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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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Cold almost gone. I left the nasal spray alone today and let the sun bake more out of me.
It's just so amazing that feeling of being not cold. I've never loved it so much. I am certain by next week I will be right as rain. I have no sore throat but my voice sounds huskier despite the lack of soreness, so I have been singing a lot today too.
After no sleep last night I was hoping tonight I'd be drifting off, but the warmth is invigorating and I am thinking of scrubbing out the bathroom instead......run with it or fight the urge and try and kip? I just cannot decide? It's kind of reassuring to feel insomnia and some energy.
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mystic_trev wrote: »One of my neighbours did that last Autumn. In fact they covered a large portion of their garden to re do this Spring. When they started to take the covers off they found a colony of Slow worms, which are a protected species and can't be moved. They're now well and truly stuffed!
I covered my little veg patch with cardboard last winter. It was excellent for weed control.
Looked a bl**dy mess though.0 -
Off to Dubai in the morning. Flying from local regional airport to Paris, change, then Paris to Dubai. Love local airport and using Paris or Schipol as a hub saves taxi (£180 return) and queuing at HRow. Will park in the reserved bit 2 minutes walk from the terminal and have speedy security. Whole journey takes an hour more than if we went via HRow and so much less hassle.
We will be travelling steerage. I am only 5' tall so seat pitch is not a problem. Not so for OH though who is over 6'.0 -
Spirit, watch your health out there, huh?0
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I'm not buying in Blackheath, lil bro who was investing in my property development is and hence no longer has free spare money. I think he is also keeping his house in Croydon... how the other half live!
I was born in Greenwich District General (which was knocked down a few years ago, although it was only built in the 1960s), and grew up in Blackheath, in Greenwich borough until I was 15, and then in Lewisham, as Blackheath's divided between the two boroughs. My parents' house, which they sold just before Christmas, was on the edge of the heath. It's a lovely place to grow up. Not only the vast expanse of Blackheath, but Greenwich Park adjoining it.
I wouldn't fancy Croydon quite so much, though. My mother lived in Surrey from the age of 15 (before that, she lived in Wallasey, Skipton, Buxton, Shrewsbury, and Birkenhead) and went to Croydon High School. Chipstead, where she lived with her parents, and where my grandparents lived for the rest of their lives, was very nice in a quiet, top-of-a-countryside-hill kind of way.PasturesNew wrote: »If we all buy her cake..... she'll get large and explode. If she buys cake, we're polite and all have a little piece and nobody gets fat
You're so selfless, just concerned for FC's figure (-:PasturesNew wrote: »The story was always the same, but with question avoidance. I know mum went out with a neighbour some nights as the neighbour had kids and her husband would additionally babysit my older sibling. On one such night out she met my dad. I asked about it and all I ever got was "he had a scooter, so I got a lift home" .... but she must have seen him again else she'd have probably not known how to get hold of him to say she was pregnant at least
So I never knew where/how they met, no dating stories whatsoever.
I've asked which pub many times over the years and only last year got a name of one, that's now closed.... so I have to assume that's right.
My parents met when they attended the same primary school in Wallasey, but as my mother's 2 years old than him, they don't remember each other. Then my mother kept moving, because her Dad's job kept changing around hte country.
They met again in London, at a party thrown by one of my mother's university friends, who was a cousin of Dad's flatmate. It was the night before Dad's first ever court appearance as a pupil barrister - he had to leave early, as he was doing a bail application the next day. He stayed long enough to arrange a date with my mother the following weekend, though!Don't worry I was being a bit tongue ni cheek, I don't aspire to his life at all, sure it would be nice to have the pounds in the bank but I wouldn't have wanted to have done what he has done to get them. I suspect on an hourly rate basis I am probably not that much worse off....(his wife doesn't do it for me either)
In terms of a healthy, happy sibling relationship, a good thing his wife doesn't do anything for you, I reckon!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Off to Dubai in the morning. Flying from local regional airport to Paris, change, then Paris to Dubai. Love local airport and using Paris or Schipol as a hub saves taxi (£180 return) and queuing at HRow. Will park in the reserved bit 2 minutes walk from the terminal and have speedy security. .
