Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

ukmaggie45

My ISS alert for Liverpool says 9.02pm tonight. Nice timing, can watch Holby City and then go out to look for ISS. Haven't bothered to check time here, it's not that different - mainly height I think.

We went to local garden centre for lunch (though after staggering around it I was too knackered to eat but did have a very nice fizzy elder flower presse while OH had the broccoli and Stilton soup of the day with walnut bread). I bought plants and a ceramic garden ornament of a duck... Our family boat is called Ruddy Duck, and the thing made me smile so indulged. While not moneysaving, it wasn't expensive as these sort of things go. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a photo. We have named him Ruddy. :rotfl:

Had several military planes flying over this afternoon - black, fast, low, so not the usual Hawk trainers we see round here practising loop the loop etc - they are usually red.

Spent all afternoon weeding one of our big ceramic pots and then mixing a load of grit into the compost before planting it up with saxifrage, a pink, and a bronze heuchera. I'm not convinced I've done them in the right pot, but might change them in autumn or next spring if they survive! Knackered now! And still have more stuff to plant tomorrow as well as packing up and going home!

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

She is working in a very good place: France!

One of the people I manage is currently on secondment at an EU body based in Paris. I was rather surprised to learn that they made her sign a contract saying that she would have to work 40 hours a week, given that the French refuse to work a minute longer than 35 hours a week.

Perhaps getting foreigners to work longer hours than the locals is how they get all their work done (in the same way that the Gulf state regulators are staffed by a mixture of veterans of the UK and Australian regulators who work 50-60 hours a week and the sons of rich locals who sit in the office playing minesweeper and looking at !!!!!! for about 20 hours a week. Allegedly...

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm still chuckling about it.

I think henceforth all unlined items shall have to be refereed to as nit lined. ( with or without good fut).

DH has a nit lined linen jacket I cannot stand. It makes him look as if he has no shoulders at all, which is not true. I shall see if I can convince him to donate it to the Salvation Army,

I thought the French policeman from Allo Allo had gatecrashed the thread again. Next he'll be telling us he likes champignons.

Yorkie1

ISS at 9.01 for me.

Just after the end of this new allotment challenge programme. Interesting to see different approaches to growing stuff I'm familiar with. There are some very competitive people on it ... !

lostinrates

Yorkie1 wrote: »

ISS at 9.01 for me.

Just after the end of this new allotment challenge programme. Interesting to see different approaches to growing stuff I'm familiar with. There are some very competitive people on it ... !

I am watching this too.

Like bake off did for baking...its putting me off gardening a bit......why cannot people just enjoy stuff?!


As a hyperself critical person I have to contend with pressure from myself over it when stuff goes wrong. I find being non competitive is really the only sane way forward for me personally. I don't mind shows and stuff its just when stuff people do on a day to day basis becomes synonymous with competitive tv it becomes off putting to me.


Although they just said rhubarb and custard curd.....that sounds yummy.....maybe all is forgiven.......

Spirit_2

Grumpy account of the day.

A key member of my team handed in his resignation today. Really bright guy, Clinical Psychology 1st degree, LSE Msc, USA and UK professionally qualified and loads of skills from having worked at Exxon in US and caribbean. I am lucky he has stayed so long - almost 6 years - but he is going to be tough to replace.

I have also had an annoying ongoing health challenge flooring me today and stealing my confidence. Plus the lift did not work and I had to walk up from level C to level F to give a board presentation - I was not aware that there were an equal number of fault finding 'guests' present, however that went OK once I had recovered my breath.

Then tonight our daughter was looking for our cat, OH said "I heard her crying, it sounded as if she was outside". I said "try the bottom drawer in our bedroom".

The cat was freed from the drawer where I had shut her in. Heavens know why I did it. She must have been in there for a couple of hours.

ukmaggie45

ISS spotted and watched (post Holby ) also Mars and Jupiter. Moon just rising behind the farm up the hill.

Which reminds me LiR, there is a horse box in one of their fields which I don't think was there when we first arrived. Both horses are wearing coats, so can't see them properly yet. But one may be a grey, and the other has a dark brown coat with black mane and tail, looks elegant. Too far away to see them properly though without binoculars (or the zoom on my camera).

Some haze overhead, so prob not a good evening for star-gazing even if I wasn't totally knackered from the outing earlier and then gardening!

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Watching something random on BBC4 - At Home with the Georgians. Presenter's digging through old documents and will be exploring how people lived ... and set up their homes... back then.

When my parents bought their Kent house they were really lucky - it had been the subject of a massive legal battle just after the South Sea Bubble collapsed, and documents about the house then were gathered together and stayed together, so they have a lot of information about it back to the late 16th century.

They also have random things such as Zeppelin bombing insurance from the First World War, and farming documents from the late 19th century.

ukmaggie45

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Just after the end of this new allotment challenge programme. Interesting to see different approaches to growing stuff I'm familiar with. There are some very competitive people on it ... !

Thanks for the reminder! I think I still have enough left of broadband here to watch it on catchup. (don't have unlimited here, and seeing we not here most of the year only have the smallest amount available to try be moneysaving ) So far I've used over half my allowance in just a week... But mainly cos we forgot to bring the TV with us, so we're doing a LOT of catchup stuff.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

When my parents bought their Kent house they were really lucky - it had been the subject of a massive legal battle just after the South Sea Bubble collapsed, and documents about the house then were gathered together and stayed together, so they have a lot of information about it back to the late 16th century.

They also have random things such as Zeppelin bombing insurance from the First World War, and farming documents from the late 19th century.

Fascinating stuff!