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

misskool

oh, it's hot hot hot!

had a snooty letter from the woman arranging allotments at the council saying that we were not cultivating. unbelievable. we planted 2 beds of beans, tidied up all the fruit, planted a couple of pumpkins and the rest were fine. we left a bit of grass but did she not realise it's been raining for the last month?

anyways, strimmed the grass now and going to keep it tidy until we get the beds ready for the strawberries and asparagus and artichokes.

weeds everywhere. the whole week will be spent weeding.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Went on a sort of date last night with the old friend I have recently reconnected with...sort of date because two of my boys were with me and one of his boys with him! We went to the beach where the boys threw stones in the sea (for 3 hours!) and me and old friend talked. They did have a break from throwing stones for a wee while as we had the highly romantic meal of a portion of take away chips in paper while sat in a beach shelter talking about Captain Jack and Iron Maiden (me and his son on Captain Jack, him and my boys on Iron Maiden).

We are all meeting up again on Monday for a proper trawl down the prom, taking in the attractions usually meant for the tourists.

Yay! Go Sue! Enjoy having a life.

PasturesNew wrote: »

On another note.... let them eat cake: http://i50.tinypic.com/642cl0.jpg

Lovely picture! You really have an eye for a good camera angle. The cake looks delicious, but the icing is a very strange colour.

My kids and I had a great day out yesterday with some lovely friends. There were some other kids there, and DD especially got on v well with them immediately, in spite of not having met them before. There were also lots of delightful adults, several of whom played with my kids so I could have a bit of a break and talk to the other adults. So all three of us had a great time.

The sun is shining here and I am having a lazy day after getting home late last night. My dad's coming for the day tomorrow and we are going to have a little birthday party for him, a few days early since his birthday's not until Friday, but we can't meet up with him on the day.

lostinrates

Yeah, we met some lovely kids this weekend, the kindof other people's kids we both really like.

I had coronation chicken for breakfast and lunch. Its SO good, way better than the one i make.

Its baking out there now.

lostinrates

Wowowowowow

I just took a call from the nhs eye consultant who has been so brilliant, she just called to see what was happening because she is working today, had time and wondered. She reminded me she is there if i need help and said if i have to go in to a hospital near her one she would love to visit me also to see how the neurologist proceeds because i am such an interesting case and she felt i was approachable enough to ask.

For all my dispondancy about the nhs at times i am bowled over that an individual is interested like this in devwloping and understanding how different discolines approach an issue she discovered. And on a personal level i feel sop lucky to have met some really kind people, including the dreaded gp. She was giggling girlishly when i told her how appreciated her help has been. I would definitely like to send her something, maybe some chocs for the department? She seems like the kind of woman who would like to share. Is it out of order to invite for a meal do you think?

Feel like a feuad today as i feel so good though.:). Its boiling but we are about to bundle the dogs in the car for a boiling hot slow walk up in the hill. Its less hot up there as there is ALWAYS wind up there!

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Wowowowowow

I just took a call from the nhs eye consultant who has been so brilliant, she just called to see what was happening because she is working today, had time and wondered. She reminded me she is there if i need help and said if i have to go in to a hospital near her one she would love to visit me also to see how the neurologist proceeds because i am such an interesting case and she felt i was approachable enough to ask.

For all my dispondancy about the nhs at times i am bowled over that an individual is interested like this in devwloping and understanding how different discolines approach an issue she discovered. And on a personal level i feel sop lucky to have met some really kind people, including the dreaded gp. She was giggling girlishly when i told her how appreciated her help has been. I would definitely like to send her something, maybe some chocs for the department? She seems like the kind of woman who would like to share. Is it out of order to invite for a meal do you think?

Feel like a feuad today as i feel so good though.:). Its boiling but we are about to bundle the dogs in the car for a boiling hot slow walk up in the hill. Its less hot up there as there is ALWAYS wind up there!

Hooray! What a delightful caring doctor.

Enjoy your walk up the hill.

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

had a snooty letter from the woman arranging allotments at the council saying that we were not cultivating. unbelievable. we planted 2 beds of beans, tidied up all the fruit, planted a couple of pumpkins and the rest were fine. we left a bit of grass but did she not realise it's been raining for the last month?

Missk, if it makes you feel any better, you need to understand how councils work (and in the name of self-preservation, this is clearly made up and I work for a really well run one)....

