Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

JonnyBravo

LydiaJ wrote: »

When I was little, my paternal grandmother lived in a 1920s/30s kind of house with very high up door knobs. Everyone else could reach them but I couldn't, and I found them infuriating. I can still remember the frustration. But then, lots of things are frustrating when there are several siblings reasonably close in age and then a six year gap to the youngest, and you're the little one in that.

Yeah door knobs/handles went through a fashion of being much higher in the 20/30's. My parents house still has them there. I love it. They seem just right to me.:D

zagubov

Wheezy wrote: »

Ah, I missed you.
Don't really understand the itinerary...I thought Doozer was somewhere near Bristol? Or am I mixing things up again?



You know, I didn't even notice that. Good to see you, the kids are lovely.:)

When I first started posting here I assumed everyone lived in a triangle between the home counties, west midlands and west country. Mind you about 1/3 of Britain lives in the area.
I'll be M40/M6 later on. Playing M83's new double album full blast. Eight hours driving at least.:mad:

zagubov

On the telly once, twenty years ago. In a queue for a train ticket while a band of South American musicians were being filmed performing in the train station lobby. It was shown later that day on "PM Magazine" only really watched in one city .

That's all, just standing in a line - not a speaking part. Now if it was in the background of that Fatboy Slim video "Praise You", but not with my luck.

Nobody's rung my agent about a sequel so I suppose that's it for my TV career.:(

Nikkster

There is a very slim chance that I may appear on the tv later in the year - the building I used to work in was very distinctive and so gets used in quite a few tv programmes (either science ones, or lab scenes in spy/thriller-type ones generally.

I'm very camera shy, but I figured a) I was about to leave London and it was very unlikely that I would get a chance to do anything like that again b) we were probably going to be wearing lab coats/ specs so it would be difficult to tell who I was anyway and c) I knew a lot of the other people who had signed up from work. It was an extremely boring day, and despite having to repeatedly do the same bit of walking in the lab, I don't think I was really on camera!

I have kept the payslip with my job title as 'artiste', I doubt I'll ever get another one :rotfl:

Doozergirl

zagubov wrote: »

When I first started posting here I assumed everyone lived in a triangle between the home counties, west midlands and west country. Mind you about 1/3 of Britain lives in the area.
I'll be M40/M6 later on. Playing M83's new double album full blast. Eight hours driving at least.:mad:
Sister lives in the Glasgow / Stirling area .

If you go M40/M42/M5/M6 you'll pass within half a mile of me. Much cheaper than a service station If you go M40/M42/M6 you'll only get as close as an 11 minute motorway ride.
I think you'll miss LydiaJ.

I'm about 60miles north of Bristol, Wheezy. I was there on Sunday.

sss555s

vivatifosi wrote: »

Can you do mine then pretty please;)? I don't like book-keeping at all, yet my business affairs are relatively simple, I only have a small number of customers and only raise a few, high value invoices.

No problem, send them over.

The key to book keeping in my case is to have a good Excel sheet that automates as much as possible. All i do is put in my gross bill and it splits it into vat, net, totals, vat quarter and year end all by it's self. I realise this is how they all [STRIKE]should[/STRIKE] work but it seems far easier when you make your own bespoke "yearbook" rather than trying to use Sage or the likes.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I also have a numbers fetish :A

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

I only charge £175 for half a days work

Maybe I need to rework my costings...

Nah, my former colleague at PWC has to keep discounting his rate, and then he has to do extra hours to make up the difference. The only trouble is that the other directors are doing the same, so it's a tremendous rat race. He fortunately has staff whom he can charge out at a somewhat less astronomical rate.

sss555s

zagubov wrote: »

When I first started posting here I assumed everyone lived in a triangle between the home counties, west midlands and west country. Mind you about 1/3 of Britain lives in the area.
I'll be M40/M6 later on. Playing M83's new double album full blast. Eight hours driving at least.:mad:
Sister lives in the Glasgow / Stirling area .

You will be able to relax and enjoy it once your North of Manchester

SingleSue

I've been on the telly twice..once when I was 15 and the local news report was about me and the fact that I was the up and coming talented ballerina to come from East Anglia and to look out for my name in years to come.(hmm, that didn't come true). Included in the feature was film taken of me in my latest show dancing my solo on points.

And once in a feature about a local fairground and its traditional free day which marked the opening of the park and Easter...that time, it was just a shot of all of us scrambling to get on a ride and me falling over in the process.

Actually, it is 3 times! Just remembered, I was on Sky news too when a teenager went missing from the village and was found murdered a few days later. The news crew were getting comments from local residents.

michaels

When I was about 6 I was on through the windows on playschool twice - does that mean anything to anyone?!