Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I've had a great morning driving a tractor.....I want one. Even after a few hours in it I was still having fun.

Diggerland?

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sounds exciting... Where did you elope to? And how long ago? Was it fun? And what did everyone say when you got back?

Umm....Bath. Almost six years ago :eek::D and ....no one was very pleased:o. My parents eventually took it on the chin, and met us for a meal later in the day. we took two friends, also engaged, chosen because we love them but also because they'd arrive together sharing transport. (the people at the registry office said its better not to just haul people off the dtreet or ask staff to be witnesses). Our parents were planning a rather large wedding, I could see my dad getting greyer as my FIL and mother tried to out do each other with expensive must haves that he was expected to pay for. O was told my choice of wedding dress colour (almost coffee) was not appropriate nor were my choice of wedding flowers. The nearest date everyone could agree on was two years hence and for personal reasons we wanted something much, much quicker.. we were trying to get a date with 12 months notice and it was looking iffy, so we decided to go and gove notice or whatever the civil version of having bans read is and the civil servant mentioned there had just been a cancellation in Bath for the day we'd first be allowed to get married and DH didn't even look at me, he just said ''we'll take it''.

Saved my dad a small fortune and regained sense of perspective and independence. And did what we needed to do...made an arrangement that DH was the person who called the shots for me when I couldn't:o

I don't regret ot for second. It was great fun, running through The Podium in an evening dress and Jimmy Choos in the morning when we thought we were late (DH wore jeans and a jacket) and holding hands all day. I still think my dress would have been beautiful though. And DH should have been revising. He had law exams the next day!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Diggerland?

Home! It all happens at my house (if ''all'' really is mud and animal hair and excrement)

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Umm....Bath. Almost six years ago :eek::D and ....no one was very pleased:o. My parents eventually took it on the chin, and met us for a meal later in the day. we took two friends, also engaged, chosen because we love them but also because they'd arrive together sharing transport. (the people at the registry office said its better not to just haul people off the dtreet or ask staff to be witnesses). Our parents were planning a rather large wedding, I could see my dad getting greyer as my FIL and mother tried to out do each other with expensive must haves that he was expected to pay for. O was told my choice of wedding dress colour (almost coffee) was not appropriate nor were my choice of wedding flowers. The nearest date everyone could agree on was two years hence and for personal reasons we wanted something much, much quicker.. we were trying to get a date with 12 months notice and it was looking iffy, so we decided to go and gove notice or whatever the civil version of having bans read is and the civil servant mentioned there had just been a cancellation in Bath for the day we'd first be allowed to get married and DH didn't even look at me, he just said ''we'll take it''.

Saved my dad a small fortune and regained sense of perspective and independence. And did what we needed to do...made an arrangement that DH was the person who called the shots for me when I couldn't:o

I don't regret ot for second. It was great fun, running through The Podium in an evening dress and Jimmy Choos in the morning when we thought we were late (DH wore jeans and a jacket) and holding hands all day. I still think my dress would have been beautiful though. And DH should have been revising. He had law exams the next day!

That sounds soooo romantic...almost like a film . Very memorable too.

I spent this afternoon attacking my overgrown, neglected suburban back garden. It was beautiful when we moved out in 2005......came back and my ponds had turned to sludge, everything overgrown, my hydrangeas died

Started with a 24 sq ft salad and herb patch and it's looking good though I say so myself.....and OH jet washed the decking with meticulous precision washing off all the green algea and is now sitting on the sofa watching rubbish and feeling really pleased with himself.

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

Could you people who have signed up as census staff give me some advice please? I've just submitted mine online. I let the kids come and click their own answers so they could feel included (and then banished them from the room while I checked everything over ).

Typically, now that I've clicked "submit" and it's too late to change anything, I've decided that I think I may have got something wrong. After I'd finished, I had a look at the Scottish census site to see if it was much different, and realised that while the Scottish site says to say you own your house "with a mortgage or loan" if there is a mortgage or loan secured on the house but the English site says to say you have a mortgage or loan if you have any kind of of mortgage or loan that must be repaid.

