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

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Private appt on the fourteenth.

Hurrah! A date reduces anxiety as you now know when.

lostinrates wrote: »

The nhs one for the last guy ... says the office is open between 8 and 4 am, call for an appointment in the afternoon. Neither of those are my typos.

That's what happens when you de-skill a skill .... a proper secretary'd never have let that slip through

misskool

friday evening tiredness. whoa.

but olympic opening ceremony to watch tonight. any np going to be watching with me?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

friday evening tiredness. whoa.

but olympic opening ceremony to watch tonight. any np going to be watching with me?

Me. Unless its awful. Dh said he heard that they were jumping on nhs beds. Which seems a bit of a terrible thing to do to good beds when we have an overstretched nhs. Anyway, he says he is not thiat bothered and will put the chickens in later so i can watch it all if i want to.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cheers

I opened my bank account in about 1989/90 and it was a Britannia. They then got taken over by the CoOp and the branch I used (rarely) closed.... and for the past 20 odd years I've not had a branch within 100 miles of me so it's never been something I've needed to do. I also don't even know if I have a cheque book as I don't use cheques. I do everything with debit cards and cash

I hadn't expected to need so much, so soon, so close together; the 2nd woman said to me today "need a deposit, I've had friends who have been let down", which I didn't expect.

I'll go out in about 20-30 minutes, get the first tranche, then pay deposit on the first place at 7 tonight.

As it's cash, it's sensible to get a receipt. Type/write one out beforehand and take it along.

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

friday evening tiredness. whoa.

but olympic opening ceremony to watch tonight. any np going to be watching with me?

Not me, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

michaels

Citibank used to let me take out £1k per day but they stopped that and now they have started charging for foreign currency bank accounts to. Pretty soon I won't bank with them at all. Fortunately between DW and self we probably have about 15 current accounts so if we needed to take out a lot of cash we could. The people behind you at the cashpoint get a bit fed up when you take 5k out on a dozen cards...

lostinrates

Well the bucolic bit looks pretty.

Sounds like i will sort of feel its representative.....beautiful britain being disrupted and destroyed for noise, development and razzamataz.

vivatifosi

Olympics. Pre show starts at 20:12, the show itself starts at 9pm. I'm not sure if DH will be coming home, as at KFC he bumped into the Swedish volleyball team...

He's now in the stadium and quote "sitting directly above a bl**dy big bell". Apparently the Danish flag is above his head and there's some silver thing at his feet which is going to come into play at some point. He's in the absolute top row, but it was a £20.12 ticket. He says the view is fantastic though and much better than for those people currently hidden behind a tree... Even though he has a good view of the whole stadium, he still hasn't managed to work out where the cauldron will be lit. Am therefore hoping he gets home a) sober, b) before 4am and c) with eyebrows intact if near said flame.

purch

michaels wrote: »

Citibank used to let me take out £1k per day but they stopped that

It might help if you had some money in the account to start with :eek:

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

they reckon they can move 25,000 people an hour on the javelin train from stratford to st pancras, which is probably as many if not more than you can shift on the tube in that time, and it only takes 8 minutes or something like that.

alternatively he can just stay in stratford and get smashed, and then get the last tube home arriving in stanmore at 3am! that's what i would do.

It's looking like the Javelin is the best option. He used it to get there and managed it in an hour, not door to door but station to station, which is still really good. Am hoping for a pick-up before 3am in order that I can get four hours sleep before going to work. Next favourite is the Jub line. Thanks for all the advice chewy!