Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

vivatifosi

Thanks for all the answers to my earlier kosher questions. I asked the question and then my tablet battery died, so had to wait till I was home to read. Sorry if I seemed ungrateful.

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Deadly 60 is an expanding franchise that Isaac adores - there is also "Deadly Art" and "Deadly Top Ten", and they all feature really nasty animals, fish, insects and so forth that bite, scratch, poison, claw, or otherwise alarm and injure. Perfect for small boys.

I'm not quite so keen on the lego that's massively structured, and you can only build the specific thing that the kit tells you to build. Isaac has a fair few medieval bits, such as helmets, weapons, a portcullis or two, etc, but he gets most fun out just building things out of the general bricks.

It gets worse. It looks like lego, I think it is made by lego...but it is not described as lego , it is described as 'character building'. Honestly, not cold showers or Tall Ships Races but little plastic toys. I went to Hamleys in Regent Street today and looked at them, will buy closer to home as I was on the train and di not want bulky shopping. They were aslo ludicrously expensive. Happy to pay it though, but must be hard for folk on a tighter budget. The little chap who wants this is a special guy, he is just 5, lost his dad when he was a few months old and has had leukaemia since he was 1, treatment is tough so he (absolutely) deserves all possible distractions and fun that comes his way.

What I did buy though was 4 puppets, as we have OHs family visiting on boxing day and there are four littlies aged 2 to 8 so they have a puppet each so hopefully they will create a show for us. Or not.

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

I should apologise silver. When I mentioned exploding underpants houses I did of course mean his when he leaves home, not yours, which I imagine to be immaculate. Sorry.

No it is no good Viva. I too imagined an immaculate home. Not not more though, it is now, in my minds eye, strewn with grubby gents draws . Bedecked bannisters and hanging from lampshades.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Here my separation is...

my seperation...let OH do it.

Good work NDG. It has worked for me for 30 years, I do the occassional bit to show willing and i special iron by folding stuff up and putting it on the cooker lids. OH starches and irons everything. I have never been able to attain his standard;)

chewmylegoff

I planned to avoid ironing altogether by just buying a load of non iron shirts. The problem with this is that I was massively conned by t.m. Lewin whose non iron shirts need to be ironed. At least they are much quicker to iron than normal ones.

neverdespairgirl

Spirit wrote: »

my seperation...let OH do it.

Good work NDG. It has worked for me for 30 years, I do the occassional bit to show willing and i special iron by folding stuff up and putting it on the cooker lids. OH starches and irons everything. I have never been able to attain his standard;)

I do other things - cooking, cleaning (we both do that) and so forth. I just don't iron, while OH says it's meditative.

GDB2222 wrote: »

OMG! There's a war starting locally!


Then I checked the date. What a waste.

I adore bonfire night, and I love fireworks. Great fun.

silvercar wrote: »

On some lines, first also gives you free hot drinks and snacks.

One or two - not sure which - also do something approaching a meal. Last time I went west, I found it was £2 cheaper to buy a first class return than ot buy a standard, so, obviously, I did.

chewmylegoff

So our offer was not accepted, they accepted the other party's offer so it looks like I was wrong when I guessed that they wouldn't tell me about that offer because it was lower! Bit odd as the agent didnt even try to get us to up our bid - presumably the other bid was much higher. I said we might go to £550k but that was still well below the other offer, apparently. I think they must be bonkers if they have gone anywhere near the asking price, frankly.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41097880.html


OH is scared of fireworks so tonight is interesting...

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I think they must be bonkers if they have gone anywhere near the asking price, frankly.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41097880.html


OH is scared of fireworks so tonight is interesting...

That is an awful lot of money for that house. Move somewhere a bit further out.

There have been some huge bangs here but nothing pretty in the sky. I was suspicious that it was deer poachers out under cover of Guy Fawkes.

vivatifosi

Spirit wrote: »

No it is no good Viva. I too imagined an immaculate home. Not not more though, it is now, in my minds eye, strewn with grubby gents draws . Bedecked bannisters and hanging from lampshades.

Sorry Spirit but that's my house you are describing, not silver's. In my defence, it was one hell of a party.

Spirit_2

Oh and a colleague are on a ferry back from France tonight.

OH has however texted me to say how rough it has been, so much so that the ferry is going to be late in.