Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

On the other hand, try driving 80 miles in London!

Starting from london think of the places you could get to starting in London, the flat lands to the east, the Chilterns and Bray type places to the north...almost to my house to the west:D

from the deep west country...its beautiful...but 80 miles keeps you in the west country!

misskool

Just watching jimmy's christmas food factory with thousands of chicks being hatched and thought of lir

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Just watching jimmy's christmas food factory with thousands of chicks being hatched and thought of lir

soon be time to crank everything up. I have heat lamps going in various barns and I did think it was a bit of a waste not to be using them for brooding as well as thawing.:)

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did an 80 mile round trip today, to visit 3 shops. Totally unsuccessful day out shopping as they didn't have what I wanted. So, tomorrow it's an 80 mile round trip in the other direction, to see what I can find. Everything down here is so d4mned far apart and shops just don't have the range/stocks that you get up country.

Why not phone first?

John_Pierpoint

GDB2222 wrote: »

Apart from the obvious physical aspect, I think women are the stronger sex.

Dig out an avalanche and find dead men and live women?

Draw pensions for longer too.

lostinrates wrote: »

Cause there is too much other rubbish in there too. We made it make safely but it took a long time. weirdly at this train station just over an hour from london the car parks, bus stops and pavements and service roads are totally ungritted and ankle deep in slush and slip yet the gritters have done one of our village access roads. Prioritisation is really odd.

You cannot sit in the cab of a nice warm gritting lorry and spray salt crystals (stained pink by desert sand blow) over car parks and pavements - in fairness salt does require car tyres to work it into relatively warm fresh snow, if it is to melt it; you often see salt crystals on pavements, sitting in the middle of a tiny ring of melted snow.
As long as you can get to snow with a wide broom, before anyone walks on it, making a pathway is easy - I've had to do 100's of meters of such paths in the last few weeks.

lostinrates

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You cannot sit in the cab of a nice warm gritting lorry and spray salt crystals (stained pink by desert sand blow) over car parks and pavements - in fairness salt does require car tyres to work it into relatively warm f.[/QUOTE]


You can if your county is pioneering prototype gritters that do pavements too and the car parks are empty...pretty much unusable apart from in vehicles like mine.

Salt doesn't require tyres....I'm using salt and grit in my yard ATM...a broom over pavements on the high pressure areas coming out of a station might be a step too far...people thinking outside their job descriptions?

LydiaJ

DS (last night): "Some people just have their dad die, and some people just have their dad leave. It's not fair I've had both."

Poor kid, being envious of those who "just" experience one of those things. I sat there knowing that I myself have got to 41 with both parents still alive, still loving each other when they're both in their eighties and after 64 years of marriage, but that's so alien to him that it doesn't even occur to him to envy it.

I'm thrilled he's started talking about how he feels, though. This is a big step forward for him - he's usually a "bottle it all up" kind of child.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

DS (last night): "Some people just have their dad die, and some people just have their dad leave. It's not fair I've had both."

Poor kid, being envious of those who "just" experience one of those things. I sat there knowing that I myself have got to 41 with both parents still alive, still loving each other when they're both in their eighties and after 64 years of marriage, but that's so alien to him that it doesn't even occur to him to envy it.

I'm thrilled he's started talking about how he feels, though. This is a big step forward for him - he's usually a "bottle it all up" kind of child.

Oh Lydia. Your heart must ache.

He does have something many kids don't, a mother like you, with a moral compass, a strong community, loving grandparents. Its never going to be enough after his loss but its a tremendous amount still.

SingleSue

misskool wrote: »

Just watching jimmy's christmas food factory with thousands of chicks being hatched and thought of lir

Damn! I forgot it was on and I don't know when I will get the time to watch it before it goes off Iplayer.

For information, Jimmy's Farm is about a ten minute drive from here and a great place to go to with the kids. For very little money, you can spend the whole day there...and it never gets old for the boys as Jimmy adds new things all the time.

I certainly recommend a visit.

SingleSue

Aww Lydia, the poor lad...you must have found it very difficult to not only hear but to also console him.