Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Congratulations NDG & NDB. Hope the nausea goes away much faster than last time. :beer::j:T



I wanted to know the sex both times, too. The first time LNE knew DS was going to be a boy, but we didn't tell anyone. The second time we knew DD was going to be a girl, and we told people so, but we didn't tell them the name until she arrived.



Woohoo! Hope everything goes smoothly this afternoon, then. :beer::j:T

Meanwhile, I have been frustratingly stupid. :mad::(:doh::wall:

I had a vague idea that I had arranged for DD to go away for a Brownie weekend some time in the autumn, but I hadn't put much thought into it and hadn't entered it on the calendar. It now turns out that it's not a weekend - it's four days during half term. But that means it clashes with the tickets I've bought to take DS and DD to the Mousetrap for DS's birthday. I need to pass the tickets on to somebody who will give me at least a bit of money for them, and get new ones for a different date. Mercifully DS is being entirely chilled about the prospect of a delay to the event. So... do any of the London NP know anybody who would like to buy three reduced price Mousetrap tickets for the matinee on Tuesday 29th October, and if not then please advise me on the best way forward for me in trying to find someone who'd like them?

Email me date and ticket price and I'll ask DH to put an email out around the office. Not hopeful. But worth a try, huh?

Wheezy_2

Nothing but good news in the NP thread lately...new houses, new babies, lemonjelly managing to grow a carrot...

As Mr. Ree would say : REJOICE!!! :j

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

I had a vague idea that I had arranged for DD to go away for a Brownie weekend some time in the autumn, but I hadn't put much thought into it and hadn't entered it on the calendar. It now turns out that it's not a weekend - it's four days during half term. But that means it clashes with the tickets I've bought to take DS and DD to the Mousetrap for DS's birthday. I need to pass the tickets on to somebody who will give me at least a bit of money for them, and get new ones for a different date. Mercifully DS is being entirely chilled about the prospect of a delay to the event. So... do any of the London NP know anybody who would like to buy three reduced price Mousetrap tickets for the matinee on Tuesday 29th October, and if not then please advise me on the best way forward for me in trying to find someone who'd like them?

I will talk to DW - perhaps I could take the afternoon off and spend it with DS while DW and 2 DDs go to the theatre (I think DS is too young), biggest difficulty will be being allowed any time off though. If you could give us a ball park idea of how much moey we are talking about that would be great.

We have now completed and lettings agent is picking up the keys from sellign agent to do viewing this afternoon and then dropping one set off with us. I said if there was only one set of keys then we wanted them today and would get a set done for letting agent for tomorrow. Letting agent seemed quite taken aback that we would want a set of keys for our own property...

lostinrates

Congratulations to you too michaels!

fc123

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Speaking of descendants, OH and I are anticipating increasing our total number of them by 100% next spring - early May, we think. Hence why I've been a bit quiet the last few weeks, I'm suffering the absolute exhaustion of early pregnancy, and increasing nausea, too. I went to bed very early tonight, but then woke up feeling very queasy and came upstairs to scoff carrots.

PN and LIR therefore both met 3 of us together for the first time - Isaac, Poppy-seed and me. Although, at the time, I didn't know there was a third person accompanying me (-:

We've not yet told Isaac, who thinks I'm either ill or working too hard, because I keep yawning all evening. I've told him I've got a cold (for the moment).

My parents reacted in their predictable ways, from my mother's "darling! How wonderful!" to my Dad's, "Right, NDG, you need to look after yourself, get lots of sleep, early nights, eat properly...."

:j:jBig Congrats to you all

lostinrates

Just how mad would I be to try and drive into the City from the west on a mid week morning?

Even with congestion charge its going to work out a lot cheaper than train (if I can wrangle parking which I think I might be able to). And it gives me much, much more freedom coming home, I can relax a lot about times and stuff.....

Plus a third advantage.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Just how mad would I be to try and drive into the City from the west on a mid week morning?

Even with congestion charge its going to work out a lot cheaper than train (if I can wrangle parking which I think I might be able to). And it gives me much, much more freedom coming home, I can relax a lot about times and stuff.....

Plus a third advantage.

um...a little bit mad maybe . The big downside is if there is a crash or delay and you could be stick in traffic for hours.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We have now completed and lettings agent is picking up the keys from sellign agent to do viewing this afternoon and then dropping one set off with us. I said if there was only one set of keys then we wanted them today and would get a set done for letting agent for tomorrow. Letting agent seemed quite taken aback that we would want a set of keys for our own property...

Two houses = posh alert.

Letting agent probably hadn't two brain cells to rub together and hadn't thought it through that they were picking up THE keys, rather than you simply changing agents.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

um...a little bit mad maybe . The big downside is if there is a crash or delay and you could be stick in traffic for hours.

DH is planning to com in with me, so he'd have to hop out and get on the tube, but I'd have a few hours to sit in traffic.....

Now the am I really mad......

Do I risk driving a hire car in London? I'm confident in London traffic mainly because I don't really care that much if someone drives into me, but if they drove into a hire car I'd feel pants and it could be expensive. I've had two prangs (other people's fault) in London.

Hmm.....my car I think! Right, I'll see if I can get parking, then make the decision....

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Just how mad would I be to try and drive into the City from the west on a mid week morning?

Even with congestion charge its going to work out a lot cheaper than train (if I can wrangle parking which I think I might be able to). And it gives me much, much more freedom coming home, I can relax a lot about times and stuff.....

Plus a third advantage.

I don't think I'd try it unless I had to be in before 7 or after 11...and for the after 11 I would also not to need to worry about being late.