Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Because I'd be driving and unable to answer the phone - and if I tried to call back I'd not know the name of who called me, then I'd be put on hold, then they'd say somebody'd call me back... and I'd have a phone bill

And/or using the self-service till, or in Lidl where you have to rip everything from the cashier's hand the second it's put through as they want you to clear out of the way and I never have a trolley to put things into. Etc.

Simples.

I see. I'm afraid not being able to abandon my other responsibilities, I have to rely on a hands-free thingy for dealing with my phone under such circumstances. I wouldn't have the slightest hesitation in telling a checkout person "I'm so sorry, this is my landlord about a shower flooding, so it's urgent," and taking the call.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's a little "did you know" nugget for NPs with UK holiday homes, caravans, or who go camping -and- have children/others they leave at their house. Did you know that if there's somebody at your house that could be watching your telly you need a 2nd telly license? And/or other combinations of live telly, holidays, devices.

www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Campers-urged-TV-licence-face-1-000-fine/story-19513376-detail/story.html

Didn't know you needed a TV Licence for a caravan. The whole TV licence to pay for the BBC really needs to be updated somehow.

Every time we go to Margate we have a clutch of bailiff letters and court thingys to sift through and one was a bailiff notice to collect an unpaid fine for having no telly licence ...nearly a grand from 2004. Wonder if they will ever get it from him?

We were thinking of you on Saturday .....we walked to Botany Bay, a lovely blue flag beach about 40 mins away (leisurely stroll along the undercliff path) and spent the day just lying around, bobbing in the sea and playing 'guess the nationality of the family' purely by looking (though OH has his bionic ear so he could cheat as he can hear a long way away) and we realised the last time we lolled around on the sand on a hot day surrounded by the GBP was with you down in Bournemouth.

I reckon we'll never have space to do any holiday letting as it'll be constantly used by us or family/friends...already had a few queries via FB....by those who don't know it's uninhabitable. We didn't tell anyone about it...but word seems to have got out.

Hope everyone is well.

I am really trying to embrace the heat and not moan about it ...but it's hard when working isn't it? Dream Life would be to be able to down tools as soon as the weather is like this and just go down the beach.

OH went today too to do more clearance and take his mother to her sisters @ Whitstable...we just can't wait to start on her 'proper'......

lostinrates

It's hot and its muggy and its oppressive, so why do both pink whistley and mauve squeaker feel the need to snuggle up this evening?

If I wriggle away they cling on and reanimate them selves more tightly against me. They are sort of hot and slightly .....well...damp....as well, having undertaking elaborated grooming sessions as part of tucking themselves into me.

PasturesNew

Awww.... first one was a bloke whose mother left him with his alcoholic father when he was 2. He found a small photo of her and kept it until his dad found it and tore it up; he taped it back together and hid it again until his dad found it and destroyed it. His dad's been dead 14 years and he couldn't find his mum.

Programme did the family tree and found a distant relative that said she'd moved to Aus with her parents in the late 60s. Programme man turns up at her door and he said the first thing she wanted to know was "Is the father dead?" Turns out he beat her badly, so she left and daren't ever get in touch in case he tracked her down again.

And now she wants to meet her son (who is about 50).

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

.... bobbing in the sea and playing 'guess the nationality of the family' purely by looking ....

I LOVE bobbing....

I wanna BOB!!!

CKhalvashi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I wondered, because I know that the two other children who live in our block of flats don't break up until a week on Friday. If this nice weather continues, and as Sam's having a week off starting on Thursday, I was thinking of taking Isaac to Kent for a few days, and perhaps going to Camber Sands or Greatstone. Which would be less crowded if the other little darlings are all still incacerated in their places of learning (-:

We broke up end of last week, however we're a private school (even though I don't pay for my two)

CK

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Watchng programme about Lost Families, ITV. Long Lost Family.

I have watched a few of the programmes in that series. It is interesting- most of the 'children' on it were adopted in the 60s and 70s when a single mother simply couldn't afford to bring up a child, or if they were still living at home their dad told them to have the kid adopted or get out of the house.

No such dilemmas these days...

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I LOVE bobbing.... last year I got my little beach tent and could bob a few feet from it as the tide doesn't really move here (not like Cornwall where it goes out hundreds of metres).... but I couldn't bob without permanently worrying my stuff'd be robbed, even though it was in a tent, I had to keep an eye on it.

I wanna BOB!!!

Re nationality .... I'd have no idea. I can tell most colours of people, but wouldn't know how colours equate to countries beyond the bare basics.

....can't beat a good bob in freezing UK sea Our legs did go numb as we slowly got deeper and deeper. OH is fretty about stuff so buried it under his towel.

We noticed a lot of very attractive, athletic , lithe women with high cheekbones and amazing hair with shorter, squat men with square bald heads....they were the Easter Europeans.;)

Then there were tyhen different tribes of UK people....so we had to guess them too.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

...adopted in the 60s and 70s when a single mother simply couldn't afford to bring up a child, or if they were still living at home their dad told them to have the kid adopted or get out of the house.

No such dilemmas these days...

When I was 15 my friend and I had a friend in the year above us, lovely girl (can't remember her name), but she was going out with one of the school "bad boys" - had orange hair, with short skinhead cut, tattoos, always in trouble/often in Borstal. She got pregnant by him and her parents stopped her seeing him, then she was "sent to her aunty's" and came back without the baby. Another of my friends at school had a younger sister who was really her niece as when the eldest had got pregnant she had it and the mother brought it up. Happened all the time, you either gave it away, or your mum brought it up.

My mum was one of those, as was her cousin; both brought up by granny after both granny's daughters disgraced themselves.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's a little "did you know" nugget for NPs with UK holiday homes, caravans, or who go camping -and- have children/others they leave at their house. Did you know that if there's somebody at your house that could be watching your telly you need a 2nd telly license? And/or other combinations of live telly, holidays, devices.

https://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Campers-urged-TV-licence-face-1-000-fine/story-19513376-detail/story.html

I think that article is a bit simplistic. If the TV in the second home is powered by its own batteries it is fine. Given that most laptops and all tablets are powered by their own batteries, I doubt it is as much of an issue as they would have you think.

What happens if you are watching your TV through (a slightly grey area) VPN to fool your TV into thinking its in the UK? Do you then get a TV licence with a foreign address? How do TV licensing cope with that?