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

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Hello all.

LIR please can you clear space for a pm?

Done, and pmed you.:)

chewmylegoff

Oh well, looks like its busy season again at work. My prediction for number of dinners eaten at home this week = 0. Nevermind at least when te Olympics starts I get to arrive at 7am and leave at 3pm to try to beat the rush (what will actually happen is that I will arrive at 7am and end up having to stay at work until 9pm and then suffer a three hour trip home).

Still it's nice that every 5 minutes whilst you're on public transport the driver reminds you just how bad it is going to be - its like they are deliberately extending the pain.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, lj, thank you. It might be helpful. Problem is lots of places do not make bras for big knockers. I don't suppose you have ever noticed if your friends are unusually blessed in the chest department?

I will have a look if i ever get to leave this stupid phone.


My 'emergency' refereal looks like it might be three weeks. I was told it was urgent enough to be seen this week, whipch would have been nice, but there is no space.

Bupa have agreed to cover me (pretty amazing with my exclusions) but i cannot get a xonsultants appt for this till the end of the month beginning of next.

My gp surgery have actually been really helpful. But their advice as they come to the end of their working day is that rhey have done everything they can and they think i should go to a and e and try and queue hop that way.

I generally get my bras from M&S, ok they are not glamourous things but they are not unattractive boulder holders either. I did buy a double pack from Simply Be for £28 (item number KF223VN), very attractive and not at all armoured looking.

I've got the big knockers so can talk from experience!

misskool

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Oh well, looks like its busy season again at work. My prediction for number of dinners eaten at home this week = 0. Nevermind at least when te Olympics starts I get to arrive at 7am and leave at 3pm to try to beat the rush (what will actually happen is that I will arrive at 7am and end up having to stay at work until 9pm and then suffer a three hour trip home).

Still it's nice that every 5 minutes whilst you're on public transport the driver reminds you just how bad it is going to be - its like they are deliberately extending the pain.

is working from home not an option at all?

I can't bear to think of what it will be like working in London during the Olympics.

Nikkster

misskool wrote: »

is working from home not an option at all?

I can't bear to think of what it will be like working in London during the Olympics.

I am so glad I'm not travelling to Whitechapel any more. Not that it was ever particularly pleasant, but I dread to think what it would be like this summer. For my last job, working from home was just not possible either. I miss London, but I don't envy you for the next few weeks Chewy.

chewmylegoff

misskool wrote: »

is working from home not an option at all?

I can't bear to think of what it will be like working in London during the Olympics.

Company policy is that I can work from home three days a week during the Olympics. The trouble with that is that I need access to all the stuff that is in the office in order to do any work.

PasturesNew

Well, there goes another 3+ hours of my life.... trawling and trawling and trawling through google results and websites ... looking for that elusive "place to live"

£500-600 for a shared house .... must have en-suite and off road parking you see (and not be in scumsville).... except even at that price they don't reply.

And the alternative is virtually a strip search and entire emptying of bank account to pay proper agent fees, while they sneer at how unworthy you are for a few weeks while they guffaw at your references etc ... before you might get your hands on a key. I swear if they could make you sit a 3 hour exam to write an essay on why you want somewhere to live ... they'd do it. Private renting rent + basic utilities is closer to £1000/month though, so reluctant to put myself through the mill and be lumbered with something that's not ideal as I rushed at it.

CKhalvashi

SingleSue wrote: »

I generally get my bras from M&S, ok they are not glamourous things but they are not unattractive boulder holders either. I did buy a double pack from Simply Be for £28 (item number KF223VN), very attractive and not at all armoured looking.

I've got the big knockers so can talk from experience!

There are gents in here!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Company policy is that I can work from home three days a week during the Olympics. The trouble with that is that I need access to all the stuff that is in the office in order to do any work.

We're off to Milan on Friday with some Serbian friends, then Batumi with some Armenian friends and some family. I normally take 3 weeks of the summer out, but who said I can't do 6?

Don't care about the Olympics

Won't be in England again until the end of August. :cool:

CK

fc123

wow, this thread has been busy since last Friday..just taken 3 hours to read the past 18 pages or so and I want to respond to about 15 quotes but will have to try to do so from memory.

1st thoughts with SC ....can add nothing but thinking of you....and LIR + tests etc. thinking of you too.


I'm with Viva on the 'nothing to buy' this summer....really not connecting with what's about this season at all but for bras Boux Avenue is nice and affordable. It's Theo Pathitis' new venture (he originally set up La Senza).

LydiaJ wrote: »

But buying stuff from a farmer's market would involve being in a particular place at a particular time on a particular day of the week. With all the innumerable demands on my time, energy and concentration, there's no way I could manage that kind of investment in mere shopping. Sleep, rest (of the non-sleeping kind) and spending time with people I care about are about the only things I spend more time on than I have to.

ETA I suppose I do spend time playing with spreadsheets more than strictly necessary - both at work and for organising my finances at home. But if I can count God in the category of "people I care about" then that puts the church/prayer stuff in the categories already mentioned.

www.riverford.co.uk do delivery boxes of meat but too much for a week so freezing some would be an option.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Is the pope catholic?

2 x bottles of nice red and half a bottle of single malt.

Mmmmmm, de-stressed.*

That's a lot of units Hamish


Next W/E is booked and we will be down your way PN for sat pm and Sunday.I'll e-mail you tomo.

There's some stuff I want to check out down that way in town.

If it's any consolation I have a crud week at work on the cards plus we had to stage a 'rescue mission' for DD from Cyprus today.
I booked her the 1st flight I could find which is tomo pm and OH will collect her from Gatwick @ 1.30am.

Poor kid arrived Sat pm, they went out and she called us @ 1am saying it was absolutely awful and she just wanted to come home. The other 3 mates love it.
Nothing bad happened to her (of that we are 100%) but her idea of fun is not to be pulled and leered at by drunken men, get drunk herself and dance on bars etc. She doesn't do booze as it makes her sick.

She did know what type of holiday they had booked and has watched episodes of sun/sex and suspicious parents but I think the reality has thrown her.

We said to see how Sunday panned out and talk to the others about it (and we had no internet connection so couldn't book anything yesterday) and today she was just as tearful and very upset as the other 3 now see her as a killjoy

Now, we didn't say 'we told you so' as we had an idea that this type of holiday wouldn't be her 'thing' but she had to try it the once I guess and youngsters have that FOMO thing too (''fear of missing out''). Poor kid saved up for months for it too.

On a positive note, son came back from 5 days in Biarritz as happy as larry. He never did those types of holidays either.