Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

ukmaggie45

Generali wrote: »

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

OH got the paper Grauniad Saturday, so I saw this (it's in the magazine section). The photos are a hoot! Especially like the fox mask, you can see that at the linked article, where the poor journo had to eat earthworms! :eek:

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I sold my last house 9 years ago. Just loaded up RM and there's a house of similar type on the market, 3-4 doors down, for £2k less than I achieved.

It's also bigger and better than mine was. Much smarter, more modern, more bedrooms, a whole extra floor.

So I am sure I did sell mine at the right time. I just should have bought back in sooner.

Whereas zoopla reckons that our house has increased by 52% since we sold 9.5 years ago. Going by the nutty recent increase in prices locally, that are actually being achieved, that is probably an under estimate.

Not that it matters, this is our peak home.

ivyleaf

Thames Water announced last year that it's going to put all its customers onto water meters whether they want them or not, starting with Bexley because all our water apparently comes from boreholes. Meant to be starting in "early 2016", but haven't heard any more about it so far.

In very dry periods Thames Water have to get permission to take water from the local rivers instead.

michaels A pill like that would be just great, wouldn't it!

Sorry to hear I missed a programme with Simon Reeve, but I daresay it will be shown again. My TV paper doesn't have the Travel Channel listed, and I never think to look as there's so much else to watch a lot of the time.

Really enjoyed Endeavour last night. I hope they'll make another series.

silvercar

Our area has been a compulsory water meter area for years. That means that when a property changes hands, Affinity have the right to install a meter. In practice, if they don't get round to doing it within a couple of months, they keep you on un-metered supply.

ukmaggie45

Caught a really interesting programme about the Mersey on BBC North West yesterday afternoon, totally by mistake. I looked up, and there was a Seabird Half Rater on the screen! :j So if you want to see what our Ruddy Duck looks like when sailing, the section about the Wallasey Yacht Club starts at about 15.45.

OH saw several boats he's sailed on over the last couple of years - he sometimes gets called to crew if they're short. Duck is in Abersoch, she's had so many years of leaking very badly that we never could risk her on the Mersey. Latest re-build finally seems to have sorted that out (touch wood!). But I'm thinking maybe we'll bring her back here when we have to give up the caravan - hopefully not for a few more years yet! But it does begin to look a bit imminent.

The boat that's being repaired, OH thinks might be Kayoshk, which has spent the last 40 years or so sitting in a shed at the boatyard we used until the owner died (on his 65th birthday! At the burial the reverend spoke in both Welsh and English, and said how wonderful to be called to God on his birthday). I saw Kayoshk sailing in Abersoch on what I suspect was her last sail there - a very wild and windy day, foam on the waves, water green, scudding clouds and breaking through sun. We were the only 2 Seabirds out that day - mostly the class only race rather than sail for pleasure, or certainly they did back then as there was a much more hectic racing programme. But one of my most vivid memories!

PS the bit with the Seabirds only lasts about 5 mins.

PasturesNew

ivyleaf wrote: »

My TV paper doesn't have the Travel Channel listed, and I never think to look as there's so much else to watch a lot of the time.

I didn't know such a channel existed. I think I hit two random buttons on my freeview remote when whatever was on the telly irritated me ... and wherever it landed was less irritating (Michael Palin I think it was). So then I got sidetracked looking up on Wikipedia if he'd died (thought he had, but he hasn't). Then I zoned out. Then Cuba turned up and so I left it on that channel.

Freeview channel 42.
http://www.freeview.co.uk/whats-on/channels/categories/travel-channel

Generali

michaels wrote: »

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....

Rather helpfully I work on a floor at work that has a wonderful confluence:

1. Having a breast feeding room
2. Having no nursing mothers

It's the perfect place for a snooze.

Unfortunately others have noticed this so I can also nip down to the local library which has:

1: Big leather armchairs
2: Tolerance of snoozers

Worst case? First aid room which has a bed rather than an arm chair. It's a bit solid and it's also on the floor where the ops people are which makes me wonder what horrors the room has seen.

My favourite though is to go to the botanical gardens and lie under the big fig tree that's about 500m from the road on a gentle slope and kip while listening to a podcast.

ukmaggie45

Watching the clouds roll by, and the sun in distant clearances.

Sun on distant clouds by Maggie, on Flickr

mystic_trev

Generali wrote: »

Rather helpfully I work on a floor at work that has a wonderful confluence:

1. Having a breast feeding room
2. Having no nursing mothers

It's the perfect place for a snooze.

Unfortunately others have noticed this so I can also nip down to the local library which has:

1: Big leather armchairs
2: Tolerance of snoozers

Worst case? First aid room which has a bed rather than an arm chair. It's a bit solid and it's also on the floor where the ops people are which makes me wonder what horrors the room has seen.

My favourite though is to go to the botanical gardens and lie under the big fig tree that's about 500m from the road on a gentle slope and kip while listening to a podcast.

My tip for peace and quiet when at an Airport - Find the Prayer room. You'll rarely find more than a couple of other people there, and never any noise. Perfect for a snooze.

ivyleaf

Maggie - thanks for the photo. I love that sort of sky, when the clouds seem to form a bay (or rather, the land on either side of a bay, IYSWIM!)