Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

vivatifosi

lemonjelly wrote: »

That does look interesting!
It's just the timing:(
Looks fun though:)

It will probably run again.

Part two of the course, which covers music from seventies onwards starts later in the year, Sept I think, so maybe you can watch list that and do them back to front.

silvercar

Maybe PN is right and foreigners miss their home.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Maybe PN is right and foreigners miss their home.

Is there a case of the grass being greener? I miss London at the moment and would consider moving if we weren't entirely priced out of the market in any decent location. Like the OP, I have no family there anymore, but a few good friends.

I've not felt that in the eleven years I've been in this part of the country. I missed it a lot after we moved away but not really the living there, just not having it on tap.

There are things that I want that I can't have here. Culture being the main thing. The irony is thick, what with the culture secretary being our MP.

I'm not sure the reality would be particularly fulfilling. If I had a partner genuinely from sunnier climes, we'd be there already.

vivatifosi

Doozer, if you and DB fancied moving further south, I think we benefit here from the best of both worlds. There are still areas here that compare favourably in price terms with the more expensive areas of the midlands, but they are shooting up.

From here I can pop to London whenever I want, and if I skip over to michaels's train line I can go all the way to Brighton for day trips. But I still benefit from the countryside. Hertfordshire countryside is lovely.

Incidentally, I work with "real" Portuguese and Spanish people, who say that they love their countries but there's no work there.

PasturesNew

BBC2 about to start (8pm) - Under Offer - the EA programme.
Houses of the Super Rich.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Doozer, if you and DB fancied moving further south,

... are you recruiting for Hertfordshire????

Trying to tip the balance in the NP thread...

PasturesNew

Re going "home", nearly 20 years ago I left the area I grew up in - I'd love a couple of days there wandering round where I used to live, go, stuff, memories..... but it'd cost a lot. It's a 3 hour drive there and fuel would cost about £70, plus about 100 miles driving around the area, and as I was there 30 years a quick 3-5 hour daytrip wouldn't be enough, so I'd have to stay overnight ... and it soon adds up. There are other/better ways of spending £120-150 or so. Maybe next year though; having bought a house I'll know how much I've got, so things will be easier. Without knowing how much I would spend on a house "one day" I was always worried of spending anything.

lostinrates

Ok.

I think I have lost my phone.


Should I get another simple brick ( last phones DH got a deal, one was £14 or you could get two for twenty quid, or something like that.

Or




Should I get something that means I could leave macputer at home.

This is technical, but can I link my macputer and an iPhone to 'join up' for info, like my photo bucket account ( it had a fit when I tried to have it on dh's macputer, which it call macpuster). I could Emil from it, could is read on it?

Is it hard to work or as easy as a macputer?

There seems no point in looking at other brands if it can link to macputer and eventually a network with the big daddy system we'll have to not know how to work properly but will make everything easier to do.


I'd take a poll for what I should do if we could have a poll on the thread. Hmm, I wonder if anyone I know has an old iPhone.....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Should I ...

Put me down as an: I've no idea... read your post, no knowledge. but letting you know I read it.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Put me down as an: I've no idea... read your post, no knowledge. but letting you know I read it.

Thank you PN. .

How is your phone now?