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

neverdespairgirl

London City is my favourite London airport, and Stanstead's not too bad, IME.

Smaller airports are great fun - in the Isles of Scilly airport on St. Mary's, there are often a few indignant women who really resent being weighed with their luggage for small aeroplanes. Which is their tough luck!

Zag, your reply above about business class travel in response to my post about bathmats does appear a touch random.....

I'm on my own this evening, now - OH has caught my snotty bug, and decided to take it to bed and try to beat it into submission with a good long sleep. Isaac's also tucked up, having finished the Little Prince with OH (they read alternate pages; a stretch for the Snow Frog, but he liked the story enough to give it a go).

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

I like arriving in them but for leaving I'm fussy. City airport's lovely. Heathrow's hectic - though I know people who worked there and who were utterly totally brilliant when DD was ill and relatives were flying south to visit and help out.

That's never going to be forgotten.

But for calmness, Gatwick is the airport for us now, and for the trip to come. Just thinking, is there a special waiting area for business?

For business at Gatwick you will get Fast Track (ie pass through passport and security more quickly) and probably lounge access. From Club check in it is pretty close to the entrance and they will be able to direct you.

On BA short haul flights there is not a massive difference in the cabin, but you should get a slightly better meal and drinks choice, plus the ticket is more flexible if you need to make changes. Luggage allowance generally better too, and service on-board should be more attentive.

zagubov

poet123 wrote: »

You may need to pay but there will be a VIP lounge with free drinks/food. There is definitely one for your return journey;) Worth it imo, gets you a calm space to spend the last hours of your break, we always do it.

It's business out, economy home.:o

We have been sharing and spending our air miles on each other on significant birthdays. Barcelona for her 40th, Moulin Rouge Paris for my 50th, and now this one. :j

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

London City is my favourite London airport, and Stanstead's not too bad, IME.

Smaller airports are great fun - in the Isles of Scilly airport on St. Mary's, there are often a few indignant women who really resent being weighed with their luggage for small aeroplanes. Which is their tough luck!

I flew into Hervey Bay International Airport when I went to see my uncle in Aus. DH and I watched for ages as an arm would randomly appear through a curtain and deposit a bag on the "conveyor".

How it got an international designation is beyond me.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

London City is my favourite London airport, and Stanstead's not too bad, IME.


Zag, your reply above about business class travel in response to my post about bathmats does appear a touch random.....

Aaaargh! :eek:

Sometimes the select bit flips the wrong way before I check and hit submit!

This isn't exactly the most user-friendly forum posting system.:(

neverdespairgirl

You could often see the luggage people at St. Mary's trying to explain that they really didn't care if someone was 11 stone from any perspective other than evening out the load on the 'plane. But then, an awful lot of women hate being weighed by anyone, least of all in a queue for check-in.

It's a weird gender divide IMO - you could see a bloke teasing his brother / mate sometimes saying, "14 stone? Lardarse! Lay off the pies, mate". A woman saying that to a sister or friend would create a vicious, life-long enemy.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

She is almost always welcome here, the j family have open invitation.

But an 'almost' because when hamsters are clean, And preferably when bedrooms at least have a path through them so that poor Lydia isn't going back to a house where nagging much commence!

Thank you. The hamster is now clean, and installed in the newly reconfigured cage. When we first got her, we put her in the cage previously occupied by the previous hamster (deceased). It proved to be insecure - the old hamster had chewed it to the extent that the new one was able to push with her nose and find a way out. We bought a new cage that had a lot fewer extra tubes and chambers, but to start with she wasn't willing to dismantle the old cage - it felt to her as though it exacerbated the loss of the old hamster, and she is (for obvious reasons) hypersensitive to loss. However, today we have made some progress in learning to let go, and all the old hamster's tubes and chambers have been used in a newly designed mansion centred around the new cage.

Her bedroom is still impassable, though. :(

PasturesNew wrote: »

If it's his father's brother's kids ... they're cousins.
If it's his father's cousin's kids I think it's 2nd cousins.

That's right. You only get half cousins if there's a half sibling somewhere, ie where two people share one parent but have different other parents.

poet123 wrote: »

Thanks, two are his father's sibling's children, so cousins, and I (and their children) are offspring of the siblings children. Which makes us second cousins, I think.:D

Yes, if I've understood you correctly.
The person's father's sibling's children are the person's first cousins.
The person's father's sibling's grandchildren (you) are the person's first cousins once removed.
You are second cousins with the person's children - ie you and they have grandparents who were siblings.

There's always a "removed" in there somewhere if the people concerned belong to different generations.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

A standard bath mat? They tend not to be slippery, and wash easily.

That sort of thing would be great if they came big enough, but it's a rather large utility room. If anybody knows where you can get bath mats about twice as long and twice as wide as usual, I'd love to hear about them.

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

There's always a "removed" in there somewhere if the people concerned belong to different generations.

And the generations can get out of synch in terms of actual age, too.

So my Dad (the younger son of the youngest of 5 sisters) is only 2 years older than his closest "cousin", who is actually his first cousin once removed. Her children and pretty much the same ages as the four of us are.

OH has a more extreme example - his uncle had twins when well into his 50s, and his wife only a decade younger, via IVF. They are 3-4 years younger than Isaac, but the same generation (in family terms) as OH, rather than Isaac.

For common usage, though, Isaac calling those twins "my cousins" seems sensible enough.

lostinrates

I just asked DH what Tuscan for aperitivo is and he went pale and said he doesn't know.

So is there no word in Tuscan or has he for gotten? .

My word problems...today I told DH we really did need to sort out screwing tori Amos over the hatch in the loft. ( I'd turned insulation in to tori Amos somehow). DH was amused.