Never used one since, & never will again.