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

PasturesNew

Travel has always been outside of my affordability. It's no good saying you can go XYZ cheap, when it's relative. Also, travelling alone must be the dullest activity around.... and as for those that say "strangers talk to you ...." I'm afraid I am in the camp of "I don't want strangers talking to me ... because the sort of stranger that's the sort to talk to strangers is ..... usually bossy/loud/annoying".

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Travel has always been outside of my affordability. It's no good saying you can go XYZ cheap, when it's relative. Also, travelling alone must be the dullest activity around.... and as for those that say "strangers talk to you ...." I'm afraid I am in the camp of "I don't want strangers talking to me ... because the sort of stranger that's the sort to talk to strangers is ..... usually bossy/loud/annoying".

Its another one of those where you could afford to do it now, but you choose not to. Whoch is your perogative!


Travelling alone, to the right places IS fun. Better than shlepping about boring and known places, there is always something new to discover and see and learn about, for which no one elses input is required.

lostinrates

I would not choose a holiday home either, if i were filthy rich it would be hotels all the way, where the staff would greet me by name and tell me my 'usual' suite was ready for me. But i am not. So tough.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Its another one of those where you could afford to do it now, but you choose not to. Whoch is your perogative!


Travelling alone, to the right places IS fun. Better than shlepping about boring and known places, there is always something new to discover and see and learn about, for which no one elses input is required.

I choose not to because I don't know how much a house will cost me - and, in most instances, I am already £10-20k short of buying one.... so every £100 spent on stuff like that seems reckless.

And, everything's on a pecking order list isn't it. So if I had a house, I'd not go on a holiday as I'd want furniture (at least a bed and microwave)... and then stuff happens like the car will want fixing or replacing.... so ... holidays are at the end of everything, they're in the space where you know you can afford to spend the money and won't come a cropper on something else.

PasturesNew

I've been googling slow cooker recipes.... I still don't "get it"... for most food cooked in them it can be cooked quicker/easier in a casserole or saucepan. Also, slow cooker cooking requires a lot of up front effort. It's not like you lob a load of stuff in, turn it on, walk away.

purch

dinofabio wrote: »

I've met many Canadians whist travelling abroad. Very friendly out going people.

Dodgy accent though :eek:

Grates almost as much as a Kiwi

mystic_trev

What a grim old day:mad: Autumn well and truly here. This time last week I was wandering around the Algarve in shorts, saying how hot it was :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Completely stuffed.... had a frozen £1 Pilau Rice from Iceland, which I nuked. Thing is, it's way too big for one person .... and I didn't want to eat just rice (sometimes I do with this dilemma).... so I also nuked some donner meat with chilli sauce .... and now I can't move....

dinofabio

purch wrote: »

Dodgy accent though :eek:

Grates almost as much as a Kiwi

I quite like the Canadian accent -well the ones I've heard anyway.

The Aussie and Kiwi accents aren't the best admittedly

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

On the tv now they are saying that more than half of families with kids are now not married. I am not making any moral call on this but more questioning how much it diverges from my personal experience locally. Not sure if it is because our kids attend an RC school but I think only 1 or 2 in each form have unmarried parents. Is it only because it is an RC school or is it actually that this is very much an income/class thing?

I've just asked DS about his class at the primary school he's just left. It's a C of E primary school with a sprinkling of church families but mostly just people who live close enough to the school to get in. Geographically, the school is in an affluent area but near a largish council estate, so the kids come from a mixture of social classes.

Out of 22 families, results are as follows:
Parents married to each other: 12
Parents cohabiting with each other: 1
Parents together with each other but DS doesn't know whether married or cohabiting: 1
Parents were married but now split up: 1
Parents were cohabiting but now split up: 1
Parents split up, marital history unknown: 2

Parents were married, separated and then one of them died: 1 (guess who that is )
Mother single since child's birth: 1
DS didn't know kids well enough to know: 2

OTOH, a friend's child arrived in this country (with her family, natch) a few years ago, at the age of 9, and joined a primary school in Rotherhithe, where she was the only child in her class whose parents were still together. A few days after her 10th birthday, her dad left.

zagubov wrote: »

The disappearance of electrical repair shops is a sign of society's decline for luddites like me. On the way into london yesterday we drove past a derelict electrical repair shop whose flaking sign had a 071 number on it (not sure when that dates it to).

Apart from the surprise that there are still so many empty store locations in a place as "overcrowded" as London, it alarms we we're throwing away something so green.

A prominent engineer/entrepeneur (maybe Dyson/Sinclair / Bayliss can't remember who suggested we need university courses in machine repair and to raise the profile of an important skill and abliity, and I'm with him on that.:beer:

I was very pleasantly surprised when I tried to get my vacuum cleaner repaired and it only cost £40. It's a Dyson (admittedly an old one) so definitely worth it. Trying to get my washing machine repaired was a waste of a £50 call out fee, though.

lostinrates wrote: »

We have a tatty hammock too. I love it.

So do my kids! And some other nice kids too.