Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That 88,000 is spread over a large area, with poor roads. When a shop in your area has an 88,000 population it's got another 60,000,000 just 10-20 miles down the road and another 500,000 people driving by every day.

True... but all of those have got toner shops too. For sure rural is different, but if someone could get the routes right, they could pick up and drop off most on set runs, with a store people can get to if they need it. Blast, I need to get to Cornwall quick with a business plan:rotfl:.

More importantly though, any news yet on the job front PN or am I a bit premature?

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

My hair is exactly like this:
http://www.newsquod.com/643266/lady-gaga-to-be-subject-of-new-book/

Seriously!

Are you talking about the hair on her head or the hair that seems to be the main component of her clothing?

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Are you talking about the hair on her head or the hair that seems to be the main component of her clothing?

I only wear my hair corset on the school run. The head hair style I sport for all occasions.

I think the dog just farted. I don't think it was me,, and there's no one else in the room.

LydiaJ

Took the day off work today. Took the DKs out of school, and we went to visit my mum. She was clearly sleepier and less responsive than Friday. She's having difficulty swallowing and so hardly eating or drinking anything.

DS and DD had a good time to start with. My middle brother was there, and they were playing with him, showing him the things they'd brought "to cheer Granny up" - DD's hamster and DS's remote control helicopter. However, when it got to time to say good night to Granny because the carers were about to arrive to put her to bed, DS completely lost the plot. Poor kid, he cried and cried and was still crying when we got into the car to come home. I told him to come and wait for me in my room while I settled DD into bed, because if she's awake it's hard for her to let him and me have uninterrupted time together. By the time I came back he'd fallen asleep on my bed - not under the duvet but on top of it, and diagonally across the top end of it. I haven't tried moving him yet - I'd rather wait until he's really deeply asleep so as not to risk waking him.

I am going to try to make them go to school tomorrow, but I'm not sure how it will go.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Are you talking about the hair on her head or the hair that seems to be the main component of her clothing?

I now want to know whether Doozer has a meat dress and if so, is it kept in the freezer, or, given Doozer's phenomenal interior skills, in an appropriately temperature controlled walk in wardrobe.

Nice hair btw.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

My hair is exactly like this:
http://www.newsquod.com/643266/lady-gaga-to-be-subject-of-new-book/

Seriously!

She's SO weird isn't she... SRSLY.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

True... but all of those have got toner shops too. For sure rural is different, but if someone could get the routes right, they could pick up and drop off most on set runs, with a store people can get to if they need it. Blast, I need to get to Cornwall quick with a business plan:rotfl:.

More importantly though, any news yet on the job front PN or am I a bit premature?

No news, so I assume I didn't get picked for the very low level NMW job

Sad isn't it ... brain the size of a planet and can't even get picked to do a simple monkey-job

Not bothered though. I didn't need the job, I just felt that having one so close would be a barrier to stop the old relying on me being able to drop everything and run off there at the drop of a hat (like happened this morning). I felt it would provide some good learning of my preferred industry from the inside, a distraction, spot of easy cash and material fodder for my writing.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

True... but all of those have got toner shops too. For sure rural is different, but if someone could get the routes right, they could pick up and drop off most on set runs, with a store people can get to if they need it. Blast, I need to get to Cornwall quick with a business plan:rotfl:.

More importantly though, any news yet on the job front PN or am I a bit premature?

As I see it, the biggest barriers to business success in a distributed resident environment are:
[1] lack of any marketing/website
[2] any website not providing the information required, e.g. it's just a website without any product listings/online stores
[3] no 24 hour shopping or late nights

There could be a bloke round the corner with a box of exactly the cartridge I want, yet I'd never know it as they've not google-powered their inventory through, say, the froogle system .... I did find one on ebay that said they're 10 miles away, but they've no physical shop - or certainly didn't say they had on their ebay shop page.

Lots of people doing stuff from their sheds part-time.... alongside the other 2-3 jobs they have/do.

In 5 years' time there'll be a way to harness products with google maps and people will have bothered to connect the two together and it'll be possible to go to maps.google and search for a product in your area and have access to the full inventory of every shop

Just not right now...

michaels

I am no expert and I know it must be hard for you but possibly keeping them to the routine they know may be the easiest thing for them?

LydiaJ wrote: »

I am going to try to make them go to school tomorrow, but I'm not sure how it will go.

zagubov

Davesnave wrote: »

Most of us who live in the sticks do that sort of stuff on-line. Home delivery vans are all over the little lanes around here. I'm guessing, but fairly sure that my nearest printer ink is over 10miles away, and then that would only be a few common ones.

OTOH if I go into the butcher and ask for a pork chop, he will be able to tell me exactly where it came from and what breed it is.

Country's good for some things.

Actually when people were generalising earlier about the NPs I wondered how many feel they live "in the sticks".

In my last place you'd need to pop in the car to buy even a box of matches as I lived miles from any shops or transport. Didn't stay there long!:eek:

I'm a city guy at heart and the country doesn't suit me. Feel that puts me in a minority here or do others live in cities/big towns,

Realise that gbd, ndg and probably wheezy are in the same city as me. :hello:

PN, lir, dave sound like you're at the edge of the map! Everyone else not sure whether you're in large or small cities/towns/villages/settlements whatever.:p