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

lemonjelly

bugslet wrote: »

Much the same, I'd like a really flashy, ridiculously expensive car, of which I have no chance of affording, so instead I drive round in a shed of a dog van . I could afford to get something like a bog standard BMW, but since I don't like average cars any more than my dog van, which at least looks interesting, I don't feel any desire to spend the money.
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For the first time in my life, I think I'll be splashing out on a (relatively) flash car. & that'll be 2nd hand.
Spoke with a colleague the other day who admitted owning a BMW (I have vocalised views on BMW drivers in the past...:o) Apparently someone had seen her driving the BMW & made a comment at work that she's obviously on good money, to which she rather irately replied that she had worked for 30 years bloody hard to get to the stage of being able to afford one for the first time.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Bloody foxes.

Awww... are the chicklets safe??

PasturesNew

I saw a fox the other night, trotting along the road here. First I heard a really odd call, like I'd not heard before... heard it 2-3x ... then I saw this huge fox trotting along in the gutter... huge he was. I looked at him, he looked at me - and he kept trotting, so I went to the edge of the drive to see where he went - and he went into the driveway of the house 2 doors down.

Biggun he was! Biggun!

neverdespairgirl

In Lydia's scale of riches, I grew up (and probably still am) between the last two catagories. I've never flown first class, but I have flown business class, when I went to India with my mother just before starting pupillage. We had a large family house, and when I was 8, a smaller country house in Kent. The 4 of us were all privately educated, and had the opportunity to do out of school things such as music lessons, tennis, sailing, riding, as suited us individually. We rarely ate out as a family, nor did my parents much. We had a good summer holiday every year, either in the UK (when the 4 of us were very young) or in Italy, France or Greece later on.

We didn't have loads and loads of expensive "stuff", but did have computers, two cars in the family, and driving lessons and bangers once we reached the right age.

My parents don't go for designer threads, massively pricey jewellery, or first class leisure travel. They do go for nice clothes (tailor-made suits for my Dad for work, M & S for out of it, and my mother buys some stuff at M & S, some at places such as Jaeger). They buy new cars, and then run them for 8 - 10 years and replace them. They don't eat out very often, but when they do, they certainly don't worry about the cost.

Now they have no dependent children, and especially since my mother was ill, they've been holidaying more - last year they had a fortnight in St Lucia, a week in Spain, and a long weekend in Bruges.

lemonjelly

I've never been on a train first class!

neverdespairgirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've never been on a train first class!

Sometimes it's oddly enough cheaper or about the same price as normal class. If you're booking a peak train ticket, and the cheapest standards have sold out, the cheapest first class and the cheapest standard available can be the same price. If it's within £10 or so, and a long way, I book first class and enjoy it!

lostinrates

Second millefleurs found, alive.


I'd like to say thank you to my partner in avian rescue: dog dog. That dog is a bloody hero.


We found her under, (so the script goes) a fallen branch.

Actually she was in the pile of oak waiting to be sawn up. She saw us and panicked and ran into the middle of the pile and tried to bury herself in leaf mould. S dog dog waited on one side of the pile in 'chicken hound' mode, ready to hold her off running away, while I dug her out from the other side.


We took her back to her sister, who was siting alone in a nesting box, silent. On seeing each other, they made delighted chuckles, unbothered by the destruction of the rest, and snuggled down together.

Their world at least is ok. . I feel better now. Still gutted about all the others, but not having one accounted for is gutting.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've never been on a train first class!

I have. Without a ticket too.
Having never been in 1st class before I never knew the drinks were free. They brought the trolley round and I was gagging for a drink but had NO money, so said "no".

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We took her back to her sister, who was siting alone in a nesting box, silent. On seeing each other, they made delighted chuckles, unbothered by the destruction of the rest, and snuggled down together.

Their world at least is ok. . I feel better now. Still gutted about all the others, but not having one accounted for is gutting.

As good an outcome as could have been anticipated.

purch

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've never been on a train first class!

Don't try it.

Once you travel in 1st class on a journey, sitting back in 2nd class will be unbearable.

It's like travelling by plane. Once you've turned left when boarding, you never ever want to turn right again :eek:

It becomes an expensive habit that is hard to break.