Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

SingleSue

Been working on clearing my loft today, think we managed about 25% before my energy levels dropped and I almost fell down the stairs, not the amount we wanted to get done but hey ho. Found oodles of old photos of the boys, real trip down memory lane, some made me sad, some made me laugh and some should never ever see the light of day ever again.

I'd love to come to a meet up but being at the far right of the country, I would have no idea how I would get to any. I know I wouldn't be able to drive it safely and even taking the train could be a bit too much but I would love to meet everyone.

neverdespairgirl

My Granny was very offended when I started my GCSE history course - Europe 1918 to 1939. She said, "that starts 3 years after I was born! That's not history, that's current affairs!"

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Granny was very offended when I started my GCSE history course - Europe 1918 to 1939. She said, "that starts 3 years after I was born! That's not history, that's current affairs!"

I picked up a GCSE World History revision book once secondhand. One of the best buys I ever made. It was a potted history of the late19th /20th centuries, looking at the Middle East, Indochina, etc. Everybody should have to study it.

I still get students who don't understand why the space race started and then finished (or even some who don't believe it happened at all). There's even whole threads on this forum about people who can't tell the Nazis from the communists.

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

I still get students who don't understand why the space race started and then finished (or even some who don't believe it happened at all). There's even whole threads on this forum about people who can't tell the Nazis from the communists.

I handed one of the check-in people at STN my passport the other week (it says I was born in Sukhumi, Soviet Union, now with no mention is Georgian SSR (no idea why)), and was asked how often I go back to Russia :eek:.

I'm not asking for people to be able to instantly name all the the ex-USSR countries, but I do feel it's reasonable people should know that it was a centrally-run league of countries (like the EU, but with Moscow exercising more control overall) rather than one in historic terms.

Generali

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I handed one of the check-in people at STN my passport the other week (it says I was born in Sukhumi, Soviet Union, now with no mention is Georgian SSR (no idea why)), and was asked how often I go back to Russia :eek:.

I'm not asking for people to be able to instantly name all the the ex-USSR countries, but I do feel it's reasonable people should know that it was a centrally-run league of countries (like the EU, but with Moscow exercising more control overall) rather than one in historic terms.

I think foreigners think that the words Russia and USSR are synonymous as they think England and UK are synonymous.

lostinrates

FINALLY its here. Autumn. Leaves all over the grass, cold dark morning, no chance of avoiding boots when doing chickens and station run this morning. Thoughts of proper bonfires, heady marsala spiked mushroom sauces, squash, squash, squash, soups and more soups. Pumpkin pie, game, pecan pie, toffee apples, fireworks, more nuts. Chestnuts. Dark nights for snuggling up under beautiful smelling warm things, misty mornings, for being excited by how amazing the world can look...and for being forced to slow down a little.

I'll have to rehang my too short kitchen curtains, but we've decided on the stuff for the permanent ones, so I have to see if I can get it at a better price, and decide how I want the doors dressed ( just having roman blinds for the windows......no pelmets.....I think)



Oh, and I have a cold and a realLy bad back. I think the bad back is fro. Longer on motorbility lawn mower and the cold is just one of those things.

Throats raging, don't know what I can take because of my meds.

PasturesNew

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I do feel it's reasonable people should know that it was a centrally-run league of countries (like the EU, but with Moscow exercising more control overall) rather than one in historic terms.

I didn't know that. It was always just called "Russia" - then, some of it broke up (some/all?) and all these peculiarly named places came out of nowhere.... and I couldn't name 3 of them... or probably 2 ... er, or 1.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I think foreigners think that the words Russia and USSR are synonymous as they think England and UK are synonymous.

I always thought Russia/USSR were the same place. One big country. One place....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Throats raging, don't know what I can take because of my meds.

That usually comes down to: whiskey, honey, hot honey/lemon/booze, or ice-cream.

PasturesNew

Wet, wild, windy, bits of broken off oak-twig bits all over the patio, grass full of oak leaves.... occasional thuds (gate?). Nothing's broken, nothing's down - glad I didn't have to leave the house at 7-7.30am to drive to a job.