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

lostinrates

purch wrote: »

You ain't missed much. The only bit worth visiting is West Somerset (as long as you avoid Butlinland which has enveloped Minehead) for Exmoor and the Quantocks.

The Levels...yuk.....Sedgemoor.....(the name says it all)....Taunton Deane (other then the Blackdown Hills well worth missing).....South Somerset.......ok when you get towards Dorset, but much of it boring.

The best part of Somerset is the M5

Black down hills ARE beautiful, but there are pockets of south Somerset that are breathtakingly beautiful. Soft hills, woods. In parts a bit like Devon but softer. I miss it very much.

Otoh, I don't find where I am now that inspiring at all!

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

As the dissolution of the monasteries was pretty well sorted by 1540, that probably can't be blamed on the monks (-:



I spent a week or so in Wells and Glastonbury a few years ago, and really enjoyed it. Just me (not OH's type of thing, really) and it was great fun. The bullsh!t factor's pretty high in Glastonbury, of course, as you say!

Lol, good point re dates :rotfl: (My gp was talking to me on the ohone while i was reading, so my multi taksing let me down). Pretty sure I have that date right about the bad flood though. (Edit. Hmm, but now not sure about that either, I'm trying to think about architecture boom periods of houses opn the levels on which to base this judgement. ) But pretty sure floods have always been a feature.


I miss Glastonbury.


GP is being really cool, I'm suitably impressed. I told him I just cannot take any more prodding right now and that I'm opting out for a while but will remain medicated.

He's asked if I would consider trying a few more pills at a distance and I said yeah, ok, so long as its not something that requires lots of monitoring and that I can just take myself and report back.

I told him I was eating veg and stuff now and he said fair enough, if you've tried something for that period of time.


DH is still here so we're going to go to the cinema. I'll probably fall asleep there I think

PasturesNew

Half here, half cooking.

Bloke on the telly just now showed a sinkhole that's opened up on, I think, the M2 motorway - in the central reservation.

They showed it, it's about 3' wide and 15' deep

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Half here, half cooking.

Bloke on the telly just now showed a sinkhole that's opened up on, I think, the M2 motorway - in the central reservation.

They showed it, it's about 3' wide and 15' deep

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/m2-sinkhole-50ft-deep-hole-3134481

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Half here, half cooking.

Bloke on the telly just now showed a sinkhole that's opened up on, I think, the M2 motorway - in the central reservation.

They showed it, it's about 3' wide and 15' deep

Here you go: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/11/sinkhole-appears-on-m2_n_4767507.html

:eek:

Edit: cross posted with lir, whilst I was trying to look for something more highbrow than my usual DM links

vivatifosi

From time to time I've seen someone I know on tv today. They live in Wraysbury. I knew they were helping out, didn't know whether they were affected. Not long ago saw the street where their house is... underwater. V sad.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Why is smoking in cars less bad than mobiles in cars? There is often an amount of distraction in rumaging for/ lighting up.

If I am rummaging, there's no time constraint (e.g. to answer a ringing phone). Any rummaging can also stop immediately, not like a phone which you could drop onto the floor and worry about.

Rummaging for a cigarette packet and lighter, when you choose to, isn't the same as trying to find a phone, pick it up, press to answer it while driving. Also, a smoker would have cigarettes mostly to hand, expecting to rummage for them.... phone users have their phone in their bag not expecting to be called.

Also, with a phone, there's the distraction of "who's that?"

purch

lostinrates wrote: »

Black down hills ARE beautiful, but there are pockets of south Somerset that are breathtakingly beautiful. Soft hills, woods. In parts a bit like Devon but softer. I miss it very much.

Okay then.........apart from Exmoor, the Quantocks, Blackdown Hills, Glastonbury, Wells, Wookey Hole. Cheddar, Montacute, Selworthy, Dunster, Porlock, Axbridge, the Ancient Mariner @Watchet, Nether Stowey ...................................what has Somerset ever done for us ?????

vivatifosi

're smoking in cars. The key point is not to do it in a convertible. Your skirt could blow up and you could set fire to it in the process. Not me, I hasten to add.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

If I am rummaging, there's no time constraint (e.g. to answer a ringing phone). Any rummaging can also stop immediately, not like a phone which you could drop onto the floor and worry about.

Rummaging for a cigarette packet and lighter, when you choose to, isn't the same as trying to find a phone, pick it up, press to answer it while driving. Also, a smoker would have cigarettes mostly to hand, expecting to rummage for them.... phone users have their phone in their bag not expecting to be called.

Also, with a phone, there's the distraction of "who's that?"

Mine were always in the centre console (I think there are still about 4 in a pack in one of the cupholders), and I've still got several lighters in there too still.

On the phone front I do agree with, as when smoking you have 2 hands most of the time, when on the phone, it's not the same. For my phone, I press a button on the steering wheel.

CK