Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

zagubov

Had my favourite curry- a Nepal Kalio. If you like a madras strength or higher everybody needs to try it at least once!:beer:
Followed by a good movie (Prometheus).
Ought to do this going-out lark more often.:D
Wheezy the film's not as closely tied to Alien as I thought (there's no spoilers in that link). The 3-D version can't be much different from the 2-D version. Still, a good film in its own right.

Didn't manage to get a slug of my fave soft drink thiough to compensate here's a selection of the best poster and tv ads. I can't see them being allowed in the south-east/London area though!

PasturesNew

1.5 pints ... totally p155ed... so sitting here eating the obligatory kebab out of the box.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

1.5 pints ... totally p155ed... so sitting here eating the obligatory kebab out of the box.

A third of a bottle of Glenlivet so far, totally not pi55ed.

Sign of a mis-spent youth?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Wheezy wrote: »

Prometheus

Parts of it filmed in SCOTLAND apparently.

Got to be good!!!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Is it just me or does anyone else get lost for hours in a totally random foray reading anything and everything on the internet..... And then thinking it might be a good idea to actually do some of those things.

So far tonight, I'm seriously contemplating taking a year off work to either....

- Drive around the world in an overland converted 4x4 (this one sounds fun, but would wipe me out financially)

- Rent an inner city apartment in Paris and write a food blog (sounds more fun, but would wipe me out financially AND make me gain a couple of stone)

- Become a professional poker player (which would be a crap idea, because I can't play poker, and don't really gamble)

Yet strangely, the internet makes all of these things sound not just possible, but like a good idea.

Or maybe that's the Glenlivet talking and I'm more pi55ed than I think I am.

zagubov

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

A third of a bottle of Glenlivet so far, totally not pi55ed.

Sign of a mis-spent youth?

I have in my collection only Chivas Regal and Laphroaig. Struggle to get through a single measure of either on a night. Unsure if that's a good or a bad sign, but think it's probably good from my liver's point of view.

Can't be doing with spirits really.

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else get lost for hours in a totally random foray reading anything and everything on the internet..... And then thinking it might be a good idea to actually do some of those things.

So far tonight, I'm seriously contemplating taking a year off work to either....

- Drive around the world in an overland converted 4x4 (this one sounds fun, but would wipe me out financially)

- Rent an inner city apartment in Paris and write a food blog (sounds more fun, but would wipe me out financially AND make me gain a couple of stone)

- Become a professional poker player (which would be a crap idea, because I can't play poker, and don't really gamble)

Yet strangely, the internet makes all of these things sound not just possible, but like a good idea.

Or maybe that's the Glenlivet talking and I'm more pi55ed than I think I am.

I dream of simpler things... like having a home and my stuff in one place... but the Internet does make things seem simple doesn't it.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

the Internet does make things seem simple doesn't it.

Amazingly so....

Read a blog last night where an ordinary family with two young kids went out and bought a land rover, had it converted for expeditions, and booggered off on a London to Sydney trip for 8 months. With the kids strapped into special kid seats underneath the roll cage. Great fun, until one of them caught TB and the whole thing went pear shaped.

Or the couple that saved for a decade, sold everything they owned, bought an old motorbike, and spent 12 months and the better part of $100k circumnavigating the globe. Before arriving home penniless and with not a possession to their name that wasn't strapped to the bike.

Of course, the internet makes it seem like a perfectly easy, normal, and completely rational thing to do. Just sell up everything and head off around the world.

Strangely appealing at 2am after a goodly quantity of single malt...

vivatifosi

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else get lost for hours in a totally random foray reading anything and everything on the internet..... And then thinking it might be a good idea to actually do some of those things.

So far tonight, I'm seriously contemplating taking a year off work to either....

- Drive around the world in an overland converted 4x4 (this one sounds fun, but would wipe me out financially)

- Rent an inner city apartment in Paris and write a food blog (sounds more fun, but would wipe me out financially AND make me gain a couple of stone)

- Become a professional poker player (which would be a crap idea, because I can't play poker, and don't really gamble)

Yet strangely, the internet makes all of these things sound not just possible, but like a good idea.

Or maybe that's the Glenlivet talking and I'm more pi55ed than I think I am.

I've been thinking along similar lines myself Hamish. My options would be:

- Following the Grand Prix circus round the world for a year.

- Setting up a website where I can see a gap in the market, but don't currently have the energy to exploit, so sticking my resources to that.

- Driving the Mongol Rally

- Buying a pied a terre somewhere either in France, in North East Spain (Catalunya) or in North West Italy (Liguria) as that arc of coastline is my favourite as there's lot to do and I can see the sun without the only thing to do being sunbathing. There's also good hiking, interesting history, good restaurants....

There's no alcohol talking here either. I would offer to do the Mongol Rally with you Hamish, but your incessant talk of house prices and my contant talk of library books would doubtless lead to one of us murdering the other.

lostinrates

We have modern skirtings in here which will not be changed for a while. I like the purple, but its not enough. Till we get deeper skirtings at least in winter i will get some bright leaf green and paint a two inch stripe above skirting. This also pulls the blue green coloured paint back into the green realm a bit, so the blue ness is a feature and the theme is still subtle green.