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

PasturesNew

This is the bit where there are countries you've never heard of .....

PasturesNew

If I left on the 6am train, to get to Waterloo by 8am .... it'd cost me £48 one way and if I came home on the 7:25pm it'd cost £26.50 to get back. But, for commuting purposes it really means 2x£48, so £100. I'd need to be earning nearly £20/hour just to pay to get to/from work ...... although it'd be cheaper to do a weekly commute and stay over.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I left on the 6am train, to get to Waterloo by 8am .... it'd cost me £48 one way and if I came home on the 7:25pm it'd cost £26.50 to get back. But, for commuting purposes it really means 2x£48, so £100. I'd need to be earning nearly £20/hour just to pay to get to/from work ...... although it'd be cheaper to do a weekly commute and stay over.

Yep,thats where we fin ourselves. Dh and i always wanted one toot in london, but dh says if we could afford it he would ome home daily now:eek:

PasturesNew

Oh - that's a replica of Glastonbury Tor ... apparently.... you'd have thought they'd have stuck the building on it, not the tree... although there is a tree associated with Glastonbury it's not that well-known.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337159/Glastonburys-2000-year-old-Holy-Thorn-Tree-hacked-vandals.html

fc123

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oh but Becks looks mighty sexy driving a speedboat.

he did didn't he.....mind you I will confess here that looking at Peter Andre makes me smile imwardly....in secret.

vivatifosi wrote: »

The athletes coming in takes about an hour and a bit if Beijing was anything to go by.

I am not looking at this bit. Answer a few more messages and get ready to leave for the fireworks in 40 mins.

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is the bit where there are countries you've never heard of .....

I am a bit ashamed that there are so many countries I have never heard of.
Sad bit that Bangladesh has pop of about 165 million and only a few athletes taking part.
The random facts are quite interesting like Bhutan were the last country in the world to get telly.....got it in 1999.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh - that's a replica of Glastonbury Tor ... apparently.... you'd have thought they'd have stuck the building on it, not the tree... although there is a tree associated with Glastonbury it's not that well-known.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337159/Glastonburys-2000-year-old-Holy-Thorn-Tree-hacked-vandals.html

The tree is famous! Its meant o be grown from a thorn from the crown of thorns or something like that, and brought by joseph of arimathea

lostinrates

Oh, and vadals did something heinous to the tree earlier in the year, or ladt year

vivatifosi

The Czechs have my award for being the best looking country in the A-C category. Only D-Z to go (goes off looking for scary blue head icon).

vivatifosi

DH called. He said Rowan Atkinson was doing his piano bit just in front of where he was.

And that Usain Bolt is already in the stadium, even though Jamaica hasn't been walked out yet.

lostinrates

Getting tired now.....

Imagine doing all this and competing in next couple of days! This would wipe me out for six weeks.