Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

I don't think Spirit would've been fighting you over me.:o
I'm 99.9% positive she was referring to Mr Tennant.
Ah well, I'm left on the shelf again...:(;)

To be fair Mr Jelly, I think we'd all be batting a long way above our averages there.

I'm off to look at a couple of houses today. I don't think we'll be buying either just yet as it's a bit early, we won't really be in a position to consider buying until the New Year I suspect.

I'm going to have to make some Tough Decisions about housing. Actual tough ones, not like Gordon Brown's tough decisions which seemed to be about how much custard to have with his jam roly poly after spreading around another vast amount of money he didn't have.

I'll put some pictures up later of the places.

Actually, there is a teeny weeny bush fire where I'm going, about 100 acres, but it'll be ok. They're not even closing roads.

lostinrates

I think I'd choose many of the nice men over mr tennant who doesn't do much for me.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

I think I'd choose many of the nice men over mr tennant who doesn't do much for me.

Nor me.

Gen is it really worth buying a place in the 'bush', the fires don't put you off at all. Is the new year bonus season by any chance?

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

:(:(:(

Now I know why he was refusing treatment.

But its really not bad. I've seen him battle through worse.

I know no medical advice on here but isn't it worth getting it looked at, you wouldn't want long term damage/scaring

michaels

Going to be very near an NP tomorrow at a hotel near Petersfield.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I just got a call from dh's secretary informing he he's had an accident in the workplace.........


.......he'll live. I think he feels a bit silly.

Ouch - scalding sounds painful! Hope he's OK.

silvercar wrote: »

Nowadays they build them as a usable room, that has the advantage that there is no space wasted for emergency use only and that emergency access can be quick. It used to be that blocks of flats had a basement that double as a shelter, but valuable seconds could be wasted getting to it. Ours is the 3rd bedroom, you wouldn't know it was also the shelter other than the door is very heavy and wifi signal is impossible with the door closed. It does have air conditioning though the vents are a different shape, so I assume the air is filtered in some way- hope I never have the need to find out.

Where's your home in Israel?

I've only come across the older sort - OH's grandparents' flat was built in the 1960s, in west Jerusalem, and had a basement shelter for the whole block of flats. OH's cousins also seem to have basement or groups-of-houses shelters, rather than an adapted room in the house / flat itself.

One of OH's cousins lives in Sderot, with her husband and 8 or 9 children (at the last count I made) and they make regular use of their street's air-raid shelter - Sderot is very close to the border with Gaza (less than a mile, I think) and has been the subject of regular rocket attacks for the last decade or so.

Doozergirl

I know I was away a while but have you guys seen this? I thought a few people might like it.
http://www.ukdataexplorer.com/census/eastofengland/

I set it to include Herts

I live in an area of virtually no ethnic diversity. I was surprised that over 70% of people in my area put their nationality as 'English' only. I put English and British with about 10% of my fellow townsfolk.

My passport says British on it, why would I not class myself as British? Being English only makes me shudder a bit. Is it just me?

neverdespairgirl

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know I was away a while but have you guys seen this? I thought a few people might like it.
http://www.ukdataexplorer.com/census/eastofengland/


My passport says British on it, why would I not class myself as British? Being English only makes me shudder a bit. Is it just me?

Does it?

Mine says:

EUROPEAN UNION

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

PASSPORT

on the front.

I think it shouldn't make you shudder - I regard myself as Londoner before English, but each to her own.


Our area, in the census, has more men than women (52.2% male) and the mean age is younger than I am (it's 33). High population density (134 / hectare).

6.2% of households have dependent children and no adults in work, and another 28% of households have no minor children and no adults working. That's rather depressing. Less than half the population is white British (43%), with another 22% being "white other". 11% are black, 4% chinese, 5 % Indian / Pakistani / Bangladeshi ethnic origin. 10% were born in non-UK EU countries, and 28% were born outside the UK and EU. So it's pretty mixed in terms of ethnic and country background (which is pretty obvious just wandering around the place!).

It's a secular area, too - more than half the population either has no religion, or declined to state a religion.

More than half hte population lives in social housing (about 52% in total), and the housing is small - average number of bedrooms is 1.7.

0.1% of the residents claim to work in agriculture, farming or fishing - goodness knows who or what! And 0.2% in mining or quarrying.

My parents' Kent home is rather different - 0.6 people per hectare, 1.5% of households have no adults of working age working, 98.8% of the population is white, 80% define themselves as Christian, the rest are all no religion or not stated - not a single Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist or Jew. Social housing 11%, and average of 3.7 bedrooms. And 11% of the population claims to be involved in agriculture (etc) which is a lot more believable than the 0.1% in our area!

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Does it?

Mine says:

EUROPEAN UNION

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

PASSPORT

on the front.

I think it shouldn't make you shudder - I regard myself as Londoner before English, but each to her own.

Yes, my passport does say British. Under nationality, which is what the question in the census was about IIRC, my passport very clearly says British Citizen.

I don't feel exclusively English. I'm not, so maybe that's why I feel that unity is more important than others.

neverdespairgirl

Doozergirl wrote: »

Yes, my passport does say British. Under nationality, which is what the question in the census was about IIRC, my passport very clearly says British Citizen.

I don't feel exclusively English. I'm not, so maybe that's why I feel that unity is more important than others.

Almost certainly, "British Citizen" as there are other catagories of "British" which don't confer the right of abode, such as "British Overseas"