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

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Oooh - what are you hoping to go and see?

Hmm, yobs in uncouth town throwing popcorn at each other probably.


Dh said no to 12 years a slave. And neither of us fancy philomena. We might see the Frankenstein thingy, its an early showing so gets us home for bed nice and early and yet fits in with the evening widdly wee wee time, :rotfl: tbh, what we want to see doesn't really matter so much as what the dogs' bladders facilitate.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

You're talking about reasonable people. (Shrug smilie)

I should delete this stuff.

Want the replies deleted?

Doozergirl

Nikkster wrote: »

I think I'm more aware of how self-centred I am after mentioning it on the NPT.

Doesn't stop me being so though

The nice people thread would be pretty quiet if we didn't mention things that aren't all that much in the grand scheme. . You can talk all you like about your day.

Thanks for the advice to you and lir

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Want the replies deleted?

I have done anyway in case you change you mind and I miss the post.

You have my sympathy though - what a frustrating situation. Hope it all works out as it should.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Want the replies deleted?

Just the quotes? The replies are fine. Sorry.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I think I'm more aware of how self-centred I am after mentioning it on the NPT.

Doesn't stop me being so though

You say this sort of thing occasionally, but its something I simply do not ho,d in my idea of 'nikkster'.

So if true, you conceal it well.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

One of the blokes they interviewed on the BBC was a youngish chap. He was bailing out his front garden using just a bucket. It was about 1' deep. Scoop a bucket of water, walk over the road, lob it through a fence into the stream.

He was nearly in tears, then the reporter said: it's his first home, that he bought only a week ago.

If I'd been him, I'd have set up a drainpipe on some bricks, then all you have to do is bend down and lift the water up to the drainpipe. No trudging too and from.

Feel sorry for him. Hope he got the insurance sorted before he moved in.

Edit: I think half the problem is that people are building houses where they should not, to designs that are wrong for the location. If you're going to build a house on a floodplain, you should build it on stilts and use the area under the house for storage or garage. Building living quarters on the ground floor of a floodplain is stupid.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

So if true, you conceal it well.

Thanks lir

Have I mentioned that I'm paranoid and very self-conscious?! :rotfl:

I should just be very grateful that I usually have only trivial fluff to post about, rather than major drama

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

If I'd been him, I'd have set up a drainpipe on some bricks, then all you have to do is bend down and lift the water up to the drainpipe. No trudging too and from.

Feel sorry for him. Hope he got the insurance sorted before he moved in.

Edit: I think half the problem is that people are building houses where they should not, to designs that are wrong for the location. If you're going to build a house on a floodplain, you should build it on stilts and use the area under the house for storage or garage. Building living quarters on the ground floor of a floodplain is stupid.

Too many houses, wrong places, too much water use.


Maggie who has joined us here and some others are talking about this elsewhere in a thread aboutsmall holding and I pointed out that even though soak aways are saturated people are still using washing machines etc as normal.

Its minuscule amounts of water in comparison to what we are seeing, but when I see it going in to the cake in a dry summer , when its just are grey water, I understand why its a problem. When as a child I lived in admitted ly smaller places that were more subject to weather problems you knew that at times like this water use was minimised.


It seems to me in uk we are very disconnected from our own repaonsibilities and impacts. I hate, hates hate the cliche of 'nanny state' but it does seem we look to 'them' and if not told not to do something or to do it we just continue on doing as we want not thinking about it or ignoring the benefit or lack of it to others or longterm.


I don't just think this about things like floods. I think it about health and other things.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Thanks lir

Have I mentioned that I'm paranoid and very self-conscious?! :rotfl:

I should just be very grateful that I usually have only trivial fluff to post about, rather than major drama

Huh? At least three major life changes in recent times.

Put your big girl pants on and consider yourself equal nik.;)