Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

At least two nice people share the first three letters of their names with the first three of 'nice people' - and there is a male version. Greek name, however, and 4th century. I think it's close enough, what about you, Nikkster?

Sounds like a very Nice name to me

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

... I'll enjoy wafting round in it when I've done it.

That's the best bit - a good waft ....

Doozergirl

I know a lot of you don't like facebook, but I do enjoy it and there are no Jeremy Kyle moments on my feed. This evening however, tiny miracles appeared via messenger from a lady I have never met. Beautiful pictures of my mum mainly, because it would be her birthday tomorrow (56) but my uncle, aunt and grandparents.

My grandparents didn't keep photos. I think something happened and my granma might have destroyed most a very long time ago but when your mum dies at the age of 45 and didn't like having her picture taken, a child is left with very little. Nice people parents, please have photos, for the day that comes, hopefully no sooner than it should.

I can see my children's faces there. It's so surreal but incredibly precious. And my grandparents were very beautiful people! LIR, cousin looks JUST like my grandad as a young man without the Brylcreem and suit

vivatifosi

lemonjelly wrote: »

Just done week 5 of the Ariely course. Got bouyed during it, as I realised that the last week is the week before the earliest possible completion date

Anyways, you learn something new & all that. So question for the jewish NP's, why are jews not to smoke on the sabbath?:think:

I'm just finishing the reading quiz for week 4. However I have had my peer reviewed assignment back and I'm happy:D. I am wondering what I'm going to do when it is all over. I know what DH is going to do - start the beginners guitar course with Berkeley. I'll probably hang fire for a bit before I do another one so I can savour it a bit more.

I'll be sad to see the end of this one in a way, and have definitely morphed from a sponge to a roomba.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Nice people parents, please have photos, for the day that comes, hopefully no sooner than it should.

Aww - I'm glad you've got those. The sense of loss about having no photos, or photos disappearing over the years, adds to the grief "come the day". Every one is precious - and it's heartbreaking when you see random photos for sale online and at fleamarkets as they were all people with names, but now nameless.

I'm glad you've been sent some new treasures

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

I might bake biscuits when I get a freezer... at the moment all I see is: "Take a WHOLE pack of butter and a MASSIVE amount of sugar .... mix them together with flour, bake..... then EAT THE LOT"

So I don't even start.

I wouldn't have a problem starting (or finishing) :beer:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Top tip: If you lay on the sofa all the time and don't move, you're not making a mess that needs clearing up.

Another top tip: if you don't move things around, you don't see the dust circles around them.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know a lot of you don't like facebook, but I do enjoy it and there are no Jeremy Kyle moments on my feed. This evening however, tiny miracles appeared via messenger from a lady I have never met.

How lovely and to be treasured. I have practically no photos of my father's parents as my aunt has no sense of family history or emotion, and chucked everything away when her parents died.

neverdespairgirl

So glad you've got that, Doozer, must mean a lot.

One of my mother's favourite photos shows her, aged about 6, with 4 generations along the maternal line - her, her mother, her mother's mother, and her mother's mother's mother.

The odd thing is, my Granny towers above her mother and grandmother - and as Granny was 5 ft 3, she didn't tower often! There's a similar one with my Grandad in it, too, and as he was 6 ft 2, he looks as if he's on stilts.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know a lot of you don't like facebook, but I do enjoy it and there are no Jeremy Kyle moments on my feed. This evening however, tiny miracles appeared via messenger from a lady I have never met. Beautiful pictures of my mum mainly, because it would be her birthday tomorrow (56) but my uncle, aunt and grandparents.

My grandparents didn't keep photos. I think something happened and my granma might have destroyed most a very long time ago but when your mum dies at the age of 45 and didn't like having her picture taken, a child is left with very little. Nice people parents, please have photos, for the day that comes, hopefully no sooner than it should.

I can see my children's faces there. It's so surreal but incredibly precious. And my grandparents were very beautiful people! LIR, cousin looks JUST like my grandad as a young man without the Brylcreem and suit

Looks run in your family. Cousin was the talk of my middle aged clients. I had to give them a talking to then as well. Bloody had less work to do though, they lived here while cousin was on site :rotfl:

vivatifosi

Doozer that's amazing and very precious. I don't do facebook, but stories like that make me realise that it does have a value after all. What a lovely surprise.

neverdespairgirl

Isaac confidently identified a photo of my Dad's father (who died before I was born) as him being on the beach with some mates.

They were all wearing shorts, sitting on an obvious sand dune, and drinking out of water bottles. So it wasn't a bad guess. But they were in fact leaning against a tank, rather than a sea wall, and enjoying themselves in the Middle Eastern desert, during the Second World War!