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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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By doing little bits here & there, I've bagged up 8 or 9 bin bags of green waste so far.Bet there are more weeds in my garden than yours. Even after the efforts of the past couple of months.
10 years of students...
Though I think I have also inherited some kind of apple and plum trees.
Still undecided yet what to do tomorrow. Go for a day out somewhere (possible beach visit?) or spend the day at home getting stuff done?:think:It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
365 days/year, probably on average:lemonjelly wrote: »...(possible beach visit?) or spend the day at home getting stuff done?
15 are beach days
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Reading older Jack the Ripper books, it is interesting to note changes in tones about how things are talked about.PasturesNew wrote: »Only click if you're generally a bit nosey and love data that's been updated and are into all that family history stuff ...
I found a website where a vicar in a tiny village in 1843 set out to visit every villager and document which house they lived in, how they lived their lives and what was going on in their household.
After he moved on the next vicar popped round again and added updated notes to the original work. Some years later it was chucked into the County Archives and forgotten.... in 1980 a villager dug it out and started publishing it in the local Newsletter ....
So, the next stage was for somebody to take that and update it to include Census data, further life information and photos of gravestones as well as genealogical information.
http://www.speculumgregis.co.uk/default.asp - just go to "Annotated Pages" from the top menu
A snapshot and update of a small English village from the mid 1850s.... with some really non-PC comments by the vicar; most households were either hopeless or drunk or both. Some fascinating snippets....
Some went to Canada - probably because the original vicar who started the work went on to become the first Bishop of Montreal in Canada.
Page 1, the first entry, is about a publican and he says
More modern books (post 1987ish) are a lot more sympathetic towards the victims. Older books regularly refer to them as drunkards & w h o r e s.It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Damien Duff & David Villa are coming over there shortly.Not here. It's in September.
Soccer is a combination of the two.
In the professional league there is no promotion or relegation. There are no central contacts and no draft though. The standard is poor. I saw Emile Heskey play last season for Newcastle vs Sydney FC and he was by far the best player on the pitch. I reckon the standard is about what would have been called the 4th Division when I was a kid.
The tackling is pretty robust compared to what goes on in the EPL. There is pretty much no away support which is really odd and singing is almost completely consigned to behind one goal. Bizarrely, the singing is led by a single fan with a megaphone who has his back to the game facing the fans. It's kinda like the Ultras they have in Italy.
The crowds are ok. At Sydney we hope to get 20,000 and probably average about that.
You're right about the tackling - Kevin Muscat. Thug.
Keep looking after yourself matey. Remember we're here if you need owt!:)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
I think it depends on the level/amount you partake in. Higher volumes cause extreme withdrawal issues. As mentioned earlier, the guy I knew was actually sectioned by his GP to get him away from caffeine (or so he told me).neverdespairgirl wrote: »Are you sure?
I drink tea every day, and have done for a very long time. But if I'm out of my usual routine, and in a place where I can't do it easily, like hotels abroad of whatever, it doesn't bother me at all.
I found giving up smoking much, much harder; IME nicotine is vastly more addictive than caffeine, much harder to give up, and harder not to take up again.
Of course, it is possible I'm misremembering or talking complete gubbins:)
That reminds me. Got the internet installed yesterday at home. Had a mooch about - the cars I was watching (there were 2) have both been sold, which means back to the waiting game. However the bed I liked has had £100 knocked off the price!neverdespairgirl wrote: »Like your birds! Do you have a bed yet?
Probably completely incorrect of me to do so, but :rotfl:neverdespairgirl wrote: »I thought you could treat saucepans and so forth to make them kosher? Bury them in sand, or boil them, or something?It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
The rockery here has purple poppies in. Have counted 3-4 seperate plants. I'm keeping them, they look amazing.I probably win on weeds just ATM. Friendly builder came and dug the whole lot up and removed a tree for me in October, and then had an accident, and a lot of trouble with some of his work for other people, and so hasn't yet been back to finish the job, although he is fine now and working through his backlog and says he will do mine next month. Since the next thing that needs doing is to level out the enormous mound of earth and make the whole garden properly flat (because it's only small and I want to put the trampoline in the corner not the middle which was previously the only flat enough bit), there was no point in "doing gardening" until the flattening had happened. I've grown an amazing collection of weeds since October. Several feet high lots of them. At present I am enjoying 3 species of poppy - little orange ones, big deep red ones, and buds that are about to be enormous purple ones.
There are also 3-4 rose bushes in the garden. The bushes are a little big. I'm not a fan, but accept that the flowers do look pretty. One of them has 5-6 lovely flowers on it at the moment. Beautiful yellow flowers.
What is the best way to tame a rose?It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Asked my friend, who never used it.Anyone ever used Emla cream? My ear is really starting to hurt now and it was recommended by a Doctor friend. It's bloody expensive though.
They did mention that you may experience hot flushes as the treatment progresses/ends. They used a thing called black kahosh (sp?) from holland & barrett.It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
If you plan doing anything/going anywhere, plan to do it whilst an england match is on. Streets will be clearer, traffic reduced etc.Great opportunity to get round ikea quickly tonight then. But not as good as the final night will be.
Fair comment PN.:)PasturesNew wrote: »365 days/year, probably on average:
15 are beach days
350 are days you can stay at home and do stuffIt's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »If you plan doing anything/going anywhere, plan to do it whilst an england match is on. Streets will be clearer, traffic reduced etc.
Will England be playing many matches, then?
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »If you plan doing anything/going anywhere, plan to do it whilst an england match is on. Streets will be clearer, traffic reduced etc.
Fair comment PN.:)
Things are normally pretty clear at 11pm on a Saturday night already!0
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