Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't think I've ever actually entered a caravan. Certainly not stayed in one. But it would've been a bit of a squeeze with 6 of us!

They come in several sizes. One we had one year was a "6 berth" - but what it meant was that the end 2' had been partitioned off and two bunk beds put in there.

Some of the caravans we holidayed in were of the towing variety and some were mobile home style. None had electricity - they had gas mantle lamps.

bugslet

Generali wrote: »

Mebbe. I'm pretty grumpy as I'm so damn tired so if I'm PPR'd by tomorrow you know what's happened.

In which case - DON'T GO! Wouldn't like to lose you:o.

Go and get some shut eye.

PasturesNew

Well, did the tip. Took everything to the various drop off points except the "for landfill/general waste" and my broken bulb, along with another unbroken one.

Dropped off the landfill/general bag and said to the guy - what do I do with these two? He looked at them, grabbed the broken one in the bag and lobbed it into landfill/general. He then said "I'll sort that one out for you" and took the unbroken one .... and as I walked away I am sure I heard something small hit the top of the pile of rubbish in the skip

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just double checking how to dispose of a smashed fluorescent bulb. Of course they tell you that they're special and need taking to the household recycling centre yourself. For me, that's easy - but I doubt people who live 20 miles from one will bother for one teeny tiny bulb! They also don't tell you if there's a difference between a whole one and a smashed one.

Off to the tip in a bit; grass cuttings, standard waste (as I'm going there), tins and cardboard (as I'm going). Then I need to find a shed lock; I believe I am competent to source/fit one of these myself

These tasks are to avoid ... building the drawers.... I now regret the drawers as where I am going tomorrow sells drawers that are probably 10x easier to put together, and they're cheaper. Will be buying more drawers tomorrow.... since I'm there.

Years ago I was crossing a pedestrian street and a bloke was walking past with some really long thin cardboard tubes tucked under his arm. As he was striding along, an end of one box popped open and a long long fluorescent strip light slid out and shattered to smithereens deafeningly and slowly behind him. stretching out for yards.

Everybody turned and stared but he just kept on staring ahead and walking on as if nothing had happened (this was before ipods and walkmen so he had to just pretend to be deaf). It was like something out of Fools and Horses, it was!:rotfl:

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I am sure with recycling there is a point of diminishing returns where if you make it too complicated more people don't bother making actual disposal worse.

DSS wants his mate to dismantle his to be scrapped car on the drive where it has sat for 18 months already as that is worth more than getting a disposal company to pick it up. I am not keen.....

May I politely suggest he reads this article and informs you of his plans to comply with the European Waste Disposal directive...

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/feb/14/getting-rid-old-car-scrap

vivatifosi

Hertfordshire going for gold in the Commonwealth Games! (Max Whitlock, all round gymnastics final).

Nikkster

Phone call made. Letters on their way to someone in student services + followed up with an email.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Years ago I was crossing a pedestrian street and a bloke was walking past with some really long thin cardboard tubes tucked under his arm. As he was striding along, an end of one box popped open and a long long fluorescent strip light slid out and shattered to smithereens deafeningly and slowly behind him. stretching out for yards.

Everybody turned and stared but he just kept on staring ahead and walking on as if nothing had happened (this was before ipods and walkmen so he had to just pretend to be deaf). It was like something out of Fools and Horses, it was!:rotfl:

I saw a "typical builders' tipper truck" going down the road one day: tipper back, driver in a cab .... about the size of a Ford Transit van. http://www.risingbrook-carandvanhire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fiat-ducato-pickup.jpg

He'd picked up some wood, probably 2"x1/2" ... and about 6-8-10 feet long, maybe 15-20 pieces.

In his wisdom he'd thought the best way to transport this was to secure it to the top of the tipper frame, a framework that rises an inch or so higher than the cab. The wood then extending another 2-3' above the cab.

As he was driving along, at about 30mph, the wind caught the wood and it all snapped off the last 2' feet (whatever was above the cab) ... and cascading onto the dual carriageway behind him. He was oblivious.

vivatifosi

The talk of strange things on the road and caravans reminds me of the oddest thing that I've ever seen on the M25.

On the hard shoulder, with a rack of laundry out of the other side window and no car attached to the front, was a touring caravan. You could see it shake as cars drove past, but it seemed to be there deliberately. There were no car number plates on it so who it belonged to I don't know, but it was clearly occupied. It was on the M25, between junctions 15 and 16 anticlockwise. Probably one of the busiest stretches of road in the world, at about 8.30am.

bugslet

One day as I was in a van and standing on the M6 in a queue, I looked down at the tatty hatchback in front of me, to find the back seat had been folded down to accomodate two swans wearing 'straitjackets'.

You know how grouchy swans look normally, these two were patently less than impressed:rotfl: