Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

For those following middle east uprisings, radio four now is discussing internets involvment,

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

As long as you are inside driving it doesn't matter how ugly the outside is as you can't see it.

Yes, I've followed that philosophy, up to now. The car is still pretty clean & tidy inside and looks much the same as when I purchased it in 2005.

However, it no longer feels quite the same. It's obvious a new clutch will soon be needed, and a few things have stopped working properly, like the driver's door window. It's also not worth putting a tow bar on to compensate for losing the van when we get rid of that.

But what to buy? It has to be an estate, it needs to pull a trailer occasionally and it mustn't cost big bucks, because it will spend much of its year caked in mud and being squeezed into hedges, as we don't have many of lir's verges 'round yer.'

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Yes, I've followed that philosophy, up to now. The car is still pretty clean & tidy inside and looks much the same as when I purchased it in 2005.

However, it no longer feels quite the same. It's obvious a new clutch will soon be needed, and a few things have stopped working properly, like the driver's door window. It's also not worth putting a tow bar on to compensate for losing the van when we get rid of that.

But what to buy? It has to be an estate, it needs to pull a trailer occasionally and it mustn't cost big bucks, because it will spend much of its year caked in mud and being squeezed into hedges, as we don't have many of lir's verges 'round yer.'

No, some of those deep roads with high banks and hedges are formidable. I joumped one of those roads once, not voluntarily, on a horse that knew the country well. Ever snce then i knpow however annoying reversing is iits one of the occasions i would rather be in a car than on a horse in such a circumstance!

neverdespairgirl

Heating fixed!

Now Isaac has chickenpox.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

For those following middle east uprisings, radio four now is discussing internets involvment,

To be honest, give me a blank map and ask me to draw round "the middle east" and I'd be a bit lost... it's over on the right, but not too much. And uprisings.... didn't know there were any.

I have a saying every morning "Better turn the news on, just in case the Queen died in the night and I wouldn't know". That happened to me when Princess Di died. I got up, pottered about, went swimming with a neighbour, as we left the pool at gone 5pm she said to me "dreadful about Di isn't it?" and I said "what?"

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Now Isaac has chickenpox.

I remember that, we had to go and play with the kids in our road to catch it, so everybody got it at once.

I still remember those mid-1960s pink, glass bottles of calamine lotion.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember that, we had to go and play with the kids in our road to catch it, so everybody got it at once.

I still remember those mid-1960s pink, glass bottles of calamine lotion.

Calamine is the same, though the bottles are now plastic for elf 'n' safdy.

neverdespairgirl

Yup, we've been out and bought a bottle of it. Isaac's very cross indeed that he can't go to school.

lostinrates

I don't know whether i have had chicken pox or not and my parents can't remember. Dh doesn't know what childhood illnesses he has had either. Its a bit of a pain.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I still remember those mid-1960s pink, glass bottles of calamine lotion.

Yes, then they started to put it in brown glass bottles.

I remember, because I was in a terrible rush one morning & swigged down a big draught of 'kaolin & morphine' for my Delhi belly. Turned out it was Calamine, so I felt a lot worse!

Don't think you can get K&M any more now.