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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Basically we should posh alert this entire thread and be done with it.
We need PN as the posh alert expert here, but I think Gen's comments about the weather might get past without one. Surely even unposh people are allowed to have views about the weather where they live?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Basically we should posh alert this entire thread and be done with it.
Today, I finished emptying the compost heaps, and went to capel cottage nursery and bought plants.
Need to sow seeds soon...
The sum total of my gardening consited of
-checking that my compost bin was now a bona fide slug sanctuary.
-and recycling two carloads of tree cuttings down the tip. Thank goodness for the council's queuecam on thier website. Both times I went there the queue was about ten cars long but on leaving there was about thirty!:eek:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Even DH doesn't get the flight deck jump seat, though he can take a spare cabin crew one if it is available. Bl**dy uncomfortable though. I don't get why people want to say they've done it. (ETA: not talking about Hamish here, more the people who put it on their bucket list). Pre 9/11 I got to go in the cockpit on Concord over the Atlantic. It was impressive, but I wouldn't want to go up there for very long either, bit cramped.
Yep, to be fair there was nothing fun or exotic about flight deck jump seats either, especially in old freight-configured turboprops in the middle east, with a long walk to flight ops in the heat once you get there...
Free travel though....:D
(I do miss those pre-9/11 times)“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
We need PN as the posh alert expert here, but I think Gen's comments about the weather might get past without one. Surely even unposh people are allowed to have views about the weather where they live?
It's the weather in australia. Of course it's posh “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
We did "gardening" this weekend too - as in, OH and Isaac planted herbs, carrots and sunflowers in our window boxes. They aren't little ones, the window sill is massive (about 4 feet deep) and the 3 boxes are large, too, in total they take up about 10 feet x 4 feet....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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Basically we should posh alert this entire thread and be done with it.
Today, I finished emptying the compost heaps, and went to capel cottage nursery and bought plants.
Need to sow seeds soon...
We finished weeding the farm yard ( sort of, haven't done the bit that goes done to garden, but done the 'main piazza' ) So now it needs sweeping, washing and keeping on top of through summer...( be so much easier if chickens could go in there and keep weeds down)
and planted a tree we found was suffering in a pot. I hope it survives, its one of my favourites. We placed the others and decided we need about ten evergreens ASAP.
I got the long border weeding started....starting at worst end. Which always seems wise as it can only get better, right?
We planted a couple of roses.
Um, not sure what else, didn't get to: this weeks bonfire, too windy to spray more, any more sweeping ( my back said no way).
I have put down two packets of seeds I need which is really annoying.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We did "gardening" this weekend too - as in, OH and Isaac planted herbs, carrots and sunflowers in our window boxes. They aren't little ones, the window sill is massive (about 4 feet deep) and the 3 boxes are large, too, in total they take up about 10 feet x 4 feet.
Sounds amazing!0 -
That sounds like a lot of work, LiR. Well done!
And it's cool that you got Isaac involved in planting herbs, NDG, . I'm a fan of container gardening, and I bet he'll love watching the sunflower grow.
I think the garden currently is the best it's been in three years... there's a lot to do in it still but we're finally catching up on tasks.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I got the long border weeding started....starting at worst end. Which always seems wise as it can only get better, right?
Good idea. I always mark exam papers starting with the hardest questions at the end (both hardest for the students and hardest for the marker) and working towards the easier ones at the beginning. Our A-level papers always start with 10 multiple choice questions, so it's nice arriving at them when working backwards and being able to zoom through to the finish. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Hi LiR,
I think I finally got camera card to talk to computer, so have uploaded one of the bonkers chandelier photos for you to take a look at.
This is the one with blue trim, the other has pink trim. And there's the one from our room too, but that's nowhere near as interesting as this! :rotfl: If I can get the others on Flickr later I'll post them - assuming I can remember how to do the Flickr to MSE link which I've been struggling with for ages now! :eek:
Hope that you are as OK as possible - sounds like you having hard times at the mo. Wish I was near enuff to help... well, to send OH to help as I'd be bl**dy useless as dizzy and fally at the mo.
Will be thinking of you enjoying your baths over the next few weeks!
Hugs from Liverpool0
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