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

Davesnave

zagubov wrote: »

Any NPs ever lived in an area which turned out to have a dark side to it?

Our house and its grounds has a darker side. The sex offender who lived here did whatever he did somewhere 'here,' but I don't know what, or where exactly, and I don't wish to know.

Certainly, I've never detected any sinister auras or sightings, unless I'm allowed to count the crows, which spirit chicken food away in the blink of an eye.

Had a couple of EAs here yesterday and they said that despite the obvious Heath Robinson elements remaining from the previous owners' time in residence, the property had a comfortable & positive feel to it. I've always felt it a cheerful place right from those first crucial 11 seconds when I walked through the door.

Up the road a little is the site of a building shown on the earliest OS maps as "Black House." There's no trace of this property today. That's a little sinister. :cool:

However, the nearest property to the above, shown as "Little Shanty" on more recent maps, has somehow changed it's name to "Tollhouse Cottage." No mystery there! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

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Of course, locals directing lost motorists will have their own vernacular descriptions .... "Go along the lane, to the pervert's house, turn left just after that ....."

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

There was a festival very near to here last weekend. QUOTE]

There is a small festival very near here this weekend. I went last night with some pals and was delighted as the music ,weather and atmosphere was great but I felt ill. As I had organised the outing I felt responsible for all elements. Tonight we are supposed to be going with close friends and I had no responsibilities but I have succumbed to needing antibiotics so may not get to go.:(

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do you lot actually WANT these tickets, or has it now become a Survival of the Fittest contest where you'll almost buy anything at any price because you've caught Olympic fever and are so obsessional you just HAVE to have them all? ... and you'd rather enter a pact with the devil re your first born than have to admit to people that you didn't get any?

My only born is now 24 and I am definitely open to offers to swap her for Olympic tickets.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

Of course, locals directing lost motorists will have their own vernacular descriptions .... "Go along the lane, to the pervert's house, turn left just after that ....."

I was very careful to check where the press reported him as living. By then, that was somewhere over 20 miles away.

Locals are careful not to offend the remaining family members, who are all nice persons (small letters.)

lostinrates

Spirit i am having to cancel plans for tonight too. Dh is going without me after some debate. I don't feel any worse but on top of every thing else i wome up with one eye swollen. Looks like i have been punched, and i just cannot raise enthusiasm togo out.

lostinrates

Over a year ago i let some storage space in return for meat. The stuff was to have been gone by last october. Its still there. Its of reasonable worth and onsiderable bulk, it would cost us a fair bit to get rid of. BUT we need that space. We gave the owner a deadline which is rapidly approaching, and the owner is not returning calls ( mine or dh's). We want to confirm a date with the owner or make alternative arrangments. The

What would the nice people do?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Over a year ago i let some storage space in return for meat. The stuff was to have been gone by last october. Its still there. Its of reasonable worth and onsiderable bulk, it would cost us a fair bit to get rid of. BUT we need that space. We gave the owner a deadline which is rapidly approaching, and the owner is not returning calls ( mine or dh's). We want to confirm a date with the owner or make alternative arrangments. The

What would the nice people do?

Well ... the first thing to note is that there are laws you have to comply with.

The second thing to note is I've not got a clue what/where they are, so can't provide a link

LydiaJ

Difficult, lir. I'm afraid I have no bright ideas ATM but will post later if I think of anything.

DS has had his first physio appointment this morning. Lovely young woman who was in giggles at DS's antics for much of the time but managed to do an excellent job on him nevertheless. One of the things she did with him involved a little gadget with a rubber bulb filled with some kind of gel/fluid and a pressure gauge on top - you had to squeeze it as hard as you could to measure grip strength. After that he kept wanting to arm-wrestle the physio so he could prove how strong he was, so at the end she gave in and let him try - not that he stood the slightest chance of winning, but she let him try for a little while before slowly but inexorably pushing his arm over.

She thought he should have been offered physio back in Jan 2010 when the plaster came off and again a few months later when the metalwork was taken out of his arm. I gather that in an adult, nearly 3 years after the accident would be too late to expect to get any improvement at all, but because he's still growing there's some hope for him. She also says that both he and I have slightly more flexible elbow joints than average, which should help too. We're to go back in a fortnight.

Another excellent NHS employee doing a good job but a system that isn't joined up enough for the doctors to have referred him for physio when it would have been most effective.

LydiaJ

Another little story to make the NP laugh...

The first 3 locations on our holiday, we all shared a room, but in the final place (Tues & Wed nights) I was downstairs and the kids were upstairs. DD decided she wasn't feeling very confident in a strange place and was trying to persuade me to stay upstairs until she'd gone to sleep. I pretended to talk to her favourite toy dog - the one that we found in LNE's house after he died, and who has been her comfort object through her bereavement - and told her that he was upset that she didn't trust him to look after her without me. She looked at me with horror for a minute or so, and then asked tentatively, "You don't really think he's real, do you Mum?" Poor kid, she thought for one awful moment that I'd completely lost my mind. :rotfl: