Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

Some other pics...
One of the 2 aubergines that seem to be growing:


Mini cucumbers:


and I don't think I'll be buying salad for a while (should really get onto eating this before the slugs do):

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Lydia, when you talked about clearing the mortgage from the compensation I assumed the inquest had happened. Doesn't the blamed party have to give you compensation, so the inquest decides who is the blamed party?

The inquest isn't about deciding who was to blame. The inquest just decides what happened, and how the person (or in this case people) died.

Liability is decided by civil litigation. It's usual in a lot of cases for the litigation to wait until after the inquest, because it is at the inquest that all the facts get put on the table, and then that info can be used in the civil case(s).

In our case, the inquest is expected to last anything up to 3 weeks. Taking two lawyers with me to attend a 3 week inquest away from their home towns would add a lot to my costs. Liability is complicated, but one of the few things that are certain is that LNE was not at fault. Therefore, 3 of the parties who may or may not be found to be fully or partially liable have decided to settle my civil claim (out of court, except we had to go to court afterwards to get a judge to OK it because part of it goes to my kids who are minors) before the inquest. Then I can attend the inquest without taking lawyers with me, saving loads of money on my costs, which whoever's liable would otherwise have to pay. Later, when all the various parties to the case have finished suing each other, and liability has been decided, they can refund each other if any of them have paid me a bigger share of what was owing to me than they should have done.

silvercar

Thanks for the explanation. So does this:

Later, when all the various parties to the case have finished suing each other, and liability has been decided, they can refund each other if any of them have paid me a bigger share of what was owing to me than they should have done.

mean that they all agreed to the level of compensation that should be paid?


I am pleasantly surprised with the sensible way they have operated.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Just like to say, its not toms butter loss that makes him seem attractive to me, its his dedication, determination and humour along the way. Tom, I think you're lovely.

It's just about the butter for me. Phwoar.

Spirit_2

Tomterm that is a amazing. Well done.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

and I don't think I'll be buying salad for a while :

I don't know what that is.... so, what is it?

Spirit_2

Tonight the harvest from the garden was the first of the potatoes..OH cut the blighted foliage off and dug up a few.

I picked some rather leggy lettuce and a couple of baby courgettes.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't know what that is.... so, what is it?

Falling off the lhs of the pic - carrots
In pot - chilli
Weedy stuff in front of pot - spring onions
1st row to the right - little gem
2nd and 3rd rows - mixed salad stuff
Just creeping into the rhs of the pic - potatoes (they got really battered in the wind last week)

Should really have started eating the mixed salad stuff a couple of weeks ago.
Should definitely have spaced it all out a lot more (this is a theme in my garden).

lostinrates

We've had quite short girthy cougettes too this year nikkster, some almost round ones. Our yellow ones are more prolific this year.

We've got lots of beet ( silver and rainbow) and spinach, lettuce is going to seed because only DH is really eating it. Corn is setting well I think, but, um, hard to see through the weeds there.

Whole thing needs serious weeding ATM. I ain't gonna get to it this week that's for sure.

I might try and get broad beans plants ( now I've picked the beans) and the seeding lettuce in the compost, if feeling enthusiastic, Probably worth waiting till after the rain though.

vivatifosi

Don't know what's going on, but have lost my ability to quote.

So to lir: I don't recall the little carriages in this country, but have travelled in them on the continent, most recently in Italy about 2 years ago.

To silver: similar situation here. We're a little further out but not much. Hence tend to use the N London tubes quite extensively, normally picking which one to travel in from depending on the links to where we're going further down the line. So to Royal Albert Hall we go to Stanmore - Jub Line all the way to Green Park then on the no. 9 bus. It's not so much worth doing this if travelling alone, but when we go as a couple it definitely is.

To Nikks: that's not a courgette, but a marrow, surely?