Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think a lot can't get jobs. Lots of jobs at inner city sink schools, no jobs in lovely areas like Devon/Cornwall/Cotswolds and good towns.

One thing I became aware of when I lived in Cornwall was that many teachers want to "retire somewhere lovely", with Cornwall/Devon being hotspots.... and they expect to move there, then get a job teaching..... only to find the place is awash with semi-retired teachers and teachers aged 45+ who all had the same idea.

If you're qualified and setting out then if the jobs aren't where you live/want to live/grew up then you pretty quickly probably give up and "get a job/any other job".

James isn't much fussed about where he lives, so he can be flexible thankfully.

CKhalvashi

Doozergirl wrote: »

They have some weird and wonderful names on the bottles here. I saw a Piotr, which my BFF's cousin and I even bought and dropped Kris into the man that sells me tiles as I thought he wouldn't have seen it. It put a smile on his face.

My problem is that I buy them for people I know! It's expensive.

We've got the Georgian ones, and I managed to get my DD's in Russian, too.

OH wasn't happy with having 'Sofia' rather than her name, though, but they are similar.

lemonjelly

Tahlullah wrote: »

Anyone remember Dream Topping? Used in place of cream, or the alternative was Ideal Milk.

I was so disappointed the first time I ate Mayonnaise, after growing up on Salad Cream.

Love dream topping. Have a packet of it in the cupboard, as I love adding it on top of cheesecakes!

& I love salad cream with the right things. Love dipping cheese slices into salad cream, Om nom nom.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Would nice, cold, ice cream make that feel a little better sometimes?

This was recommended by friends doctor.

I've only skim read, as I've been away from t'interweb since thursday.
LIR has been absent & is back. I've no idea why, but that's irrelevant, as she's ok. Agree with Generali - sometimes peeps have more important things to do than talk to strangers on the web.

Gen, I hope your treatment is progressing well. I hope you're not experiencing serious discomfort. I recommend you get all the sleep you can right now!

PN, sounds like the purchase is coming along. The deposit transfer was a ballache for me, for a few reasons. I had both santander & tesco tell me they could close an account & pay the money direct to a solicitor. Then, closer to the day, I checked & found they couldn't! Tesco told me 3 times they could, & it was the day before the transfer was due I found out. I was :mad:

As luck would have it, I've 3 lloyds vantage accounts (3% you see....) so transferred money from tesco to them. Split between the 3 & did the max £25k from each account, doing the remainder of the deposit the following day.

I'm still phenomenally unhappy with tesco & santander though. Rubbish service.

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

Feeling vindicated. Rest of family put a ridiculous amount of effort into washing chickens before cooking, involving copious amounts of boiling water, scraping knives and rubber gloves.

Now we have government advice just to cook it well.

Reminds me of the mad cow disease/BSE thing.
After years of refusing to eat beef, I felt smug for weeks!:p

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

The deposit transfer was a ballache for me, for a few reasons. I had both santander & tesco tell me they could close an account & pay the money direct to a solicitor. Then, closer to the day, I checked & found they couldn't! Tesco told me 3 times they could, & it was the day before the transfer was due I found out. I was :mad:

As luck would have it, I've 3 lloyds vantage accounts (3% you see....) so transferred money from tesco to them. Split between the 3 & did the max £25k from each account, doing the remainder of the deposit the following day.

I'm still phenomenally unhappy with tesco & santander though. Rubbish service.

That's the trouble ... they tell you one thing, but then when you try it there's always an issue, a problem, a new hoop to jump through. Because of the fears I've got I plan to have the completion funds in place 2 days before completion, giving me a whole day to "sort it" .... every bank has different methods, different ways .... today I managed, for the first time ever, to log onto my NW account (several attempts at "registering" for Internet banking that simply failed in the past) .... and I moved money from one account to the other, just to check I could

Banks.... you can't trust what they tell you - and until you actually are performing a transaction/task (for the first/last time ever in your life) you've no idea what hiccups you'll hit.

I had a HUGE discussion on the phone the other day with the CoOp about CHAPS ... and it's difficult (physical fax across to them, when there's no branch at all) .... when all along I could just be doing it by phone banking 2 days earlier! Much easier. But "the twist" there, with some banks, is that you have to have previously paid into the account you're sending money to ... no idea if that's the case with the CoOp as I had already paid £300 to the solicitor "on account" for searches.

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the trouble ... they tell you one thing, but then when you try it there's always an issue, a problem, a new hoop to jump through. Because of the fears I've got I plan to have the completion funds in place 2 days before completion, giving me a whole day to "sort it"

I have to say I would allow more than 2 days before completion to have my money in place - I agree with you that things never work as they should. When we moved last year I had all my money sorted a week in advance. Nothing did go wrong, but I was worried it could.

PasturesNew

hjd wrote: »

I have to say I would allow more than 2 days before completion to have my money in place - I agree with you that things never work as they should. When we moved last year I had all my money sorted a week in advance. Nothing did go wrong, but I was worried it could.

Now I'm more worried...yeah, I'll do that

Nikkster

So...

Someone nicked two plants from my front garden overnight.

They were flamingo plants, I bought them online a few months ago and hadn't got round to working out if they were going to go straight into the ground or into pots. They looked a bit of a state because I'd had a couple of (pre-water butt and hanging baskets) spells of not watering them properly. So there were a lot of dead brown bits, but a really good amount of new growth too (I'd just not got round to trimming them).

My first thoughts this morning (after looking around the garden to check they were actually missing) was that I hope whoever has them is looking after them and that it could have been someone thinking they were rescuing them as they've been sat out the front for a few months but just in the pots they came in and have clearly been through some tough times. Or drunk people on the way home from watching the football.

Now that's giving way to feeling uncomfortable that someone came right up to my front door in the middle of the night And took what clearly wasn't theirs.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Now I'm more worried...yeah, I'll do that

Another vote for just getting it there as soon as you can. Good to have that piece of mind that everything is ready to go when needed.

Exciting stuff PN

Nikkster

SingleSue wrote: »

Nikkster, just tried to send you a message...

There should be some space now