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

vivatifosi

Playing catch up, so responding to things that I missed last night...

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just reserved a book, which is at 4 libraries in the county, to come to my library .... and got hit with an unexpected, unwarned and irreversible 50p charge!

They should have done a pop up and asked OK or not ..... they didn't!

I'm miffed. I'd have not bothered - I only ordered it on a whim, no idea even how long it'll take to arrive (last one I tried that with took months).

I still think you should be able to register as disabled Pastures and get stuff for free. It annoys me that they want people there to jump through hoops. You not only need to move to a town you can do 24 hour shopping, it should be in a place where they have better library policies! Seriously though, when you go to pick up the book, query the charge and explain. If they say "well you should have known" tell them you are a web developer and there was no pop-up. If it was me on the desk, I'd waive the charge personally because I think that's poor design, but who knows who you'd get.

lostinrates wrote: »

The charge here is 75 p i think. I never do that as a result. I borrow reading matter from the shelf six at a time because i know i can return tha within a week, and i d on't search for anything any other way that physically because otherwise i will want i and pay seventy five pence, when can usually buy for tha if wait longenough.

I find the library awkward for anything like that too. Also there is a really lovely woman who works there who is super nice and super helpful?.i like her, but i find she interferes with my browsing, so haven't been for a while because i feel a bit...pressured...by her.:o

Many library staff are part time lir. Engage her in conversation, find out what days she works and, um, go the other ones. Library staff should be more sensitive. What would happen if someone was looking for a book on say, living with AIDS, or domestic or sexual abuse? Many people who work in library get that. They are also for the most part extremely liberal and don't judge anyone. However there's always one...

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

We (mum and I) went to Stonehenge on our last mini-break... Somehow timed it for that nice sunny week at the end of May. Enjoyed looking round, but it was v pricey for what if is. Also, whilst queueing up to pay we were asked along the lines of 'are you foreign'. Can't remember exact phrasing, but I thought it quite rude. It was only to try to flog us a visitors pass, but I thought
there were better ways of opening the conversation.

Awww, nikkster, had you detoured a little i could have given you a free cuppa while you recovered from the shock of the price.


It looks best from the road going east very, very early in the morning imo. It feels to me very sacred thenand just as oight seaps into the world so its still camoflaged by dimness, its majesty with the dignity of still being slightly dressed by morning mist. Close up feels over santised, sacroligious and tainted to me. I would love to be there alone in the dark though.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Many library staff are part time lir. Engage her in conversation, find out what days she works and, um, go the other ones. Library staff should be more sensitive. What would happen if someone was looking for a book on say, living with AIDS, or domestic or sexual abuse? Many people who work in library get that. They are also for the most part extremely liberal and don't judge anyone. However there's always one...

She is really, really nice, its not that i don't enjoy her enthusiasm, its lovely...just.....a little misplaced when i am scooting along the shelves. She wants to enthuse, and we did have book loves in common, not least as she is also a fan of childrens literature. I be she is a great asset for most library users, and i would love to have a coffee with her, but not while i am hunting for books. I thin she would be liberal and non judgmental, after all she chatted to a chldless woman about iids books, but choosing books is a sort of a nice thing to do alone. I will try that, thanks:D.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can I make a big request? Could we have a separate thread for football, please? And the Olympics.

Yes, as long as we can also have a separate thread for pictures of dogs, discussions about taxi fares and mushroom preferences.

I thought it was all very promising, and good to see the French sympathiser wheezy's prediction turning out to be wrong!

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

I checked the prices at a Caravan site in North Norfolk: £10,000 minimum to buy a caravan (up to £45,000), plus £3000 a year to rent a spot to put it on. The caravan has to be renewed every 15 years, and the new one has to be bought from the site owners. If you amortise the cost of the caravan at say £2,000 a year, this works out at £5000 a year, before you start paying for any utilities. I am not sure if there is council tax on a caravan?

My parent's van cost 8k, there are no rules about how often it has to be changed and their yearly fees including insurance, water etc is £2400 ish. They don't need to pay council tax as the site is not open year round.

They have had their caravan for 10 years now.

For them, it has been worth it. They have just come back from almost a fortnight away, in the summer holidays, they are there for a large part of it (where a similar caravan would cost about £700 a week to hire) but the biggest thing for them is that dad's condition improves when he is there. Goodness knows why but he becomes less confused, less doddery.

That said, they have said for the last 3 years that that year was the last but they seem very definate about it this year.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Yes, as long as we can also have a separate thread for pictures of dogs, discussions about taxi fares and mushroom preferences.

I thought it was all very promising, and good to see the French sympathiser wheezy's prediction turning out to be wrong!

That really only leaves talking about you relationship for this thread chewy and jibing you for not asking her to marry you and for blaming her for passport issues.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

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I've no idea how many books there are in the library here, but the total floorspace is probably only 20'x30' - so most books will need to come from somewhere else.

You also have to either walk (OK, so it's only 1.5 miles), or pay to park, or keep traversing the one way system hoping for a free spot.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Awww, nikkster, had you detoured a little i could have given you a free cuppa while you recovered from the shock of the price.


It looks best from the road going east very, very early in the morning imo. It feels to me very sacred thenand just as oight seaps into the world so its still camoflaged by dimness, its majesty with the dignity of still being slightly dressed by morning mist. Close up feels over santised, sacroligious and tainted to me. I would love to be there alone in the dark though.

We might have got even closer than that! We were en route to the New Forest, and had decided that was a good point to stop off on the way. We knew it was near Salisbury so headed in that direction (without doing anything boring like looking up the exact location on a map). When we got into Salisbury city (town?) centre without seeing any brown tourists signs we knew we weren't quite in the right place. We turned back and managed to find the way. Thought it was silly that there are only signs when you have pretty much got there!

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

We might have got even closer than that! We were en route to the New Forest, and had decided that was a good point to stop off on the way. We knew it was near Salisbury so headed in that direction (without doing anything boring like looking up the exact location on a map). When we got into Salisbury city (town?) centre without seeing any brown tourists signs we knew we weren't quite in the right place. We turned back and managed to find the way. Thought it was silly that there are only signs when you have pretty much got there!

N'ah, probably were not closer. But i shall pm you.

New forest is other sideof salisbury. .

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

....We knew it was near Salisbury so headed in that direction ... When we got into Salisbury city ....we knew we weren't quite in the right place.

Well ... I hate to point out the obvious on the NP thread, but if you were on the A303 from (say, Exeter) to Salisbury ... you kind of went right past it and it's RIGHT IN YOUR FACE!! at the side of the road.