Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

blin

vivatifosi wrote: »

Want to wish a very Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah and a healthy and prosperous New year to those NPs who are not currently posting but may be lurking.

Thank you Viva

Happy Xmas to you and all the other NP.

[/Returns to lurking]

ivyleaf

(((HUGS))) Gen. He was obviously a lovely Dad, and you were lucky to have had him well into your adulthood

hjd

Doozergirl wrote: »

I need a nap to brace myself for massive supermarket queues later.

I was at work this morning (and even paid a few people, too!)
Then I went to waitrose on the way back, as it's en route - plenty of space in the carpark, plenty of food and room to manoeuvre in the store.
Best of all, a checkout with nobody in front of me!
I did the bigger shop on Monday at Tesco and some at M&S, and again wasn't busy. I think there are more days to spread out the shopping, or maybe more online shopping.
Apparently both Waitrose and M&S were heaving at 7am today, though - so I feel very smug.

vivatifosi

I drove past a Waitrose today at just after 9am and there was a queue round the block just to get in the car park.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

I am making my 'Absurdly Boozy Trifle' tomorrow.

One bowl will get you tipsy, seconds will get you drunk, thirds.... well.... lets just say I only tried a third bowl once.

Every ingredient (except the sprinkles) contains booze.

It's a thing of beauty....

GDB2222

hjd wrote: »

I was at work this morning (and even paid a few people, too!)
Then I went to waitrose on the way back, as it's en route - plenty of space in the carpark, plenty of food and room to manoeuvre in the store.
Best of all, a checkout with nobody in front of me!
I did the bigger shop on Monday at Tesco and some at M&S, and again wasn't busy. I think there are more days to spread out the shopping, or maybe more online shopping.
Apparently both Waitrose and M&S were heaving at 7am today, though - so I feel very smug.

Today, I walked:
Along an ancient sunken lane
Through a country estate with a park designed by Humphry Repton 200 years ago
Through mature deciduous and fir forests
Through heathland with gorse and heather
Through salt marshes
On the sea shore, next to the surf

I had lunch on the beach

I also watched an enormous steam locomotive in full steam hauling a train

The weather was a bit brisk, so I wore a jumper on top of my T shirt, and the sun was shining in a cloudless sky. :cool:

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Today, I walked:
Along an ancient sunken lane
Through a country estate with a park designed by Humphry Repton 200 years ago
Through mature deciduous and fir forests
Through heathland with gorse and heather
Through salt marshes
On the sea shore, next to the surf

I had lunch on the beach

I also watched an enormous steam locomotive in full steam hauling a train

The weather was a bit brisk, so I wore a jumper on top of my T shirt, and the sun was shining in a cloudless sky. :cool:

Today I walked just under a mile to the nearest costa. A car drove past as I set off heading in the same direction and I reached costa first.


Thanks to spirit for advice, presents for DS2-GF family have been bought. Trying to label them, but writing "mystery aunt" doesn't quite work.

GDB2222

Following the tragic death of the Human Cannonball at the Southport Show, a spokesman said, “We’ll struggle to get another man of the same calibre.”

ukmaggie45

Arrived at caravan to find central heating boiler not working! :eek:

Our lovely plumber talked OH through some possible fixes, when they didn't work he came out within half an hour and fixed it! :j What a star he is! Charge £55, which I think was incredibly reasonable, especially at this time of year. So three cheers for Gwilym! :beer: Our Hero!

We could have managed without the central heating (there's a gas fire), but no hot water would have been rather a nuisance!

Stopped en route for an all day breakfast at The Puffin Cafe (near Penmaenmawr). Thoroughly recommend! Local bacon and sausages from Glasfryn, really delicious bacon so we bought some in the shop for brekkers tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'm hoping for a bit of dry at some stage so I can string the lights round the deck. And also cut some evergreen to put my little (20) string of coloured lights over.

OH is absolutely exhausted, and has laid down along the living room seating and gone to sleep. So I've got the TV and a G&T for company, might have to go and do some unpacking in a bit, or might leave most of it till morning. Oh the remote on the TV hs stopped working too. Have tried changing the batteries, but still no luck. I'd forgotten what a pain it is to have to stand up and walk over to the TV to change channels or alter the volume! :rotfl:

vivatifosi

Pastures, am at my dad's. He says from what I've described second hand, it does not sound difficult. He said that because you had trees overhanging, then it could be the gutter rather than the downpipe. He says you can normally tap the downpipe and it will sound muffled like a full this if it is blocked, but ring more if full. That should help you tell where the problem is.

If it is in the downpipe, it will need rodding, if its up top, the leaves need pulling out.

I don't know if this helps as just typing what he told me.

He says there is a wire balloon in the top and trees play havoc with them, however it should be an easy fix.