Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

I had major rows on the phone with Santander, which ended up with her telling me I wasn't allowed to speak to my son in my own home.

I have given up with Barclays Pingit; it just won't set up and the further effort involved is not worth the hassle.

IME santander are pretty useless at most stuff, except complaints resolution.

I had a contactless card arrive the other day - probably prompted by the change of address. Not sure if I like the idea to be honest.

tomterm8

GDB2222 wrote: »

Would a blackbird not be a wild bird, so not anybody's property? So, how could you poach one, even if you caught it on somebody else's land?

As a landowner you have the exclusive right to hunt on your land until you license it. Otherwise, hundreds of years of poaching laws and cases wouldn't exist.

PasturesNew

Right - well, I presented myself at Barclays .... and was dealt with by a lady at a desk who achieved the task for me. She transferred all the money (except £70) to my usual current account. I told her my tale and she seemed incredulous that I'd been told to open an account, to get the card, to then log on and move the money.

I did ask "why not all of it?" and she said it I closed the savings down then it'd limit my ability to do things with the ISAs and the online account .... so I left a bit in there as it seemed easiest.

So that's another £22k dropped into the house pot. Just £70k to find/transfer in other accounts.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

He said in Court he wasn't on the land, he was on the road

Wouldn't work in the UK today. You'd be in a public place with an offensive weapon and without a reasonable excuse for having it.

You'd get a lower sentence for the poaching...

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I had to get money out of my Santander ISA when we bought - just went into the branch with my passport and asked them to close the account and pay it into my current account with a different bank. Money showed up in about half an hour.

Some people are just lucky and coast through life.... effortlessly.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Wouldn't work in the UK today. You'd be in a public place with an offensive weapon and without a reasonable excuse for having it.

You'd get a lower sentence for the poaching...

His mate had a license for the gun - and permission to shoot land up that road. These were Agricultural Labourers on the edge of the Fens.... everybody would have known each other as they'd have been been moving around picking spuds/etc for generations; all moving en masse for a bit of work here and there as it occurred.

PasturesNew

In all honesty, if my G-GF wasn't up to no good that morning, he'd have been up to no good with somebody/others at various places and on various dates in the past no doubt.

If somebody says "coming shooting at 4am, see what we can get?" then it seems like a pretty good idea if you can bring something back to stick in the pot that's different to the usual fish from the river and whatever the butcher's got out back for you.

G-GF had also, previously been convicted of stealing ten chickens and a duck.... worth just over 27 shillings. He was kept on remand in that instance, for a week. You're not kept on remand with a blameless past.

Not too bright on that occasion as he'd been tracked/found by following his footprints....

Edit: Just queried more and more bits to get the full story ... it ended up with him ruining Xmas 1905 as he was sentenced to one month of hard labour on 1 December ..... poor G-GM was home alone, with a couple of babies/toddlers, in a house without electricity or an oven at all. She had eaten one of the stolen chickens for tea when they were first stolen ..... so that was a high price to pay for it.

Spirit_2

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I've drunk Pouilly Fume twice and wow, I could get used to it! Unfortunately I've never seen it on special offer ... !



How was the YHA? Stayed there on my last holiday in 2002 or 2003. Have they painted it since then?!

It was a great place for a drink and to watch the sunset. Not sure on the last paint job, all staff were all still in shock from having inadvertently caught sight of Pastures in a state of undress some time in 1999.

The sunset was reflected in the windows of a house on the hill. It made it look as if they had a halloween orange illuminations display going on.

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

. This treatment is taking away my definition of who I am.

Aaaargh!!!!!

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Some of it will come back, and some of it will be life changing by choice...e.g you may want to keep being the person who does more of what they like doing.

Somewhere in me are the remains of a highly driven woman. Now heavily disguised as a sloth.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

Morning Gen. Very nearly 9 down, 6 to go is it?

Which super power would the NP choose?

I would like a matter transporter. So I can get places on time. And just get to places.

It would be so handy to pop in and meet/ see NP. On invitation I could see LJ's new house, help Pastures with her move, catch up with LiR, meet Viva,Doozer, Lydia etc.

There is just a faint chance I may be better at keeping in touch in RL as it would not use up so much energy and effort.