Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

LydiaJ wrote: »

the framed degree certificate issue.

Mine is somewhere in a rolled up cardboard tube, at the bottom of a box, that hasn't been unpacked yet from our last international move around a decade ago..... Or at least, that's where I hope it is.

It has emerged form that tube precisely once in it's life, when I needed it to prove eligibility for a particular type of work visa overseas. Other than that, can't say I've ever had to show it or copies of it to anyone.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

michaels wrote: »

I'd have thought a landcruiser might suit?

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

The proper ones with the 4.2 diesel or 4.7 petrol. Comfy, big towing capacity, and bulletproof reliability.

I've been toying with the idea of buying one for a bit of travel, but crikey they don't half hold their value well, so still a bit pricey for the limited use I'd get from it.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I'd have thought a landcruiser might suit?

Googling this now......will have a look...

Hmm, might do...decent towing weights, woohoo. No where to stand on to clear out guttering on barns though. . You win some you lose some..

I might go and have a look at one of these in the flesh, Thank you!

Its really hard buying with the dogs. I am sort of reluctant to buy another car with big dog in mind because she isn't going to be here for much longer. . But it has to be something she can get into. It might just be something I cannot take all the dogs in at the same time for a while.

CKhalvashi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I should be actually leaving for Kent - I know my Mama's being hopping up and down since she left on Thursday, and now the battery on the car is sorted, I ought to get going.

I'm just feeling idle, the thought of putting my stuff in the car and clearing the fridge out and emptying the rubbish seems less appealing than sitting on my backside, drinking tea and reading the NP thread (-:

OH and Isaac are leaving Israel at some appalling time (like 5am) so they'll be in Kent about 10am, for Easter.

The El Al flight into Stansted is always at a stupid time, due to the high security that follows (it's done when the terminal is empty for obvious reason)

I had to collect clients last year at about 3am because of this.

Best way (IME) was to go via Tbilisi, Airzena to Amsterdam, then Ryanair back to the UK, as it leaves Israel earlier and gets into the UK for a reasonable time (and IIRC was about the same price), but that's probably just me.

CK

lostinrates

Too much work.

Too much, too much.


Please to get some stuff done, reminded how much I have slowed down in last couple of years again. Oh well, slow.y helping is better than nowt.

Feet up for a bit before bath before supper. Dogs are having a super time in the garden with us so much. We have been working through the last wood pile in the garden ( moving some and burning the stuff that's time consuming or awkward to process for the fire because as its leylandi its not worth the effort of the time, but sorting out the garden space and staring that would be. )


Kiwi has loved going through the wood pile looking for 'rats' by which I hope he means mice! We reckon we only have a couple more tonnes to move from there. The hardest thing to deal with are three stumps, dug up on a digger, but grown together, we cannot budge them and silly car with. Not enough grunt won't risk it. So we're thinking after moving pile we might just risk burning them where they are, about six feet from barn, and stand there with a hose. This should be in may we reckon.


We're ignoring the stumps on that side and going to start planting this year we think. Finally, GARDEN!!!!

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I stand corrected. Thank you. Are there a sort of U class of Americans who wouldn't be seen dead with their degree certificates on the wall, or are they understated about different things from U English people?

FWIW I have lovely American friends whom I wouldn't describe as brash at all, but that still leaves me with no idea where they stand on the framed degree certificate issue. I've never given it a great deal of thought, I'm afraid. Framed degree certificates come in a category of things I wouldn't do myself but would neither notice nor care whether anybody else did. It helps that I am one of the world's most visually unobservant people.

My niece who made us one person removed is 'sort of Anglo' ( in fact not English in the least, apart from born here, she has no genetic British in her whatsoever!) American. . Bet you have met very few snobbier parents. Her American parent wouldn't have a degree on the wall, BUT I would say the things aren't directly translate able if one is the type who worries about them. I find the British far more forgiving of their social rules and less 'rigid' actually. There is little as unyielding as an American snob.


I guess I'd also highlight fashion: I have no first hand knowledge, but I believe ny fashion week is more understands than ours, and I am led to believe that well groomed perfection is more norm than the kind of eclectic bag lady we might accept as normal in any social circle and term it something like 'bohemian' or charming. But that's purely what I have been told, as I have not spent time in NY. DH doesn't recognise this picture that's for sure.



People who I want to know however, have come in different varieties where I have been, so its only something I concern myself with so as not to give offence. Or much offence. Or , um, much unintentional offence. Or something like that. Goodness, is that the time?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

The hardest thing to deal with are three stumps, dug up on a digger, but grown together, we cannot budge them and silly car with. Not enough grunt won't risk it. So we're thinking after moving pile we might just risk burning them where they are, about six feet from barn, and stand there with a hose.

Well, if you had a Defender you could move the stumps.

If you had a Land Cruiser you could move the barn.....:D

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Well, if you had a Defender you could move the stumps.

If you had a Land Cruiser you could move the barn.....:D

Land cruisers are really that good huh?

Well I shall definitely test drive one!

Why aren't they a bit more ....rugged looking for our door work? No where to stand or climb etc?

Sounds like the ticket!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

Land cruisers are really that good huh?

Yep.... Insanely good.

I'm a life long fan after seeing what the locals drive at the ends of the earth and then some.

I know people IRL that have run LC-s to 350,000 miles with only routine services along the way, and there's plenty of examples online of people running them to 500K miles or more.

Space for 7 people, or 2 people and a lot of dogs..... 3500KG towing capacity, drives like a car on the road, and probably just as capable, if not more, than even a Land Rover Defender in most off road conditions.

With a price tag to match though.....

Why aren't they a bit more ....rugged looking for our door work? No where to stand or climb etc?

That's the nature of them I think... If you go anywhere in Africa or the Middle East they're used to carry families and businesspeople and VIP-s, so incredibly comfortable in stock form like this......



If you want to do a trans sahara expedition you buy the bolt-on kit, which Toyota design the truck to support BTW (heavy loads are OK on roof rail mounts, etc) and end up with one of these.......

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

And if you're completely mad like me, your lottery-win fantasies revolve around buying a base vehicle for silly money, and then spending even more silly money converting it into the ultimate off-road camper for round the world travel.

Like one of these....