Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

bugslet

michaels wrote: »

I always feel the same way, if it is ever quiet on a Friday or Saturday evening I always imagine the rest of you lot being out having a good time ...

I am! OK, still not sorted out internet at home.....probably looking at my collection pre 1960 jam jar labels. ( That was a joke!).

lostinrates wrote: »

No food, but possibly dancing, depending on how I feel and what I wear. I have some shoes that are begging me for an outing if I can bear them but they do pretty much preclude dancing unless I kick them off. So wearing them is a complicated position of ok enough to wear them but not ok enough to dance...probably.

Ok enough just to get out is happy enough for me . To get out be popped in corner somewhere and able to see life....its all so exhausting once you are not used to it:o


I have a committee meeting tonight too.



Kiwi is off his food. Too hot, too frustrated and missing his girls I think. He is even refusing a sardine this morning.

Mine are still eating, and the spitz are distinctly hairier that Kiwi. I have invested in a cool coat for one of them and I find it really helps her.

As for the shoes, wear the prettiest and kick them off for dancing, unless it's posh dancing and you fear for the bones in your toes!

sss555s

Rumble rumble rumble! Yup, I think it's nationwide....

Might have to turn the lights on.


Had friends that lived in Baguley for a while. I say had as he died.

I still go to Manchester a few times a year and usually stay around the Trafford Centre area and often fly from Manchester even though it's over 2 hours away.

bugslet

Trafford centre - only round the corner from me. Think I've been there about 6 times in all the years it's been open. ( verging on MSE, surely)

neverdespairgirl

sss555s wrote: »

Rumble rumble rumble! Yup, I think it's nationwide....

No thunder here, but it's already 25 degrees and 65% humidity. Phew!

From midday, I'll have 2 infants for the price of one, as one of Isaac's schoolfriends, Caspar, is coming over for the rest of the day.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I always feel the same way, if it is ever quiet on a Friday or Saturday evening I always imagine the rest of you lot being out having a good time ...

Well, it's unlikely I'll be out, unless it's term time and I'm doing a parents' evening. My school always does parents' evenings on Fridays. I don't think you need to envy me those... although there is a sort of satisfaction in remembering that at least they're better than writing reports.

Rain, thunder and lightning here too. DD came in to say she was scared and could she sleep in my bed, and then when I said OK she immediately went back to her own bed, not scared any more. [missing the shrug smiley]

DS is downstairs having his first session with his new handwriting-for-dyslexics tutor. I am upstairs hoping it's going OK. DD is in another room downstairs watching TV, with strict instructions not to disturb them.

Generali

Lovely cool, crisp (by Sydney standards) winter's day today. Sunny and lovely.

I went for a stroll in the botanic gardens at lunchtime and listened to the second half of a podcast on the economics and morality of a world filled with robots while watching the odd fish swim through the weed in the harbour.

For the women on here. If you want to understand some of the etiquette dilemmata faced by the modern man, read on:

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/8cf4343c51e8 (SFW)

michaels

Yes...most read story on BBC news website at the moment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23417699

I really am more and more swayed by arguements of those supporting a republic at the moment

bugslet

@ Gen, I think just be terribly british and stick with a hand shake, old fruit!

michaels wrote: »

Yes...most read story on BBC news website at the moment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23417699

I really am more and more swayed by arguements of those supporting a republic at the moment

I'm confused.....is Beyonce royalty now?

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

I really am more and more swayed by arguements of those supporting a republic at the moment

Why would people reading about a pop star's misadventures make you want to give the same people more votes?

PasturesNew

I think we should stick with royalty - changing now would cause decades of upheaval. They're fairly well behaved and not much trouble. Certainly, probably, less trouble than any form of alternative could generate.

I am not a Royalist ... just it's better the devil you know and at least they give the country some kind of focus for tourism and furreners' photo-taking etc. Old stuff's good.....

I don't agree with the whole concept of privilege based on some bloke on a horseback beating another a few years back, and some wars between toffs and land seizures and it being handed out as "presents" to the toffs/4rse lickers at the time, who have passed on the wealth to their spineless offspring who feel some massive "entitlement" and superiority when all that happened is people in the past had babies that ended up as them.

But I don't see the point of the time/effort/cost of any change just because they've got more stuff than us.