Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

michaels

They lost my claim for the 1 day only dtd extra refund redeemable by posting receipts but I supplied links to the original vouchers and they seem to have repented - they also gave dw a strange amount for her dtd refund - however we have used the free wine to placate the neighbours.

I thought we were bad with slowing down to peer at other people's building works but the amount of 'kerb crawling' we now get past our house is unbelievable - I think the 8 foot security fencing probably helps to raise people's curiosity and means you can only see in through the gate if it is open at all hence needing to slow right down. DO people not realise that all planning permission requests are now on line so it is simples to see exactly what is going to be built without leaving your PC?

silvercar wrote: »

I agree. To say that reprinting the same voucher with the same receipt code is OK as each piece of paper is unique is laughable.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes. It was. Contact!

That's the one.

I have never heard of it. Thank you Morag, I was waiting to see if that was the one PN said.

Does it really dry it up then? I thought it had stopped a bit, but then I'm lying down. (TMI alert) As soon as I sit up, it all falls out at once :rotfl:

I've taken night nurse and a little bit of wine. I should be out of my misery shortly.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Erm, no idea at the moment, in a bit of a quandry as to which course to do to be honest....one means a few extra months of no study but is a larger and longer course once started, the other means I start it earlier but it is less points and shorter.

But I am impatient.......but also I tend to overthink things.

Do the longer one later... summer's coming

When I did the OU that was always annoying, that their academic year was January to October. So you were studying through the summer/sunny days.

Although it's different now, with more/shorter courses that you can start on many dates through the year.

You've got one under your belt... take the summer off and hit the "more points" one later.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Does it really dry it up then?

I used to do swimming, 'proper swimming'.... and we'd always have that before racing. I noticed it said about drowsiness after 30 minutes, well, I used to race after taking it, so maybe that's all about weak people

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

DO people not realise that all planning permission requests are now on line so it is simples to see exactly what is going to be built without leaving your PC?

Probably not... and that's not "in the flesh".

I don't know if there's one central system, but when I've been randomly peeking about the internet round this way, the planning stuff's just completely unnavigable - and certainly nothing really interesting to discover except maybe a wonky scan of a line drawing.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

I thought we were bad with slowing down to peer at other people's building works but the amount of 'kerb crawling' we now get past our house is unbelievable - I think the 8 foot security fencing probably helps to raise people's curiosity and means you can only see in through the gate if it is open at all hence needing to slow right down. DO people not realise that all planning permission requests are now on line so it is simples to see exactly what is going to be built without leaving your PC?

You wait until they just start walking in! H always pretends to be 'the builder' to see what people's real opinions are.

The first big project I had anything real to do with, I arrived to find people in the back garden looking at the extension slab. The whole house was open, but I walked in through the front door, with a key. They just started talking to me like I was nosing too and it's perfectly normal for multiple people to trespass on other people's property

"Lovely isn't it. Shame it hasn't got a garage"
"Yes, that's because they didn't have cars in the 17th Century. Now gerrof my land!"

Have you looked online yourself to see if you had any objections?

michaels

Ha ha - we are supposed to be having pinic lunch at the girls school tomorrow - here is the weather forecast: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4281?area=AL1



DW had a headache for the last 2 days that has become a sore throat today, kids have had ear ache and now have runny noses - and now I have a headache so it looks like I have lots to look forward to

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Ha ha - we are supposed to be having pinic lunch at the girls school tomorrow - here is the weather forecast: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4281?area=AL1

It's Britain. Take the standard picnic equipment: an umbrella.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Ha ha - we are supposed to be having pinic lunch at the girls school tomorrow - here is the weather forecast: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4281?area=AL1

I like the way it's in the small print. Sunny intervals isn't exactly the same as 'big thunderstorm' I could only put a picture of a raincloud for people getting ready tomorrow morning so they could decide what to wear without reading small print.

silvercar

We got gazumped in 2006. Since then the neighbours on its right did a 2 storey conversion on the side by what would have been my house. The neighbours on my left kept a horse in the back garden! They sold last year and the new people have just started knocking down and completely rebuilding, with a basement and loft rooms and a roof that looks like an aircraft hanger - all corrugated steel.

Pure karma!