Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I can hardly walk at the moment and can't do stairs or gradient at all. I am fairly sure that I have damaged the medial ligament in my knee. There seems little point going to the doctor here about it so will have to just wait until I get home.

Ah ... you need to send a mate out to nick a wheelchair from the Hospital. That's what we'd do here.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

Would a Toyota ute suit? The dogs can go in the tray, they're super reliable and they can tow a lot.

Spirit_2

Masomnia wrote: »

I think the current one is less interested than I am. But it's hard to say. We're going to a party on Friday and I want to kind of bring 'us' up without bringing 'us' up, if that makes sense

Thing is, I don't want to put too much pressure on her, but I do want to know where I stand. I'm really not good at this stuff at all

It does not make sense to me. You are going to a party together, you may make plans to do other things together, or at some point things fizzle out or you become a couple. It sounds too binary for me. feelings grow and may fade.

Why do you have to know now? From your posts this is someone you have been seeing over weeks, give it time.

I had been dating my now husband for two years and a half years when we married, and for 15 months before he asked me to marry him. For the first couple of months I still saw other people, he was one of several 'dates' then things changed and we became closer. A year in he told me he was not sure about 'us' as he thought he may be still having feelings for his former long term girlfriend. I suggested (actually told him to pi55 off ) he sort himself out I think. He was back within 24 hours having been to see her.

When we decided to marry, some friends asked me if I was sure as he was quite quiet, and I was a much more social animal:o A guy I was then studying with and who I often stayed over with in the week (friends only) declared OH to be unsuitable for me to tie myself to....he being a better option. I had a wobbly moment when I realised I may not see him any more. I could have been married to motorbike riding accountant in Basildon instead :eek:

I had seen my OH look after his elderly deaf/dumb aunt and watched how he considered her, included her, played games with her, made her his priority when he had alternative opportunities. My thought was ..if he can love her like that..I want to be loved by someone who can love like that.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Stag do attrition rate steadily increasing. There are three of us watching river monsters tonight. Rock and roll.

Too expensive to fly home early because it's Easter so I'm stuck here til Wednesday. By then I will have watched every episode of river monsters ever made.

A week of stag do?

Our daughter is off to a wedding in a couple of months time. The same weekend there is a joint hen/stag do for another wedding she is attending a month later. They are hiring a large cottage not far from the wedding she is attending, and she is under some pressure to stay at the cottage on the Friday night & Saturday night . On the one hand she wants to join in, on the other she wants to enjoy her other friends wedding.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

Would a Toyota ute suit? The dogs can go in the tray, they're super reliable and they can tow a lot.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You have definitely been in Australia for too long.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RfAYnCxkK0

Generali

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You have definitely been in Australia for too long.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RfAYnCxkK0

She'd have to get a Kelpie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkELoYAEXWw (SFW)

All together now:

Dashing through the bush,
In a rusty Holden Ute,
Kicking up the dust,
Esky in the boot.
Kelpie by my side,
Singing Christmas songs,
It's summer time and I am in my singlet, shorts & thongs!

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Would a Toyota ute suit? The dogs can go in the tray, they're super reliable and they can tow a lot.

I particularly want something short wheel base for easy parking in London. I have this dream that I'm going to get well enough to nip up to London weekly again. Would have been able to if car and re s p were reliable.

Actually, even parking in smaller cities out here, or little towns is more polite in a swb vehicle. I also prefer the dogs not to be in the back. Dog dog would freeze most of the year.

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

I particularly want something short wheel base for easy parking in London. I have this dream that I'm going to get well enough to nip up to London weekly again. Would have been able to if car and re s p were reliable.

Actually, even parking in smaller cities out here, or little towns is more polite in a swb vehicle. I also prefer the dogs not to be in the back. Dog dog would freeze most of the year.

They do a 4 door version over here if Dog Dog must go inside. Not sure if they do it in the UK.

My mate in Devon has a 4 door Mitsubishi ute. It's been going for about 15 years now. I sat in the tray once to follow his Mum's fox hunt when hunting was still legal. It isn't very small though.

Driving big cars in the UK is hopeless as the parking spaces are tiny. A man driving a small car here is viewed with deep suspicion: basically it's Unaustralian to drive a small car if you're between the ages of 21 and 71. You can drive a small car if you're a young, attractive woman or a very old lady.

I drive a Yaris and would get men hitting on me all the time if it wasn't for the fact that I am so intimidatingly handsome.

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

She'd have to get a Kelpie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkELoYAEXWw (SFW)

All together now:

:rotfl:

Do your children sing this, as English children sing Jingle bells?

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

:rotfl:

Do your children sing this, as English children sing Jingle bells?

Yup. They sing both versions.

Australia basically has 3 songs: Advance Australia Fair, Waltzing Matilda and Aussie Jingle Bells.

My daughter used to sing Waltzing Matilda thusly:

What's in Matilda?
What's in Matilda?
Who knows what's in Matilda for me?

My old office was where the old Diggers (servicemen) gather for the ANZAC Day parade in the centre of Sydney. Basically we'd spend the entire day listening to Waltzing Matilda. I can confirm from experience that Waltzing Matilda becomes very annoying once you've heard it more than 5 times in a day.