Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

34 years ago today I passed my driving test.

Twas september 76. I wasn't very impressed with driving or cars. At uni nobody owned up to having one or they'd get pressed into acting as verybody's taxi/minibus. One of my housemates had one but hid it several streets away so nobody'd twig he had one.:D

Got my first car seven years later.I can also remember my NI number as it's a doddle. I thought they were all easy to memorise but maybe not so.

I can't ever change my mobile number. It's a bit cool, and easy to memorise and my neighbour wants to buy it for his taxi company. anyway.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

We have had three days of it now, and are having a break for the rest of the week .... Monday's the bank holiday so we resume on Tuesday. I am confident it will not extend into the third week.

While irritating, this is a welcome break for you ...

LydiaJ wrote: »

DD is missing me very much and keeps ringing me up in the mornings and evenings when I'm on the train, or at bed time. I haven't told her I'm coming home tonight. ...I hope she'll have a lovely surprise when she wakes up and finds I'm home.

That'll be brilliant - especially when she finds out you're home for days.... and it'll make the next absence less traumatic for her for having this unexpected early return.

PasturesNew

So, Asda - wrong colour curtains, so they've kept them. I'll give it ONE more go at ordering the ones I want and see what happens .....

Spent £23 on food in Asda though Not much to look at, but it was a mix between things I went in for, a couple of basics stock ups, some crisps and lots of Pepsi

I've got a tin of their 16p spaghetti bolognese - love tinned spagbol on toast and that's a full-sized tin, so good for two meals. Also picked up their meatballs in tomato sauce - used to have those when they did the diddy tins ... and now I've bought them to compare with the Lidl ones I usually get. 40p and, again, two meals worth.

Sitting here eating a seafood cocktail sandwich filler in a chunk of tiger bread

Watching Secrets of the Asylum on ITV where (famous) people are taken to where their ancestors were locked up for being loons... a lot of madness was due to syphilis in the Victorian years.

One bloke (Ray somebody) has found his ancestor went mad and into an asylum - died of syphilis, but his wife had 5 kids (all clear) ... then the 6th child came out with syphilis and was horribly disfigured and spotted ... and it died at 3 months. Husband then died and she had a 1-in-4 chance of dying the same, horrible, death her husband had.

Yorkie1

LydiaJ wrote: »

Good morning NPs. Today I am 45.

Happy birthday for yesterday :beer:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Snowmen pelmet and cafe curtain: http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/t1.0-0/c0.29.448.298/416961_501409176543996_294222337_n.jpg

And loo roll http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-0/546980_503696666315247_899776653_n.jpg

Arggghhhhhhh!!! :eek:

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Though you can get curtain tape that has seperate bits to hook on linings I think - that might work... Hmm, suspect would get the fabric and then "never get around to it". Might have to try and find someone local who would make them up cheaper than JL! (more or less anyone would make curtains up cheaper than JL! :eek: )

I have hooked blackout linings onto regular curtain header tape using regular curtain hooks.

(Is it an extra posh alert to confess that the curtains at my back windows / door came from Laura Ashley, albeit in a sale?!)

chewmylegoff

hjd wrote: »

20 June 1990.
Bought my first car, a blue Mini, HFT297N, on 30 June 1990.

On this day in 1990 I would have been camping somewhere - probably France - with my parents. A couple of weeks later I went off to secondary school for the first time.

michaels

Driving licence 6 weeks after my 17th birthday - my girlfriend lived 30 minutes drive away and there was no bus service so I had a strong incentive.....

chewmylegoff

hjd wrote: »

Me too.
Plus all the registration numbers of cars I have had, birthdays of my 20 nieces and nephews...


I also know the work bank sort code and account number.
I think I am just about at the limit of my different PIN number recall, though.

• My current account
• Joint account
• Separate account joint with my brothers
• Work debit card
• Swimming club account debit card
• Credit card

I don't write any of them down so need to remember them.

Useless information I can still remember includes the 12 digit number from the BT charge card I had when I was 13 to use to phone home!

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Driving licence 6 weeks after my 17th birthday - my girlfriend lived 30 minutes drive away and there was no bus service so I had a strong incentive.....

Mine was right after birthday. Driving myself for that season's competing :j and commute to college ( faster and cheaper than train even back then). My romantic life was also some distance away from where I was living at the time and my little car just changed my life for the dramatic better. .

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

(Is it an extra posh alert to confess that the curtains at my back windows / door came from Laura Ashley, albeit in a sale?!)

Yes, on two levels ... one that you were in Laura Ashley in the first place .... and, even in the sale, they won't have been market prices

Yorkie1

Masomnia wrote: »

Got to do a couple of hours work on my dissertation tonight

Anyway. I'm just procrastinating. The plan is to do an hour or so, watch that programme about meat (while eating a ham sandwich), then do another hour or so.

Masomnia wrote: »

I'm doing an MSc Human Resource Management (not a real science I know). Dissertation is on linking pay and performance in the public sector. It's actually quite interesting

Got to do a portfolio for the CIPD (chartered institute of personnel and development) as well, which I'm about 20% of the way through, but that's a lot more straightforward.

Deadline for dissertation is the 1st, the CIPD thing is the 5th, but I want to get them done sooner. Sill need to find a job :eek:

Do you a swap? I'm procrastinating doing Assessment 4 of a Level 3 CIPD certificate at the moment!

Good luck - sounds as though you know where you're going with it, which is half the battle won I reckon.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am the proud new owner of a mini ruglet....

Very nice

I love the way things are falling into place in your living area at home :T