Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

bugslet

vivatifosi wrote: »

What £400k buys around here:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46839134.html?premiumA=true
It says convenient for train station. What it doesn't tell you is that you are about 20ft away from the London-Manchester fast line and that you will never be able to open your windows, nor that said trains run all day and for much of the night.

Eeek, that is broadly the houses in my street, only my street looks a bit tidier - 130k max.

lostinrates wrote: »

RP and the electricity bill update. currently 24 light bulbs on. ( me, none)

( for someone as tight as me this is actually painful and has resulted in tears. RP just doesn't get it)

I feel your pain. I have been known to sit with no lights on if I am reading the kindle.:o

zagubov wrote: »

But it's still way better than my clunky old Huawei G300 which only delivers a text message if I hand-write it, stick it on with a post-it note and throw the whole thing at the recipient as accurately as I can manage.:(

Zag, you are so funny sometimes:D

bugslet

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've had the same email address since 1996, and same phone number since 1997, except that someone added in an extra "7" to the mobile dialling code at one point.

I've had the same mobile number since 87 or 88, can't remember. It's very sad, but if you meet someone else with an 0(7)860 number, it's a talking point:o

GDB2222

I've just fed the little dog. Considering she's quite old, it's amazing how much energy she puts into looking excited at meal times. It's not just her tail wagging. It's more that her tail stays still, and the whole dog wags. Plus runs in circles.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

mine you type with buttons though, not on the screen. .

posh alert!!!

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I've just fed the little dog. Considering she's quite old, it's amazing how much energy she puts into looking excited at meal times. It's not just her tail wagging. It's more that her tail stays still, and the whole dog wags. Plus runs in circles.

Sounds like RP. But I still love the sound of her.


Swap?

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

I read that Robin Williams was very shy as a child. I wonder if you can ever really stop being shy at heart? If not, can you imagine the internal stresses his chosen career path must have caused? It would be enough, and more, to turn a man to drink.

I'm plagued by terrible shyness, I battled to overcome it when in my teens and appeared to have done so (only appeared though, everyone thought I was uber confident when in fact I was a quivering pot of jelly). Fast forward to when I had my breakdown and I would rather hide away than be in the spot light and no amount of bravado could cover it.

In the sport I am involved with, my nickname is well known worldwide but me as a person and what I look like, is not....and that suits me absolutely perfectly, I can wander around the tracks and virtually no begger knows who I am, completely incognito. That way, I can be who I like online with my very confident, jokey persona whilst also hiding away in public with my more real, completely unconfident, private and more serious persona.

Best of both worlds really.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Sounds like RP. But I still love the sound of her.


Swap?

You'd like to swap your mother for a small mongrel?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

You'd like to swap your mother for a small mongrel?

Well, either parent.

Not fussy. .
Preferably the one that lives with me......

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

You'd like to swap your mother for a small mongrel?

Fond as I was of my mother, mongrel could win out. It's a dog person thing.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

I have an aged iphone 4. I can assure you it is dreadful. I have low usage of my phone. I am not sure if it is because I am also a luddite or if it is because this thing is so awful and as Vodafone have no signal where we live I just have no hope.

A NP sent me a text today. I only got when I drove 5 miles to the Vets to pick up the dog's wormer.

Ever cloud has a silver lining...no worms...no text received yet.

I have an iphone 4S, which is only marginally different from the iphone 4 (I think SIRI is the key difference). I use it constantly. I would suggest that the signal strength is your problem not the phone.

Cheapest solution for you would be to ask Vodafone to unlock it, which should be free but can take a week or so. Then get a SIM only deal from a network that does give you a decent signal.