Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

Further investigation using Google suggests that actual tests on a wet racetrack found that performance only starts to deteriorate significantly when you get below 3mm. I found the same number on many sites. Here's a link to one of them. It only addresses stopping distance when braking while travelling in a straight line, though. I can't find any data about tread depth when going round a bend in wet conditions, which was the kind of thing under discussion at the inquest.

That's impressive evidence, Lydia, and you have convinced me. Thank you.

LydiaJ

I seem to have succeeded in teaching DS something of a good attitude to money. Here's an extract from a conversation this evening...

Me: [Explains something involving somebody having an overdraft]
Him: What's an overdraft?
Me: It's when your bank account is negative.
Him: What? That's stupid. You'd earn interest minusly.

Considering that his father liked to run our joint account with an overdraft that was approx £0 just as he got paid and got to nearly its limit just before payday each month, I think I've been a good influence.

Nikkster

Driving through the NP Hertland

:wave:

Yorkie1

LydiaJ wrote: »

Another thing I learnt was ...

lostinrates wrote: »

... I find is that it feels very much as if the attempt to paraphrase you for attempt for clarity and the scribe's decisive to be concise, understandably) can change what you mean.

Its very hard to stick to your guns.

Glad to hear the inquest is now behind you Lydia; hope that you can focus on DD's birthday now.

You and LIR are right about how the meaning of your version of something can be wholly changed by someone else putting it into their words.

My purse was stolen from my bag once, and I had to provide a witness statement. I had to insist on parts of it being rewritten because the sense of what I wanted to say had been lost completely.

Not sure what your good news was, LJ, but :T

Glad to hear that your youngest appears to have accepted the change in plans for his year, Sue, even if it's taking a little of understandable acclimatising.

I have a shower above a bath; it's removable from its holder, which can be moved upwards / downwards on the shower pole (or it could, if I trusted the pole not to fall out of its socket) . Great for people of different heights.

Nikkster

My own bed

Its nice not coming back to an empty house. There was also some food left out with a note to help myself if I was hungry

edit: very much looking forward to some marmite on toast tomorrow morning. And vegetables during the rest of the day.

bugslet

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yes I think so. It's a huge item off my list of looming "things that I am eventually going to have to get through".
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I'm guessing it's the same feeling you get at a funeral, that part of dealing with things is over from the practical side. Good to hear that it wasn't too distressing for you.

Generali wrote: »

I would guess that you're better off with the good tyres on the front in a front wheel drive and on the back in a rear wheel drive car. Certainly in a front wheel drive car as the rear wheels are basically there to keep your exhaust pipe off the floor.

And that's what I would have thought too until now. I wonder if it's the same advice for vans as well - I shall have to find out.

Just for a moment there, I though I had wandered onto Trucknet by mistake this morning.

Hectic weekend for me. It's the big annual charity tea party, I have a mountain of buttermilk scones to make, and about 10 cakes. The tanker of tea has been booked to stand outside. They all swoop in like gannets, demolish everything, leave a few hours later and the house is pretty much a trail of destruction:D - cramming about 25 people into a semi is always entertaining, certainly cosy:rotfl:

GDB2222

DW went back to London on Tuesday, leaving me in Norfolk, as she had lots of work to do that could only be done in London. We have both been a bit mis, but GOOD NEWS is that she's getting on a train back here this afternoon. :j:j:j:j

Now all I have to do is empty the rubbish, do the washing, activate the manual dishwasher, and do the housework I promised to do. :eek::eek::eek::eek:

It's truly amazing how rapidly I have turned the house into a tip.

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's truly amazing how rapidly I have turned the house into a tip.

And your passing your time on here?:p

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's truly amazing how rapidly I have turned the house into a tip.

It's a skill many men lose when they get married.

When you live alone it makes so much more sense to leave things where you put them down (so you can find them again) ... or pile things up because "there's no point washing that cup/plate, I'll wait until there's a dozen to do" ....

I'm surrounded by random things that don't have a home yet. Without furniture things are just on the floor - and, once used, that item's then where I last used/left it. It's not dirty ... it's just there's nowhere to tidy things away "to".

lostinrates

Pn I went to a next outlet this morning, they had surprisingly ( to me) lovely sofas at very reducedv prices, do you have outlets any where near you?

I went to the posh dog bed store to and got another dog bed BIGGER than the Scooby one I bought before that both girls fit in! Hilariously this one has RP's name embroiders on it. Its not tweed but a charcoal grey soft stuff. Dog dog has Curled up in the corner of it. Our plan is that it will become an upstairs dog bed for when we are a two dog house if kiwi would like to sleep out of his crate on it with dog dog.

For now I'm not sure where we should put it though.