Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

No problems here so far.

'Here' is Canberra where I am chook sitting along with the Generalissimos. We drove down and it was meant to take exactly 3 hours however...I went the wrong way down the M4. Then the wrong way down the M7. Then I had to keep stopping to stretch my back.

Then when we got here I realised that I'd left my back pills in Sydney so had to get a script here. However as I don't know the 'bulk billing' (sort of free) GPs in Canberra I had to go to the first one I found which charges $82 of which Medicare will repay $37.05 (up from $37 last year). I also don't know where the cheap chemists are in Canberra so I had to pay $32 to get my prescription filled.

Lunch was Maccas (blehhhhh) as that's pretty much all you can get on the road and I forgot to make ham and salami rolls as I'd planned.

It's not all bad. I'm sitting in the kitchen with a glass of wine with the kids watching some godawful crap on the TV and pork chops with spuds cooking in the oven and I can look forward to home grown eggs for brekkie tomorrow with the bacon I bought. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. I love proper eggs. NOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!

The TL;DR version: I sound grumpy but actually I'm very content.

Generali

Crivens re the hole. Is it me or do we seem to be getting a lot of them? I seem to be always reading about sink holes in Aus. Climate change perhaps or simply click bait?

ivyleaf

What's "click bait" ?

This area is prone to sink holes too (old chalk mines, I think), and DS currently has to go a different way round to his job in Essex because one opened up last week on the Ongar road; not sure exactly where that is because I don't know Essex at all.

This morning he set off earlier than usual, as he needed to go from Brentwood where he's based, into central London. About a minute after he left the house, the local travel news announced an incident on the M25 nearby, with a car on fire, so he ended up sitting in a loooong queue and didn't get to the office any earlier than usual. I hope no one was hurt

Generali

ivyleaf wrote: »

What's "click bait" ?

Click bait is a news article online which contains phrases in the headline such as "with this one weird trick" or "you will never believe what happened next". Wikipedia describes it thusly:

Clickbait is a pejorative term describing web content that is aimed at generating online advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs and to encourage forwarding of the material over online social networks.

Personally, if I was writing the description I would say, "at generating web traffic" rather than "online advertising revenue" as there are plenty of BBC etc. news articles that I would describe as clickbait.

michaels

Click bait is on line news websites choosing stories based on which will get most page views and thus potential advert click throughs rather than necessarily the most news worthy. Thus if everyone wants to read about local sink holes, major or minor then the local online news will make sure it covers them.

The one in St Albans is in some 60s? houses built on a famous local open space which means it is easy to discover that the area used to house brick works and clay pits which were later used for landfill - not surprising it may be a little unstable....

http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/bernardsheath/booklet-brick-map.htm

Doozergirl

I wish I could sit in my kitchen with a glass of wine right now

Dang responsibilty. 9pm school runs and 6 day weeks eliminate opportunities all but one day of the week!

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

I wish I could sit in my kitchen with a glass of wine right now

It's probably a bit early where you are!

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

It's probably a bit early where you are!

Before stricter drink driving laws, and staff became too expensive Bloody Mary and oh darn it, what is mimosa in this country called? .......anyway, there was a drink that made this decent. And gave some veg or fruit juice. .

Generali

lostinrates wrote: »

what is mimosa in this country called? .

Bucks fizz????

kabayiri

lostinrates wrote: »

Before stricter drink driving laws, and staff became too expensive Bloody Mary and oh darn it, what is mimosa in this country called? .......anyway, there was a drink that made this decent. And gave some veg or fruit juice. .

Ahh, are you referring to Mimosian Telekinetic wine, as featured on that documentary :-

Red Dwarf?

http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Telekinetic_Wine