Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never heard of it, or them

*Googles* .... doesn't sound like my sort of thing at all.

That song is up there with 'Dancing in the Moonlight' on my list of things that will make me turn the radio off. Though thankfully they are very rarely played nowadays.

PasturesNew

You know how it is ... first thing in the morning, you pull on the first, loose, summer dress and step outside into the garden. No undies, hair not brushed... not even looked in a mirror. And you're slowly just pacing around the garden, looking down, pondering the day .... suddenly, gate bursts open and there's a strange man in your garden .... delivering Thomson Directories. Once I get a phone line that postbox on the gate is a high priority!!

lostinrates

My Ukrainian acquaintance is pro russian. She is has a close family friends whose Intelligent and independent university age offspring part time resides with her. They are not pro russian. I under stand it makes for interesting conversations with extreme forbearance on both sides.

bugslet

Spirit wrote: »

I am voting for Tuscany Tulip

me too, without the parcel shelf though. When I was broken into last year and my front door smashed, I chose the super-duper Rockdoor as it's supposed to be the hardest to break into. I might be wrong, so no-one put me right, I feel safer!

http://rockfit.co.uk/rockdoor.html

It was so easy, because you can design your door before you order, see what it costs and this particular company were brilliant. The guy that came to fit it even took out a window at the side of the door and re-fitted it, because it wasn't straight and ruined the line. If you are interested at all, I can highly recommend the service.

Spirit wrote: »

Mrs blackbird died overnight.

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My bin is a mortuary - it contains three blackbirds and two sparrows. Every morning I have to do a sweep of the garden first to make sure there is nothing else dead before the mutts start running round with a trophy hanging from their mouths:(

PasturesNew wrote: »

You've yet to discover the joys of hideous workmen hitting on you .... workmen in your own home are careless, insensitive, blokey ... and hit on you.

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Me niether chewie. You've obviously got pulling power PN!

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is located 80 kilometres west-north-west of Rome, across the Mignone river. Wikipedia

Everybody knows that. Including me, now.

We run from Barcelona into Italy regularly, usually into Genoa as we deliver into Turin, but occasionally the ferry timings don't work at all and therefore we run into Civitavecchia, which does add about 300 miles from memory onto the trip.

Oddly, none of the drivers have mentioned anything about it being Etuscan;)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

You know how it is ... first thing in the morning, you pull on the first, loose, summer dress and step outside into the garden. No undies, hair not brushed... not even looked in a mirror. And you're slowly just pacing around the garden, looking down, pondering the day .... suddenly, gate bursts open and there's a strange man in your garden .... delivering Thomson Directories. Once I get a phone line that postbox on the gate is a high priority!!

You mean, you don't think this is normal? I do this often. I've ended up talking to neighbours, clients, delivery people, random passer bys ...


I have to admit, I have even been that slob who collects husband from station in night wear and a jacket/ jumper.




I use fixed tv! I retuned it, now it works by remote on all channels! That's good, scrolling through epg to 704 was too exhausting.

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

Me niether chewie. You've obviously got pulling power PN!

Maybe I should have added "... as a single, female ...." I don't think being a home-owner/not is significant, except you're more likely to have more workmen around to do more "little jobs"....so probably increases the likelihood of encountering them. Also, as you have to "deal with them" when a home-owner this probably increases the potential as you have to interact more with them than if a landlord had sent a workman round to do a job.

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

My bin in a mortuary - it contains three blackbirds and two sparrows. Every morning I have to do a sweep of the garden first to make sure there is nothing else dead before the mutts start running round with a trophy hanging from their mouths:(
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My bin too. I noticed yesterday a dodgy smell, looked and yes it had Waggots. I only put food waste out the night before ( I freeze it till then) so its just grim bin they've been attracted too. Next week after its been collected I guess it better have a really good clean. Sadly this is not a job I will find easy practically. Also, despite being hardy about most things, Waggots are something I dislike a lot. They are a little less offensive called Waggots than if you don't flip the first letter of their name upside down. But not much.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I only put food waste out the night before ( I freeze it till then)

As a rule I don't have food waste, so there's nothing to put out. As I've moved and "not settled yet" I will probably put some out this week - specifically two muffins I didn't get round to as I've also bought pitta breads and crumpets.

99% of the time the rule applies of: "If you buy it and it comes into the house, you have to eat it all...."

I've never lived anywhere that had a food waste bin before, so that's something I need to read up about .... there's one here, needs a thoroughly good steam cleaning (as do the two other minging bins).

I might end up not using the bins at all and reverting to my previous method most of the time..... take half a small carrier bag of rubbish and drop it into a supermarket/garage bin once a fortnight ... and drop the tins into the recycling centre/bins up the road.

bugslet

I'm not even thinking of the Waggots - it's bin day tomorrow. The earliest corpse has been festering for about 10 days.

PN, no-one hits on me. Fullstop.I'm either incredibly unattractive, really scarey, or I just don't notice unless someone really spells it out. I do remember being a slim half-decent catch years ago and friends pointing out that some chap had been interested and it had gone completely over my head.