Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

LydiaJ

fc123 wrote: »

4 beds for 1 person? Maybe so she can store all her stuff in it as well?

Or have children/grandchildren to stay?

Nikkster wrote: »

I could rent you and the missus a room each... Many commute to The Big Smoke from here
I cancelled my spareroom.com alert today (shouldn't have to rent for a while, touches wood). Building up to my rightmove houses for sale alert tomorrow

Exciting!!

lostinrates wrote: »

I wish pre payment things were the same price as normal ones. I'd get a kick out of budgeting through summer for the gas and electric seeing it go up up and up......

(Its a particular sort of person who hangs out on Mse, isn't it:()

And yet you don't have a multi-coloured sig detailing how much of your debt or mortgage you've managed to pay off!
:rotfl:

silvercar

NDG wrote:

Small container of ice (say, photo film cartridge) with 5p on the top for us. Trick borrowed from my Granny. Then if someone leaves the door open for a bit, you can tell, as the 5p sinks into slush.

That must be quite high on the annoying scale, silver. Was the culprit apologetic?

I have to own up to being the culprit. Usually the "door open" beeps sound if you leave the door open, but it was open by such a small amount that the light didn't come on or the alarm ring.

Your trick is fine if someone notices, but the house was empty. So no-one watching 5p coins drop.

The temperature of a freezer is around -18, so an increase to -2 would still mean that ice should be frozen and that everything should feel cold - just not cold enough.

The meat looked off colour, but no big smell.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Right.....everyone got an email who wants one? (Thanks missk for copying in michaels!)

I got left out

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

I could rent you and the missus a room each... Many commute to The Big Smoke from here
I cancelled my spareroom.com alert today (shouldn't have to rent for a while, touches wood). Building up to my rightmove houses for sale alert tomorrow

Having a room each doesn't sound very MSE, this sounds like one of those scams where we pay your mortgage and you steal 50ps from our coin jar to fund your gas habit.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I got left out

I've sent it to the wrong address for you then.....cos you're even mentioned by name!

chewmylegoff

fc123 wrote: »

I got left out

Me too, although no-one has my email address so it is hardly surprising.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

And yet you don't have a multi-coloured sig detailing how much of your debt or mortgage you've managed to pay off!
:rotfl:

No, cos then I'd have to update it. Rather chuffed that in the face of everything going !!!! we've managed a small over payment on the mortgage to year. But...has left me no money for a pony:(

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Me too, although no-one has my email address so it is hardly surprising.

Do you want to come chewy? If w all nibble your limb it will be a cheap meal, we can save on an appetiser at least.....

chewmylegoff

When is it. I forgot the date you mentioned before but I don't think I can make it was it 16th?

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

If I had a bump I would name it.

I would also want to know the sex when it was possible so I could acclimatise to the idea of being a mother to a particular sex of child and start getting things ready with that in mind. I don't think there is a 'right or wrong' way to do things, but I am pretty sure that would have been the right way for me.

It also would have given friends plenty of time to try and talk me out of names. (Although we already had a name for a boy )

We didn't intend to find out, but then I had a scan a few weeks before my due date, and she said, "that's the arm.... back.... testicles...." which rather gave it away. I think we will find out this time, though. Not so much for practical reasons - I'm not sure you really need to get different stuff for different genders, but to get used to the idea, as you say.

We had a girl's name all sorted, the boy's took longer. We finally chose for certain the night before his Brit.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Congrats.
Were you trying, or did it just happen?

A bit of both, really. We'd decided to try next year, found that I couldn't fit a GP's prescription appt around being in court, and thought we'd give it one month and probably nothing would happen at my advanced age (35). So we were wrong. And pretty chuffed about being wrong, too!