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

SingleSue

Think I am having a mid life panic...just realised that this time next year, James will be almost at university, middle son will be looking to 6th form/college (depending on which has the best music course) and youngest would have completed his first year of GCSEs! Goodness it makes me feel old....I don't have young children anymore, they are all growing up so fast.

Mind you, on the positive side, it does mean that (hopefully, touching wood and all other stuff like that), I might get a little more freedom back, not counting chickens yet, still have the awkward bit of the younger two transitioning from high school to colleges/6th form to university and finally independent living (I hope!). It's not going to be plain sailing and I don't even know if it will be possible but hope springs eternal.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Bleaching your hoover?

Why?

It's a posh one, it has a water vacuum. I'm bleaching the thing the crap goes in and the filter because it stinks :eek: I'm not sure if you can get Legionella from a hoover.

John_Pierpoint

Link to picture please.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

After builders did not show till 3PM, neighbour got very irate about them knocking out chimney on party wall at 7.15pm, can't think why...

You have served them with all the notices under the party wall acts?

GDB2222

Davesnave wrote: »

I suspect it's just the bag.

I've never even thought of bleaching a vacuum cleaner bag.

PasturesNew

Life's too short to bleach vacuums/bags. Fact.

This morning I got on the bus, bought a week-long ticket, thought I knew where I was going... but I got off too soon.... by half the journey. Bus pulled off and I realised I am in a grimy/dodgy part of the town ... and lost..... found another bus stop and waited there for the next one....

Eventually found the "everything £9" hairdresser.... what I want would be £50.... so I walked off again. I have, instead, found the name of the local college that does hair-dos (probably end of term by now though).

Headed home... kind of. I had wanted a drink, didn't want to pay £1.20-£1.60 for a can of pop, so went into Sainsburys and got 8 for £2.... thing is, that weighed so much I now needed to come home to drop it off.... looking for a relevant bus stop, a bus appeared, so I got on it. It took me 90% of the way, then I had to change buses... next one was running late (could have walked in the time it took).... and I got to wait at a bus stop with a man smoking cannabis and some nostril-snorter who was obviously on something dodgy and sat beside me and proceeded to neck an entire large can of cheapo lager in about 40 seconds flat.

So, I am having a coffee now .... and need a Plan B to occupy me for the next few hours. Buses stop at 7pm here it seems... so I have to check/investigate that.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've never even thought of bleaching a vacuum cleaner bag.

Really, not that odd.

Not the paper ones, but the fabric ones like those that used to be inside Henry hoovers...and maybe still are. People would wash them, then add a bit of bleach to the final rinse to kill smelly bacteria.

Particularly important if they owned a smelly dog, for example, though nothing would have killed the smell of my BiL's old black labrador. I was not at all sad when that thing shuffled off it's canine coil.

PasturesNew

Had an 'interesting' conversation with some woman (on benefits for depression) I met at the bus-stop who attached herself to me.... gave me the name of some local LL that's apparently got more flats to rent than the Council have - and she's just moved into one of his new builds. She seems nice enough .... she's apparently just moved from the area I'm in and gave me her number to give her a call next week and she can introduce me to people in the area.... she goes to the library book club, so has the potential to know nice people.... on the other hand, she might know the blokes from the bus-stop.

Davesnave

zagubov wrote: »

That's a phrase I don't use much either.
In fact it would make a really unguessible but long-winded password.
Hmmmm. Shame I typed that out loud really.
Oh well, back to using "Afghanistan Bananastand".:D

My eBay password is shortish, but completely insane. It's what someone in our family thought our new house was called after the address had been copied from one family member to another a few times.

Unfortunately, if I told you what it was I'd have to.....etc.

Old car numbers are quite useful for passwords. Then you can write a clue like "Ford Anglia" and it doesn't help anyone else.

PasturesNew

Just googled the LL ... and he doesn't come up smelling of roses.... sounds like Rachmann II. Petitions for the council to investigate him, he's been investigated undercover on the telly ....