Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Without wishing to sound like a tinfoil hatted nutter, regulars will know that I've long been concerned about the level of information given away by people on social networking sites such as facebook as I've wondered how the information can be used. Now it appears my fears are not without foundation:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence

I have never understood why people want to keep "checking in" to places and telling the world exactly where they are all the time. I am getting fed up with Facebook. There are lots of people that I no longer live anywhere near but would like to stay in touch with, but that doesn't mean I want to keep being told where they are, or shown endless pictures of the food they are about to eat.

michaels wrote: »

My not as nice as some other builders did a house round the corner bought for 355k about 2 years ago - add on about 65k of extension and it is now for sale for 575k.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-25873470.html?premiumA=true

That's an incredibly poor listing for a house at that price. There's hardly any detail in the description, and there isn't even a floor plan. I know I've got a bit of a thing about floor plans, but really, for a house with an extension they're particularly important. There are extensions that work well in terms of layout, and there are extensions that don't, and a floor plan is a good indicator of which it is. (Perhaps it's deliberate because the layout's a disaster, and they want to get viewers into the house before they realise.)

SingleSue wrote: »

No, not a pressing concern at all...we are nowhere near that sort of thing but I have to have something to worry about :rotfl:

Think this will be a longterm thing, we are certainly talking long term but who knows? I'm just enjoying it. We can still only see each other maybe once a week for a few hours but those few hours are very nice and the boys like him (even though he still can't come into the house), James even told him he is being more like their father than their father!

Mind you, it will be nice when the boys do accept him into the house...we could have romantic nights in with a DVD or something!

I am so happy for you that it is going so well - you deserve it. James's comment is lovely - I'm not sure if it says more about loverrr or about James, but it's definitely a credit to both of them.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Never heard of them... anybody else?



Oh, a big jelly. When you said dim sum trolleys I thought they'd be small (as you've told me in the past dim sum is little bits and pieces). I imagined you making jelly sweeties, so little sweetie sized

On the dim sum trolling you get three smaller jellies. Not that small, but not big ones. Bigger than sweets, but individual sized 'cubes' of stripey jelly. As in pudding not in jellied sweets.

Wheezy_2

Spirit wrote: »

A former member of my staff got married in a registry office with 'stranger' witnesses

Our civil wedding was very low key. I asked 2 colleagues to be witness, after the registry office we took them for lunch at Frankie and Bennys in Manchester and then back to work.

GDB2222

Wheezy wrote: »

Our civil wedding was very low key. I asked 2 colleagues to be witness, after the registry office we took them for lunch at Frankie and Bennys in Manchester and then back to work.

Did you have a religious ceremony as well, or was that it? Low key is an understatement.

When my 'possible-spook' cousin got married, he didn't tell anyone until some months later. The first his parents knew about it was when they received a letter addressed to "Mr & Mrs X", and it wasn't for them! :rotfl::rotfl:

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

Our civil wedding was very low key. I asked 2 colleagues to be witness, after the registry office we took them for lunch at Frankie and Bennys in Manchester and then back to work.

Not unlike us. Dh had finals the next day.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Not unlike us. Dh had finals the next day.

Why choose that date?

Wheezy_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Did you have a religious ceremony as well, or was that it? Low key is an understatement.

Yes, party with extended family in Belgium a week later, and got married for church 2 months later.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Why choose that date?

Well, it's complicated.

We were actually giving notice for our wedding which would have been almost a year later ( you get a year I think?) but it was very stressful, we had not wanted to wait that long for my medical reasons. Family were very involved and it had become their wedding, or circus really.

When the person did the paper work said ' oh, i have just beire this taken a cancellation for a wedding on the first day you would be alliwed to get married' dh did not even look at me he said, 'we'll take it'. It meant we were able to cancel everything for the planned circus without imcurring cancellation fees. And it was soon, which is what we needed. It was not necessarily ideal ( there was some fall out) but it was fine.

Dh was well prepared and wasn't unduly put out because it was so quiet, it's not like we had 'a wedding' the day before, we just 'got married'. We had a lovely lunch out, which we probably wouldn't have gone the day begore finals otherwise, but there was nothing 'dramatic' and we both felt easier for having it done.

GDB2222

It's romantic, like eloping!

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's romantic, like eloping!

Yep, it was eloping, we just disn't get that far.

We held hands all day...tougher at a nOrmal wedding when you have to dance with people, and chat to every one etc. we got ready together, like a couple, and went in together, like a couple. Us together from before we woke till after we slept.:o:)

It was also very cheap. :T