Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

Holidaying in this country is great at this time of year, and Woolacombe is one of the loveliest spots around. The time I want to go abroad is in the dark days of winter. In the meantime, I'm delighted that the seaside here is virtually deserted in the summer, as everyone flocks to Spain.

We had a phase of going away at Xmas and renting a cottage for three years on the trot.. First year North Cornwall, second year falmouth, third year Dorset. The first holiday we actually sat outside on Christmas afternoon and I was wearing a light cardigan, it was warm! Falmouth was rainy, Dorset, cold but mostly dry. I'm not a sun lover, so as long as it doesn't rain, I'm happy.

I've spent so much time driving round the UK that I feel I've seen pretty much everything and my passport has been vastly under-used!

GDB2222

bugslet wrote: »

We had a phase of going away at Xmas and renting a cottage for three years on the trot.. First year North Cornwall, second year falmouth, third year Dorset. The first holiday we actually sat outside on Christmas afternoon and I was wearing a light cardigan, it was warm! Falmouth was rainy, Dorset, cold but mostly dry. I'm not a sun lover, so as long as it doesn't rain, I'm happy.

I've spent so much time driving round the UK that I feel I've seen pretty much everything and my passport has been vastly under-used!

That all sounds great. The queues in airports at Christmas are horrendous. We've had Christmas on the beach in this country - wearing warm clothing, though.

lostinrates

I dislike BBQ Christmases. Not as much a I dislike hot meal Christmases in stinking heat. The simple answer is to be in uk.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Always miss them? Crikey, how many times have you been?

Sorry missk, given that you already have a mega-brain, I'm now imagining you taking your matched betting and rocket science type skills over there to be a top-notch card counter...

PasturesNew wrote: »

I suspect ... enough times to use an unknown phrase that they "have a residency"..... which would never have entered my vocabulary.

I was guessing it was more of a always miss them when they are in the UK. Might well be wrong though

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I dislike BBQ Christmases. Not as much a I dislike hot meal Christmases in stinking heat. The simple answer is to be in uk.

It also needs to be getting dark-ish by the time you finally arise, fully-stuffed, from the dinner table and stagger outside for a walk.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

It also needs to be getting dark-ish by the time you finally arise, fully-stuffed, from the dinner table and stagger outside for a walk.

We do it the other way, is we can, we try and sit down when its dark, or at least have pud when its dark, because of doing critters.

neverdespairgirl

Critters done first, here, in the AM, then in the dark. The stables have lights, so it's OK.

lostinrates

Misophonia on radio four.

(Oh, people are saying its the most powerful emotion they feel, not for me, it just makes me very annoyed. I feel equally and more powerful emotions and very annoyed about other things too.

Editing again...omg....I cannot believe people stop other people doing normal things....I might be weird but I let other people get on with it, its not their fault!

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Critters done first, here, in the AM, then in the dark. The stables have lights, so it's OK.

Yes, we have lighting, I just don't like to smell of horse!


We feed more than twice a day so we tend to do early am, middle of day then later at Christmas.

Not having old girl will be a boon. Last year we were on several feeds a day.....sort of as many as could be done! .


(Btw, relieved, thought an ogre had scared you off!)

neverdespairgirl

I'm in a bit of a grump. Nothing very serious, but I was working very late last night, so I'm tired and cross, and then I hoped to have a lie-in this morning, as not in court, but Isaac woke me up to talk rubbish about computer games, and it was too late to go back to sleep. Then my phone stopped working.

Then I had to spend a while digging up the weeds between our council-car-park slabs in the back yard, because one of our neighbours has complained to the council about them - you'd think Islington would have better things to worry about - on the grounds that the rats might eat them. Very likely, they'd eat a tiny number of tiny green things clinging to precarious life between slabs, instead of the all-they-can-eat nightly rodent buffet in the restaurant's corridor next to our yard.

I then send OH an email, saying he'd better appreciate all my hard work digging because I was in a grump, and he emailed back, saying "thanks very much, but I admire you all the time for everything."

Sometimes he is so diplomatic it's annoying - he says so exactly the right thing that even a grumpy cow like me can't find it irritating - which is annoying in itself, in my current mood, naturally.