Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

Pass there regularly. Nice place, but a bit peculiar.
There's no pavements or streetliguts, 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.

I've not been there since shortly after my Granny died, nearly 10 years ago now. I don't remember any SUVs, my Granny had a Nissan micra, and her friends had similar cars. I didn't do much walking around at night there, but there aren't many pavements.

My grandparents lived on Hollymead Road for decades, until a few years after Grandad died, and then Granny sold the family house and moved to a bungalow, also in Chipstead. The houses in Hollymead Road were all large 1930s ones, as I remember - my grandparents' house was detached 1930s effort, with 3 large bedrooms and one tiny one, and a huge garden.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've not been there since shortly after my Granny died, nearly 10 years ago now. I don't remember any SUVs, my Granny had a Nissan micra, and her friends had similar cars. I didn't do much walking around at night there, but there aren't many pavements.

My grandparents lived on Hollymead Road for decades, until a few years after Grandad died, and then Granny sold the family house and moved to a bungalow, also in Chipstead. The houses in Hollymead Road were all large 1930s ones, as I remember - my grandparents' house was detached 1930s effort, with 3 large bedrooms and one tiny one, and a huge garden.

I know that area. It must have been quite tough in the winter as the roads are so steep you'd struggle to get in or out of the village if the snow turned to ice .

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

How many cats do you have?



What area of law is he doing now?

Hope he has fun away (but not too much fun).

We have two cats ( one was instead of an engagement ring, the other is her sister........you cannot say no to a man with a kitten was his theory). Ours are hunters too. I joke often that one day I expect venison between them.

We also inherited a few 'farm cats' when we moved here.

I just checked dh's page on website and its not updated to new area of law. I wonder why? Anyway, I had better take my lead from that and stay stchum on open forum.

chewmylegoff

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!

What did they stuff them with? Pork and sage or chestnut. I wonder what temperature you cook a slow worm at.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

What did they stuff them with? Pork and sage or chestnut. I wonder what temperature you cook a slow worm at.

My guess is you'd cook them I wine rather than stuff them. They break up so easily.

When the cats used to bring them I'd be trying to get them into a container( often an met Evan bottle, and the things, and the bits of things over the floor was hideous. I'm pretty unbothered by insides of rodents, but the sloworms...shudder.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Edit o'tea was meant to be hotel

Must be the sort of o'tea that has a resserwan

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Off to Dubai in the morning.

pfft...... POSH!

I couldn't even point to it on a map unless my waving finger of general direction were allowed to include 8 other countries

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

It is still a bog standard 5* though. No where glitzy. Crackers paying NY prices really.

No idea what bog standard 5* is - not stepped over the threshold of a 5* even in error. I have stepped into a 3* hotel probably a couple of times in my life.... but no idea what star ratings mean. Although, actually, there are lots of systems that mean different things, but I know any 5 has to be posh

If I were going, I'd be staying at something like: The Camel's Mattress.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

The houses are huge and yet there's always one being extended and looks like a building site.

I was gobsmacked by this mad woman's attitude this morning. And then it clicked: Having a house is the working man's access to being a Celeb (in their own mind).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2336624/Would-spend-200-000-doing-house-just-make-neighbours-jealous-DEBBI-MARCO-did-Here-explains-.html

I read with incredulity that the woman was so stupid and shallow that she really thought people thought like that.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Years ago I did some telephone canvassing for a double glazing company - and the woman in the next booth turned out to live round the corner from me. Anyway, long and short of it was she left her husband for the DG company boss..... and one night they flew out to Spain for dinner. Oh how the other half scrape by

Where did they go to? El bulli?

Dh, as student in Oxford, fancied cheese late at night. So he got out of bed and went to France. Had lots of cheese for breakfast, came back for afternoon lecture. He used to do the cheese run at least once a year I think. Sometimes dragging friends with him.