Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

( I didn't even know that place had a bargain corner before today.....!). All the doors were open and he jumped in looking for me, whining and crying, then looked round it and under it for me.

Then he saw me on the other side of the garden, went from zero to scooty bottom top speed and leapt into my arms.


I am some what touched that some one loves me more than they love a bone.

Praise indeed! Bless the little kiwi

My bargain corner plants are doing surprisingly well. Of special note I have 2 aubergines which are definitely growing. The runner beans have exploded - they also have flowers, so I'm hopeful I'll get some actual beans at some point.

Probably the best though are the butternut squashes. They were only ickle, so should have been £1 each. Then they were being reduced so I asked the lady how much they were going to be. At half price I was taking them. Was told to go to the till and say 'so and so told me I could have these for half price' - the lady on the till looked at them (they did look sad) and said they should be 15p each
They look to me to be growing really well, and all 3 plants have a number of flower buds developing. All they needed was repotting, watering and a bit of tlc.

Nikkster

Tiring day at work. Some difficult conversations are rumbling on. Feels like as soon as it looks like there is a resolution, something else crops up. And a lot of the problems seem to have stemmed from me asking a rather obvious question that apparently no-one else thought of. Not sure I'm making many friends, but at least I feel like I'm having an impact in some way!

Also someone made my cry. Well, technically that's true but doesn't convey the whole story. They'd offered to give me a pep talk re the 't' word, and today I took up their offer. Was explaining what the problem(s) is(are).They were very nice about it all. They've put in a meeting on Friday afternoon for us to have coffee and so I can tell them that I've finished a certain bit. I know exactly what they're doing (providing me a goal/ deadline), but I'm going to try and be gracious and go along with it. Try.
They are hoping to start a PhD via work sometime soon. I made sure I pointed out that whilst it's had work, most people make less of a meal of it than I have!

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

.... me asking a rather obvious question that apparently no-one else thought of. Not sure I'm making many friends, but at least I feel like I'm having an impact in some way!

It's tough being a genius ..... I've suffered from asking the obvious in the past .... sometimes it's not welcomed

Nikkster wrote: »

Also someone made me cry.

Name/address ... we'll send chewy round in his onesie to put the wind up them!!

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's tough being a genius ..... I've suffered from asking the obvious in the past .... sometimes it's not welcomed


Name/address ... we'll send chewy round in his onesie to put the wind up them!!

I'm no genius, that's the worrying bit!

No need to send chewy round to scare them. I may well have done that already!

chewmylegoff

Threat of having to see the onesie might be a good stick for encouraging you to address the t-word. If it's not done by this time next week I'm going to start posting pictures of it. And if that doesn't work it will be full Team Sky lycra the week afterwards.

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Threat of having to see the onesie might be a good stick for encouraging you to address the t-word. If it's not done by this time next week I'm going to start posting pictures of it. And if that doesn't work it will be full Team Sky lycra the week afterwards.

Define 'it'. As in 'if it's not done'. 2nd draft? Chapter?

Tonights progress:

I've located my lab books. They got put in the dining room when I moved in and have been hiding under my tent.

I've eaten a disgusting amount of crisps. On the plus side (as well as size ), the house is now a crisp-free zone.

lostinrates

If you were my clarisonic face brush you would be FOUND!

Fir found it!!!!

It was behind the collapsing but propped into sort of place panel behind the loo in old bathroom.

Now its been cleaned with dettol ( hand set) having a new brush head on it!

Nikkster

Fixed remote control and found clarisonic

Whilst searching for my hidden lab books I find my one 'going out ' handbag. Ironic as I think I'll be staying in rather a lot, but pleasing nonetheless.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Fixed remote control and found clarisonic

Whilst searching for my hidden lab books I find my one 'going out ' handbag. Ironic as I think I'll be staying in rather a lot, but pleasing nonetheless.

I am ditching half a dozen nylon bags that DH is distraught about. He thinks they'd be good gym bags , ( if I could raise one eyebrow I would have done) then he suggested they were good for putting things in, at which I agreed, that was a good thing about bags generally, but we could do with out these perhaps. He suggested we needed these bags as one of them could contain all the others.

I said super, Idea, great way to contain them on the way to the tip.

Tbc, I'm not that mean. I think we still have about a hundred of these wretched things.

neverdespairgirl

bugslet wrote: »

Thanks for asking NDG:). Foot is fine now.

I had been a bit under the weather for, well most of this year actually. Finally after nearly keeling over a few times, I went to the docs and it turns out I'm anaemic, so no big deal, but iron supplements for the next 3 months. Starting to feel better already.

From what I've seen, Kermie is thriving?:D

You are vegan, aren't you? So while by no means inevitable, iron deficiency must be a bit of a hazard? Hope you feel all fired up again ASAP.

In my entirely biased opinion, Kermie's lovely - he's getting bigger, chunkier, and learning to do astonishingly clever things such as holding his own head up (mostly) and grabbing things with is own hands. He did that with OH this evening, and grabbed his chest hair and pulled.

Babies have a surprisingly strong grip, so it was 2 month old baby 1, 35 year old man nil!

Generali wrote: »

A really hot one hit on me. Then I realised that it was Mrs Generali doing some DIY.

Bonus in lots of ways, there. DIY getting done. Getting hit on by someone you fancy. Realising that indulging your desires will create domestic harmony, not domestic strife. Win-win-win!

GDB2222 wrote: »

I agree that bombing hospitals is ghastly. I think that's by mistake, but perhaps that's just my wishful thinking.

It's clearly equally imbecile behaviour on both sides of the struggle. The UN complained that they found 20 rockets hidden in one of their schools the other day.

I had lunch in Sderot this time last year. Fantastic falafel. Of course, you couldn't relax there now. It must be miserable. The government must be under intense pressure to 'do something', when doing nothing at all may be the best course.

I think Israel needs to realise the damage its doing not only to hospitals and patients, but to themselves by bombing them. Sometimes the force which is necessary to do something isn't reasonable to do.

I watched a Hamas spokesman deny outright on Channel 4 news that any rockets had ever been kept in hospitals or been found in the UN safe zones. He said it was an Israeli lie.

That was undermined by a couple of things. Firstly, he claimed there were no rockets being fired from near hospitals, and they were in one, and out-going rockets were definitely being fired during the interval. He denied it was happening (although you could actually see and hear it on the tape...)

Then the fact that the UN itself said that rockets were found in its territory leads me to think it's probably true.

But even if people are firing rockets absolutely from a hospital, you might just have to live with it, if you are Israel. Rather than bomb it.

You are right, though, I think about the pressure. "We have to do SOMETHING. Here's something. Let's do it."

It's a bit like that poem When Albert was Et by the Lion, in which there is a line something like:

she said, "No! Someone 'as got to be summonsed" / So that were decided upon