Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lemonjelly

Oh, by the way, is anyone else excited about the new Winnie the Pooh film?:)

lemonjelly

tomterm8 wrote: »

He is really, really very good.

So you will have a great time

I must admit to being very very excited!

He doesn't tour often. I am really looking forward to the show!

Preceeded by much apprehension (big football day tomorrow!:footie:)

lemonjelly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sadowitz

Especially for Viva

PasturesNew

I've been 'absent' as I've been immersing myself in reading stuff about my new interest.... until about 6am each morning. I have watched about 1.5GB of youtube videos, read (well skimmed mostly) about 500 PDF pages and generally researched/read.

Today was a gloriously sunny day, so I went to the beach for some beachcombing and treasure hunting. It was really on the verge of "hot". Even took my cardigan off - and I was wearing sockless crocs and short trousers.

Beaches are lovely, you can forget everything when you're beach combing.... except the incoming tide of course.

I am seriously struggling to find things I need down here though, to practise stuff with. Just trying to find some copper wire's proving impossible. Hardware shops don't have it. And I want to see/touch it to buy it, not buy stuff online only to find out it's not what I wanted when it turns up.

I saw a drill I am intending buying on Thursday, so that's under investigation for when I have space to drill.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lemonjelly wrote: »

Oh, by the way, is anyone else excited about the new Winnie the Pooh film?:)

Well I was, until the latest paparazzi pics came out.

Seems Pooh's been on the Marlon Brando diet....

LydiaJ

The building work is over (except that the hole where the old boiler's vent used to be has only been temporarily blocked, so the builder will be coming back to sort it properly, and also to put all the blind/curtain fixtures back).

Four of the five new walls upstairs (one each in four bedrooms but not the one on the landing) have had undercoat of "new plaster" paint. The other three walls of my room have received two coats of white to cover the duck-egg/sea-green/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. It is now ready to go yellow tomorrow.

Colours have been chosen for my room (yellow), the utility room (white) & DS's room (green). We have found an old tin of the blue colour used in the spare room - not enough left to paint the new wall in that room, but the tin told us it was Dulux "Blue Babe" so we've been able to get more of the same to do that wall. DD wants her room multicoloured. She's chosen colours for three of the walls (blue, lilac & yellow), but debate continues about the fourth (choice between two shades of red), and the possible extra stripes/shapes etc (DD desperate to include green somehow).

Another long day ahead. The same two amazing friends coming to help out, and possibly another one as well.

I seem to spend my life accepting huge favours from wonderful people. I am hugely grateful, and well aware that I couldn't possibly manage to do everything I have to do without them. Often, though, I wish I didn't need so much support, or that I had more spare capacity to give back.

vivatifosi

lemonjelly wrote: »

Oh, by the way, is anyone else excited about the new Winnie the Pooh film?:)

I'm excited about the return to hand-drawn animation, though I do think John Lassiter at Pixar is an animation genius, up there with my early heroes like Marc Davis. He's exec producer on this, yipee! Andreas Deja is animating Tigger on this movie and he is a seriously good animator.

vivatifosi

LydiaJ wrote: »

I seem to spend my life accepting huge favours from wonderful people. I am hugely grateful, and well aware that I couldn't possibly manage to do everything I have to do without them. Often, though, I wish I didn't need so much support, or that I had more spare capacity to give back.

That's the thing though Lydia. I know from other posts that you've written that you've helped out others at different points in your life. You don't have to give back now. That's not how it works. Life doesn't come in matched pairs of opportunity/need. It won't even necessarily be the same people you help in the future.

PasturesNew

I don't do painting. Quite happy to sit and just "be around" for people so they don't get frustrated/lonely when they're painting, but I'm really useless at it, so it's best I never get involved.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's the thing though Lydia. I know from other posts that you've written that you've helped out others at different points in your life. You don't have to give back now. That's not how it works. Life doesn't come in matched pairs of opportunity/need. It won't even necessarily be the same people you help in the future.

Thank you viva.

What I really need to get clear in my head is that it's OK for me to get practical support and give emotional support, and just because they're not the same, that doesn't mean I'm freeloading.

The friends who are helping to paint are people I've been a listening ear for. One person was new at my work a while ago, and I helped her to settle in, offered to let her copy my worksheets, sat with her at lunch etc. The other two are both people who've talked to me about their troubled relationships - including one whose husband went off with a younger model about 4 years after mine did. She used to ring me up and say "X has done this... and said that! :mad::mad::mad:" I would reply "Don't take it personally. That's what they all say. It's just what adulterers do." It seemed to help her. Oh, and the person who helped paint last Wednesday doesn't drive, so I helped her move house a couple of years ago.

Maybe I'm doing OK.