Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

I tried to word something delicately and failed. I will just say that others have different ratios.

I failed too, but I suspect that we agree with each other.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Dad would pack two suitcases into the boot of the car, probably there'd have been a couple of carrier bags of shoes/miscellaneous up the side of those; in would go the spades/buckets from last year - then my sibling and I would get in the car with one teddy each.

By the time my dad had spent hours trying to get six people's luggage into an Austin 1100 (including roof rack) there would only be enough room in the car for two adults and two children, so the oldest two boys would have to travel to the holiday destination by train and meet us there.

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

I saw the BBC map of fatalities yesterday..the A Road and some country roads near here are just lethal for young drivers.

I've just had a look at it - hadn't seen it before. Are you meant to be able to get any further information from it? The dots are clickable, but clicking on them just takes you back to the map itself. The FAQ apologises for a glitch that incorrectly labels some accidents as having occurred in snow, but I cannot see any info about snow or anything else.

ukmaggie45

We had to go to Tyddyn Sachau in Y Ffor to get bird food this afternoon. Trip wasn't too bad, but the queue on the far side of Pwllheli to get into Pwllheli was enormous! So we came back a scenic route along a road OH has never driven along before. It was fun - lots of tree tunnels, lots of forests, some of them being logged. We have a tenner's worth of sunflower hearts, which will prob last the little darlings about 4 days! :eek: The greenfinches are the worst - they just sit there all day and chomp chomp chomp! :rotfl: Next time I think we might go for the 12.72 kilo sack. <roll eyes smilie> We might have gone down to the beach for a bit on the way back, but my back feels as if it's been sandpapered and I just didn't think I'd manage to get out of the car long enough for it to be worthwhile. Was going to sit out on the deck in the sun with a G&T, but the air is surprisingly chilly. Wind may drop a bit more later, so might go and sit out then.

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've just had a look at it - hadn't seen it before. Are you meant to be able to get any further information from it? The dots are clickable, but clicking on them just takes you back to the map itself. The FAQ apologises for a glitch that incorrectly labels some accidents as having occurred in snow, but I cannot see any info about snow or anything else.

The dots open up to dialogue boxes that say the date, the conditions, fatalities, and injured

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Are you meant to be able to get any further information from it?

No, it's a simple overview mockup of the overall situation, with brief details of each one when you click on it. Nothing more. No clicks through to more information or other pages. It's just what you can see.

It's an image to illustrate the volume since 1999 .... with little extra bits of information per dot.

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

The dots open up to dialogue boxes that say the date, the conditions, fatalities, and injured

Thanks. Got it working now. I had been right clicking and telling it to open in a new tab, which doesn't work, but left clicking gives me the info I wanted.

Found LNE's accident. Not sure why it lists my kids as "seriously injured". Not sure what "seriously" means. I'd describe DD's injuries, in particular, as "minor", because she only had bruises. DS's injuries were a bit worse - broken arm and fractured cheekbone, but I'd reserve the "seriously" word for the other driver, who broke lots of bones and is still walking with a limp 5 years later. The related accident also lists two passengers as having been injured who were not - the driver was asked at the inquest this week if those two passengers suffered any injuries and said no. Looks to me as though somebody is trying to make things look worse than they are.

Can I put in a plea to all readers to check their tyre tread depth, please? It seems that "legal but close to the limit" tyres played a part in LNE's death.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

50 minutes there/back ... and one curtain on the rail. Now, there's more to getting a curtain on a rail than just that - I've got to tighten a screw so the rail doesn't move.... then try to close that curtain to check it closes/fits.

Had a genius plan to get the curtain on the pole. I got a wooden spoon and stuck the handle through the eyelets, then checked which way round to hang the curtain.... then put a peg on the handle.

Up the ladder, weight of the curtain on the top of the ladder, lifted the pole up a bit, shoved the end of the spoon inside the pole (nothing at the ends of the pole), removed the peg and tilted it a bit .... and the curtain eyelets just dropped straight onto the pole in one go. Job done.

Curtains do weigh a ton though - I was kn4ckered carrying them from inside Asda to the car in the car park

I'm guessing they were blue then

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Can I put in a plea to all readers to check their tyre tread depth, please? It seems that "legal but close to the limit" tyres played a part in LNE's death.

I'll do that, just for you. I think three of mine are at that stage.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm guessing they were blue then

Yeah - and I kind of looked at them and thought "Not quite the look I expected... but, you know, s0d it.... I've got curtains and that's that". Job done .... and dismissed rushing off to purchase the "perfect" ones I'd seen in a shop on Wednesday at £56 (reduced from about £75 in a 'posh/small/local department store type of place').

Curtains are curtains. Now they're up, they're not as exciting as I'd imagined them to be .... but they're up. Er, well, they're at Stage I of up.

Stage I is: They are up .... with minor issues. The screws still need tightening to stop the pole sliding about ... but it's very limited space so need a screwdriver shaped like an allen key really .... and, the big boo boo - having got them up, I'd put one eyelet "outside" of the bracket. That's usual as it keeps the ends of the curtain in place while you pull at the other end. Thing is, without any "end bits" on the pole, they're actually in danger of just dropping off. So, I need to either put the eyelet inside the bracket area ... or put up with it ... or find an end thingy that fits.... or invent a Heath Robinson method to prevent the ends dropping off.

I think they'll probably not fall down .... and at first I thought they'd meet the floor when I hung the first one, but having got them both up and puled them shut it's a case of them being probably 1/4" too long.... which I'll just be annoyed about, but do nothing about.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah - and I kind of looked at them and thought "Not quite the look I expected... but, you know, s0d it.... I've got curtains and that's that". Job done .... and dismissed rushing off to purchase the "perfect" ones I'd seen in a shop on Wednesday at £56 (reduced from about £75 in a 'posh/small/local department store type of place').

For what it's worth, if the other curtains were only £16 pounds more and were perfect... I think you should have splashed out.

Having said that, I'm sure once the seaside makeover of the room takes shape, I'm sure the curtains will look different again.

Congratulations on your new curtains :beer:

Edit: and I'm pleased they turned out to be blue!