Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know what's happened to markets. The really good ones that were around when I was a kid seem to have died off until fairly recently when the market appears to have undergone a resurgence. I particularly like it when the French market is in town with its massive selection of cheeses. We definitely never had such exotic luxuries when I was younger. A slightly edgy cheese was Edam back then.

Our local market has been going for years now with no dips, although I no longer visit as it is a mare for traffic.

We occasionally have the continental market along our high street, most people look but don't buy due to the price or only buy very small quantities but the Polish hot dogs are an absolute bargain and massive!

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Do you ever feel like bundling the boys into the car with some sheets and pillows and going camping out at the grandparents' house? It must be so tempting.

We've only had dry storms here so far, no change in the heat yet, hopefully later.

Youngest would absolutely freak! Sleeping is only to be done in a bed don't you know :rotfl:No sense of adventure that child.....

What is more tempting is to go to my parents and park up then walk up their road to the beach, remove shoes, roll up the jeans and go paddling in the sea....but then both youngest and middle moan about the sand and go OTT because doing that sort of thing is a holiday adventure and not a home one (I still get them to do it at least once during the summer)

Oh, and I am now a great aunt..ok by marriage (my brother's step daughter) but as she only has limited family, my brother is most def the baby's grandad in the step daughter's eyes.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

There is some packaging I will NEVER throw away. Especially now I don't get expensive stuff. I find cheap stuff packaging, especially food stuffs, more irksome as there is more of it and its all destined for the bin immeadiately.

My brother always uses an old newspaper to wrap presents up.....it's caught on with us lot too!

PasturesNew

Where I used to live, I went 2-3x down to North Weald Airfield Market - that was HUGE.

Where I am now, the county is seriously lacking in any markets of any size/note/point. The big one they do have is indoors - and was flooded earlier in the year due to heavy rain (so heavy the Prime Minister was flown into the area for smug photoshoots). Many of the market stall holders had no insurance, so either shut up shop, or moved their business away to small shops in the town as they felt it was time they did. Not much there - the clothes are dire.

North Weald... oh how I miss the fact a market was accessible (only about 40 miles).

PasturesNew

Things to never put onto a website: Events Diary.

I thought I'd finally got this sorted earlier in the year when I found a great one, populated it with stuff... it had google maps, twas brilliant. Then there was an update, which it didn't recover from. Logged on today and there's another update - and it might be working now (it is brilliant).... but now I need to fill it with events

Finding events/writing them up, getting the postcode for the geo-locator .... aren't the easiest of things - and it is time consuming. So that'll be another day taken up filling up the calendar with stuff for the next 3 months (so I don't have to do it again for 3 months). I think mine is the best in the whole county though.

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Having an extension and adding lots of steel and shiny sided insulation to a house seems to really do in mobile reception. I think currently only vodafone offer an in home signal booster. T-mobile do have one but don't seem to offer it to non-business customers.

I guess you've made yourself a Farraday Cage.

http://www.faradaycage.org/

(Ignore the mad stuff, the physics is correct).

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Having an extension and adding lots of steel and shiny sided insulation to a house seems to really do in mobile reception. I think currently only vodafone offer an in home signal booster. T-mobile do have one but don't seem to offer it to non-business customers.

We have problems with signal inside the house. Its a right pain because everyone is meant to use their mobiles to call other mobiles as we all have lots of minutes on our packages, but the reception is so carp that people use the house phone and that costs for mobile calls:mad:

my mobile is more reliable than the house phone here. we have those cordless ones, but, and this is truely ridiculous, if I pick one up at pone end of the house I lose reception before the other end of the house. I think its something to do with thick walls. I'd prefer one that I could also get out into the garden properly with. Computer works happily in the garden, don't see why the phone shouldn't.

Try moving the base unit. We did that and suddenly from reception not reaching across two rooms it will work half way down the garden.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

If you are reading this on Tuesday morning, take a look at the rainfall radar for 5-6.30AM - I think you other Herts nice people must have slept through it...

Storm just hitting us now (1pm).

neverdespairgirl

Lots ot thunder rolling around in London, and a pleasant temp, too

chewmylegoff

visibility very poor can't see more than a couple of miles, but no thunder to be heard here, must be hanging around central london. looks 'orrible and muggy out there, but luckily i didn't have to leave the air conditioned bliss when i went down to get my lunch.