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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Good luck on the house front Pastures. I wonder if any of our resident landlords are around. They could perhaps suggest wording to carry on where you are but a month at a time, if that's feasible.

    If I could offer and have it accepted.... then get to exchange in 2.5 weeks .... it'd work out OK :)

    Years ago, with renting, you just used to give a month's notice.... not "to the original date you started" ... and I could try to negotiate it etc, but that just chews up energy dealing with agents and LLs abroad.
  • PasturesNew
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Fairweather cyclist sounds good to me, PN, that's my idea of fun, too. OH and I cycled along the Camel trail to Padstow and back with Isaac in a bike seat, and that was great fun.
    That's where I got the piggin' puncture :)
    Padstow to Wadebridge stretch.
  • neverdespairgirl
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    I know it's not an area I know anything about (in keeping with many others), but I can't get my head round why we are so hard line we deport a young woman without allowing her to sit her A levels then asking her to go, yet allow a m a f I a member to stay because the prisons in Italy (which are presumably subject to the same EU rules as ours) aren't good enough.

    Sorry to stray into NDG territory but there's something wrong with that picture.

    She's not been deported. I've been gnashing my teeth all day because of the BBC's complete inability to tell the bleeding difference between the relatively simple concepts that a news service should grasp of deportation (criminal offences, national security, deportation order banning person for 10 years) and removal (no right to remain in the UK).

    I don't know, though, about the Italian case you have in mind? Any other details?
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • vivatifosi
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    Hi NDG, this one...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26612261

    I didn't know that removal is different from deported either, sorry..
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    edited 3 April 2014 at 12:08AM
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Hi NDG, this one...
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26612261

    I didn't know that removal is different from deported either, sorry..


    Sorry, didn't mean to sound rude! No reason you should know, but the BBC damn well should, and not be confusing people about it.

    The Italian case is completely different. It's not about immigration, it's about someone who does have the right to reside lawfully in the UK and has had for many years, who is sought for extradition. The treatment of an EU national exercising treaty rights isn't much different from the treatment of a UK national sought in a foreign state under a European Arrest Warrant.

    I can't say much more about the Italian case - I was hoping you were talking about a different one - because although I've not been working on the case myself, I do know a bit about it professionally.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Nikkster
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Fairweather cyclist sounds good to me, PN, that's my idea of fun, too. OH and I cycled along the Camel trail to Padstow and back with Isaac in a bike seat, and that was great fun.

    OH is an all-weather, all-terrain cyclist, including in London, wearing nasty coloured clothes so that he stands out a mile in bad weather.

    Best of luck with the new place!

    Nik - I suppose it depends on what you mean by "nice". I don't mean "wet and boring and colourless", I mean "compassionate and interested and kind".

    Yup, if recent events are anything to go by the second set would be a challenge. Not really looking for the first set :)

    I was pretty disappointed with myself. I kinda thought I'd pulled myself together a bit more thoroughly than that. Nevermind.
  • PasturesNew
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    .... because ...
    Yes, that was a biggie for a forum :)
  • PasturesNew
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    My head's full of house stuff... thinking about what would go where, what I'd need .... already mentally moved my row of drying knickers on an airer into the downstairs loo :)

    All these things need to be thought about... where do you dry stuff....

    e.g. where would an ironing board go? You know, there is nowhere .... except I'll have a spare bedroom, so an ironing board (that I don't even possess) would need to go there.

    Why don't houses have cupboards these days???

    Vacuum I've not got would go under the stairs, but the stairs turn, so there's no ironing board space there....
  • zagubov
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    edited 3 April 2014 at 12:29AM
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Hi NDG,

    Nor me!

    And, Gen, hope today goes well for you.
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Oops... Sorry NDG...
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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