The woman in charge of allotments probably doesn't have one herself, she will live in a flat and hate gardens. In fact, she's probably been displaced from her favourite job (to please TWH we'll call her a fruit and veg coordinator) and someone there probably felt well this includes fruit and veg so we'll move her to allotments. Now a trend I've noticed this Summer, as I've only managed to mow my lawn three times is that it has rained virtually every weekend so far this year. Now council allotment woman will work Monday to Friday. This means she will have visited your allotment on that one nice day earlier in the week. All that she knows will be based on that one visit. Forget that it looked great two weeks earlier, she will be totally unaware of the fact.

She will be working to a tick list, and a predetermined set of rules. This will take little account of the weather, or the fact that you can't cultivate veggies that are not yet fully grown. The way she will view it is this: fact: it is the end of July, therefore it will be time that allotment keepers go down to their allotment and pull up stuff. She won't be a trained agriculturalist because councils don't pay enough. She's probably paid about £16k per year to make sure people pull up stuff when they should. The person before her probably left her a set of rules that she has to work to.

If it makes you feel any better, most of the other allotment holders will also have had a letter. However there will always be the smug retired bloke with the allotment over in the corner whose allotment looks like a plot from Chelsea. He won't have had a letter, not him. However the council will now have triggered a procedure to look at the cost of sending out all of these letters, meaning you'll all be asked for e-mail addresses. The little retired bloke in the corner, who spends all his time on the allotment won't have a computer though. He'll be told that if he wants to keep his allotment he'll need to make himself available for e-mails. He won't have one and doesn't have any children nearby, so he'll have to give his plot up.

And that, broadly speaking, is how we run the country.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

Yeah, we met some lovely kids this weekend, the kindof other people's kids we both really like.

I had coronation chicken for breakfast and lunch. Its SO good, way better than the one i make.

Its baking out there now.

oh yes, i need recipes! Brownies and coronation chicken. I would live off these 2 items if I was sure the nutritional content was sufficient

misskool

vivatifosi wrote: »

Missk, if it makes you feel any better, you need to understand how councils work (and in the name of self-preservation, this is clearly made up and I work for a really well run one)....

The woman in charge of allotments probably doesn't have one herself, she will live in a flat and hate gardens. In fact, she's probably been displaced from her favourite job (to please TWH we'll call her a fruit and veg coordinator) and someone there probably felt well this includes fruit and veg so we'll move her to allotments. Now a trend I've noticed this Summer, as I've only managed to mow my lawn three times is that it has rained virtually every weekend so far this year. Now council allotment woman will work Monday to Friday. This means she will have visited your allotment on that one nice day earlier in the week. All that she knows will be based on that one visit. Forget that it looked great two weeks earlier, she will be totally unaware of the fact.

She will be working to a tick list, and a predetermined set of rules. This will take little account of the weather, or the fact that you can't cultivate veggies that are not yet fully grown. The way she will view it is this: fact: it is the end of July, therefore it will be time that allotment keepers go down to their allotment and pull up stuff. She won't be a trained agriculturalist because councils don't pay enough. She's probably paid about £16k per year to make sure people pull up stuff when they should. The person before her probably left her a set of rules that she has to work to.

If it makes you feel any better, most of the other allotment holders will also have had a letter. However there will always be the smug retired bloke with the allotment over in the corner whose allotment looks like a plot from Chelsea. He won't have had a letter, not him. However the council will now have triggered a procedure to look at the cost of sending out all of these letters, meaning you'll all be asked for e-mail addresses. The little retired bloke in the corner, who spends all his time on the allotment won't have a computer though. He'll be told that if he wants to keep his allotment he'll need to make himself available for e-mails. He won't have one and doesn't have any children nearby, so he'll have to give his plot up.

And that, broadly speaking, is how we run the country.

:rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl:

The plot next to us does look like he belongs at Chelsea. We are using it as an offshore base so we can get big perennials grown there that we have no space for at home. I will put some sacrificial vegetables down there when I get a bit more time. It's July for heavens sake, bit late now to be planting.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

... if I was sure the nutritional content was sufficient

pffft ... as if that matters!
Health is about more than nutrition... it's about feeling special

PasturesNew

Met up with a couple of lovely London creative types today .... a fish/chip lunch was enjoyed by all on the hot hot hot sands. There followed lots of chatter and laughs.... and lobbing of chips at various seagulls until we were surrounded.

Burnt a bit.....