Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Well, bought nothing that was on the list. First car boot didn't exist.... so I went to the market.... nothing there from the list, but randomly bought a phone screen protector and case (£7). So when I left I'd spent £3 in diesel, £1 in parking, £7 on phone stuff .... and got a £2.50 burger.

Then it was on to Dunelm and The Range ..... Dunelm curtains etc are confusing to find. The Range voiles are confusing to find too ..... but they did have more/better ones than Dunelm. But nothing I fancied....so I left there with just an expanding rail for my bedroom (£4.99).

Popped into Aldi (as I never go in there) and bought stuff I don't need (sandwich, drinks, choccy), so more expense at about £5.

Then I came home.

So I am about £25 down and not really any further forward.

It's not rained here today. Sun's out now, but it's been overcast all morning.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

... ask him to settle it there and then in cash!

He'd probably call one of the kids to fetch mum's handbag

LydiaJ

No sun here. Sky is what a novelist would call leaden. Rain varying frequently between downpour and drizzle. Thunder intermittent.

lostinrates

Davesnave just told me that its flooded near me. railway lines have been closed, some roads and, shock horror......the power went down in some shops!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

In case anyone hasn't seen it, live lightning radar is here.....

http://www.lightningmaps.org/realtime?lang=en

Useful for tracking the progress of thunderstorms through or towards an area. If you zoom in it will also show you the expanding radius of the thunderclap.

Really cool technology.....

For all the techy nerds, this site http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en has a different visualisation where you can also select the detection network on the left hand side menu and it shows how far away the lightning is picked up by detectors.

It's all run by amateurs, with a network of $200 detectors all over the world linked to central servers. Pretty amazing really, and completely unthinkable 20 years ago.

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

Not quoting. Not specifying to whom this is a reply...

Sounds as if the idea is that she gets to spend whatever she feels like without considerations of cost crossing her mind, and he is expected to make sure that somehow he earns enough to cover her spending, regardless of the impact on his quality of life?

Doesn't sound fair to me.

Rain has been v heavy but just eased off. Thunder just started up again, though - the one a couple of minutes ago was enough to make me jump.

Alternatively, she knows you control and are controlling on income, so she leaves you balance the expenditure too. Maybe she feels you are too controlling that leaves the expenditure short of what she considers reasonable? Maybe she has a gripe that you reduce potential income in order to maximise tax credits and CB?

silvercar

Well, bought nothing that was on the list. First car boot didn't exist.... so I went to the market.... nothing there from the list, but randomly bought a phone screen protector and case (£7). So when I left I'd spent £3 in diesel, £1 in parking, £7 on phone stuff .... and got a £2.50 burger.

Do we deduce that you have chosen a new phone?

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Alternatively, she knows you control and are controlling on income, so she leaves you balance the expenditure too. Maybe she feels you are too controlling that leaves the expenditure short of what she considers reasonable? Maybe she has a gripe that you reduce potential income in order to maximise tax credits and CB?

She has the option of working and controlling her income and discussing the situation.

Tbc, I would dislike the S household approach too, but its a household decision. I also would not be putting up and shutting up, I'd be talking and talking and talking about it till resolve was reached and compromise was met.

Maybe michaels, whatever the cause, its time to hire a baby sitter, go out for a meal somewhere you can really hash this out, talking it through and trying to find some solutions.

ukmaggie45

We've had rain, but only a tiny growl of thunder in the middle of the night. My phone indicates we can expect thunder in the next hour... Can't say I believe it as the sky seems to be clearing. The Open (golf) is on over at Hoylake, so can put that on to check what the weather's doing over on the Wirral. Glad OH managed to get the lawn cut yesterday!

We plucked our first allotment courgette yesterday, we're going to fry it in a bit of butter with a sprinkle of grated cheese as a first course. Looks like first tomato might be ready soon. :j Must try and get some spring onions sown before we go away, and possibly some beetroot. Have more weeding to do there too, but we're having a day off it today as (a) it's wet, and (b) I'm knackered after pruning off the lower branches of the magnolia. I know it's the wrong time of year, but we couldn't get under it to mow the lawn.

NDG, Kermie is gorgeous!

Barbecuing for one... I've often done it at the caravan when I used to stay there most of summer when OH was still working (he'd come back for weekends). We have one of those sort of pot bellied cast iron barbies, so after cooking I'd put on wood to have a nice blaze to sit by. Very pleasant to sit by a roaring wood fire and watch the stars come out.

Bonfire in the barbie by ukmaggie45, on Flickr

tomterm8

Doozergirl wrote: »

Tomterm, are you around? How's the business empire building shaping up?

Yes, more or less

Legal paperwork goes in monday. First product out, tuesday.

V. busy

Woken up 2 days in row by lightning... v. Impressive storm yesterday with lightning flashes every few seconds...