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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

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  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    Are you having a bash / family dinner / other celebratory event?

    I'm going out with my work friends on Thursday evening - to coincide with A-level results day. I'll go out with my kids (and my dad if he's here by then) on Saturday. On the actual birthday I will be in court during the day and staying with my bro & sil in the evening. I imagine my sil will cook something a bit special or something, but I haven't actually discussed it with them.
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    I'd wear something sober and not striking. Do you have some linen trousers, or quiet, comfortable summer dresses? What do you wear to school in the summer term and early in the autumn term?

    Sometimes the aforementioned trouser suit. Sometimes some trousers with a non-matching jacket. Sometimes a skirt with cardigan or non-matching jacket. Unfortunately I have grown out of most of my summer clothes and not got round to replacing them with my new size. :o:o:o:o
    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    OH wanted to take Kermie camping next weekend. As I'd have to go too, I veto-ed it. Camping with a baby seems an endurance exercise to me, rather than fun.

    :eek:

    Don't blame you. The closest I got to that was taking an 11-month-old DD (already walking) away with LNE and 3-year-old DS in a caravan. I certainly wouldn't contemplate taking such a little one camping, and I don't do tents even now my kids are bigger.
    silvercar wrote: »
    It's a nice reminder of what we have waffled through.
    lostinrates wrote: »
    I 'm enjoying it too.

    Its like exactly what it is, when a friend who has been a way returns and catches up on what's been happening.

    Thank you both of you. :)

    Have now finally caught up. Now to go out to find a chip shop that's open and get some food for DS, DD and me. :D
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    I


    Not unless your late mil was sprinkled in the garden of an Oxford college???

    Teehee, yes. Connection to fil, not her. :)
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Teehee, yes. Connection to fil, not her. :)

    Which one?
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,938 Forumite
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    Just got back from my hols. Driven 500 miles each way which seems a lot, but it was in a big roomy Toyota. ;)
    Masomnia wrote: »
    Just joined a rowing club.
    ...
    Maybe just an excuse to eat 6000 calories a day :p

    Good for the upper body strength and to be recommended to all nice people!

    They had a Gaudie at my uni (which I visited this holiday). Plenty of people would have thrown up after but it probably wasn't the food :o. It was almost forty years ago.

    Eggs simply can't be overcooked. only cooked or made dangerous.

    Mrs Gen will love the opening ceremony as she's got a sense of humour. If she's got any taste in music that anyone under seventy would recognise, then earplugs are a good investment.

    Almonds are brill, as are Frangipanes, toblerones, marzipan, etc. :beer:

    Got a new phone. A Moto G. Got my work cut out to get it going.
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Nope, pn's are all busy with their own projects :)

    I'd be more than happy to come over. I expect I would learn a lot, so you would be providing a community service!
    And if you can provide toast, I travel with my own marmite :)

    As previously mentioned, I'm also up for a NP breakaway-coven in MK....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    edited 10 August 2014 at 8:45PM
    Nikkster wrote: »
    I'd be more than happy to come over. I expect I would learn a lot, so you would be providing a community service!
    And if you can provide toast, I travel with my own marmite :)

    As previously mentioned, I'm also up for a NP breakaway-coven in MK....

    You're on, let's plan something. Might be September? We can probably get flame thrower out but needs fast bodies with water on hand.

    We so have marmite. If you are particularly attached to your jar its welcome, but, there is some here.
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I suppose you will have already gathered from my previous posts that I am unlikely to be able to make any kind of NP meet before the end of the first week in Sept, unless the inquest finishes early.
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    edited 10 August 2014 at 9:08PM
    Lydia,.....

    Will delete ( again) . :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Someone complained about my apostrophe use today. Or lack of them.

    I thought ....did you read the rest of what I wrote ? Be grateful there were not question marks where apostrophes should be. Or just more gobbledygook. :)
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    I also want to invite spirit to the Wreckstoration some time soon ish, should she be game, so don't know if any other nice people would like to turn into a 'ladies lunch' thing?

    I could shuffle along, date depending. While my diary is perpetually empty, I'm also aware that that could suddenly change (although it rarely does).... so I hate to "promise" early, then find out a date clashes with something unmoveable.
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