Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

My memory is really dodgy atm. I found that glass i rememembered breaking but forgot where a few weeks ago, but again, dorgot where when i went to get the dustpan. Then this afternoon i told dh i had definetly turned hot water on. I have not. Cold washes tonight. .

Mine's not that bad... just a few recent, unusual, lapses that have made me a bit worried about my future potential to live alone. I have always struggled with ovens as I can randomly nod off .... and when cooking I usually have a couple of wind up timers set for when things need checking/turning. And I love these small ovens that use a timer, so they'll ping when they're ready AND turn off. Genius I say.... but it's just a bit frightening when you live alone and rely on yourself to have these little oddities creeping into daily life. But they're nothing like your Forgetz.

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mine's not that bad... just a few recent, unusual, lapses that have made me a bit worried about my future potential to live alone. I have always struggled with ovens as I can randomly nod off .... and when cooking I usually have a couple of wind up timers set for when things need checking/turning. And I love these small ovens that use a timer, so they'll ping when they're ready AND turn off. Genius I say.... but it's just a bit frightening when you live alone and rely on yourself to have these little oddities creeping into daily life. But they're nothing like your Forgetz.

Now I understand your fire paranoia.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Loved Marc Bolan ...

Used to live near the common where he had his fatal crash. Used to see tourists photographinhg the decoratuions and tributes around the tree where he died. These roadside shrines are everyhere now.

misskool wrote: »

OH just wondered if it would be stupid to go into a&e with pulled muscle in back? also it's really bad now.....and my gp is rubbish

No, if you feelyou need to go to A&E then go you should.Bring stuff to pass the time as a saturday night/sunday morning is their peak time to be mobbed.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Car fixes are way too expensive, with dealers charging about £100/hour + VAT for labour. That's £120/hour. That's 20 hours of minimum wage to buy one hour of mechanic time.... outrageous. The "little man" I can use round these parts charges £35/hour, still a lot, but when all a mechanic (well, they're fitters these days) spends most of the time stripping the car down and rebuilding it, it seems a waste.... I'd be prepared to do that part of the labour, leaving them to just fit the part properly ... but life doesn't work like that.

As I mentioned to missk a while back, if you make contacts with a local college they might be able to do work at cost of parts.. Dealers charge a sum that looks like a number plucked from a tokyo telphone directory.

A backstreet mechanic with a good rep is worth his weight in gold

Being forgetful's not as sinister as it sounds. Busy stressed people forget pretty much everything.

And if you're stressed for a while the cortisol in your circulation switches off your immune system so some people end up coming down with pretty much everything.:(

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

if you make contacts with a local college they might be able to do work at cost of parts.. Dealers charge a sum that looks like a number plucked from a tokyo telphone directory.

A backstreet mechanic with a good rep is worth his weight in gold

I didn't know that. Cheers.

However, I think the practicalities of it might prove to be information I can't use. The "local college" here is a 40-50 mile round trip. Once I move then I'll see where's one there, but you'd then need to not only have the contacts, but be in a position where the fix you need fits into the syllabus/term times and to be able to get a slot ... all while needing the vehicle to get to/from work. So, it might be fine for people who actually have a local college and aren't in a rush and don't need their car for work, but that is probably a small subset of us.

Shame ... I know somebody that could really benefit from that, but couldn't use the knowledge due to geography and having to be at work every day. They currently hire a car for a week when theirs goes wrong and drop their car off at the garage one weekend and pick it up the following weekend, something that a college wouldn't be in a position to accommodate.

This gathered knowledge, however, will assist me in my quest to become a know it all

So many things are great information, if you can use it. Like cheap haircuts at a college....

tomterm8

Old fashioned cars used to be much better... far simpler. It was easy to fix them yourself. Modern cars are built to make it virtually impossible to fix them yourself. I think it is on purpose.

Weather is very bad tonight.

michaels

Yeah - someone mentioned cutting the grass today and based on last nights weather forecast (dry until dusk) I was hoping ours might be possible as it is reaching out of control (for our tiny hovver) proportions but actually it rained all day here before the real bad weather even reached. WE can hear the rain and wind tonight which is pretty unusual for in town.

Still it might be drier and milder for a couple of days next week with the outside possibility of some wintery showers by the following weekend :eek:

tomterm8 wrote: »

Old fashioned cars used to be much better... far simpler. It was easy to fix them yourself. Modern cars are built to make it virtually impossible to fix them yourself. I think it is on purpose.

Weather is very bad tonight.

SingleSue

sss555s wrote: »

Hope we get to see the footage elsewhere soon sue :beer:

I don't have nightmares often if ever. maybe one or two a year. I wouldn't mind a go of this "hand under the bed thing" :A

Thanks to PN's enthusiasm, I have installed evernote on my PC, browser and mobile. All I have done is a contact lens report so I know the issues and where I am with trailing them. The new pair are fab, if anyones interested :j I slept with them in for the first time and no issues at all. The trial may end with these ones already

Grass needs cut which takes a hour. Sooner I get on with it the sooner it's done

Link now elsewhere.....

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Link now elsewhere.....

Bandwidth elsewhere is giving me warning messages.... if anybody finds it's not there before I get round to upping the bandwidth limits....then try again on 1st of the month when it automatically resets.

Upping the bandwidth limit on that domain's on my To Do list.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Old fashioned cars used to be much better... far simpler. It was easy to fix them yourself. Modern cars are built to make it virtually impossible to fix them yourself. I think it is on purpose.

Weather is very bad tonight.

Yeah, in the past I've stripped down many an engine, changed piston rings, swapped engines and clutches, fixed my brakes ... all sorts. The will to do this has left me now though ... but even so, you now can't find "a bloke round the corner that'll tinker with it and get it working" any more.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

So nice people, anyone got any ideas as to where in Europe I should spirit Mrs McT away to for a long weekend for her birthday?