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

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been a reader... I was a reader, when I was young.... I guess I stopped reading when I was about 9-10 or so.

I don't have the ability to remember who everybody is, nor visualise what's going on. I used to have to sit and read entire books in one sitting just to remember at the end what'd happened to that point...

I gave up reading, as I purely didn't have time, when I had the kids. (Well, when OH had the kids)

One that I did stop to read (several times over) was 'Danser sur les ruines — Une jeunesse tch!tchène (Dancing on ruins — A Chechen youth).' by Milana Terloeva (it's in French), as it's representative of the childhood we had, and the various problems with Sukhumi (which is where I lived for 8 years, now independent of Georgia) and Gori (where OH spent her first 7 years before moving to Malaga). Both were heavily destroyed in August 2008 by Russia.

CK

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been a reader... I was a reader, when I was young.... I guess I stopped reading when I was about 9-10 or so.

I don't have the ability to remember who everybody is, nor visualise what's going on. I used to have to sit and read entire books in one sitting just to remember at the end what'd happened to that point...

Funnily enough, just over an hour and a half before that I started reading my first book in a very long time (probably over 7 years). Saw the Hunger Games trilogy on offer for £5, and after the recommendations on here (I think), thought that was a bargain

lostinrates

I simply cannot imagine not reading. I think i would find my world severely impoverished without books.

lostinrates

I Have been experimenting with a green stripe on the walls.





I have decided when thats dry to paint purple over it, so making our cheap skirting boards look a little deeper, then redo a green strip above that, about that width though.

I really like it, but it makes the greenblue on the walls look more blue, and i am not a blue person. It looks good though, so i don't really care that its blue, especially as every other room is also going to be sort of green, so its bound to be some will be more blue or more yellow or more grey.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I simply cannot imagine not reading. I think i would find my world severely impoverished without books.

In recent times, I spent so much of my time on the tube/ at work I just didn't really feel like reading books - I would read the free newspapers on the tube as I liked to feel like I knew what was going on in the outside world

Also, there are a lot of things that I should be reading so I felt that if I was reading anything it should be that rather than books. I've given in though

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

CK, the wee in a bag thing. Had that at a library I used to work at. Asked me if we had any toilets in the building, I said no, they didn't want to leave their free computer time and at the end of the day when clearing round there was a carrier bag with urine in. Thank goodness it wasn't childproof with holes in the bottom.

When I had young children, who needed to go urgently, I would have conversations along the following lines:

My son needs to go to the lavatory.

Sorry, we do not have any customer toilets.

Is there a particular corner of the shop that you would prefer him to pee in?

Sigh, okay, I will take him to the staff toilets.


This worked nearly every time.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

I Have been experimenting with a green stripe on the walls.





I have decided when thats dry to paint purple over it, so making our cheap skirting boards look a little deeper, then redo a green strip above that, about that width though.

I really like it, but it makes the greenblue on the walls look more blue, and i am not a blue person. It looks good though, so i don't really care that its blue, especially as every other room is also going to be sort of green, so its bound to be some will be more blue or more yellow or more grey.

You are incredibly good at this painting lark, LIR! All that cutting in it, and you have all the lines straight and the borders sharp. I could never manage that.

PasturesNew

Weather can't make its mind up... I'm either on a strange course for the storm to take, or the weather people lied. This morning it's been quiet, then lashed down, now just windy ... clouds are moving fast ... but weather tends to follow a valley behind the town, with this house being sheltered on all sides too....

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

In recent times, I spent so much of my time on the tube/ at work I just didn't really feel like reading books - I would read the free newspapers on the tube as I liked to feel like I knew what was going on in the outside world

Also, there are a lot of things that I should be reading so I felt that if I was reading anything it should be that rather than books. I've given in though

i hate those free papers, they are just yesterday's daily newspaper reprinted, with a letters page from some obnoxious/stupid people saying cliched things, and a herd of other obnoxious/stupid people texting in to agree with them.

i also hate reading whilst standing up on public transport, luckily i usually get a seat at least on the mainline train. the tube to work i usually don't, but the tube back to waterloo 9 times out of 10 i get a seat. generally seem to get through about a book a week on the commute (although this statistic is helped by not bothering to read quite a lot of the words).

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Weather can't make its mind up... I'm either on a strange course for the storm to take, or the weather people lied. This morning it's been quiet, then lashed down, now just windy ... clouds are moving fast ... but weather tends to follow a valley behind the town, with this house being sheltered on all sides too....

it's sunny here but all the weather forecasts show torrential rain beginning in the mid-afternoon over the whole south-east and then continuing, like, forever.