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

lemonjelly

Masomnia wrote: »

I've never owned a hat. Is that weird?

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Yes. They keep your head warm in winter, and the sun off it in summer.

As a nipper, I went through a phase of wearing a cap relentlessly.

I have a collection of wooly hats for the winter, as well as a lined hat when it is very cold, & wouldn't be without it!

I rarely wear a hat in the summer, though perhaps I should for reasons Gen alluded to. I do own a hat, but rarely think about it.

One thing that makes me laugh about hats, is the yoof trend of wooly hats, whatever the weather. Working in an educational establishment, we get to summer & some of them persist in the heat with wearing the very thick wooly hats, whilst also being in shorts & a vest!

lemonjelly

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

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:

I don't get these flower growing people.
I don't see much point in growing something I cannot eat.

Well, maybe there is one thing...;)

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

As a nipper, I went through a phase of wearing a cap relentlessly.

I have a collection of wooly hats for the winter, as well as a lined hat when it is very cold, & wouldn't be without it!

I rarely wear a hat in the summer, though perhaps I should for reasons Gen alluded to. I do own a hat, but rarely think about it.

One thing that makes me laugh about hats, is the yoof trend of wooly hats, whatever the weather. Working in an educational establishment, we get to summer & some of them persist in the heat with wearing the very thick wooly hats, whilst also being in shorts & a vest!

Never wear hats. Must have a narrow head as when I do try them on they inevitably sink down my head until I look like Freddie (Parrot-Face) Davis. So, not for me.

I sometimes struggle to date movies set either side of WW2 (30s or 40s/50s), as the most conspicuous thing you notice is how univeral hat-wearing was.

neverdespairgirl

Or, as with the current WWI nostalgia thing, the pictures of volunteers in 1914; every single one with a head covering of one sort or another.

lemonjelly

Spirit wrote: »

Agree - the twee house would be nice for a weekend - once.

The link in this I really like. Lovely garden. If I can ever afford or desire a holiday home I appoint you my official house hunter.

I thought the same. I was undecided UNTIL I saw the garden.:)

bugslet wrote: »

@ukmaggie - I feel I should whisper. I hate gardening, napalm and concrete sound good to me. Sorry:o

Boooooo!

Generali wrote: »

I just wanted to say, "Thank You" to you guys for your support over the past few weeks. I'm not sure what happened to me really but it wasn't much fun.

It was made immeasurably easier by your kind words. Thank you.

Good stuff!:)
It's interesting, as a NP you say thank you, even though there's no real need, as that's what we do for each other... (except PN who remains quite, aside from the occasional posh alert/RM link )

tomterm8

I've grown to like caps a lot... never used to, but at this time of year the fact they keep the sun out of your eyes makes a lot of difference.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

i read somewhere they're not supporting it anymore

Slack ***stewards!!!



I'd noticed I wasn't seeing it on primelocation too

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Or, as with the current WWI nostalgia thing, the pictures of volunteers in 1914; every single one with a head covering of one sort or another.

National archives released a bunch of war diaries free the other week. Only some regiments at the moment - and it is by regiment, which is a nuisance.... as you can't randomly search old family names by name just to see if anything comes up.

silvercar

I use property tracker on chrome and that has stopped working.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Really? bacon sarnies are epic! (apols to jewish posters )

Never liked bacon. Salty, fatty, greasy .... overbearing taste soils everything else in the pan too.