Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

I know we have paint brushes. But I cannot find them. I have looked in the box marked decorating and the box marked painting. I am wondering if I should go back and look in plumbing and electrical too. (Why we have a plumbing and electrical box when we don't really do either I don't know....DH does the yard water troughs but that's it really..)

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

That's wonderful, Spirit. Escpecially the new, hard won, great niece.

DD remembered, the boys in my family forgot. Sat weeping in a TGI Friday.

Sorry to hear this. On the plus side, you are aware you can milk this for quite literally years

hjd wrote: »

Very good reasons not to be on social media! (I'm not!)

Ditto. I also have an uncommon name, & having worked with vulnerable kids in housing (& occasional bail hostel) never wanted the whippersnappers knowing when I was away...

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

As Zag would say, we were promised that in the future there would be 'taste-o-vision' so we wouldn'rt have to suffer the misery of someone posting up something delicious looking and not be able to try it.

zagubov wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that was on Tomorrow's World once (or was it the Jetsons) sandwiched between jetpacks powered by snow tiger tears or panda earwax, all restaurants and food shops to be moved onto farmland to save distribution costs, robot servants to help with homework, and underground windfarms that don't blight the landscape.

There's a band called We Were Promised Jetpacks, which I always thought was a brilliant name!:D

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

I know we have paint brushes. But I cannot find them. I have looked in the box marked decorating and the box marked painting.

Tried the one marked 'brushes'......?:p

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

Tried the one marked 'brushes'......?:p

DH said they are with paint but out of my reach :mad:

I'll try having a look there later and see if I can at least see them.

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

I guess I could, but I think the excessive nails will be going shortly after the wedding. They are already getting a bit annoying when typing, I'm not far off having to use the end of a pencil to type :rotfl:

Edit: and I'm not sure I could cope with having my hair cut AND nails done in the same week! That's a whole other level of self-maintenence

Pleased to hear that gifts hadn't been entirely forgotten - perhaps the unpleasantness was because he was peed off at going to all the trouble of getting them and then forgetting to bring them?

Pfft!

Treat yourself.

Then you can swan around chez Nikkster, admiring how glamourous & gorgeous you look in your multitude of mirrors!;)

tomterm8

Basically, I did all the Things You Should Not Do If You Are On A Diet yesterday. And I don't regret any of them.:D

So...

Business Plan cash forecasts. Not something I've ever really had to do before and I feel like I am making it all up as I go along. It's a puzzler, that's for sure, quite why they think there's a chance in h*ck that I'll come close to the mark or what the point of it is except to extract cash from wary bankers.

I guess that all the black and white figures gives them an air of confidence that my normal 'Heck if I know. Let's start trading and find out' doesn't.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Pfft!

Treat yourself.

Then you can swan around chez Nikkster, admiring how glamourous & gorgeous you look in your multitude of mirrors!;)

Oh yes. I'm assuming I've detailed my love of mirrors on here previously

In case I haven't, or anyone needs a reminder - I have 2 small mirrors in the bathroom. One of which is perfectly situated so that I can only see my forehead unless I am on tiptoes. My parents kindly bought 2 sets of mirrors to go on the inside of my 'fitted wardrobes' (I think it was a not very subtle hint), but I have yet to put them up.

I thought it was a notable achievement that I managed to look myself in the eye whilst sat in front of the mirror during my haircut on Saturday :rotfl:

neverdespairgirl

bugslet wrote: »

Happy birthday NDG, so very very young.....

Good luck with work today gen and try not to push yourself too hard ( though I guess that goes out of the window once you get there).

Thanks Bugs! Apart from a 3 hour wait at UCH, I've had a lovely day (-:

Hope work was OK for Gen too.

Generali wrote: »

Frankly, I'd be quite happy to say, "If you can't be civil then f off out of my house and come back when you can".

There are 6,999,999,998 people on the planet to whom I'd be perfectly happy to say that. 1 of the 7 billion who I am not is my mother, the other is SiL because frankly it's not worth the aggro I get afterwards.

How often would you need to say it to your mother, though?

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

How often would you need to say it to your mother, though?

Actually, with put the f, and in less aggressive terms and no house bit, I find a 'lets cease to communicate until we can communicate rationally' works really well with my mother. Or a simple ' I'm not going to discuss this any further'. Failing that I set DH on her. She adores DH and he politely tells her to pull her neck in and she does, its nuts to watch. He's like a lion tamer. Oh beggar. I really am my mother's daughter aren't I?