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

ukmaggie45

LydiaJ wrote: »

I am probably being very dim and shamefully ignorant, but what do you mean by a lottie hat?

You're not being dim at all, I should have explained before! OH and I have half an Allotment, which we tend to shorten to "lottie". So a lottie hat is a hat that is good to wear on the Allotment - needs to stay on in wind, shade face etc.

It's Rent Day on Saturday, when we have to go and pay our years rent (think it's £20 for half a lottie here, this will be our first payment day as we only got the lottie in May, no rent until Rent Day) and also potato day when we can buy potatoes from the local association. We're still eating the beans we grew last summer, and picked and cooked with onions and tomatoes in September (sadly not our own onions and tomatoes) and packed in 2 person meal sized boxes in freezer, which make a great base for a stew - we did a pork one last Saturday, and it was totally scrummy. :j It's nice to meet other folks there - we all have one thing in common - we all like to grow edible stuff! Though everyone grows some flowers too - need to attract the bees to pollinate the food crops after all!

We didn't get much off the lottie last year (other than weeds!), it was late when we started. I'm hoping we'll do better this year, though need to try get more netting together as the !!!!!! pigeons ate our kale that was doing really well till about 2 weeks ago. :mad: At least our onions are under netted tunnelly things...

Ooops, gone a long way off topic from hats! :rotfl: But out in the open it's good in summer to keep head, face, neck, shoulders well shaded as much as possible, as while you're weeding you tend to lose track of time. At least I do. :rotfl:

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

I honestly fail to understand how Communism hasn't been chased from the British education system along with Nazism and fascism.

There's this bizarre apoligism that goes on: Communism would work fine but for individual greed. No! Communism is a creed of repression that has always led to the Gulag and the deaths of millions in the name of ideology.

How people can moan about Americans and 'Neo-liberalism' while cheering on Marx and his fellow travellers makes me shudder.

This really made me wonder. I think it's due to immature thinking and a distrust of the society our parents were passing on to us. When I was a kid there were only 30 democracies in the world. The free countries of "the west", plus 3 in Asia and 1 each in Africa and South America. Everything else was a colony or a dictatorship (either miltiary or communist). There always have been plenty of people who while enjoying living in prosperity and freedom can see the shortcomings of western economics and it was trendy to think that some other way of life was the antidote.

I suppose that communism would seem like the most different system you could have and therefore it must be the answer since if you don't like your current situation, and if you're a hothead because you're young, you should run as far away as possible in the other direction. Its fans would just ignore its own set of obvious shortcomings.

The generation that fell for this are now senior enough to be in politics, but times have changed. The younger pols we've had since Tony are a bunch of inexperienced eejits who I wouldn't trust to run a bath, but if they have one saving grace they managed to miss out on the self-delusion that swept through the 60s and 70s.

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

broke my thumbnail half way down on my boots at the weekend (that sounds odd, but its what happened) and I keep knocking it on things.

Its a really odd side effect of the pills they put me on for my eyes that your pain threshold reduces! I swear one heave was just for knocking my thumb on the side of the loo!

Oooh ouch ouch ouchie ouch! Hugs LiR, losing half thumnail sounds absolutely stomach churning to me. Oh hope it feels better soon, plus hope you have fast growing nails.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

You should have said it was Rural as in title of the movie "Rural Juror" (as in "30 Rock"):D

If you don't know what that is you may have wasted your life. :eek:

Never heard of it. Not heard of Rural Juror, nor 30 Rock.

lostinrates

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Oooh ouch ouch ouchie ouch! Hugs LiR, losing half thumnail sounds absolutely stomach churning to me. Oh hope it feels better soon, plus hope you have fast growing nails.

Skin'll toughen up soon. Bit gruesome. But not long till out of bloody stage.


I'm a bit reckless with nails. Because I'm clumsy sometimes unexpectedly I tend to miss aim.....

Ironically One of the things that arrived from space nk was nail varnish. :rotfl:

SingleSue

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Oh Sue, so sorry to hear that! Might be worth checking on eBay? About 7 or 8 years ago I found a manual one for £40 that was close enough to collect. Belonged to a chap who had a broken leg, so once leg healed he didn't need it any more. Of course mostly limited to collect only. And it's very basic too, but adequate in an emergency. Do you need a very customised wheelchair, or might you be able to manage small outings in something basic? Or is it one of those electric ones?

My other thought is it's possible to rent wheelchairs from the Red Cross. Even if you just did it for Half Term it might make life a bit easier. Do hope that you can manage to sort something out soon.

My current one came from Ebay, so have been checking on there daily for a reasonably priced one but even reasonably priced needs saving for.

My chair is not customised as such, I just need a slightly wider seat than normal because a) I have a bigger than average bottom and b) sometimes I have to sit on a slight slant to relive the pressure on my joints/nerves and in a standard chair, that is not possible. I also need proper sides rather than the cut down ones that seem rather prevalent on the more modern looking chairs, proper sides mean less movement of my body and thus, less jarring of my joints.

I have a self propel but apart from a few inches, I cannot propel myself due to shoulders dislocating, the boys however, would love for me to have an electric assisted or full electric one, especially when we are in Norwich :rotfl:

There might be slight hope though, I put a plea up on our local Freecycle Facebook page (also our local selling Facebook page) and someone has offered to see if he can cobble something together as he has a full workship available. Got to send him pics of the damage first but if he can sort something out (I don't mind a mechanno (sp) appearance), then the problem is sorted!

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

... a tweed cap .... shooting, ... waxproof hat, ... to wear in eastern europe/scandanavia.

.... when out on a boat ....summer hat for holidays is a panama.

I've handily summarised the posh alerts for you

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Skin'll toughen up soon. Bit gruesome. But not long till out of bloody stage.


I'm a bit reckless with nails. Because I'm clumsy sometimes unexpectedly I tend to miss aim.....

Ironically One of the things that arrived from space nk was nail varnish. :rotfl:

Tough one that.... needs the air to get to it, but it's vulnerable. Do you have any spray on Bandaid stuff, and would that be helpful/appropriate?

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think PB won't be any use - I am probably the first person with PB installed that loaded it, so it'll say "today"

First listed March 2013 for £300k
Listed as sold July 2013
Sale must have fallen through as sold tag taken off in October
Reduced in price by 5k in November.

SingleSue

Spirit wrote: »

Isn't there any NHS provision? Or failing that some sort of grant/aid available.

I am [STRIKE]amazed[/STRIKE] horrified if there is not.

How much is a new one?

Sorry if I am asking too many qu's don't answer if you would rather not.

You can be referred for one but the waiting list is long, very long and it could months to get one via that route.

Not a scoobie on grants etc available, I fly pretty much under the radar with my mobility problems as I tend to try to ignore it and one would probably need to be in receipt of disability benefits anyway to be eligable...something else I do not claim (nor a Blue Badge either!)

A brand new one can be had for as cheaply as £120 locally, no idea how strong or long lasting they would be though, you can get cheaper on Ebay new but those ones are not suitable for me. Second hand, they can go very cheaply on Ebay but tend to be all up north and are collection only! The current one, I stalked Ebay for about 2 months before a cheap secondhand one with postage included (as it was not local) came up.

My current one brand new was around the £400 mark, think I paid about £100 for it, maybe a bit less but certainly not more.