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

Itismehonest

sss555s wrote: »

Wasn't a snowball was it?

That didn't have a biscuit base in my mind though.

No, we remember snowballs now you've mentioned them. They had a white dusting.
We've also remembered the name of the company who made the original Wagon Wheels & Jammie Dodgers ......... Burton's! I've googled in the hope that I'd find the teacake things but no joy. Maybe they weren't the manufacturers after all

Thanks everyone for trying to help, though.

Actually, in a bid to not climb walls with the frustration of not remembering, we've moved on to trying to remember the name of the big triangular frozen orange juice things in cardboardy covers.
Were they Jumblies or something like that?

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

PN .... I’ve devoured your posts and found them insightful and perceptive, and they’re one of the main reasons I lurk and post here.

Have a happy New Year and my fond wishes

Oh Lord... I've pulled!!



Happy Xmas.

misskool

Doozergirl wrote: »

90 in mine. 45 mile round trip twice a day. Tedious, to say the least.

That's a long way to go to school.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm in a hotel room again, but this time I can see The Shard straight out of the window

Where's that then?

PasturesNew

My furthest school was just over 6 miles, but by two buses, with a 30 minute wait between buses, in the early 70s that was a long way. It was all the way into town, then all the way out the other side again. It used to take me 1.25 hours door to door because of that long wait in the middle.

PasturesNew

Masomnia wrote: »

I'm thinking I'll take that Blackberry. If I get bored of the phone I can always buy another unlocked and move the sim card across. £15 for those allowances means I'll be saving £240 over the two years on the HTC, so I could always just buy one if I fancied one at some point, or even something better. It's cheaper than what I'm paying now, and I'm currently on my old Nokia 3310 as my 'modern phone' broke, so I can't go wrong!

I owe you a pint vivs!

The whole world of mobile phones is completely outside of my sphere of understanding... completely. I couldn't even explain the above posting to somebody as it's all just making a WHOOOOSH noise.



I'd like a new-fangled phone at some point, but there's so much to understand I wonder if I'll ever get round to it..

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Where's that then?

London. The streets are paved with gold, it's great

PasturesNew

Trying to find the old a new place to live ... but the system makes it virtually impossible to do much more than stick a pin in a book. First there is the book, with the list; each one takes different types of resident, we need one that takes a certain type of resident AND has a feature that isn't listed in the book. The book also doesn't say if there are vacancies. So we'd have to phone each one and ask if they have a space -and- if they have the special feature -and- "how much". Now, they won't tell you how much, they will only tell you their starting price; they add on extras based on your needs. So, with all the time in the world, you'd phone every one that seems the right sort, ask them if they have the feature and come up with a list of those with the special feature... then ask if they have a vacancy and how much. Then dismiss those that are way too pricey and that don't have a bed - and hope you're left with a list larger than 0 or 1. Then you have to visit them all to assess them. Next you'd have to ask them if they can do an assessment, which takes them 1-3 days to set up (or 7 days for the first one in our instance). Then they come up with an actual price. And all this can take ages.... meanwhile, old is still stuck in the H place taking up space. Oh .... and even if you manage to do all that there is a secret hitlist where the authorities have got their eye on certain homes that they're about to come down hard on (they're flagged as being bad places so need to avoid) .... and that information is entirely verbal/off the record.... this could take some time.

Itismehonest

PasturesNew wrote: »

Where's that then?

Near London Bridge.
I haven't been to London (well, not to hang about in) for years. I spent a lot of time there in my teens as I grew up not far away. I don't like London now as I'm too used to a less frantic lifestyle.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

London. The streets are paved with gold, it's great

That's not gold... it's scattered coins from mugging victims.