I'm in England. I have a loan from my family that I am intending to repay, although nothing terrible would happen if I wasn't able to - the outstanding amount would just be factored into the calculations of sharing out my parents' estate between us four siblings when they eventually die. It's an informal arrangement and nothing's secured on the house. I have no other loans.

So, lemonjelly and Nikkster:
a) What should I have put?
b) If I've got it wrong, does it matter?
c) If so, what should I do about it?

Thanks.

Err... Funnily enough your particular situation falls somewhat outside what we covered in training! :rotfl:

a) Not really sure - I would guess that they take 'loan' to be the borrowed from a bank. Think I would have put the same as you.
b) If that isn't what they meant - I don't believe it matters. As far as I'm aware there is no way that they would ever find out. I really don't think anyone is going to check in any way! In fact we were told that no actual human will read the information whether the form is submitted by post or online. Not sure how that'll work/ if I completely believe that but that's what we were told.
c) What should you do - absolutely nothing!

lemonjelly - what's your opinion?!

LydiaJ

I am so happy. I have finished marking my class's AS-level coursework. I hate it so badly. I would rather spend 6 hours marking normal exams rather than 3 hours marking coursework.

No more until next January! _party__party__party_

ETA Cross-posted with Nikkster. Thanks for your considered opinion on my census return. It'll be interesting to see what lemonjelly thinks.

michaels

I was wondering whether queen of the jungle was just a (n)ewbie?

DW and I also got married in a registry office and told our families afterwards.

Diggerland is in Essex isn't it?

Lydia - it doesn't matter

I put other: british for the race question - I really dislike the expectation that we define our race.

Edit: Forgot to say, found the mixer beaters today so will be able to make the next cake using the mixer rather than the liquidiser - with my extra free time I have been doing some baking with the girls - on Friday they each had a friend over and before they hit the trampoline we baked a lemon cake together which was then ready when their mummies came to fetch them so hopefully a few one-upmanship points earned there - shame the house looks like a tip with the extension preparations....

Queen_Of_The_Jungle

^^^^^????, don't get that comment?????

Anyways seems this thread isn't the one for me, thanks to Lydia J

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

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Diggerland is in Essex isn't it?

Living where I do, distance simply has to be covered if you want/need to go anywhere, so I didn't even check where it was, I thought it was somewhere on the West of the M4.... checking though, there's one in Devon, one in Kent and one in Durham and one in Yorkshire... so there are FOUR!

http://www.diggerland.com/

The Devon one's certainly "just up the road" from LIR really... and she could have stopped off en route for some other goodies along the way, making it a standard "Sunday day out".

Mileage covered would be less than some of the days when I say "popped to the beach today...."

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Forgot to say, found the mixer beaters today so will be able to make the next cake using the mixer rather than the liquidiser - with my extra free time I have been doing some baking with the girls - on Friday they each had a friend over and before they hit the trampoline we baked a lemon cake together which was then ready when their mummies came to fetch them so hopefully a few one-upmanship points earned there - shame the house looks like a tip with the extension preparations....

There's a trampoline to bounce on, and lemon cake to eat. What more could anyone want? What does it matter if it looks a mess?

Queen_Of_The_Jungle wrote: »

^^^^^????, don't get that comment?????

Anyways seems this thread isn't the one for me, thanks to Lydia J

This forum gets a lot of trolls and sockpuppets. Newbies therefore aren't trusted until they've been around for long enough for us to get the measure of them. It's nothing personal. I welcomed you because you seemed to have been posting "real" posts on some other boards of the forum. Come back any time you feel like it, or just enjoy the parts of the forum that suit you better.

One of the puppetmasters is a guy whose original screen name was mewbie - hence the pun on (n/m)ewbie.