Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

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

With the £85k limit, it does cross your mind what'd happen if a solicitor's client account went under due to a bank failure.... maybe they have to have separate insurance to cover that.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

With the £85k limit, it does cross your mind what'd happen if a solicitor's client account went under due to a bank failure.... maybe they have to have separate insurance to cover that.

Yup. It's more than likely it'll be fine though - it'll most likely be there for hours (or days) rather than months and years.

That and I called them multiple times to get them to confirm that money had arrived etc. They may well be used to people sending large amounts of money day in day out, but it was most of my life savings so I wanted to know it had got to where I thought I'd sent it!

zagubov

LIR's back! :T

Nikkster wrote: »

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.

My first house we had some plants nicked from the front garden. We were more bothered by drunks vandalising cars by ripping off wing mirrors.

Was tickled pink to discover that the car had fought back one time as the wing mirrors from us and our neighbour's cars were in a bin but the vandal's blood was on our wing mirror. Still cost us though!:mad:

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

LIR's back! :T

I might drop off radar again though so....you're warned.

I'm here now, that's all.

chewmylegoff

Had knee OP this evening, came round about an hour ago. Bored! Good news though as I only needed cartilage trim - ligaments are damaged but not badly enough to warrant reconstruction so 6 weeks of rehab rather than 9 months.

Can't understand how private hospital which charges my insurance company £800 a night for the room can still serve up food which is worse than school dinners though! Absolutely awful!

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Had knee OP this evening, came round about an hour ago. Bored! Good news though as I only needed cartilage trim - ligaments are damaged but not badly enough to warrant reconstruction so 6 weeks of rehab rather than 9 months.

Can't understand how private hospital which charges my insurance company £800 a night for the room can still serve up food which is worse than school dinners though! Absolutely awful!

At least you're well enough to get online and moan
Always a good sign.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

With the £85k limit, it does cross your mind what'd happen if a solicitor's client account went under due to a bank failure.... maybe they have to have separate insurance to cover that.

Separate bank account for client money. Should never be overdrawn.

We needed to cash ISAs and the like when we bought this house. Some of the providers quoted 2-4 days in their literature, but it actually took up to 10 days in some cases.

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Had knee OP this evening, came round about an hour ago. Bored! Good news though as I only needed cartilage trim - ligaments are damaged but not badly enough to warrant reconstruction so 6 weeks of rehab rather than 9 months.

Can't understand how private hospital which charges my insurance company £800 a night for the room can still serve up food which is worse than school dinners though! Absolutely awful!

The things people do to get out of decorating/ unpacking/ DIY building!;)

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

At least you're well enough to get online and moan
Always a good sign.

When my dad was in hospital (NHS) he loved the food ... better than he was used to at home.

True! You can't beat a good moan.

I liked the anaesthetist - she asked me if I was an athlete cos my resting heart rate is 48. Yeah, if eating pie and chips is a sport...

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

True! You can't beat a good moan.

I liked the anaesthetist - she asked me if I was an athlete cos my resting heart rate is 48. Yeah, if eating pie and chips is a sport...

I've been asked the same. Took me a while to stop laughing :rotfl:

I probably look best suited to shot put.