Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

How green is green? Yellow wagtail green? Parokeet green? Woodpecker green?

rspb online identifier might help you get and ID try and see other details, shape / colour of beak, colour of legs, rough size, and any other markings....makes it easier.

I will try and get a picture tomorrow, if it is still around.

rspb online identifier suggests Green woodpecker-male, possibly.

lostinrates

Green woodpeckers are very handsome IMO.

Spirit_2

We went for a walk along a local shingle beach this evening. It was overcast and we could see a very dark cloud and rain coming towards us across the solent. A family played football on a sandy patch. As the rain set in they put rain jackets on and carried on playing. Well done to that mum and dad for making the best of the evening come what may.

Two Chinese ladies along with two children were also out on the beach, collecting whelks judging by the haul in their buckets.

We fnished our walk and then went to a waterside pub for supper. It was heaving. View was IOW and the needles along to the oil refinery at Fawley.

I was wrapped up in a parka coat . very suitable for the weather and made a seaside walk pleasant on a chilly wet summer evening.

vivatifosi

We went into London tonight. Dr Tifosi won tickets with Mastercard to see the Kaiser Chiefs. I would never win tickets with my Mastercard as its only ever used for the weekly shop and exceptionally, this month only, for new door handles.

It was great fun. The crowd was an interesting mix and the music selection beforehand quite esoteric... they played Frankie Valli's 'The Night' as a warm up, which was a little odd. The Kaiser Chiefs were great, very tight and Ricky Wilson was phenomenal live, and being an intimate gig, only about 6ft away. Thank you Mastercard.

I do quite like the Northern Soul-ish vibe of The Night. Hadn't heard it in years and must get onto Spotify and play it again.

michaels

Spirit wrote: »

We went for a walk along a local shingle beach this evening. It was overcast and we could see a very dark cloud and rain coming towards us across the solent. A family played football on a sandy patch. As the rain set in they put rain jackets on and carried on playing. Well done to that mum and dad for making the best of the evening come what may.

Two Chinese ladies along with two children were also out on the beach, collecting whelks judging by the haul in their buckets.

We fnished our walk and then went to a waterside pub for supper. It was heaving. View was IOW and the needles along to the oil refinery at Fawley.

I was wrapped up in a parka coat . very suitable for the weather and made a seaside walk pleasant on a chilly wet summer evening.

I was born less than half a mile from the sea in a tiny hamlet called brownwich. You can't have been a million miles away.

ukmaggie45

Spirit wrote: »

We went for a walk along a local shingle beach this evening. It was overcast and we could see a very dark cloud and rain coming towards us across the solent. A family played football on a sandy patch. As the rain set in they put rain jackets on and carried on playing. Well done to that mum and dad for making the best of the evening come what may.

Two Chinese ladies along with two children were also out on the beach, collecting whelks judging by the haul in their buckets.

We fnished our walk and then went to a waterside pub for supper. It was heaving. View was IOW and the needles along to the oil refinery at Fawley.

I was wrapped up in a parka coat . very suitable for the weather and made a seaside walk pleasant on a chilly wet summer evening.

Spirit, that is lovely, it reads like a poem of the very best kind. :T :j

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

We went for a walk along a local shingle beach this evening. It was overcast and we could see a very dark cloud and rain coming towards us across the solent. A family played football on a sandy patch. As the rain set in they put rain jackets on and carried on playing. Well done to that mum and dad for making the best of the evening come what may.

Two Chinese ladies along with two children were also out on the beach, collecting whelks judging by the haul in their buckets.

We fnished our walk and then went to a waterside pub for supper. It was heaving. View was IOW and the needles along to the oil refinery at Fawley.

I was wrapped up in a parka coat . very suitable for the weather and made a seaside walk pleasant on a chilly wet summer evening.

DQWD
Beautiful. Mrs Generali and I used to take ol' Pa Generali to the beach on Boxing Day with the Generalissimos. It would invariably be freezing cold and chucking it down. It always used to make me a bit sad as I'd have a fixed point in time to compare him with and inevitably he'd declined as his Alzheimer's got worse. I'm glad we did it though, it was lovely just to be able to spend the time with him. I'm glad to say that I have no regrets or guilt at all of 'shudda spent more time with the old fella while he was still here' nature which apparently a lot of people have. I visited him loads and even didn't emigrate because he was sick.

Re the green bird, I still can't help but think, someone's pet has escaped when I see a sulphur crested cockatoo or a parakeet, both of which are plentiful where I live. I've been here almost seven years so you'd think I'd have gotten over that.

MiL is in hospital again having fits. Her memory is shot to bits too. It's stress apparently. <<shruggy smilie>> Seems a bit odd but as I didn't spend several years learning medicine I'll have to take the Doc's word for it. She's having surgery on an aneurism in her brain on Monday so has good reason to be stressed.

I have refrained from discussing the cricket score with her but I will be getting out the England flag I have stuffed in my drawer at work tomorrow. I might drape it over the desk of the bloke that bet me $50 at 2-1 (he gave me odds!) that Australia would do a whitewash over England (i.e. win all the Tests) unless the weather intervened.
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qJLi5y2d2w


Probably shouldn't have left that one mate.

Where I used to work I automated a piece of monthly drudge that we used to do. To start the code you had to click on a button. The button was a picture of a load of disconsolate fans resting their chins and beers on the scoreboard at the MCG which showed that Australia had been skittled for just 98 runs. Unfortunately, nobody else in the team had the small amount of programming ability to get rid of the picture. I am not a very nice person outside of the confines of this thread.

Anyway, to any Nice People reading this in the next hour or two: Go To Bed!

silvercar

Read through of file with solicitor of flat we were going to buy that went so, so quiet we had virtually given up.

All the questions to seller: "are you aware of X", "have you had any disputes".....gist of sellers reply: "I've never set foot in the country, wouldn't even know how to find the development, not aware of anything."

Solicitor now wondering if they have even signed the paperwork to pass ownership on!

Doozergirl

I know there is cricket on as it took me quite a while to get down a usually quiet road to site. I had to share it with a lot of taxis and Australian men dressed in neon skirts.

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

I know there is cricket on as it took me quite a while to get down a usually quiet road to site. I had to share it with a lot of taxis and Australian men dressed in neon skirts.

If you'd timed it for 6pm you would have shared the street with lots of disconsolate looking Australian men in neon skirts.

I love England beating the Aussies at cricket, they are so arrogant about the game it's great. I honestly believe that a majority of Australians would assume that a whitewash is the most likely outcome of any Ashes series.