Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

Zag, hope your DD is safely back.

I have reacquainted myself with the wonders of modern life including a hot shower, clean clothes, sitting on a chair rather than on the floor and travelling by means other than by foot. I am just about to try sleeping-not-in-a-sleeping-bag:)
I can definitely confirm that I won't be abandoning house-dwelling to live in a tent anytime soon.

What's been going on with the NP in the past few days?

Glad you are back safe and sound .

lostinrates

Today I made a few preliminary calls abut LPG and oil tanks at the Wreckstoration.

No one apart from the architect greeted this with any enthusiasm whatsoever. .


But, I think I needed the shove from michaels. Sometimes you just have to call it a day. But now I am watching that blackout thing on channel four and remembering what the dream was and how bloody far from it we feel ATM.


Sitting here I just tucked my chair in clumsily and have yanked the leg off it. . I need to buy castors for these chairs so they wheel. There is a reason people don't use armchairs at the kitchen table,

zagubov

I remember on the last thread that we were discussing online storage options- I just wanted to pass on what someone on another thread posted, that Copy.com is offering 20 Gb free storage instead of 15, if you download their Windows app, after a referral from another user. Seems to be highly recommended at least by this site, which FAIK, could be owned by them.

I've signed up and it seems OK. If anybody wants me to refer them so we can both get 5Gb extra you can still get 10x the free space of dropbox for nought if you use this link and download the app. Otherwise, in true MSE style you can still get the basic free 15Gb by going to the site yourself (the non-sponsored alternative).


It's another layer of backup, works on all gadgets AFAiK.

Yorkie1

*(Non-techie question alert)*

If it's an app, I assume it isn't available to laptop users?

neverdespairgirl

Nikkster wrote: »

Zag, hope your DD is safely back.

I have reacquainted myself with the wonders of modern life including a hot shower, clean clothes, sitting on a chair rather than on the floor and travelling by means other than by foot. I am just about to try sleeping-not-in-a-sleeping-bag:)
I can definitely confirm that I won't be abandoning house-dwelling to live in a tent anytime soon.

What's been going on with the NP in the past few days?

It's fun camping, both in itself, and in the appreciation it gives you for the rest of your year.

I've never lost my awe at turning on a shower / bath tap and getting hot running water, after one summer in India (cold water in a tap and a bucket to tip it over your head) and the next summer in Mongolia (washing in rivers and lakes, digging a hole to go the loo). I think it's improved my quality of life immensely, as I value a hot bath every time I have one.

lostinrates wrote: »

But, I think I needed the shove from michaels. Sometimes you just have to call it a day. But now I am watching that blackout thing on channel four and remembering what the dream was and how bloody far from it we feel ATM.

"If at first you don't succeed, try again. But then give up, there's no point wasting your efforts on a lost cause."

SingleSue wrote: »

That was my problem, I was good (really good, an A student) in physics but you could only do Biology and Chemistry or Chemistry and Physics...and I needed biology for my career choice. So I had to do the Biology/chemistry choice despite being absolutely useless at chemistry, by some fluke,

that's a very odd combination - an awful lot of people want to do all 3 sciences at GCSE / O level, for all sorts of career options.

My school, at GCSE, made us all do maths, Eng language, Eng lit, and a foreign language. Then we had to do one of physics / chemistry, one of geography / biology, one of Latin / history / RE / classical civilisations, one of art / music / drama / CDT.

Then you chose 2 more out of any of the above, including extra modern languages, so you could easily do all 3 sciences, if you wanted to, or 3 languages (4 if you chose Latin). I did physics, geography, history and music as my choices, and added Latin and class civ as my options. My sisters both did all 3 sciences, and one of them also did both French and German.

OH got a free GCSE in Hebrew, he just turned up for the exams, and got an A.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Dara O'Briain (I must be very brave, that's the 2nd time I've had the nerve to attempt to correct NDG!:eek:)

On spelling, I am extremely correctable. I'm dyslexic, and spelling is my real weakness. I don't have any trouble reading, though, fortunately.

I have a number of dodges to avoid words I can't spell. There are a few things at work I have to handwrite, such as backsheets, and I am a master in avoiding those 'orrible words which begin with a weird combination of p and other consonents, and using "mental health assessment" or similar instead.

On the road near my parents' house, about 400 yards from the house itself (there is a private track leading to 4 houses / farms, of which my parents' is one) there is a long straight road, and then a sharp left-hand bend without much warning. Cars regularly go too fast along the straight bit, ignore the warnings that are there, and go through the hedge into a neighbour's field. About 6 times a year, on average. His sheep are now so blase about random cars entering their domain at speed that they hardly even look up when it happens.

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

anyone think this will be comfortable?
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/6179296.htm

No. You would be better off buying a decent second-hand one as they get replaced way before they expire. Cheap chairs are not a good deal and will last nowhere near as long as a second hand one, nor are they meant to.

This lot are very good, but not sure that they are near you.
http://www.londonreusecommercial.org/pages/where-to-buy.html

However any local office furniture dealer should know where to get you a good second hand chair.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was very brave of me to venture onto the beach to start looking for complete strangers

I nearly walked away, assuming you'd decamped to the top of the cliff in the lap of luxury..... I didn't really expect to find you on the beach at that time due to the change on accommodation being thrust at you shortly before.

How come? We didn't go all the way to Cornwall to sit in an over-furnished, very nicely done but rather souless flat which wasn't on the beach (-:

I'm sorry if we were all a bit quiet - Isaac is very rarely quiet, but being dragged out of bed at 5.30am and then driving for hours, body-boarding etc, took it out of even him. Hope you have fun with the pearls.

michaels wrote: »

My 4 are Lydia, NDG (and NDB), Viva and Spirit.

Edit: If anyone thinks this is too close to being personaly identifying please let me know and I can remove the names of the innocent.

PM and tell me our friend in common? If I knew, I've forgotten.

lostinrates wrote: »

One of the things about clerking is you know you never have to speak. Then one day my barrister was very, very late ( I think it was to wood green) and I kept having to apologise to the clerk in the court room.

.................

Counsel got a verbal beating when he did make it in.

I'm not surprised. Being late for court is a serious no-no, and results in Big Trouble.

One day during my 3 month trial in Jan to March this year, the Defendants (who were in the same car) were 30 minutes late for court. They'd been on time every other day, and it was snowing heavily, and the A40 was completely gunked up. Despite all that, the judge lost his rag, and said if they were so much as a minute late any day in the following 2 months of the trial, he'd remand them all in custody for the duration.

zagubov

Yorkie1 wrote: »

*(Non-techie question alert)*

If it's an app, I assume it isn't available to laptop users?

It has "apps" for Mac, Windoze and Linux computers and android phones and iphones.


On another matter, dog went "under the knife" today, op went well but there'll be no walkies for I don't know how long.:(


On a lighter note got the pet insurance refunded that the old company had kept on claiming. :beer:

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

PM and tell me our friend in common? If I knew, I've forgotten.

Me too... Did I know in the first place?

(Goes off to look for confused smiley, nothing new there...)

Please PM me michaels.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

Zag, hope your DD is safely back.

I have reacquainted myself with the wonders of modern life including a hot shower, clean clothes, sitting on a chair rather than on the floor and travelling by means other than by foot. I am just about to try sleeping-not-in-a-sleeping-bag:)
I can definitely confirm that I won't be abandoning house-dwelling to live in a tent anytime soon.

What's been going on with the NP in the past few days?

You are welcome back, as is DD who even as we speak is making herself at home!