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

Yorkie1

Doozergirl wrote: »

He rides the clutch on my car at traffic lights. I 'nag' about this and he pulls the handbrake up so it makes that horrid clicking noise

Should I kill him now?

I'd certainly be giving him the final warning

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, I noticed this morning the village was AWASH with daffodils.

Just goes to show how climate differs across the UK. Being further north than most NPs, our daffs are not yet anywhere near out.

Yorkie1

Well, Pastures, you've persuaded me. I have bought a smartphone at Tesco - though the prices had rocketed since I was unsuccessfully trying to buy ones earlier in the year (out of stock).

So, I now need to get it unlocked, and then choose provider / tariff. Hopefully there will be useful responses to my thread in the Mobile Phone board!

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Just goes to show how climate differs across the UK. Being further north than most NPs, our daffs are not yet anywhere near out.

Its even more localised......

Mine are up but know where near out. My garden is normally two weeks being the villages around us.

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Well, Pastures, you've persuaded me. I have bought a smartphone at Tesco - though the prices had rocketed since I was unsuccessfully trying to buy ones earlier in the year (out of stock).

So, I now need to get it unlocked, and then choose provider / tariff. Hopefully there will be useful responses to my thread in the Mobile Phone board!

Well done, it's not easy is it!

CKhalvashi

At an employees house (DD's are a friend of their DD) going to sort out some marketing figures for tomorrow (I've worked out how to get £1000ish of fb marketing for £200, PM me if you want to know, as I don't want fb to close the loophole)

Enjoying my week off already!

I've got daffs starting to appear in my back garden, possibly due to the sun we've had last few days.

CK

PasturesNew

Did anybody see this story about a "main" road now buried under 5' of sand:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561136/Better-beach-road-Thousands-tons-sand-dumped-A-road-storm-South-West-threatened-new-deluge.html

Video a bit further down too

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

You know those days when you wake up going ' no. No...not yet, surely not yet?' Its one of those. I feel like I was run over through the night.

We're running late too.....

I had one of those days today - but then I was up before dawn cracked, because I was going to Birmingham. I don't say enough, here, about how wonderful OH is - he got up early too, to make tea and find my anti-sickness pills while I was getting sorted and dressed. He's so much nicer a NP than I am, even when not pregnant I don't get up earlier than absolutely necessary!

vivatifosi wrote: »

I quite agree, but then so do T Rex, with silly little flappy arms that look like they couldn't catch dinner if they tried*. I know nothing about dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were weird.

* Were they brought back Jurassic Park style, I would not wish to test this theory.

I imagine that, in a Jurassic* Park-type scenario, it would be wiser to treat everything as us-eating until firmly proven otherwise.

*I just mentioned T Rex and Jurassic Park in the same sentence, and Isaac (who has just finished a literacy lesson) said, rather scornfully, that it was in the late Cretaceous rather than Jurassic time.

LydiaJ wrote: »

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I teach a "Persian" girl. Her family have been living in this country since the revolution.

OH has a mate whose family left Persia rather rapidly about the time he was born - not only where they mates of the Shah's, but they were non-Muslim (B'hai) to boot. So getting lost seemed a wise move.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Quality!:cool:


Similarly, I had a client who referred to himself as persian. Some younger colleagues thought he'd lost it.

Interesting discussion re dinosaurs (I get the feeling if I came to a NP meeting, I'd spend most of the time chatting with Isaac now...) I loved them as a kid.

T-Rex is now becoming commonly thought of as a scavenger, as it was never as mobile as we thought, & could only move in little bursts.

Brontosaurus was 2 separate skeletons put together incorrectly.

I still have loads of dinosaur books on my bookshelf, & bought a couple about fossil hunters in the last 2 years.

I definitely heard Isaac muttering something about a recent controversy when someone suggested T Rex might have hunted in packs, and scorn was poured over the idea by other someones. He watched a programme about it, I think.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Update:
I borrowed the wireless one from work and brought it home today to try out. The buttons are indeed lovely and gentle, but pressing the wheel is extremely stiff. This doesn't matter at work, because I do very little web browsing at work, and the only thing I press the wheel for is opening a link in a new tab. It does matter at home, though, where web browsing is one of the main things I do with the machine. So, back to square one. Zag, can you tell me if the wheel is gentle to press as well as the buttons, please?

It's very easy to roll the wheel. I'm comfy with this.

lemonjelly

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Just goes to show how climate differs across the UK. Being further north than most NPs, our daffs are not yet anywhere near out.

See these herts/southerners are yampy about some of this stuff.;)

Rear garden daffs get a bit more sun, so are up, but not out.
Front daffs, less sun, just popped out.
Have noticed crocuses are starting to open round here (midlands).
Can see tomterms point in that I'll plant a load of seeds, & lose all the crops to the frost that will come...

lemonjelly

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

*I just mentioned T Rex and Jurassic Park in the same sentence, and Isaac (who has just finished a literacy lesson) said, rather scornfully, that it was in the late Cretaceous rather than Jurassic time.

:rotfl:

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I definitely heard Isaac muttering something about a recent controversy when someone suggested T Rex might have hunted in packs, and scorn was poured over the idea by other someones. He watched a programme about it, I think.

I heard about it at an exhibition 2-3 years ago. Seems to be a growing belief/mindset.