Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

OH is on LinkedIn, but hadn't used it for years. DS1 decided to create a LinkedIn profile as part of his job search. He naturally wanted to link to Daddy to show a good connection. So OH logs in, has a quick squint around and finds someone that used to work for him 10 years ago is looking to move jobs. Wind forward a few months and he now works for him again.

So it works.

I've not left most jobs through choice - it was usually due to buy outs, downsizing, restructuring, closing down, moving, taken over, lost big clients, lost big contract .... so, overall, none left a good taste in my mouth.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Hope tomorrow is bearable for you.

We are off to a funeral tomorrow. Subject to a preliminary inquest. Why the coroner insists on an inquest on a very, very old person I don't know.

Just because they are very, very old, doesn't mean that they wouldn't have managed to become very, very, very old if a relative hadn't wished to hasten things.

So, it has to be checked.

fc123

Spirit wrote: »

For our silver anniversary we treated ourselves to this (vw):
http://s1274.photobucket.com/user/Spiritbeth/library/

wow, love those vw's. I would love a camper van one day to doa tour around the UK coast line...all the way around. Reckon it would take a year. Who was on stage at Glasto?

silvercar wrote: »

I think you are still owed something silver.

We went to the Maldives for our 25th. Recommended.

Love the Maldives. We did go their on a belated honeymoon in 1993 and it was only £500 each back then, Real no shoes holiday and we lost loads of weight as there was hardly any food.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, yes, yes.... I am up for that
I'll LOVE it!

You'd also get a bunch of "I stayed here .... and thought it was great" links in random places for some years to come too.

I'd intended to write some stuff about Margate as part of a linked series, so that'd be handy as I can take some snaps down the beach (if it's not peeing down).

I think you would connect to it really easily as it has elements of Newquay in it.
Lots of posh people there as well.....OH saw lots of them on Sunday. Spoke to some too
We are next door to The Winter Gardens and The Specials played there Sat pm...and then were in the uber cool caf! by us on the Sunday.

The beaches along that coast are to die for .....especially Joss bay which is walkable to. The wind farm is a bit bizarre as it disappears and become invisible, but when the sun comes out you can see it. I hadn't noticed it on every trip I went on during the winter (but had read about it) and only saw it for the 1st time last week. It is to the right of our sea view.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the oldest couple have recently got to their 80th. They made it to the news and I saw a re-run of that interview on the Russell Howard comedy program where he was laughing at the way the woman was talking to/of her bloke

This is them http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local-news/matlock-couple-are-set-for-80th-wedding-anniversary-1-5586800

awww....well there is no 86th so if you get to that one you get nowt.

Nikkster

fc123 wrote: »

wow, love those vw's. I would love a camper van one day to doa tour around the UK coast line...all the way around. Reckon it would take a year. Who was on stage at Glasto?
We are next door to The Winter Gardens and The Specials played there Sat pm...and then were in the uber cool caf! by us on the Sunday.

Looks like it could have been The Specials (funnily enough) to me...

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the oldest couple have recently got to their 80th. They made it to the news and I saw a re-run of that interview on the Russell Howard comedy program where he was laughing at the way the woman was talking to/of her bloke

This is them http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/local-news/matlock-couple-are-set-for-80th-wedding-anniversary-1-5586800

I think I might have seen a clip of them on some other (or maybe the same) comedy programme... right at the end, the husband said something along the lines of... wife had an op, and didn't want a stranger to help her get dressed so her husband did. To think that all those years ago I was trying to get her knickers off and now I'm helping to put them on. He started chuckling, and said they'd better not put show that bit. I've not relayed the story very well, but there was something very very sweet about them giggling together

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

You would both have to be 105+, probably no-one has ever reached it and kept enough of their marbles enough to appreciate it.

It's probably a treat aty that age as your care home feeds you bland mash of meat and veg with weak sweet tea.

My several times great uncle made to to older, with his marbles. His wife didn't thoygh:(. And he outlived all but two of his numerous children :(

PasturesNew

While driving round the coast of England seems a great idea, I bet a lot of it is quite boring bits, with no view, cr4ppy beaches and driving rain

I checked out the beach 2 miles from here the other day .... twas 'orrible, won't be going to that one again.

Spirit_2

fc123 wrote: »

wow, love those vw's. I would love a camper van one day to doa tour around the UK coast line...all the way around. Reckon it would take a year. Who was on stage at Glasto?

I cannot see on that pic...Bruce springsteen headllined, saw paolo nuttini, tom jones, lily allen, rolf Harris, florence & the machine and lots of others. We were very lucky and had backstage passes..which we did not understand actually meant backstage...we had just used the flush loos, celeb watched and had quiet time...until Sunday afternoon when it was pointed out we could be watching Tom Jones form the side of the stage.


The beaches along that coast are to die for . It is to the right of our sea view.

Sounds idyllic. A 'proper' reachable holiday home.

PasturesNew

There was a programme on telly a few years back, 3 blokes in a VW - they were given the VW and had to "live for free" in Cornwall/Devon for a few weeks. Thing was, it was "staged" - if any one of them had knocked on a door and said "ello - if we do a bit of work will you feed us and let us camp in your field?" they'd have been told to F off.... as they were saying "Hello, we're really respectable people, with a film crew - and we're trying to work our way round ... and your business will be on the telly ..... can you feed us/let us camp" all doors were thrown open to them.

Edit: Found it, Three Hungry Boys:

British television series created by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Three men travel Great Britain in a camper van trying to survive whilst spending no money for one month. They experience ups and downs throughout their journey of foraging and bartering making this a fun and interesting show

Here they are at Lands End https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbKFtWwHSUk