Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

michaels

Nice sunny day here, slight breeze but even the carppy Homebase Gazebo has stood up to it.

I daren't even make a list of the jobs that need doing in the house but I do think we would make for a great episode of the hoarding show....

We have 2 foreign students at the moment, 16 from Spain and 18 from Italy. They seem to spend most of their time falling out and DW and I checking that they are not crying. Yesterday they went to London together - except that Italian came straight back and spent the afternoon and evening with us. Today Italian has gone to London and we have the Spaniard....

vivatifosi

Surely not still sunny michaels. We're definitely mid storm now. Thunder and lightning.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

I think your digi box is faulty, why does it retune itself randomly?

They retune themselves when they are not getting much signal. It's almost certainly because the signal in her area is not strong enough for that boxtop aerial she's got. A proper aerial in the loft or on the roof is probably the only thing that's going to fix it.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Recall having a fair few big cases similar to this between 2000-2004. Men were refused widows benefits, as they were widowers, not widows. DWP argued therefore they didn't qualify.
First case I came across, I couldn't believe how blatant a sex disc case it was.
DWP didn't care, & only compromised a day before the cases got to the ECHR.

I know. Appalling.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Dang, missed this!
To be honest, I now need to acquire helmet & associated safety gear.
(oh, & don't tell lydia I cycle with my mp3/earphones in...:shhh:

The thing is, can you hear the traffic sounds properly? If you can, then no problem - it's just like having the car radio on. Have the sound fairly low, or only use one ear, or something. Not being able to hear the traffic sounds is not safe. I caught DD cycling with big ear-covering headphones the other day, mercifully just on our street, which doesn't go anywhere so doesn't get passing traffic, but I made myself clear on the subject anyway.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

Today is one of my favourite days of the year: the Bank Holiday. It's a public holiday which only people working in finance get. Imagine getting a public holiday but when everything is just open as normal: the kids are at school, all the special offers at the cinemas etc are on because who isn't working on a Monday? The shops, bars and restaurants are open as normal. Fantastic!

I spent the day just trying to start to get things back to normal after being sick. I spent some time in the back yard clearing up 6 months-worth of weeds, fallen leaves etc and did some feeding of plants. I cleared away a load of crap that has been cluttering up the house for months. I also had a fantastic lie-in this morning. I didn't get out of bed 'til 11am although I was awake for a fair while prior.

Glad you had such a lovely day, Gen. You deserve it.

Masomnia wrote: »

Also job applications! Had a great day in London on Saturday with some friends so that's spurred me on a bit to get some more done. Really that's my main focus at the moment.

Best of luck, Masomnia. Do let us know how it goes.

GDB2222 wrote: »

It depends what else you would do with the money. If you simply stick it in the bank whilst prices are rising fast, that probably won't be a good idea. If you find another development opportunity ....

Prices aren't going anywhere around here. What are they like in the area where your property is, michaels?

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh's employers are introducing a free ( taxable benefit) care thing, for when normal care provision for dependant adults ( that would be me) falls through.

Any one know if he can be denied taking time off for hospital appointments with me and a carer sent instead if needed? We both feel HE is needed at many of the appointments.

No idea, I'm afraid, but just want to say that I think you should be able to take him with you to any appointments at which you feel you need him.

lostinrates wrote: »

Dog dog loses a lot of weight in the heat. Its not a bad thing, and she adores the heat, but she looks a bit gruesome ATM so I have given her some extra food today. She realises she has had something special and is excessively happy ( she checked the others' bowls and knows only she got this) and is now curled up on my lap occasionally looking at me with absolute gratitude. Its not been so warm today, and soon she'll be feeling her heat wave weightless. She shivered this morning quite a lot.

How lovely. Doggy gratitude is a beautiful thing.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have absolutely no idea if anybody in my family did anything. By age, they must have done, but my great-grandfather certainly lived until 1948 and I've no idea what/if he did anything. As for further/extended family, even less of an idea.

G-grandfather was born in 1880, so 34 when the war started. His children were born in 1905-1921 so too young.

On my father's side.... absolutely no idea whatsoever.... except my grandfather's brother died aged 21 - and the family paid for a holy water dish for the entrance of the local church. He died of blood poisoning.

One of my grandfathers was a machine gunner. I don't know what the other one did, but my grandmother on that side was some kind of secretary/assistant/speech-writer to a politician during WWI I think.

Nikkster

I've just picked up my carpet cleaner from a friend who is moving house. It's great spreading the joy of carpet cleaning :rotfl:. I had some errands to run so it fitted in well picking it up, but my house is such a state there is no way I'd have let anyone else drop it off here.
I think the storms have now passed here (for now anyway), but it is very wet outside. I am therefore going to spend the rest of the afternoon cleaning the house. It is well overdue. Today is a bonus day anyway as I was expecting to have another hangover (the overproof rum punch yesterday afternoon was lovely but potent) but I seem to have thankfully escaped unscathed.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

pfft ... a social life.... whatever next!!
I'd try curried goat ... it's just meat after all - and it's not as if a goat's cute/fluffy

Cashmere goats must be fluffy, how else would they make cashmere jumpers so cuddly?

I want one of these:

Generali wrote: »

Shepherds pie for dinner tonight. My special family recipe which has baked beans in it.

Mrs Generali is watching the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony which she recorded.

I don't know - I can't cook a meal without NPs copying me, Miss!

I cook lamb shanks - LIR cooks lamb shanks. I make shepherd's pie, Gen makes it too.....

Nothing I've heard about the opening ceremony makes me think that Mrs Gen is in for a treat.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

My sibling takes great delight in lighting a candle at her house, then leaving the room..... she KNOWS I'm watching it ... endlessly, panicking, unable to look away, worried when it starts to burn funny (they do that all the time), petrified when the candle wax has gone all over the wooden floor .... and yet I can't touch it, can't blow it out ... else I'm in uber-trouble when the sibling comes back into the room .... right before blowing out the candle and calling me ridiculous/stupid for interfering/worrying etc etc.

That sounds ... unkind ... to the point of being cruel. I can't understand why anyone would enjoy treating somebody else like that.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I turn 35 in 4 minutes. It's all over. Again.

Belated happy birthday! _party_

Generali wrote: »

She's very happy with progress and reckons that the debilitating tiredness will fall away over the next month or 2. My burns are, as I thought, going down nicely and I don't have any obvious signs of the cancer coming back so far (they can't scan me yet due to post-radio damage).

Great news!

lostinrates

We're having courgettes tonight. With pasta probably.

The shanks were lovely but io mainly cooked them because they were looking at me every time I opened the freezer. And I wasn't going to want them after seeing them every day for so long. Super meal. But too heavy. The yellow beans were my favourite bit:).

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I want one of these:








Nothing I've heard about the opening ceremony makes me think that Mrs Gen is in for a treat.

I thought you have to talk your OH into a kitten?

I love kittens. Our cat is old and grumpy, our dog chases cats and he is also old. The road outside has claimed the lives of all four of our boy cats. So no kittens here any time soon.

Your piccies are right up my street..smiley babies and boxes of small furries .

Watching a recorded opening event seems like a housework or dissertation writing avoidance tactic to me. It would be easier to cave in and get on with whatever thing I was trying to put off .