Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

You are aware that Harry Potter isn't real?

Next you're going to try and tell me that Father Christmas and the tooth fairy aren't real either. Not falling for that! The documentaries have been shown on itv for the past few weeks

I'm spending tonight in a village next to Leavesden. Is that better?

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Interesting idea. But one wouldn't want to stop teenagers driving with responsible adult passengers, presumably? How would they learn to cope with, for example, motorways, or driving in snow, or anything else that they hadn't covered as a learner, without being able to try it out with mum or dad or an instructor or similar in the passenger seat?

To avoid the recipe for trouble, you'd want to say that a teenage driver could drive either alone, or with passengers including at least one person over 25, or something like that. But complicated rules like that can be bothersome.

Sounds more sensible than any other idea. In NI you have(or had) to wear special "R" plates for a year after you pass (Poland used to make you stick a green apple sign in your car window). You could make it easy to identify new drivers that way.

PasturesNew

poet123 wrote: »

I agree, I am always disappointed when it turns out to be Tomato, but I must be an optimist as I always ask!

If they stuck to Monday for x soup, Tuesday for y soup etc, they would know what it was without that panicky look you get when you ask.

Well, it's made from leftovers....... but they will know what it is as the chef's cooked it ... today

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Some one we know (but obviously who doesn't know us that well) booked a table for us at a restaurant for tonight with their party. We told them as soon as they told us 'no'. DH and I have a tradition of spending nye alone together.

Everyday they have called to double check, even the days we didn't answer the phone because we weren't answering the phone to anyone.

Its funny when people don't take no for an answer.

You didn't say it correctly the first time. The phrase, for the next time, is: "Oh we'd love to go to that restaurant - just not with YOU"



Trust me, they only ask once.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

You are aware that Harry Potter isn't real?

Shhh.... we're planning on breaking that to her about 2 years after the Santa revelation!

poet123

We usually stay at home (eat out then Cinema but home for 11ish) but tonight we are eating out, then going off to DS1's house party. Not a free lunch though, as I have been baking pies and making Chicken Curry and Rice all morning. We are not sure it will be quite our thing, so we are playing it by as to what time we stay till.

chewmylegoff

I had a lovely morning running around Richmond park. The weather and my knee held up until I was almost exactly half way around. My knee went all funny first and I suddenly couldn't put any weight on it without squealing so I had to turn around and hobble back. Then a nasty wind whipped up and it absolutely hammered it down soaking me to the skin leaving me absolutely freezing and about 5km from home. Left with a choice between hypothermia and making my knee even worse knee I managed to just about run off the injury and make it home without dying, but my leg now won't straighten. To add insult to injury the wind changed direction by 180 degrees so I was running into it both ways.

Happy new year!

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

we are out but in as well, round a friends' house just us and them - we've done that for the last 4 years in a row so it's a tradition now. quite a few of our friends hired a house somewhere in devon so a bit disappointed to be missing out on that as would probably be fun, but expect i will be crashed out and asleep by 10pm anyway so not missing out on much!

Yeah, missed out ..... NYE in the west country, with a gang of youngish people..... tends to be good.

I hear Ilfracombe's got a good reputation for NYE.... unless you have the misfortune of bumping into the one person I know there, who is an utter tw4t.

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

Next you're going to try and tell me that Father Christmas and the tooth fairy aren't real either. Not falling for that! The documentaries have been shown on itv for the past few weeks

I'm spending tonight in a village next to Leavesden. Is that better?

Does Harry Potter live in leavesden? I was under the impression that he lived in a magical fairy castle somewhere in the north?!

PasturesNew

In my day, you could pass your test on your 17th birthday, then load the ropey car up with drunken idiots of assorted ages, without seatbelts... and go haring round town shouting abuse at people out of the windows all night if you wanted.



And many did ....