Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

You're more than welcome here CK anytime you want to drop in!
You've got a heck of a long commute to work, though! :eek: I don't envy you.

CM23 to SE19 = a long commute? CM23 to CH-1218 (in Geneva) on a Sunday night/Tuesday night is a long commute

I drive about 24-2500mi/week, just to give you a rough idea. :eek:

I’ll be around, I’ll just try to be nice to the nice people :T

CK

michaels

I've commuted Herts to Croydon before - 1hr straight through train.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I've commuted Herts to Croydon before - 1hr straight through train.

I used to know someone who commuted from the east midlands (near Leicester I think) to Surrey every day. It was about three hours each way I believe.:eek:
Didn't stay in the job long!:cool:

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

I've commuted Herts to Croydon before - 1hr straight through train.

About 75mins from my house to the office.

CK

CKhalvashi

misskool wrote: »

There's a LOT. like more than what would seem reasonable to do on trips to the tip

It’s certainly not once we’ve cleared crap out the house.

CK

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I used to know someone who commuted from the east midlands (near Leicester I think) to Surrey every day. It was about three hours each way I believe.:eek:
Didn't stay in the job long!:cool:

I did a daily commute of about hundred and twenty miles when i was yo ger for about six months.It was killing. The distance was not the problem, but only thirty miles was motorwayable, and i had an ancient car that didn't really top fifty.

lostinrates

I am a supermarket hoar.

I used to live nearest a morrisons, which i found good for some basics. Ours did not have fany fruit and veg. It did have an olive stand and petrol station.

Morrisons is still nearest but tiny. Really tiny. Not much bigger than the biggest tesco metro i have been in. Tesoc is as quick to get too (faster road), full of surprising good stuff for a rural supermarket...we live in a diverse area so the ethnic stuff is surprising exciting. In fact, much to my delight i procured from there an emergency childhood comfort food pack of mpkraft mac n cheese!. There is an asda not far on, but it has an awkward and not free carpark. If i want asda or waitrose i do those when i go to the next town on still, to get animal feeds....unless i go in the other direction for the cheaper animal feeds and bigger asda, but that is further away, so what. Save is spent on petrol...but goes past a good plant nursery. There is a new waitrose opening in yet another local town soon. I hope its a decent size. Otherwise i also go to waitrose when i go to salisbury, where the waitrose is huge and has a mini john lewis in it, rather than being a john lwis with a tiny waitrose in the basement.


Lidl and aldi i go to for some offers, and for some christmas stuff. Veg can be good, but i won't buy anything with animal products from there because i do not know where it has come from.....

Most of my meat somes from farmers or butchers if pushed, and until free parking stopped in nearest small town i used the green grocers a LOT. Good, RIPE fruit and veg, but short shelf life, so have to go three times a week. It would be chepaer by a long way if it were walking distance, but not sure once petrol and parking considered.

Sainsburies is on the worng side of both local towns and never has enough different from the others to make me wantto go there, apart from knickers. I like sainsburies knickers, so if i need them i work in a sainsburies shop.

I go shopping as little as possile, and regret immesnely that my easiest fall back on is a tesco, even though its so well stocked.

I saw a fight shortly after moving here over the reduced section in tesco.

LydiaJ

I was talking the other day to someone who used to work in London but has been over my side of the country for a while now. She can walk to work in about 10min where she is now, and is paying half the rent she used to be, and loving it. She told me that in London people think anything less than an hour each way is a normal commute. I don't think I could stick that. Here, I drive 10 min home to kids' school, followed by another 10 min kids' school to my work, which seems a whole lot more reasonable than my "long commute" that I used to do from my old house - 20 min home to kids' school, followed by 10 min kids' school to my work. Once DD goes to secondary school (in 2015) I'll be biking 10-15min each way to work.

lostinrates

Incredibly busy day. We had a bit of a fire, ut put it out easily....it was outside. Dog dog went for a swim, but to our surprise and her horror...she chased the geese.

LydiaJ

Oh Dog dog, you naughty girl.
Did she catch any?

ETA I've never had a chance to use that smiley before!