Hope you have a wonderful time, and be jolly careful buying pearls in Dubai :T...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »My cats love slow worms:o. Thankfully we don't get any here.....they are gruesome to have to clear up....all in segments wriggling yuck.
I have yet to find a way to stop cats getting slower a, birds disappear to a bell and cats can be put off them with water guns, but sloworms they get without me seeing, probably miles away.
How many cats do you have?
Yossie, a cat I rescued from a near-fatal dumping when he was a kitten, together with his brother, Elijah, lives with my parents. Both lived with us in our flat, until Elijah died at the age of 3 from heart problems.
They'd spent all their time together, so we thought it was unfair to keep Yossie in a flat on his own, and he moved to my parents' house in Kent.
Although he'd spent the first 3 years of his life indoors, and he's pure white all over (so highly visible), and he's the World's Thickest Cat (TM), he's turned into a highly successful hunter. He's now 9, and my Mama reckons all her cats who were hunters had calmed down a bit by the age of 9. But he's still ruthless.
He's never really gone for birds, which is just as well, as my Dad would hold it against him. He has a collar with a bell on it, but still catches huge numbers of rodents - mostly rabbits, but some field mice.
When we stayed there over the last bank holiday, he caught 8 medium-sized rabbits. Which is quite good going, really.mystic_trev wrote: »One of my neighbours did that last Autumn. In fact they covered a large portion of their garden to re do this Spring. When they started to take the covers off they found a colony of Slow worms, which are a protected species and can't be moved. They're now well and truly stuffed!
If they'd had any sense, the slow worms would've gently been moved a few yards, and established themselves happily in their new home before your neighbour said anything (-:PasturesNew wrote: »Isn't that just one of those "quick/shhh, nobody's looking.... it's only us that'll ever know...." times?
Took the words right out of my mouth......That's a good idea for a vegetable patch, but the weeds are in the dratted flower borders. (They are badly planted, flowers too close together, so it is a manual weeding job. And we've had much less time this year than normal to do it.)
I like flowers, but I am not really that interested in doing them as a garden. In this, I am overridden:D
Actually, I've got to that point in my life that I'd prefer to get a nice concrete patio "garden", with a few flower pots, and ***** the gardening.
But maybe it is the ant attacks that are making me feel that way:D
Well, my parents are 65 and 63, and they have a 4-acre vegetable patch, and a huge polly tunnel, and a greenhouse, and an orchard (-:lostinrates wrote: »
Dh is finding new dept MUCH less stressful environment. It's a better team, but the area of work is completely new. Personally I think it suits him quite well. It's not the most cut and thrust area, but its rather academic.
What area of law is he doing now?
Hope he has fun away (but not too much fun)....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Spirit, watch your health out there, huh?
Thank you. I will. I am expecting to spend most of the week in air conditioning. I will probably get a cold:).
Annoyingly I have had some alarming symptoms for the last 10 days which worried me a bit/OH a lot - my GP gave me a spray under the tongue and additional drug last Friday. I now have chest pain clinic referral for the day after I get back.
Looking forward to seeing friend. We will stay in ahotel tomorrow night and friend will meet us for breakfast on Friday before we set of to his house.
On the MSE front we did look at budget hotel on trip adviser as it is literally an overnight stop ...but then spent 6x as much on what we have booked. It is still a bog standard 5* though. No where glitzy. Crackers paying NY prices really.0 -
Pass there regularly. Nice place, but a bit peculiar.neverdespairgirl wrote: »
. Chipstead, where she lived with her parents, and where my grandparents lived for the rest of their lives, was very nice in a quiet, top-of-a-countryside-hill kind of way.
There's no pavements or streetlights, pedestrians walk in hi-vis vests and carry torches at night. The roads are barely two cars wide but there are only oversized cars /SUVs using roads that simply don't have the room for them.
The houses are huge and yet there's always one being extended and looks like a building site.
There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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