Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Fleece is definitely the best fabric for a warm dressing gown. DD and I both have them. DS doesn't do dressing gowns any more.

I knew that boy was clever.:D

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

According to MIL, all her babies had them for nightwear.



Then he has too many. If he only had one there would be nothing to mix up.

The men here have one each in navy blue toweling, the belt is held by loops each side and never strays.

I have one summer and one winter; belts also stay in place.

Yes, he has three and is here three nights most weeks. He has a navy one from work :huh: a sort of oatmeal one which I hate. And a white one. In theory I would like the white one best but it just repels me for some reason.


He's just gone out to do lates for me in his dressing gown so I don't suppose I should complain too much!

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Not true in Israel, IKEA is far more expensive there, much to my annoyance. Maybe it is us furreners forcing the price up?

I find lots of things more expensive elsewhere.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Not true in Israel, IKEA is far more expensive there, much to my annoyance. Maybe it is us furreners forcing the price up?

I know I should google it ... and am about to make an utter tw4t of myself .. but ... is Israel in the EU?

I've no idea who's in/who isn't to be honest.... it used to just be a handful of countries, quite local... now it seems "everybody except Aus, US, Africa and China" most days.

silvercar

I know I should google it ... and am about to make an utter tw4t of myself .. but ... is Israel in the EU?

No, its in the middle east. Well outside the EU, except that it is allowed into the Eurovsion.

Here in red. Britain is top left.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

it is allowed into the Eurovsion.

Why's that then?

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Comms overload, due to the beheading. ITV website was down earlier after they posted the video of the man with the machete in his bl00dy hands, who was talking coherently to the cameras about why he'd just done it.

Nikkster wrote: »

Yet another event I can't get my head around.

Am I right in thinking its not to far from fc? Expect there's a very strange atmosphere around there atm.

Hi all, a late night flying drop in after A Bit Of A Week.

Well, it's all gone off down here in sarf east lundun due to the soldier murder this week.....and we work 2 mins from one side of it and live 5 mins the other side so getting to and from work has been..um tricky. Got the jist what happened from LBC and twitter an hour after the event.

We knew the local grunts from the National Front ~(it's called something else now but same ethos) would crawl out the woodwork and do a march + stir up trouble...and they did.
However, I did comment to DD .....who was really disturbed by it all as her teen years were spent in Brighton so she's not as used to the unsettled feeling you get in the area after an event'.......that we probably live in the most policed area now. They are everywhere walking the beat in pairs.

The undercurrent is always there, you feel it though 99% of the locals just ignore it.

The big irony was that 2 mins away down the road from the event we were packing 3 large orders for export to the Middle East. 1 to Saudi, 1 to UAE and the 3rd to our newest customer....a website in Iraq. You couldn't make it up really...especially considering the nature and look of our product.

In other news....

Margate completed.....spent Friday cleaning out house (including some homemade free basing equipment) and then we both felt very over whelmed by everything. The list of work is large and the budget is precisely nil £ at the moment.

If I could move down there tomo I would but going to be at least 5 years before we can even consider leaving this area

Got some great new neighbours down there who are all pleased that the last druggies have left the street. Just 8 months back used to be 6 houses full of druggies + some were also brothels and now 0. All 3 takeways have closed down too. It can only improve now.

Found MIL a flat and are doing the refs (as we are guarantors) and she is so excited at leaving her 2nd husband (?!).

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, on the basis I have "continued to do what I always did" - and it didn't improve. It might be time to change tack.

My favourite mantra is 'If you do what you have always done, you'll get what you always got'.

Hope everyone is well

neverdespairgirl

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm afraid that the house just isn't large enough:( It's the downside of smallholding in kent... lots of land but small house.

Would really like to knock place down and rebuild it, since it has a long list of problems, but it's an AONB and SSSI, which means maybe if you turn wildershins round a churchyard at midnight and sacrifice a chicken, you might be allowed to build a conservatory.

My parents' place is on about 95 acres in mid-rural Kent, and they are thinking of a new shed. Perhaps your very own white-washed, empty shed?

Round 'ere (as I'm at my parents' place for the weekend) even a sniff of a caravan and there'd be lots of muttering about "!!!!!!" (I quote).

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do you remember when your mum sewed your mittens to elastic that went up your coat sleeves and across your back? You could do something similar with his gown ties. 4" of elastic sewn to each loop and to the tie

Worse, PN, worse. I was the Mum who sewed Isaac's mittens to elastic this winter because we spent every morning looking for the squiggle skull-and-crossbones things.

SingleSue

I don't own a dressing gown, I even had to borrow one off mum when I was taken into hospital just over a year ago.

Feeling slightly better now although went through a bit of a dodgy time about 9ish tonight, so far, it is the most severe migraine I have had....I blame stress as it appeared right after two stressful events yesterday.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why's that then?

It's something to do with the format that is/was used to broadcast TV. There was a bunch of countries that decided to use the same technical standard that became 'Eurovision'. They also collaborate on making TV programs.

Egypt could also be in the ESC I think which is in Africa. Cyprus is in the ESC too I think and that's in Asia, albeit with strong historical links to Europe.

A quick wiki shows it was started in Torquay.