Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

Exposed: The Truth Behind Gen's UK Rendezvous

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013059/German-bank-sacked-300-Britons-pays-Janet-Jackson-11-000-minute.html

Events reached a peak when the late Michael Jackson’s sister was chauffeured from the West End to perform for the audience of bankers and hedge fund managers.

Guests included Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of The Huffington Post, and Ireland’s Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan.

A source said: ‘The guests were absolutely delighted. It was the most exquisite experience at the highest end of corporate hospitality.

‘Heston shook hands and talked with many of the bankers for an hour or so whilst his team made bizarre cocktails for them all. It was quite a theatrical experience, with all the smoke coming up from the nitrogen cylinders.

'The bankers were flying in from all over the world and Heston made them a special mixture of his cocktail meringues. It was a very lavish affair.’

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

same place on the car,

At one of the corners?

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

second flat tyre, same place on the car, within a tenish day period.

Time to stop parking on the nail bed.

vivatifosi

Silvercar, have been meaning to mention, did you see that the consultation on school transportation closes soon? I wanted to make sure you had a chance to get your comments in.

vivatifosi

Just read this on twitter, did make me laugh:

RIP the News of the World. Rip it up good and proper.

Harold Camping (US preacher): What I meant was end of the news of the world.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

Silvercar, have been meaning to mention, did you see that the consultation on school transportation closes soon? I wanted to make sure you had a chance to get your comments in.

Yes, I did thanks.

The previous consultation resulted in 76% of respondents being against the cuts. The conclusion was that the response had to be balanced against the need to save money, so the cuts were to go ahead!

If that was the case, what was the point of consulting?:mad:

One school local to me has already been in contact with coach companies to run the service privately. I think they will have problems collecting the costs from parents, but at least there will be a service offered.

This is going to have a big impact directly on working parents and indirectly on the rest of us, who will suffer with more traffic in the morning rush hour.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

My ticket I got a few months back, never heard another thing. Didn't pay it, not heard. That car park mismanagement company were replaced with the Parking Eye shower a couple of months later, so maybe I never got any threatening letters because they didn't bother as they'd lost the contract.

What I don't understand is: if all private parking 'tickets' are unenforceable, how come they're in business and how come everybody's not ignoring them.

Council's different though ... they're 'probably legal' unless you can find a loophole or angle. The best thing for parking tickets is to get a cheapo empty/clear tax disc holder on your side of the screen and stick tickets in that. They are tricky little blighters though... having to have them the right way round and the right way up.

Round here I think you can get a special ticket to park in "any long term council car park" for about £1000 a year. Although when I looked the price wasn't known as they were still deciding it - and it does apply to long-stay car parks only.

Edit: Found it, they've decided on a system. "Pick any four car parks and pay a fixed fee." It's £135/3 months in my area, or £450-500/year, depending which you pick. Across the county the fee is up to £900/year for your selection of four Council run car parks.

Parking's very complex isn't it.

Edit 2: Just found another one... a Rover Ticket. If I buy a Rover Ticket I can park in any Council long stay car park (there are 7 on the edges of town) in the whole county for a year for £900. Bit of a bargain for somebody who is out/about a lot of the time all over the place. £2.46/day, or £3.86 if you used it for workdays (Mon-Fri) less annual leave and bank holidays (28). So that's like "pay for parking at work and get all other parking free".

A season ticket would not work for me since they decided to make our town centre a shared space high street, I don't often go up there now because by the time I have parked up, walked through M&S and into the high street, I can't go any further and have to sit down!

So our visits are rare and usually consist of the boys rushing into whatever shops they need to go in while I sit on the seats outside and then we come back to the car.....and I can then not walk any further for the rest of the day.

Before the shared space scheme, Monday -Sunday (but not Saturdays) you could park on the high street, now only blue badge holders are allowed to.....I don't have a blue badge, so our usual after school flits up there have stopped as I can't really flit from the car park and still be able to make the dinner when we get home!

Only good thing to come out of the scheme is lots more seats to sit on.......less shops to visit as they go out of business (our town has always relied on passing trade as no real big name stores there - no passing trade from cars equals less trade and more shops struggling), but more seats and trees to make things look pretty.

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Yes, I did thanks.

The previous consultation resulted in 76% of respondents being against the cuts. The conclusion was that the response had to be balanced against the need to save money, so the cuts were to go ahead!

If that was the case, what was the point of consulting?:mad:

One school local to me has already been in contact with coach companies to run the service privately. I think they will have problems collecting the costs from parents, but at least there will be a service offered.

This is going to have a big impact directly on working parents and indirectly on the rest of us, who will suffer with more traffic in the morning rush hour.

We were offered subsidised transport for eldest when he started 6th form......it was actually cheaper for him to get a normal bus than the school bus from here!

Now if he is at his normal old school (the 6th form is a joint venture between his and the other two boy's school), I drop him off on the high road along the way, if he is at the same school as the other two, I take him all the way in.....oodles cheaper than taking either the 'subsidised' school transport or the normal bus.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

A season ticket would not work for me since they decided to make our town centre a shared space high street, I don't often go up there now because by the time I have parked up, walked through M&S and into the high street, I can't go any further and have to sit down!

So our visits are rare and usually consist of the boys rushing into whatever shops they need to go in while I sit on the seats outside and then we come back to the car.....and I can then not walk any further for the rest of the day.

Before the shared space scheme, Monday -Sunday (but not Saturdays) you could park on the high street, now only blue badge holders are allowed to.....I don't have a blue badge, so our usual after school flits up there have stopped as I can't really flit from the car park and still be able to make the dinner when we get home!

Only good thing to come out of the scheme is lots more seats to sit on.......less shops to visit as they go out of business (our town has always relied on passing trade as no real big name stores there - no passing trade from cars equals less trade and more shops struggling), but more seats and trees to make things look pretty.

Sue, blue badges are for people who find it difficult or painful to walk from the car park in a way that the rest of us are able to do without ill effects. Everything you've written above is screaming "Sue should have a blue badge". I know you do not want to think of yourself as "disabled", but all this "having a rest on a seat" and "taking my own seat with me" and "walking with a stick" that you've been mentioning recently means that you do know already that you have some mobility challenges that other people do not have. That's all a blue badge means - you have some mobility difficulties and need to park closer to things than fully able-bodied people.

Please just get one. Otherwise your boys are missing out on your flits to town after school just because you don't want the label that you feel a blue badge would give you, and that's not fair on them or you.

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

Sue, blue badges are for people who find it difficult or painful to walk from the car park in a way that the rest of us are able to do without ill effects. Everything you've written above is screaming "Sue should have a blue badge". I know you do not want to think of yourself as "disabled", but all this "having a rest on a seat" and "taking my own seat with me" and "walking with a stick" that you've been mentioning recently means that you do know already that you have some mobility challenges that other people do not have. That's all a blue badge means - you have some mobility difficulties and need to park closer to things than fully able-bodied people.

Please just get one. Otherwise your boys are missing out on your flits to town after school just because you don't want the label that you feel a blue badge would give you, and that's not fair on them or you.

+1. Please do it Sue.