Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know what Evernote is.

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It's a free and nifty online and on your PC and on your phone searchable, taggable, notebook.

You can jot down ideas, or copy images or copy whole webpages.

You can view/edit it from anything that reaches the Internet and it holds an actual copy on your PC/s and when you log in it synchronises all the versions/changes you made wherever you made them.

In your position .... I'd use it to gather ideas/images of nice things for the house

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

What I've noticed in my immediate family (so current/have the ability to visualise the people and understand it) is that people will give the information they want to give to form-fillers - and not the "truth" as the forms intended it to be written down.

[1] My g-grandmother stopped using her unusual first name and was married/buried using her middle name.
[2] When my mother re-married, instead of using her former married or maiden name, she randomly used her own mother's married name. My mother was brought up by her own grandmother, illegitimate, so when her mother married and had further children my mother never went to live with them, so never used that name until ... she re-married. You'd not be able to work that out from just reading the records... it'd be either a dead end, or link to the wrong person.

I also discovered my sibling's pre-marital birth because first I searched on her known name/birthdate as I expected it up it came.... but when I randomly changed the search a little broader (didn't enter her surname, just mother's maiden name) I realised there were two entries, first registered in mum's maiden name, then a year later in mum's married name.

I think this is very common. Some of dh's family have anglicised surnames. And in my family we almost all have Christians names then the names we actually use. It's confusing sometimes to 'outsiders' I think.

One female line on my mothers side has kept a 'salubrious' surname going by non traditional means (sometimes retaining name on marriage, sometimes double barreling) which always makes me roll my eyes just a little. My sibling did it differently, giving as first names and middle names two of the 'magic' surnames. There is a family first name in my father's family that dropped out of use for the last two generations but my father is particularly attached to it, and if we had had a son we would have used it as a middle name.

Nikkster

My ex has just asked me for some money.
When I went to collect the things I had left at our flat (which my ex then stopped paying the bills for if you remember the story), I was told (by ex and all his family who knew that I was owed £££) to take what I wanted. So I took what I could find that was mine (it was all jumbled together). He couldn't use our bed and it would have been stored in basically a caravan in a yard. I took it as my brother had just bought a house, so at least it would get used. I found a deal (a very good one, naturally) for the mattress and a cheap Argos frame, but he paid me back. I specifically asked at the time whether I could take the bed, and was told yes.
Fast forward and today I get a text asking whether my brother would like to buy the bed. I called back and I don't think ex got the answer he was looking for. My favourite bit was when I remembered he had my IKEA chest of drawers (which was falling apart, though that was because ex had sat on them). So I suggested he make me an offer for the drawers. He said I should suggest the amount as he had suggested an amount (£50) for the bed. So I paused, then said 'how about £50?') He hung up.

Edit: Sorry, that is quite ranty and probably makes little sense. Must be the adrenaline!

lostinrates

Nikkster....

You sure you want to keep your phone number still? Well done for dealing with it brilliantly. Just a shame you have to at all.

PasturesNew

As I've never lived with anybody I've avoided splitting up with a right kn0b

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Nikkster....

You sure you want to keep your phone number still? Well done for dealing with it brilliantly. Just a shame you have to at all.

Well done Nikkster!:beer:
Actually, lir, I get more spam calls than real ones and the real ones are from a very small number of people. We get more mobile calls/texts/emails than real calls.

I sometimes wonder if I could just cheaply change numbers and start again.

I'd not get rind of ther landline in case of a fire, though!:eek:

misskool

well done nikkister on both the house and the phone call today!

we've dug 1.5 allotment bed today and yesterday I fed 6 people a chinese banquet. i'm going back out to dig a bit more.

I also made some lovely sweets from home

GDB2222

misskool wrote: »

we've dug 1.5 allotment bed today and yesterday I fed 6 people a chinese banquet.

Extremely clever, extremely capable, and extremely hardworking. I'm in love! (Well, impressed anyway.) :T:T:T


I'm impressed with my new GPS watch. It keeps telling me that I've walked further than I expected. It accurately tracks where we are on the ground. However, it is terrible at altitudes. It seems to invent hills that simply aren't there. Does anyone know why that might be? It's a Navrun 500.

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

My ex has just asked me for some money.
When I went to collect the things I had left at our flat (which my ex then stopped paying the bills for if you remember the story), I was told (by ex and all his family who knew that I was owed £££) to take what I wanted. So I took what I could find that was mine (it was all jumbled together). He couldn't use our bed and it would have been stored in basically a caravan in a yard. I took it as my brother had just bought a house, so at least it would get used. I found a deal (a very good one, naturally) for the mattress and a cheap Argos frame, but he paid me back. I specifically asked at the time whether I could take the bed, and was told yes.
Fast forward and today I get a text asking whether my brother would like to buy the bed. I called back and I don't think ex got the answer he was looking for. My favourite bit was when I remembered he had my IKEA chest of drawers (which was falling apart, though that was because ex had sat on them). So I suggested he make me an offer for the drawers. He said I should suggest the amount as he had suggested an amount (£50) for the bed. So I paused, then said 'how about £50?') He hung up.

Edit: Sorry, that is quite ranty and probably makes little sense. Must be the adrenaline!

You realise that he's probably been brooding about that for a month before ringing you, working himself up into a self-righteous state of mind, and you've just deflated him.

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

My ex has just asked me for some money.
When I went to collect the things I had left at our flat (which my ex then stopped paying the bills for if you remember the story), I was told (by ex and all his family who knew that I was owed £££) to take what I wanted. So I took what I could find that was mine (it was all jumbled together). He couldn't use our bed and it would have been stored in basically a caravan in a yard. I took it as my brother had just bought a house, so at least it would get used. I found a deal (a very good one, naturally) for the mattress and a cheap Argos frame, but he paid me back. I specifically asked at the time whether I could take the bed, and was told yes.
Fast forward and today I get a text asking whether my brother would like to buy the bed. I called back and I don't think ex got the answer he was looking for. My favourite bit was when I remembered he had my IKEA chest of drawers (which was falling apart, though that was because ex had sat on them). So I suggested he make me an offer for the drawers. He said I should suggest the amount as he had suggested an amount (£50) for the bed. So I paused, then said 'how about £50?') He hung up.

Edit: Sorry, that is quite ranty and probably makes little sense. Must be the adrenaline!

This made me chuckle, well done!

Seriously though, who bothers ringing their ex to try to extract £50? I mean if he believed you owed him £500 (whether you did or not) at least that would be worth his effort to try it on.