Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

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.

Just shows how different councils operate. Ours still says 6th formers are not of compulsory school age and there is no obligation to provide transport.

John_Pierpoint

PasturesNew wrote: »

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

Yes and it is us the mugs who are bailing them out with artificially cheap (printed) money that are paying for this.

Unfortunately as (capitalist?) society, in the absence of discontinuities like wars and revolutions, tends to end up in a 80/20 income distribution.
So it makes sense to entertain the "fat cats" as potential customers, as the rest of us are more are less a waste of time.

Then it is only a short step to deciding that the lower orders of society are a waste of space and at the other end it is irrational and unfair and we can dispense with the "fat cats" voila: National Socialism.

However as we now live in a global society, pretty well all of us writing here are in the 20% minority, so should have a vested interest in the country not being reduced to third world status.

Here is the guy who thought about this, who does not get talked about much these days in politically correct circles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_chart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto

silvercar wrote: »

Just shows how different councils operate. Ours still says 6th formers are not of compulsory school age and there is no obligation to provide transport.

I had to travel both ways on my £13.50 second hand racing bike, come rain come shine (probably nearer 200 quid in today's money) . But the school was only about a mile and a half away on then quiet suburban roads - though my best friend and a girl friend I acquired lived 8.5 and 6 miles away respectively.
(I remember it as being further but I have checked on the AA route planner. It tells me the 8.5 mile journey would now take 32 minutes. I think I could do it that fast on a bike over 50 years ago)

vivatifosi

Some good news from one of the sports in which we are hoping to do well at the Olympics:

http://www.britishrowing.org/news/gb-rowing-team-win-10-world-cup-medals-four-them-gold?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

lostinrates

Nothing to perk a gal up like gossip. I've pulled myself out of sorry for myself state of yesterday by wrangling an invitation to a time and a place with someone well in on the current yuck. I shall blonde my way to some info.

We just found out someone close to us was ''on the list'' (but is not worried about anything personally!)

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

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

LOL! I'm not an investment banker any more so such luxuries are no longer on offer to me. I turned right and walked a very long way on the plane last week. I was exhausted by the time I got to my seat!

Deutsche Bank's managers are a bunch of pr1cks to be fair. IMHO of course.

PasturesNew

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.

You need a little folding electric scooter. Commuter-scooter. When I say scooter I mean "like the child's toy" thing, not "like a motorbike".

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

LOL! I'm not an investment banker any more so such luxuries are no longer on offer to me. I turned right and walked a very long way on the plane last week. I was exhausted by the time I got to my seat!

Deutsche Bank's managers are a bunch of pr1cks to be fair. IMHO of course.

Still rich though - you were on a plane!



A poor man would still be rowing.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Nothing to perk a gal up like gossip. I've pulled myself out of sorry for myself state of yesterday by wrangling an invitation to a time and a place with someone well in on the current yuck. I shall blonde my way to some info.

We just found out someone close to us was ''on the list'' (but is not worried about anything personally!)

What list?

PasturesNew

My first school was two separate buses away, about 7 miles away on the other side of town.
Then I went to the local/village school, so I walked as it was only 0.75 mile tops.
Then I went to secretarial college, which was just one bus and 4.5 miles away. Well, one bus into town, then we'd walk the last mile across town as it'd be quicker than getting a 2nd bus and there were 3-4 of us from our village on the same bus going there.

LydiaJ

Hope all the nice people have enjoyed the weekend. If any of you know anything about contents/buildings insurance, please could I refer you to my query on the insurance board? Thanks.

When I was growing up my school was within sight of my house, so obviously I walked. My brothers cycled (1.2 miles) to their school, which was further away. (At least, they did when they were older. Can't remember what they did when they were primary age as the youngest of them is 6 years older than me, but have faint memories of going in the car with my mum to pick them up.)

When we chose DS's primary school, it was with the intention of walking, but then the LLs gave us notice, and we moved to the other side of town (2.7 miles from the school), so I drove him (and DD when she started there too). Since we moved this spring it is still beyond comfortable walking/cycling distance with kids that size IMO - we could do it on occasions but it's not practicable for every day in my time-poor not-a-morning-person lifestyle - so I'm still driving them (1.6 miles and a bit steep in places). However, the secondary school that I envisage them attending is easily within walking distance (or cycling if preferred) and they'll go under their own power once they move up to big school (0.5 miles and flat). Once I've only got myself to deal with, I might even start cycling to work - it would be 2.5 miles, pretty flat, and mostly back streets and/or cycle tracks.