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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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lemonjelly wrote: »I've always wanted to see the northern lights.
Is scotland really viable? Or are you better off ging somewhere like scandinavia to see it/them?
I've seen them in Scotland, but I gather they are more impressive further north.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »My Dad once worked out there were the same number of days between my birthday and sister #1's, and sister #1's birthday and sister #2's. It must have been a really boring day in court......
My good news is connected to Isaac's future as a not-only-child (-: He doesn't know yet, though, we're waiting to get beyond 12 week scan before we tell him.
WE've stayed fairly often close to the Damascus Gate - in the American Colony. Have you been there? It's lovely. OH has just booked tickets to take Isaac to Jerusalem for Passover, but I certainly won't be able to go, I'll be 8 months' pregnant by then.
Have you read Simon Sebag Montefiore's book about Jerusalem?
I wonder how Isaac will cope with this rival for your affection?
We stayed in a fairly grotty hotel in the German Colony. The hotel was very MSE, and the people running it were lovely, so it was great overall. Colony is a weird mistranslation of Moshav, which means village.
And, no.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Hope all your conclusions are happy ones.
I hope so, too, but it sounds pretty ominous.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Sounds like a prison for white collar criminals more than a holiday....;)
If the consequence was imprisonment in the Maldives then I would gladly commit a serious amount of white collar crime.0 -
A friend of a friend on facebook (whom I used to know 20 years ago but had lost touch with) thinks she might want the Mousetrap tickets. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »I've always wanted to see the northern lights.
Is scotland really viable? Or are you better off ging somewhere like scandinavia to see it/them?
This was taken by my mum's cousin (I don't know what that makes him to me) in the town that they are from in North East Scotland. They're pretty rare up there. If you're relying on probability because you're on a flying visit, I should think that the further north you are, the better.
I saw them in Finland and they're impossible to describe. I only saw green, but it was still like nothing I'd ever seen before, the way they danced across the sky. Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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I want this:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43584314.html
It's times like this I feel most frustrated with this blasted house. It's cr4p. It's ugly, it costs a fortune to heat and the neighbours are the sort to take photographs from their upstairs windows.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl wrote: »I want this:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43584314.html
It's times like this I feel most frustrated with this blasted house. It's cr4p. It's ugly, it costs a fortune to heat and the neighbours are the sort to take photographs from their upstairs windows.
omg I can't believe that house is so reasonable. What is Worcestershire like? I like it too.
Are you selling the one you are in at the moment or is this the one you are going to build the 2nd house on the plot?0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've just got off from looking at houses.... there's nothing I like/can afford - and the areas I'd been looking at as "a bit further out, so cheaper" turn out to apparently have "big gang problems".
Not sure what to do, where to run to!
Is the whole world overrun with gangs now unless you've got £400k?
I can't speak for Dorset but, in general the 'gang problems' mainly affect each other; ie; it's gang on gang so to speak (that reads badly but YKWIM
) and I can't see a gang problem affecting an entire area and all the inhabitants...they will be localised around their estates and you always get 'gangs' of kids hanging out at malls and so on anyway. 0 -
omg I can't believe that house is so reasonable. What is Worcestershire like? I like it too.
Are you selling the one you are in at the moment or is this the one you are going to build the 2nd house on the plot?
Worcestershire is lovely. Very green, pretty quiet but well connected, a little bit quirky. No gang problems that I'm aware of, PN will be relieved. We live in a different part of the county but the children leave their respective schools this year and we like two schools in Worcester.
The house is a bit too well priced. I suspect it will be totally broken, but that makes even more our kind of house.
This house is the one that we were going to build 2nd house on plot. We were very close at one point but had some 'professional' advice that set us back a long way and we lost heart for a good while. We've agreed now with each other to finish this house and divide it off from land. We'll go for PP again (sigh) and sell this. In what timescale we will get it to market and sell, I'm not exactly sure. I'd happily move out tomorrow.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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