Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

If you had an air rifle that could have been dinner for the rest of the year.

Except they'd have landed in somebody else's garden .... somebody's out there shooting quite a lot tonight. It's not a firework display. It's quite unnerving!

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sue, in terms of going to Northampton, would you find it easier on the A14, driving for an hour, breaking somewhere for lunch, then driving for a second hour and you would be there? Thought that would be easier/cheaper now you have a more reliable chariot.

That's the plan for when I drop him off......if the new car has arrived by then!

Apparently it will arrive in the country on the 10th, he has to be dropped off on the 19th.

I didn't want to attempt it yesterday on bank holiday weekend Friday during rush hour on the A14.

SingleSue

Nikkster wrote: »

Sue, I'm not exactly(/ anywhere near) a responsible adult but I'm not so far away from there. If there's ever anything I can do to help, please let me know. Happy to give you/ him my email address/ phone no etc just in case xx

P.s. I almost have very pretty railings (they're in place but not concreted in). V happy. Not least as I'm reminded of the advantages of being sole decision maker... Have discovered I'm surprisingly handy with a sledgehammer and pickaxe too

Aww thanks..might come in handy on the future x

SingleSue

Been gorgeous here all day, didn't start raining until about 9...at my parent's caravan for a short weekend away.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

If you had an air rifle that could have been dinner for the rest of the yearQUOTE]

My great aunt ate a lot of seagull in occupied Holland in WW2. Apparently they are not good eating.

I suspect that they cook like an Aussie bird called a gallah: to cook one you set a fire and put in the gallah and a rock. When the rock is soft the gallah is ready to eat.

I went to see my first game of AFL yesterday. Hmmm. It's not very good (sorry viva's family). I suspect that it didn't help that I saw a not very good side take on a team touted as the worst ever.

CKhalvashi

Just finished on a (6 hour) Skype conference.

I'm trying to assemble a group of 8 small teams in UK, Spain and Germany with Italy to come in the next few months for my next project, and this is proving to be more of a logistical nightmare than I'd anticipated.

We're focusing on a London launch before we go any further, however need to move pretty fast too.

gfplux

I assume it is an age thing. I am old and I have so MANY pet hates.
Perhaps number one is
Litter!!! Drives me mad. Am I alone?
In fact just like listing Country's visited I could make a list of things that irritate me.
Anyone got a good list?

Generali

gfplux wrote: »

I assume it is an age thing. I am old and I have so MANY pet hates.
Perhaps number one is
Litter!!! Drives me mad. Am I alone?
In fact just like listing Country's visited I could make a list of things that irritate me.
Anyone got a good list?

That's one of the nicest things about living in Aus: people don't litter much.

I walked past a tourist in the centre of Sydney who was ripping off the plastic from his cigarette packet and chucking it on the floor. I asked him if he realised that would end up straight in the harbour he'd travelled thousands of miles to see. He told me to go forth and multiply.

He got such a barrage of abuse from the Sydneysiders around him that he turned around and picked up the plastic! :rotfl:

The litter that really bugs me is cyclists that go to beautiful parts of Aus and discard their gel packets because that's what they see the pros do. Someone will pick up Chris Froome's gel package as a souvenir. Nobody will pick up mine and or yours.

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was outside and I heard what sounded like a distant gunshot .... and then, I'm not exaggerating as I did try to get a rough count/idea ... over the next 2 minutes or so there were about 1,000 seagulls cruising in the skies! I've never seen so many! All going in the same direction!

I've had less seagulls since the tree went.

And we no longer have pigeons stomping about in the gutter, so they must have been roosting in our tree! We only get the odd one now.

Nikkster I hope you'll post a pic when your railings are up, they sound very pretty, or as pretty as railings can be, anyway

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote:

My great aunt ate a lot of seagull in occupied Holland in WW2. Apparently they are not good eating.

I suspect that they cook like an Aussie bird called a gallah: to cook one you set a fire and put in the gallah and a rock. When the rock is soft the gallah is ready to eat.

I went to see my first game of AFL yesterday. Hmmm. It's not very good (sorry viva's family). I suspect that it didn't help that I saw a not very good side take on a team touted as the worst ever.

I thought you cook the rock and the gallah, then throw the gallah away and eat the rock?

Flamin' gallah!