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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Add Adolphe Sax and we come to 7 famous Belgians. Who ever said Belgium was boring??
DH has an Adolphe Sax instrument...a very late original sax. (as well as a few others). IIRC its a sligtly odd key in comparison with the modern instrument.
I had prepped and packed one of his others today, but I wonder if that one would like to visit home? I shall ask him.
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Was Audrey Hepburn Belgian? If not why do I think so?
* byu him I mean dh, not the saxophone!0 -
There's Bradley Wiggins too of course.0
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lostinrates wrote: »
Was Audrey Hepburn Belgian? If not why do I think so?There's Bradley Wiggins too of course.
Both born in Belgium, but British nationality.
Goodnight nice peeps, I'm going home. It's been a long and busy day...0 -
lostinrates wrote: »the first part of your post I saw was ''not seen him since last week'' and ''big holes'' and I thought it was about the rodent!!!!!
re attitude...choice is sink or swim in life.....I haven't really learnt how to deflate my lungs, so what choice is that!
(on the internet red eyes, run mascara and stress acne doesn't show). Seriously....no choice but to ''go with it'' so might as well be as least glum as one can be. Also, its v. tough for him so want to stay bouyant for his benefit too.
Well, indeed you might as well be as least glum as you can, but that doesn't mean that everyone would. :A
The rodent is a "she" - she's escaped several times already, but usually just goes under DD's bed, from where it's fairly easy to get her out. DD has just breezed into the room, dumped the rodent on my lap with a casual "Mummy, can you babysit?" and zoomed off again. :rotfl:I always thought Poirot was a fictional character
So we already have Van Damme, Herge, Clijsters, Henin, Merckx and Poirot. Add Adolphe Sax and we come to 7 famous Belgians. Who ever said Belgium was boring??
If you are allowed Poirot then you should also have Tintin.
The builder didn't turn up. I will text him the info that the new FF is arriving next Friday and see what happens next.
The big event in our house today was DS clicking "submit" on his online application for secondary school. I let him click it himself. Interestingly, although he's been unwavering in his certainty that he wants to go to a particular school (which is fortunately the one I want him to go to and the one in whose catchment we live), and adamant that he doesn't want to waste time going to open evenings at any other schools, he found it quite stressful making it definite by actually clicking the button, and had to be reassured that he could change his mind later and resubmit any time between now and 31st Oct.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
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The big event in our house today was DS clicking "submit" on his online application for secondary school. I let him click it himself. Interestingly, although he's been unwavering in his certainty that he wants to go to a particular school (which is fortunately the one I want him to go to and the one in whose catchment we live), and adamant that he doesn't want to waste time going to open evenings at any other schools, he found it quite stressful making it definite by actually clicking the button, and had to be reassured that he could change his mind later and resubmit any time between now and 31st Oct.
this deserves a post of its own. What an amazing child he is, very responsible.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Replace it with a cheerily-painted beach-hut style shed.... and put 2-3' of soft sand in front of it
No can do. It's an old boiler house, part of the building. We can't knock it down...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I imagine NDB is supposed to be your OH - neverdespairboy.
Ah! Well, you might have seen him. He was definitely in and around Temple today. He was the bloke in the three-piece suit, that'll make him stand out..........much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Couldn't you just ask Mrs HM?
Well I could, except for 2 very important reasons.
1. She's away on business.
And 2, this.....PasturesNew wrote: »Thereby admitting he doesn't listen when she's speaking??? He might as well just pack his bags now.
So I've adopted the old "pretend nothing is amiss and it's perfectly normal to have a fridge full of champagne until she tells me to do something with it that will then give me a clue as to why it's there" routine. “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I do love a taxi.
Sigh...once upon a time it would have been a simple change at waterloo, having got on the right train here to end up at waterloo:D
I don't think I've ever been on Eurostar...I know dh really rates it highly though.
It's brilliant and I bet you'll love it; you'll never want to take a plane to Europe again.
Weird thing though.... once you cross into France it makes Britain seem like a third world country. The trains zip along like bullets. The schoolkids at the next seat looked like they'd be reading trashy mags or kids comics if they were Brits but instead were reading books like "Therese Raquine".
For a country we might stereotype as being strike-torn and riot-prone and rustic , it actually comes over as a genuinely classy place - but what the heck does that make us? :mad::eek:
I've not visited Belgium much but I hope it's as nice as Paris or Amsterdam (well, maybe that's a bit hopefull):DThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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