Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Peak house. :rotfl:

That's precisely us. There's no potential upgrade on this

SingleSue

zagubov wrote: »

I am utterly nowhere near working out summer holiday options, apart from our usual northern sojourn.

Ultra cheap last stay at the usual caravan site for us this year....going out of school holidays for the first time in years as all boys will be finished college/uni for the year.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

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Since you mentioned it recently, I seem to have had the telly on two consecutive programmes about the country tonight (one's still on). Travel channel.

First one was a bloke who had permission to go round and talk to ordinary residents and see how their lives have changed now.

Second one's some really irritating bloke who is doing it as a "travel programme".

Overall, they've both actually covered the same route/ground.

Just looked them up:

"Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution, and meets ordinary Cubans whose lives are being transformed. Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution, and meets ordinary Cubans whose lives are being transformed"

"Ian Wright goes on an eye-opening and hair-raising train journey across the Caribbean island of Cuba"

SingleSue

I've found the same thing, since our decision all I have seen is mentions of the country everywhere.

I've joined a Facebook group for the hotel we are going to, it appears from there and other reviews elsewhere that we have picked the right hotel with a good community feel rather than a big corporate feel.

vivatifosi

What side was the Simon Reeve programme on Pastures? I like him so will try to find on repeat or catch up. Thanks.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

What side was the Simon Reeve programme on Pastures? I like him so will try to find on repeat or catch up. Thanks.

It was called Travel Channel, on Freeview.


Not available on BBC2, but this was the one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pfvns

Generali

What is wrong with The Guardian?

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/23/worm-fell-into-mouth-my-life-as-a-badger?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco

Burt met us at Abergavenny station. I had my cub with me: Tom, aged eight. Badgers are highly sociable, familial creatures. A lone badger is unthinkable. And Tom, who is profoundly dyslexic and therefore gifted with a dazzlingly holistic, intimately relational view of the world, is, I’d guess, far closer to being a badger than I am. Also, Tom is 4ft 6in. I’m 6ft 3in. Ferns brush his face as they brush a badger’s....

We had not been in the wood long, but already it was ours. I’d thought that it would seem an absurd pretension to go on hands and knees through the wood. Now it would have seemed an insufferable arrogance to do otherwise. Our heads swayed from side to side – exactly the questing swing of a badger, but forced by our clumsy anatomy. I was handling the badger’s world with thick mittens. But even so, this world was more interesting than my own. A lot more happens at six inches and below than at six feet and above.

SFW if you don't mind everyone thinking you're a space cadet.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was called Travel Channel, on Freeview.

I found him very strange. Very strange. Strange mouth/lips too.

Not available on BBC2, but this was the one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pfvns

Thanks, will have a look.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't think my bath's very big. It's plenty big enough for me, but, as short as I am, I can't lie full length in it. That's good imho, nothing worse than having a bath so long that when your feet are against the end under the taps your head's under water at the other end.

I've not actually laid in it and pondered precisely how far above the edges I am.

When my bath's "full", so I can't add more water else I can't move or it'd be in danger of sloshing over the sides while bathing, I'm not covered by water, or even close. To be completely covered up to my neck in water - like you see in films - the bath would have to be filled right to the very, very brim.... even then it'd be touch and go if it's actually possible to do that without bending my knees.

Quit your boasting, you are not impressing anyone.

Our water bill went up 10% this year, a bit annoying when there is supposed to be a freeze but we get supplied by one company and seweraged by another and it seems they both re-balanced between the services by soaking the service they supply to us whilst reducing the one that we don't get from them (for example I think for some reason we are paying for the London super-sewer, I'll make a mental note to use lots of sewerage at work to get my monies worth). Bill is now about 350 pa.

michaels

I think their is a gap in the market for buying sleep. DD1 decided to have a nosebleed at 5AM and DW starts getting up shortly after that so that was pretty much the end for sleep so this morning I would really benefit from about 1-2 hours of sleep. I'm not talking about caffeine or similar as that just masks the tiredness and makes things worse later, but a nice pill that actually does to the body whatever it is that sleep does....