Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Dunno if this had made the news in Pomland yet:

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/05/05/james-packer-david-gyngell-still-friends-despite-fist-fight

Two of Australia's richest men have had a fist fight in the street in Bondi.

Only in Australia...

It is not so much a classless society as that there is only one class....

PasturesNew wrote: »

Annoying things you learn the first time you use a lawnmower:

- You really need a brush to sweep it out when you're finished.
- You really need some big container to put the grass from the grass box into and also get it to the tip within 1-2 days before it stinks the living room out
- Even though you try to rub it down with a cloth (and not a brush) you realise it's still going to leave a lot of grass debris on your living room carpet .... and get in the way all day every day because once you've built it, unless you strip it down entirely again it'll never fit back in the box all neat and tidy like you'd imagined.

I might put it in the shower room .... I'm in there less often.

I'll have to go out tomorrow to drop the grass off at the tip, then off down the shops to buy a brush and suitable tub.

Use grass box to collect cuttings: x
Clean grass cutter after use: x
Put grass cutter away: in shed tick (normally although sometimes we just leave it leaned up against the house or shed under the overhang so it is mostly dry)
Went to homebase, they were doing a unique which I have never seen before, the checkout queue ran the whole length of the store and out into the outdoor plants area. Luckily we wanted to do a B&Q price match so had to go to the much shorter customer services desk queue.

CKhalvashi

First dress rehearsal = done

lostinrates

Michaels I thought about you earlier when I decided since we lived here the horses chestnuts have not flowered so well ever.

The pears, now mainly over blossom are covered in tiny fruits. They'll have to drop a fair few, as they cannot support them all. I cannot bear to thin fruit. I just find it too hard.

The oak we were so heartbroken to lose has , wondrously, given three little baby oaks two years on. . We're hoping that if we leave them were they now we can move them in autumn to a hedge row. Oaks are a bit of a night make with horses, but too wonderful not to grow and take the extra work.

michaels

Much better now thanks LIR, I think the birch season must be over

B&Q price match requires overriding the till to give B&Q price less 10% rather than Homebase price so paint costs 28 quid rather than 44. Not buying paint would leave DS new bedroom with 1.5 coats on fresh plaster which is not enough. Thought we had more paint but the half open pot smelled and looked horrible, I guess it had gone off (does paint go off?)

lostinrates

I must be the worst savvy shopper any where, I can see what I want to get a price on, it says you can split the pack......but I cannot see how.

So went to google shopping, and cannot get any results for what I want. .


Who knew twelve paving stones would be so hard to buy?



I made use of my content at own ability when I remembered I had to contact a plumber.....and took it out a bit on him. .

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

Much better now thanks LIR, I think the birch season must be over

Glad to hear it.

I have had an unxepectedly lovely day. OH was playing Tennis this morning and DD and I had agreed to go to a local shopping "outlet" village. It is relatively new (a couple of years) and I had never been before as I do not usually do shopping as leisure activity.

DD was driving and I remained noncommital about how long we would be out for, fully expecting a mother/daughter conflict and outlet stores full of sale goods. So thought I might last an hour.

No conflict:T. This seasons stuff in the shops (not MSE but stuff I wanted to buy) bought OH a hoodie from Fat Face, DD bought herself some Fat Face summer clothes also with her Oz trip in mind. Bought my sister's birthday pressies for June (I am usually late).

Had lunch in Wagamama and was reminded of a very lovely day with a NP:)

Then had a happy discussion with DD about saving for a deposit for somewhere to move to....a happy optimistic discussion..Oh joy.

We were out for five hours. OH is amazed, he was expecting us back hours ago and for us to be tense.

It is like a scene from the Waltons here.

Oh's hoodie has to go back to exchange XL for L. I bought XL as he is 6'2" and long limbed. He was happy with it until I said it fitted well around his middle. He was not wearing anything XL that could imply it fits round his tummy it seems. To be fair, he is slim...so he is taking it back.

I also had an MSE moment just now. I bought adress few weeks ago and posted a link to it, so John Lewis have been sending me links saying it is now in their sale:mad: They have also sent me a link saying that another dress I liked but did not buy was in the sale so I have bought it http://www.johnlewis.com/planet-firenze-floral-dress-blue/p1139218

lostinrates

Spirit that dress will suit your colouring beautifully!


So glad you had a nice day,

How are you feeling? Noodles, btw, are the right sort of GI for diabetes.




Lydia, I found the puddle that doesn't mud kiwi's middle, and its our own property ( thank god ) and not far away. Its just off the yard, and how he seems to do it is this.

He stands in the puddle and goes

' geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese, geese' while he bothers the geese who ignore him.

Which is a relief, because I had feared it was a puddle next door and he was standing in it going 'cows, cows, cows, cows, cows, cows,........'.


Phew.

Otoh, he's walkabout ATM, and DH is looking for him. . He's gone to find the geese.

Edit: he's back,....he was checking the veg garden. We got some limited veg in this week too. It would feed us for a weekend. If the chickens don't destroy it,

zagubov

I got a Virgin media bill that looked too high. Got to their website as the bill's online. Turns out I need a PIN to log in so had to get them to send me a reminder.

Tried to log into the bil with that but found out I have to register a Virgin media online account first (cos that's what you do now) and need to generate a new strong password. Finally log on find out where the bill is and then find that IE can't load it so I have to log in again with Chrome.

Somebody please tell me this eventually gets easier than looking at a piece of paper. :mad:

On the good side my car got its sump fixed after I drove over a lump in the orad and my reckless adventure of driving an oil-less car last week did not manage to seize up the engine, so I'm glad my car expenses were only a few hundred quid............:o

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought paint cost under £10! It does when I'm looking

This is 2x 10l of branded (oops I forgot, branded as in Crown/Dulux not as in Farrow and Ball!). The old paint was the really expensive stuff that is normally 40 for 10l but as that was not on special we had to get the 'cheap' stuff.

Spirit wrote: »

I wanted to buy) bought OH a hoodie from Fat Face, DD bought herself some Fat Face summer clothes also with her Oz trip in mind. Bought my sister's birthday pressies for June (I am usually late).

Had lunch in Wagamama and was reminded of a very lovely day with a NP:)

Then had a happy discussion with DD about saving for a deposit for somewhere to move to....a happy optimistic discussion..Oh joy.

We were out for five hours. OH is amazed, he was expecting us back hours ago and for us to be tense.

It is like a scene from the Waltons here.

Oh's hoodie has to go back to exchange XL for L. I bought XL as he is 6'2" and long limbed. He was happy with it until I said it fitted well around his middle. He was not wearing anything XL that could imply it fits round his tummy it seems. To be fair, he is slim...so he is taking it back.

I could have been in on the 'ground floor' at fat face as I almost got a job with them the first year they had a store in Val (the year before their first year they sold from a vw) but they gave it to someone else. Used to wear their clothes when I was single and they were cheaper but they then upped their prices a lot and my disposable income went down. They used to have 'marquee' sales in Portsmouth where they got rid off old season clothes but I guess now 'tinternet and outlet stores deal with that problem.

neverdespairgirl

OH made a supreme sacrifice today - he went to IKEA. On a bank holiday.

IKEA is a really, really annoying company. Their website's pretty rubbish, too, it falls over regularly when you are trying to use it. We've been trying to acquire some more shelves and so forth for my study and the living room, as part of our de-cluttering efforts. We ordered them last Monday, they helped themselves sharpish to my money, and then sent an email on Friday pushing the delivery date back by 9 days (until 15th May) and saying that half the stuff we wanted wasn't in stock after all.

So OH and Isaac steeled themselves, went with a printed list of stock numbers, and ordered it all at the shop in Tottenham / Edmonton.

Spirit wrote: »

They have also sent me a link saying that another dress I liked but did not buy was in the sale so I have bought it http://www.johnlewis.com/planet-firenze-floral-dress-blue/p1139218

That's lovely - it'll really suit you, and it's all lovely and impressionist. Nice one!