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Please pass on the knowledge, everyone else I know complains how expensive it is to live in London.
Seconded!
And happy birthday PN :bdaycake:
My friends got married on Hogmanay.
Not sure I'd recommend that.;)There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Happy birthday pastures new
We are all fond of you
We think you are funny
And a nice person too.
( sung to traditional tune, of course)
Funny ha ha I hope .... and not just/always funny/weird
Cheers!0 -
The trouble with being a migrant worker in Hong Kong is that you can end up in a suitcase on someone's balcony. Happens all the time, apparently. London is better in that respect.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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I was surprised last week to see someone with a pair of "kiwis" at the local shops. Never seen them before or since! Perhaps they were just visiting the area.
I saw one in the park a while back, and instantly thought of it as a kiwi!OH had outside sockets fitted specifically for Xmas light rigging up......well, and for the mower too.....but mainly for outside lights as he has always wanted to do more.
We used to have the lead go out the window and the frame was so soft and rotten it shut easily on the lead :eek:
We put the lead out through the letter box. I attach the wreath on the inside of the front door with a string that goes out through the letter box too.I was due to finish work on 23rd Jan but have now been told not to bother going in after Xmas (I get paid til the 23rd still). I've been thinking I might see if I can get a 6 month contract in London.
Why 6 months?
Is this a plan just for if Mrs Gen loses her job? Would you all come? If not, how would the generalissimos feel about you being away so long? What would happen if Mrs Gen's emotional state went downhill while you weren't there to pick up the pieces?
Hoping you find a path forwards that works out brilliantly for you. We are always here for you to bounce ideas off. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Please pass on the knowledge, everyone else I know complains how expensive it is to live in London.
Is Mrs Gen up to looking after the little Gens on her own?
The thing is that in London you can live an amazing life cheaply or a dull life expensively.
Housing costs a packet but you don't need a car. Groceries are the same price everywhere basically. Apart from that it depends what you do to have fun. Yes there are loads of bars and restaurants that will charge you an arm and a leg but then you have some of the world's best museums and galleries you can visit for free.
When The Boy was a baby and Mrs Generali wanted some time alone on a Sunday I'd walk with him from the Barbican to the West End (free), go to a gallery or something (free), get lunch in a pub or take sangas (cheap) and read the paper (cheap) then buy a really good chicken from Selfridges and take it home to roast with a load of veggies. The whole day including food would cost perhaps £30 and I'd have another meal or two left out of that.
If you fancy a great meal out you can eat lunch in one of the great hotels (Savoy etc) for£20-30 a head and there are always offers on if you look out for them (Mrs Generali and I had lunch at Alistair Little's for a tenner each on our first anniversary).
There's the Prince Charles cinema if you fancy a film. Borough Market if you want to eat like a king. Then there are quirky things like the Italian Church annual fete in Clerkenwell. That's free although you'll end up spending a tenner or so on a nice lunch for two and perhaps the same again on a couple of drinks.
London (ex-housing) is a very cheap place to live an amazing life.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »What can you do about it but play the hand you are dealt?
Playing the hand you have been dealt has been a big part of my attitude to my own life for the last decade or so. I seem to have been dealt a rather unusual hand in some respects.
However, I heard the other day about some happiness research. They looked into people's habits of comparing themselves with other people. They expected to find that the happy people are the ones who tend to compare themselves with those who are worse off, whereas the unhappy people are those who tend to compare themselves with those who are better off.
As I say, that's what they expected to find, but they didn't. The findings actually were that the unhappy people compare themselves with others, and the happy people don't. So I'm trying not to. But it isn't always easy.PasturesNew wrote: »It's not a good day for it. Too close to Christmas, so everybody's always thinking about that and got stuff to do, stuff on, or are busy with plans/shopping and stuff. I always wanted an August one! Nice and warm, long/bright days and no school.
I have an August birthday. It's good, as you say, for weather and not having to go to school, but it's terrible for celebrating with your friends. Almost all my friends are tied to school holidays either by their kids or their jobs (teacher friends) so in August they've all gone away and there's nobody around.
I tend to think of having a late birthday party in the autumn when everyone's back, but not actually get round to doing it. It would be nice if this new counsellor manages to help me with my inertia/exhaustion/apathy/procrastination problem.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I think I compare myself with my own lost potential, and that's what sticks in my craw. People do different things, by luck, by hard work by natural talent that would never have been mine. Its like comparing apples to oranges. But comparing myself to myself I find hard to break the habit of.
I found a really unusual picture of myself today sorting through stuff. It can be pretty easily dated as I have short hair ( which means it came shortly after the date my hair got hacked off when I got gum stuck on it) and I was not very tanned, so it was after a stay in Europe. I look really happy and am covered with face paint. I think I can guess exactly the event it was. Fir's snatched it and says he's keeping it. 0 -
I've always said that London's very cheap, except the housing. Over the years I've compared like-for-like and London's always been cheaper.The thing is that in London you can live an amazing life cheaply or a dull life expensively.
There's loads to do for free - nothing to do for free in a lot of the rest of the country. Loads of places to look for things/get things cheaper due to competition. Transport is cheaper and goes to more places, more often, for longer hours (some even 24 hours/day).
I had a (high earning) friend in London who took another of our friends out for an indian meal. I looked up the menu online and found that the sit down price was about 2/3rds of what I'd have to pay for a takeaway.... and it wasn't a one off/special, or a place they had to seek out, it was simply "an indian restaurant within a mile".
London's even got a beach 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I think I compare myself with my own lost potential, and that's what sticks in my craw. People do different things, by luck, by hard work by natural talent that would never have been mine. Its like comparing apples to oranges. But comparing myself to myself I find hard to break the habit of.
For me it's the temptation to compare the path I'm on now with the path I thought I was on before everything went wrong with LNE. But I do try to resist it.
The other phrase I used to find kept cropping up to describe my experience of life was a quote from "Through the looking glass":...the path gave a sudden twist and shook itself...Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've always said that London's very cheap, except the housing. Over the years I've compared like-for-like and London's always been cheaper.
But the housing is soooo much more expensive. I can't imagine that the cheapness of the other things could make up for it unless you were the sort of person who spends oodles on going out every night/weekend and is happy to live in a room the size of a cupboard.
I spend money on "doing things" about once every couple of months. Yes, where I live I do need a car to get to work, but it's only 3 miles away, so travel to work doesn't cost much in petrol, and then I have the car available to me when I want to travel elsewhere in the country. Once DD leaves primary school and I no longer need to deliver her there, I'll be able to switch to cycling to work.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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