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

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

Any loss of life is sad, but I just had to laugh at this!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10629543/Iraqi-suicide-bombing-instructor-accidentally-kills-himself-and-pupils.html

That's hilarious.
It's not loss of life in those cases as they were all going to be leaving anyway.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I cannot lift the lid to the cake pump in this wind and it tripped again earlier.

If it floods the pump it floods the pump. There is really only so much one can panic. My feeling is while our feet our dry in the house and the animals are dry and fed we're doing ok. .

Now, if you'd simply bought a 2 bed new build house, you could be thumbing through glossy mags and looking out of the windows today instead

PasturesNew

What I have found fascinating, allbeit for only a short while, was that one of the news broadcasts had used one of those camera drones to follow along a flooded railway line and give good views of the extent of floods in a town. The film quality was no different to a regular TV camera

They'll be really useful in years to come in all inds of search/rescue and landscape monitoring functions.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

They'll be really useful in years to come in all inds of search/rescue and landscape monitoring functions.

They're already being used for search/rescue. Some of them are even being fitted with infrared cameras. In Japan, they used drones with radiation sensors and infrared cameras in the nuclear power plant disaster.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

What I have found fascinating, allbeit for only a short while, was that one of the news broadcasts had used one of those camera drones to follow along a flooded railway line and give good views of the extent of floods in a town. The film quality was no different to a regular TV camera

They'll be really useful in years to come in all inds of search/rescue and landscape monitoring functions.

And for PNs property/other info searches for the NPT when she will launch her drone and have a buzz around/peer through the windows.

silvercar

silvercar wrote: »

DH also forgot the date. Good news really, though I haven't let him know, as I am angling for something and he has been resisting.

Flowers now arrived.

He admitted to having forgotten this morning, so trying to make up for it.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was a young woman called Emma
Who put Spirit into a dilemma
How to say to the lass
I'd prefer that my mass
Were pummelled and fondled by a fella.

Brilliant! So glad I asked

vivatifosi

mystic_trev wrote: »

Any loss of life is sad, but I just had to laugh at this!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10629543/Iraqi-suicide-bombing-instructor-accidentally-kills-himself-and-pupils.html

That's my favourite "bad" news story in quite a while.

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's hilarious.
It's not loss of life in those cases as they were all going to be leaving anyway.

Exactly

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

GDB it sounds upsetting and wearisome. Very hard for Mrs GDB.

What was you BiL's response? Helpful or not?

BIL has been quite supportive. He travelled down specially from Manchester last weekend, and we agreed at a meeting to give it 3 weeks and then reassess the situation. It's very stressful, because we really want to help her, but she does her best to resist our efforts. I'm afraid that by now I am mentally ticking off the days.

I think that all we have achieved through immense effort is to slow the rate of decline. I don't think it's fair to her to keep nagging her for so little benefit.

lostinrates

There goes my barn roof! First sheet blown, second sheet flapping. I wonder if they'll all peel off like a pack of cards now.

Now one has gone I sort of hope so.

I wouldn't mind sorting out that barn. I kind of wouldn't mind delaying everything else to sort that else because then heat units could go up there and be less disruptive.