Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

AIUI, LCY is shut at weekends, so BA are taking one plane from there and operating it on 4 return short haul runs over a Saturday & Sunday in quick succession. No doubt there will be some geek who books all 4 return flights, just because they can. (Though I imagine that a delay that occurred on the first would trigger 8 x compensation.)

I believe it's the 190 being used, so 12 planes for limited routes = little to no chance of any delay over the 3 hour limit, assuming a spare will be kept at STN over the weekend.

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

I'd never heard of hotline until today. Seems to be for ex BA employees with at least 10 years service, gives entitlement to staff fares for the same length of time as an ex-employee as they served as an employee. Is that right?

Plus existing employees.

OH has been at BA for less than a year, and the scheme is available from the join date for both BA and partner airlines.

silvercar

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Plus existing employees.

OH has been at BA for less than a year, and the scheme is available from the join date for both BA and partner airlines.

Can I ask, what sort of discounts you get? and do you get a definite booking or is it standby?

Wheezy_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Are others having trouble following? Not that it matters, though. Hotlines, Various codes, and CK seems to be flying a U2 spy plane.

No idea. My employer always puts me in World Traveler.

Last flight I got a bit lucky, the in flight entertainment thingy was wonky in row 17 (in CK speak: BA B767 BWI --> LHR WT 17F:))

My neighbours !!!!!!ed off to other seats so I could go flat on 17D to 17F....fell asleep above Maine and woke up just in time for brekky before descending into LHR.

Spirit_2

Its only money. Looks like my reduction in Physiotherapy is not going to lead to a reduction in Healthcare spending this year.

Just phoned and paid the vets + cremation bill. £1100.
We have insurance which will cover some of it.

Our vet practice does not wait for insurance companies to settle. How do people without healthy cash reserves manage? Presumably credit cards.

Spirit_2

Building design chap turned up. We liked him and have asked him to proceed with preliminary drawings. He is coming back next week to survey the site.
He has suggested 17 weeks to planning approval.

We have a building company in mind who by coincidence he works well with, so we may have our dream team ( pending builders availability) Next hurdle, Cost and how to finance it. And the small matter of me passing a driving test so we know if we are here longer term.

Cash, Mortgage, bit of each. Depends on total. Total depends on for us vs for sale.

His view is our house does not optimise the value of the plot.

ukmaggie45

I've been enjoying an Australian series, a melodrama, on BBC2 in the afternoons for a few weeks now. Set in the 50s. "A Place to Call Home". A family saga... Complete with the evil matriarch who tries to control the whole (rich) family, a vile relative who is foul to the heroine, a Jewish lady who was in Ravensbrook, the grandson of the matriarch who is gay and currently undergoing ECT without any anaesthetic as he's had a breakdown when his father said he wished he'd succeeded in his suicide attempt from a ship on the way home from his marriage in England. He'd been having an affair with his (now) wife's brother. !!!!!exuality was an imprisonable offence in Oz back then.

The family home is a real gothic looking mansion in acres of land but close enough to Sydney that family go (on a steam train! ) to visit the black sheep of the family (she had an illegitimate baby that the son brought up as his own daughter) on occasions. The gay grandson and his wife are staying with her, except the gay grandson is currently incarcerated in a private mental hospital.

The country looks fabulous. I look at the land and think of Generali and can see why he would want to live in Oz.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

doors.... I'm wishing to request sliding patio doors as my entrance. Easy to slide open/closed as you go in/out without faffing

farmhouse door...

Mine's.......... functional

No designer will ever speak the words 'maximising' and 'plot' to me.

Chap never mentioned doors at all. No off the cuff design ideas spouted.We just talked space, use of space, planning, plot and how we want total accomodation to work for us.

I like bi- fold doors. They have them in a villa we have rented a couple of times. Work like a single door, french doors or all fold back.

We have patio doors that are old and draughty OHs neice had patio doors that rattled, then one fell out, narrowly missing her daughter. I associate them with doors on porches in bed and breakfast houses circa 1970s, which is when I lived in a seaside town.

We have stable doors on our hall and at the back of the garage. Good for keeping a dog indoors, or outside. I like them.

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

It occurred to me (late) last night, that when the builder said mine'd be £20k ... (or £25k) .... that then meant PLUS VAT. £4-5k for nothing.

I shook with fear. Horrified ..... that's one big wedge to the Govt for "nothing".

Not "nothing". I think you get a personalised ThankYou card from Mr Osborne via Funky Pigeon

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

betcha bifold doors were mentioned!

I do hate those. So impractical for most, in England.

We have bifolds in the back of our through living room, and in the diner part of the kitchen diner. We've hardly used the ones in the living room - just been pretty rubbish summers, so we haven't been bothered about getting air flow through... Rather more about maintaining what solar gain we get so we don't freeze! :rotfl: The kitchen one is great though - the GrandTwins love to get out of them and up the steps into the back garden. Having the possibility of opening the space up completely is really useful when 2 small boys are both trying to get outside at the same time!

PasturesNew wrote: »

It occurred to me (late) last night, that when the builder said mine'd be £20k ... (or £25k) .... that then meant PLUS VAT. £4-5k for nothing.

I shook with fear. Horrified ..... that's one big wedge to the Govt for "nothing".

Don't talk to me about VAT on building stuff! :eek: I was handing over wadges of money every few weeks, all with that cash going to the tax man. But now we've been in the house nearly 5 years I think we both agree it was money well spent. I think our next project will be getting the outside stuff better sorted - the "patio" at side of house is a mess - we ran out of money. So some of the cash from old home will prob go on that if we can find a decent firm to do it. New people next door but one she works for a landscape gardening firm, so will have a chat with her one of these days when I actually manage to get up and outa bed.