Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've got Wartime London with Harry Harris on TV at the moment (Discovery History). It is about Nazi London this week.

My parents used to watch the World at War in the 70s on the telly. You should google/youtube for the videos of that, it was a very long set of series and detailed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_at_war "Such was the extent of its research, it took four years to produce at a cost of £900,000 (2009 equivalent: £11.4 million[1]). At the time, this was a record for a British television series. It was first shown in 1973, on ITV."

My dad was a child and his home was occupied; he ended the war with malnutrition.

My mother did important war work (engineering) so didn't go into the land army/whatever.

Loads of deaths in the family etc during the war, including one cousin who was one of the first people killed by a bomb in the town.

lostinrates

Urgh, got to the end of the day exhausted.

The salveggtionsists have been joined by four white balls of fluff called snowballs, gifts from another mse er. They are gorgeous.....its funny to see the bald chickens and the fluffy white ones together.

The really bold rescue one had a look outside but then went back in.

We are very wet outside today....more water than i have ever seen here.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

a Sony Walkman that took little discs

a minidisc player? they didn't last long did they! i remember getting one in about 1997/8, think they were obsolete by about 2002!

on that note, when i was skiing the other week, i saw some chap fiddling with a proper old school sony walkman and an old casette which had got chewed up in the mechanism 3000m up the mountain1

silvercar

On further investigation, we can't find a charger for the minidisc player and the tomtom was replaced because the in-car charger doesn't always charge it properly.

purch

misskool wrote: »

most annoyed at the bbc forecast

1 -2 cm my !!!! !!!! :mad:

10 to 12 more like.

I was going nowhere (other than sideways) in the Quattro last night, even with the Traction Control switched off.

JonnyBravo

chewmylegoff wrote: »

on that note, when i was skiing the other week, i saw some chap fiddling with a proper old school sony walkman and an old casette which had got chewed up in the mechanism 3000m up the mountain1

Spent all that money to get up a mountain and then he has to waste 2 hours a day sorting out his sounds. :rotfl: Tight wad.

Wooden skis too?

zagubov

This looks like a disturbing chapter from a book I read years ago- I think it was called "the Economic Naturalist" and it tried to explain among other things why some countries had such trouble becoming prosperous.

the http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16815605

Could London/the SE ever get as bad as this? :eek:

PasturesNew

Channel 4, just started: The Hotel. It's a hotel in Torquay. Hilarious ... a real basil fawlty style owner!

After that, The Time Traveller's Wife, film.... sounds interesting. No more flicking round the channels for me tonight!

lostinrates

I'm hoping to stay awake long enough to watch the time travellers eife too pn. I wonder how much like the bo it is. I can barely remember the book. Bt i am tired and its dh's first day at new place tomorrow, so not sure if we will stay up.

Edit: not autocorrect, just tiredness. Sorry

Davesnave

purch wrote: »

1 -2 cm my !!!! !!!! :mad:

10 to 12 more like.

I was going nowhere (other than sideways) in the Quattro last night, even with the Traction Control switched off.

Looked a bit white up there from here.

Lovely night tonight. Totally still and an almost full moon. The only sounds, an owl out on patrol and the river rushing over the weir almost two miles away.