Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

Spirit, if you bought that caravan you could rent it out as spare accommodation for householders who have more guests than beds

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

... Cornwall (we think) and take our dog. We have not been to Cornwall for almost 30 years so a trip is overdue.
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I really like caravans, they are so cute and I can play house in them.

Which bit/s?

You'll have a shock if you've not been for 30 years!!! OMG that's a long time. They've got electricity now, and Starbucks .... and lots of eco/chic/toff stuff .... the whole county's been gentrified by the London money buying there.

Remember to check which beaches allow dogs after Easter. Easier now there are websites to look it up!

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

Spirit, if you bought that caravan you could rent it out as spare accommodation for householders who have more guests than beds

But it will come back smelling of home brewed beer and vomit?

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

But it will come back smelling of home brewed beer and vomit?

Shhhhhh.....

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you DH has never seen barberella?

I think. That's a significant gap in cultural education personally.

Does he not then know who Duran Duran got thier name from?:p There's a 80s music prog on in the background right now. I remember some bands got their names from movies. Heaven 17 were from a Clockwork Orange.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't recall any incidence of our grandmother going with/taking us anywhere. We'd go to her house to visit and we'd wander (bored) round the chickens/veg plot in her small garden.... or play near the front gate by the road.

My other grandmother was 'abroad' and we only went there once, for a week's holiday when I was 2.

One of our grandmothers was a bit like that - she had a stroke when my Mama was pregnant with me, so the most active things we ever did were walk along the beach where she lived (Eastbourne) or go to Pevensey Castle.

My other grandmother was a fountain of constant energy, and took us all over the place, and did all sorts of things with us.

Spirit wrote: »

'Scuse the cultural gap but what is a Brit?

OH's Dad said it was the event that showed Jews were optimists - chopping bits off before they could tell if there was any length to spare....

(Circumcision)

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's a Jewish gathering where everybody stands around nervously and feels guilty.

Except the mother, who goes elsewhere?

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Except the mother, who goes elsewhere?

Elsewhere generally being an adjacent room, rather than far, far away.

Yorkie1

Neither of my grandfathers was called up during WW2. One of them was a miner in N Wales; the other worked in the War Ministry.

The latter had turned 18 just at the end of WW1, and qualified as a wireless telegraphy operator with the Army. He then joined the merchant navy and went all over the world with them for some years. He was on the first boat down to the Falklands after the end of the war, I believe. I've got his log book for the MN, with a picture of him when he first signed up with them. It's very treasured.

He then left the MN, married his first wife, who died from osteomyelitis, and then he went onto the fishing trawlers for a while, leaving them in the mid-30s to marry his second wife.

Although Dad was born in Kent in 1941 (his mum had been evacuated from London at the time), the family continued to live in N London until my Dad was 11, when GCHQ started up and granddad transferred to there from the War Ministry.

All we ever knew, to the day he died, was that he worked in an office. That generation took their Official Secrets Act vows incredibly seriously; they knew that inadvertent or deliberate release of information could cost lives, and maintained that stance even once peace had come.

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

How do you feel about him having it?
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I feel it was a decision I made once - before Isaac's Brit - that couldn't change with any other sons I had. I don't think it would be right to do it for one son and not others.

I don't feel I made the wrong decision in 2005, at all, but I do feel I made it for good, then.

I don't like the actual thought of him having it at all, because it'll hurt him and a large part of me wants to get all lioness-like about the idea of anyone hurting my cub, of course!

silvercar wrote: »

Elsewhere generally being an adjacent room, rather than far, far away.

Yes - at Isaac's Brit I hid in the bedroom until it was sorted, then fed him to calm him down afterwards.

LydiaJ

Yorkie1 wrote: »

All we ever knew, to the day he died, was that he worked in an office. That generation took their Official Secrets Act vows incredibly seriously; they knew that inadvertent or deliberate release of information could cost lives, and maintained that stance even once peace had come.

The current generation take it incredibly seriously too, and still know that inadvertent release of information can cost lives. Nowadays they will tell you that they work "in the legal department" or "as a computer programmer", and may complain that their boss behaved like an idiot in a meeting, or whatever, but they never, ever say anything about what it is that they're working on.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I feel it was a decision I made once - before Isaac's Brit - that couldn't change with any other sons I had. I don't think it would be right to do it for one son and not others.

I can relate to that. My family were always very strong on keeping things equitable between the different children, and it's something I've picked up from them too.