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Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime
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lostinrates wrote: »Mainly for gdb, Something to cheer. We have snowdrops, but not daffs yet, but saw this game little primrose earlier and thought to tell gdb someone else is ready for spring
I want to tell them to hide away for the next few days!0 -
Once again, my shredder has broken! Can anyone suggest one that is reasonably bullet-proof, please? It's a real shame that the main shredding mechanism survives, but the plasticky bits don't. Presumably, a really good one costs £100's?
(Although we keep it in the kitchen, I am talking about a paper shredder, btw.)
I've used this one for a few years now and not had a problem...
Fellows DS-1
OH has went through 2 in the time I've had that one and is now using mine too grrr...
It has to be emptied every second week but holds 2-3 times what the small ones hold.
It's in between the industrial and small ones which is ideal for me.0 -
I don't think google or the archive's searchbots have access to the members only threads. Try googling your posts and see what you get. I think we're fairly safe here.
I'm not so sure. I remember a few months ago telling somebody that I had had to coin the phrase "late-nearly-ex" to describe a relationship that didn't have a standard description because it doesn't happen to most people. Then I wondered if that would give them enough to track me down online and work out that I am LydiaJ on here. So I googled it, and this thread (or one of its predecessors) was the first thing that came up. Not that it matters. I've known since I first mentioned on here about the circumstances of the death/divorce etc that I would be pretty much instantly recognisable on here to anybody who knows me IRL. So I am careful not to post anything that would be a big problem if read by somebody who knows who I am, and I hope that a board for debating house prices isn't generally frequented by the teenagers that I teach.Hmmmm. Once lived in a lovely area where we rented out our house. Didn't end up gettng shafted . But other landlords seem to have had a hard tme there. And used the same remedy.
In 2009 this and this happened.
and then in 2011 this happened.
There aren't that many letting agencies in the area but one by one they met the same end. We used the last one which did a runner but had finished with them before this trouble.
Put a shiver down the spine of some of the NPs I might venture.:eek:
Well, I feel for the landlords, of course, but it does seem to me extremely foolish to have used a letting agent that wasn't registered with ARLA and not to have made sure that tenants' deposits were in one of the protection schemes. I mean, were these LLs not aware of the law about tenants' deposits????It seems to be that copyright now expires 70 years after the author's death. She died in 1973.
It's 70 years here, but it's only 50 years in Australia. I believe it used to be 50 years in both countries, and was extended to 70 years in both countries, but the UK made the extension to 70 years retrospective, but the Aussies only made the new 70 year rule apply to people dying after the change was decided upon, although I can't remember when that was. I do know there are plenty of authors (R Austin Freeman, for one) who are out of copyright in Australia but still in copyright here.
Anyway, it's good to be back on here. The last few days have been very busy (in a good way).
I spent Friday travelling to Worthing for my aunt's funeral and coming back again. (The meet-up with other family members outside Swindon that I was asking for advice about went fine, BTW.) The funeral was a good send off. All 6 of her kids, all 12 of her grandkids and 1 of her two great-grand-kids were there, along with her brother and sister, all 4 of us nieces and 4 of her 5 nephews, plus assorted friends, more distant relations, relations of her late husband, and partners of friends and relations. We all went back to the house of one of the cousins afterwards and had a great time catching up with each other.
The rest of my generation are all a lot older than me (my cousins range from 8 years older than me up to 23 years older than me) so it feels a bit of a privilege that they treat me as an equal. Usually it just feels normal, but this time I was taken by surprise by a consciousness of belonging not because of anything I do or have done, but by birthright. (Hope that doesn't sound either pretentious or smug. I'm just musing really.)
On Saturday I took my kids to see my dad while two of my brothers were with him. I think uncles are very important for kids with no dad. They got on brilliantly with them, as usual. It's just such a pity that we live so far from all my brothers and can't see them more often.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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LIR, thanks so much for the lovely picture of the primrose. Hopefully, in that little sheltered corner by the wall, it will survive whatever winter now throws at it. Here we now have lots of shoots coming up in the garden from the various bulbs, but nothing much showing yet. It's going to be freezing tonight - I know that because the gritter lorries are out.
Whilst out, we met a couple with a wire-haired Hungarian Visser. It looked a bit like a Standard Airedale with a pink nose. A very well-behaved dog, so somebody has been good with the training. Also, we were told that he gets a good 90 minute walk every day, which is probably essential for such an active breed.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Most of the time I put papers in the kitchen soggy waste bin; if someone is so desperate as to wash the tomato soup, soggy teabags, yoghurt and other food droppings off the papers, then let them. This identity theft from private houses is far too alarmist IMHO.
But it's not necessarily just private papers going out here. 0 -
It's going to be freezing tonight - I know that because the gritter lorries are out.
This morning when I looked out of my bedroom window I could see frost on the flat roof of the garage. Some of it melted when the sun got to it, but the part that the sun doesn't reach stayed frozen all day. I'm very glad to have fitted in the weekend's long drives before the snow, though. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
LIR, thanks so much for the lovely picture of the primrose. Hopefully, in that little sheltered corner by the wall, it will survive whatever winter now throws at it. Here we now have lots of shoots coming up in the garden from the various bulbs, but nothing much showing yet. It's going to be freezing tonight - I know that because the gritter lorries are out.
Whilst out, we met a couple with a wire-haired Hungarian Visser. It looked a bit like a Standard Airedale with a pink nose. A very well-behaved dog, so somebody has been good with the training. Also, we were told that he gets a good 90 minute walk every day, which is probably essential for such an active breed.
How lovely.( wasd it a 'vizsla'?)
Mine are bursting through their skin now, Just as dog dog gets the all clear for walks the little fellow has a little limp and is on house and garden only for a week. Measured him tonight, he is three inches of minimum height for breed standard (phew, he might still make it) but a little more underweight. He saw a vet for the antiinflammatories he's taking for a few days and she was really happy with his progress.
Plus he has a 'party' this week where the practice invites puppies to interact with each other in a controlled environment. He will be the eldest there, and only scraped into the invite on his good behaviour. They haven't seen him tonight. With a little chap keeping him in the house doesn't restrict movement that much and IMO makes it potentially more damaging.....hairpin turns at top speed round and round the big dogs, putting strain on his little joints. He has no such concern!0 -
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lostinrates wrote: »How lovely.( wasd it a 'vizsla'?)
That's the one! I never knew how it was spelled, so thanks for that. Very lively dogs that have a tendency to jump up and lick you. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
At least if you c0ck it up you can just start again .....lostinrates wrote: »It's a bit fiddly, but after some guidance from the shabby chic thread on old style I am painting it aqua (!!) then grey (phew) and distressing. Its got some gold in it and it it Looks bland afterwards I might put some gold backl on the thing afterwards. Hope not though.0
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