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

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Yay! I'm an aunty again as of last night.

More presents to buy

I'm not an aunty and will never be.

michaels

I don't know if you get congratulations for this but what good news!

vivatifosi wrote: »

Yay! I'm an aunty again as of last night. I hadn't posted anything prior to this as things were not going well in pregnancy and labour was v difficult, however mum and new baby doing well, tired but v happy. Going to visit later.

sss555s

Those pictures remind me of school metal work.

Hope they're not the £50 ones :eek:

First site I came to...

http://www.e-hardware.co.uk/acatalog/Black_Antique__Window_Fittings.html

On saying that, it is worth buying quality fittings and it's hard to tell from just a picture.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

More presents to buy

I'm not an aunty and will never be.

Most of my family's birthdays are between Jan and April though and heavily skewed towards January which is expensive just after Christmas. August will feel like a nice respite:o.

zagubov

DW's collected her tickets for the Paralympics (3 for £30) and it's included three 9-zone travelcards. Pretty thorough (I didn't know there were as many as 9 zones). It's good to see joined -up thinking going on!:beer:

mystic_trev

zagubov wrote: »

DW's collected her tickets for the Paralympics (3 for £30) and it's included three 9-zone travelcards. Pretty thorough (I didn't know there were as many as 9 zones). It's good to see joined -up thinking going on!:beer:

Zagubov - check how far the Zones go out, you only need a rail ticket to the end of the 'Zone' I'm near Tunbridge Wells, so I only needed a rail ticket as far as Knockholt, so half the Journey, and half the price I'd have paid for a rail ticket to London.The rest of the journey is covered by the Railcard.

vivatifosi

mystic_trev wrote: »

Zagubov - check how far the Zones go out, you only need a rail ticket to the end of the 'Zone' I'm near Tunbridge Wells, so I only needed a rail ticket as far as Knockholt, so half the Journey, and half the price I'd have paid for a rail ticket to London.The rest of the journey is covered by the Railcard.

Same here. As it was so cheap, we upgraded to first for our visits to London: £10 return, even in the rush hour. The trains were packed during the Olympics so it was good to get a seat. Although we were scoping out tube options, we'll definitely use the trains again, especially as you get to go on the Javelin which is a beautiful train.

zagubov

mystic_trev wrote: »

Zagubov - check how far the Zones go out, you only need a rail ticket to the end of the 'Zone' I'm near Tunbridge Wells, so I only needed a rail ticket as far as Knockholt, so half the Journey, and half the price I'd have paid for a rail ticket to London.The rest of the journey is covered by the Railcard.

We're covered. I'm (just) within the Greater London boundary anyway, although when I took the dog for a walk this morning we did cross the boundary and leave London for a while.

It's impressive how better-organised things are now. When I first came to London the train and tube systems had barely heard of each other and you had to have something called a Capitalcard as well as a Travelcard if you had to use a train at any point. :mad:

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

:eek:

This is not something a nice person would knowingly eat.

"Some people clear the larvae from the cheese before consuming while others do not."

And some NP would clear the cheese straight out of the house. Is there a puking smiley somewhere?

When in Portugal, we had some lovely runny cheese that you scoop out from the top - no larvae, thank goodness. Forgotten what it's called, unfortunately.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

It's impressive how better-organised things are now. When I first came to London the train and tube systems had barely heard of each other and you had to have something called a Capitalcard as well as a Travelcard if you had to use a train at any point. :mad:

I'm liking the new trains too. The trains on the Met Line are a great improvement and I love the way you can walk all the way through. The trains in on my local line have been upgraded over the past few years. Suburban transport is way better than it used to be. The system is so much more logical and I love having an Oystercard.

On a different subject, is anyone watching the mountain biking? That course is evil!