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

zagubov

hjd wrote: »

I appear to be the only Belfast one here.

zagubov wrote: »

Hooray! We finally have an Irish NP! ( we have Welsh, English, Scottish, Georgian and Belgian but I don't recall any from over the water. :beer:

Aaargh! Read in the wrong order. Didn't realise Belfast was the answer to the city quiz. So no NPs born in Ireland yet.

neverdespairgirl

My Dad's been involved in slightly different ways in two property-related court cases in the last year, and despite winning both, has reinforced his desire to avoid litigation.

Hes fond of quoting Dickens' condemnation of the Court of Chancery from Bleak House:

This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give--who does not often give--the warning, "Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!"

vivatifosi

Anyone staying up to watch the Superbowl tonight? Go Broncos...

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

'Twas the lovely Mrs Zag's birthday treat. A very nice weekend! :beer:

zagubov wrote: »

Aaargh! Read in the wrong order. Didn't realise Belfast was the answer to the city quiz. So no NPs born in Ireland yet.

Zag,did Mrs Zag like it? Happy Birthday Mrs Zag.

Can you tell us what you saw/did, just so we can ooh and ahhh and relive the experience.

My parents were from Dublin, both of my sisters are Dublin born. Parents were economic migrants, and mum moved over to join my dad whilst expecting me.

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Nobody could ever think LIR had to pay men to get naked, more that she had to have several sticks to beat them off!



I adore bluebells. They are one of the most gorgeous of flowers and experiences, I think.

My parents have a carpet of them in the coppiced woods near the river, and they are a feast for all the senses.

Your snowdrops are gorgeous, as well - I love them too, and daffodils.

Bluebells in Kent with a bonus free collie:

Beautiful.

There's a lovely bluebell wood near where my mum lives. When I was a kid I used to lie down and look through the purple haze of the flowers. Over here you'd get eaten by a death spider or some such. I miss the parkland nature of the English countryside. Wilderness is beautiful but it's also not very comfortable.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Both her and FiL's attitude seems to be that this is stuff that is just happening to them, that they are passengers in life. The knee problems, diabetes and heart disease are all related to the fact that they eat too much sugar, salt and fat. Mrs Generali does exactly the same thing. This is her life in 20-30 years.

Sometimes people do wake up and smell the coffee though. This has been part of my own mid-life crisis. When you're in your teens, 20s and thirties, you are invincible and those suffering from such afflictions are often seen as old. Then you get to 40s and 50s and it is not so far away and you can decide not to be a passenger. The last year or so I've worked much harder at eating well and exercising more. I'm late coming to this conclusion, but better late than never.

Spirit_2

Lovely snowdrops and bluebells ladies.

we have a small patch of snowdrops but there is no sign of them yet, and a small number of blue/white bells grow by the wall of the house.

Daffodils are disaster here so I just have a tub of early flowering ones I can see from the kitchen and in the front garden 'naturalised' pheasnt eye daffs - that look totally unnatural as they have been in 18 years and never spread.

neverdespairgirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

Anyone staying up to watch the Superbowl tonight? Go Broncos...

I have this vague idea that this is an American sporting occasion, rather similar to the FA Cup Final. That vagueness doesn't include much of an idea of what sort of sport, though.

So no, I won't be watching it (-:

Generali wrote: »

Beautiful.

There's a lovely bluebell wood near where my mum lives. When I was a kid I used to lie down and look through the purple haze of the flowers. Over here you'd get eaten by a death spider or some such. I miss the parkland nature of the English countryside. Wilderness is beautiful but it's also not very comfortable.

That's one of the things I love most about the British countryside - it won't bite / sting / gnaw you much. It might be contrary, and unpredictable in terms of weather and terrain in places, but it's not deadly dangerous in terms of flora and fauna.

Spirit wrote: »

Lovely snowdrops and bluebells ladies.

we have a small patch of snowdrops but there is no sign of them yet, and a small number of blue/white bells grow by the wall of the house.

Daffodils are disaster here so I just have a tub of early flowering ones I can see from the kitchen and in the front garden 'naturalised' pheasnt eye daffs - that look totally unnatural as they have been in 18 years and never spread.

When we first went to the Isles of Scilly I brought some Soleil D'Or bulbs home for my parents, and my mother planted them around the front of the house. They are a real harbringer of spring, and lighter days, and they smell gorgeous, too. Perhaps try some of them?

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sometimes people do wake up and smell the coffee though. This has been part of my own mid-life crisis. When you're in your teens, 20s and thirties, you are invincible and those suffering from such afflictions are often seen as old. Then you get to 40s and 50s and it is not so far away and you can decide not to be a passenger. The last year or so I've worked much harder at eating well and exercising more. I'm late coming to this conclusion, but better late than never.

I am also late coming to this...and in my experience no one can have your health light bulb moment for you.

Gen, if Mrs Gen is struggling to stay well, it may be too hard for her to break all old habits now - even though that would have many benefits.

I have this week made a decision - I am not going to eat foods I do not like much, and forgo food I like because the family do not want it (I had just subjugated my preferences) so Thursday they had toad in the hole, I had baked cod loin. A first.

Odd because if either OH or DD did not want the family meal - I would offer them an alternative - just never did that for myself

hjd

vivatifosi wrote: »

I came out as Belfast too.



I am not a scientist either, but DH is too. I also hate mustrooms, have no Jewish ancestry, and don't like prawns (more to the point, they don't like me).

Could there be some kind of strange online correlation between us?


I do have some RL Irish ancestry too, but south not north.

I don't know about you, but I find it worrying that there might be someone else like me around.
Very disturbing. I'm sure you are lovely!