Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Generali

hjd wrote: »

Certainly am!!

From the Torygraph coverage:



England's Wagon Wheel (not the one PN and Zag will be tucking into).

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

$/@#ing !&&#. We employed a new au pair who is meant to be coming over tonight to start tomorrow and the complete Corbyn has ghosted us. It's 9pm and I have to leave for work in about 10 hours.

Shirts ironed for next week - check
Clean suit - check
Wallet, pass, phone and keys to hand - check
Quick squizz at the week's schedule - check
Childcare - damn

The in-laws steppedin at the last minute which is really good of them but they are really horrible to the Generalissimos and undermine ourthoughts on parenting whenever they get the opportunity. I'm going to write a letter to the little $%#!s mum. I have her address.

Are there no emergency nannies in Oz?

Round here there are people that only do emergency cover, at a price premium, but worth it for people in your situation.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Are there no emergency nannies in Oz?

Round here there are people that only do emergency cover, at a price premium, but worth it for people in your situation.

We dropped the Generalissimos at the in-laws for a couple of nights. No ideal but the best of the available options.

Generali

Oh and the letter thing will never happen, I'm too damn lazy for a start.

michaels

Every time I see wealthy people spending money in a way that shows they have no comprehension of the real world I remind myself that it would be much worse for the economy if they weren't spending it.

Similarly all those too lazy to find a competitive gas/electric tariff are subsidising the loss leader rates for those who switch frequwntly.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Now half way through what looks like an 18 hour powerpoint marathon.

It appears that "a couple of hours a day" throughout the holidays may have fallen victim to procrastination/hangovers.

Ooops...

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

£17k/year spent on food .... blimey!

Ridiculous!

We spend about £100 a week on the full supermarket shop (so not just food), there's very rarely no food in the house (only time really is when we haven't done the shop before going away) and it's nutritionally balanced.

Ok, the shop just before Christmas was about £300, but it's still less than their average plus we were entertaining for 4 nights that week. I think about half of that was purely alcohol.

Very little gets thrown out, and it's not been unknown I'll throw some veg and meat that's on/just past its sell-by date into a pot, throw some oxo cubes in and cook it on low heat all day, giving a really lovely dinner from stuff that would go to waste, once every few weeks to ensure the fridge stays fresh.

Doozergirl

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Now half way through what looks like an 18 hour powerpoint marathon.

It appears that "a couple of hours a day" throughout the holidays may have fallen victim to procrastination/hangovers.

Ooops...

Yeah. I was going to be fully prepared for tomorrow.

I may be fully prepared for Tuesday

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Doozergirl wrote: »

Yeah. I was going to be fully prepared for tomorrow.

I may be fully prepared for Tuesday

Every bl00dy year too....

You'd think I'd have learned by now!

On a positive note did manage to upgrade the RAM on my desktop over Xmas, from 4GB to 32GB, so at least it's no longer running at a snails pace trying to use the HDD as spillover memory... The work is going remarkably quicker!

Yorkie1

Jazee wrote: »

Morning all. Still dry here indoors, the flood defences have held up again. Not so in York where DS is. About to go out in beautiful sunshine for a walk with the dogs but will avoid the river bank obviously.

silvercar wrote: »

We have the Thames Barrier. No one has though it worthy to spend money on a (insert name of river up north) Barrier.

In York there are 2 rivers: Ouse and Foss. The main river is the Ouse, and that's the one you usually see images of (particularly the Kings Arms pub). The flood walls along the banks of the Ouse worked fine this time.

There's also a flood barrier on the Foss: it is raised in order to prevent the Ouse flooding back up the Foss, and there are 8 pumps which stop the Foss backfilling by pushing water which comes down the Foss into the Ouse.

However, for some reason water got into the Foss barrier pumping station so the barrier had to be lowered before the electricity was affected and the pumps failed - the flooding which would have been caused by the Foss backfilling on itself would have been far, far worse than that caused by the Ouse water going upstream. (The barrier could not have been lowered manually once the electricity went off).

That was the flooding which really hit the news, leading to people being evacuated etc.

I'll be working from home for at least the early part of this week as my office building is one of those affected by the Foss flooding.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I asked for a full set of mugs for Christmas. I didn't get any ...

I got a cake in a mug - all you need to do is add ingredients according to the recipe / measurements on the cup, and 3 minutes later you have chocolate cake ... mmm!!! :cool: