Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

ivyleaf

You won't see this until later Lydia, so I hope you enjoyed the day. That's a really lovely dress and i love the colour.

I usually get stuck when I try on dresses that just pull over the head

I keep forgetting about "elsewhere"; takes me all my time to keep up with this thread

SingleSue

I forget elsewhere too at times and it is 'my' elsewhere! My excuse is that my main site has taken off again this last month as the season has started and that is taking my time and focus.

Just for comparison

My main site - 2,792,042 page views and 2,801,358 forum requests over the last month (not even a full month of the season in full swing completed yet), almost 10k unique visitors in the last 24 hours.

Elsewhere - 740 page views and 1180 forum requests over the last month, 9 unique visitors in the last 24 hours.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

What were they about?

Any screwdrivers involved? Sometimes dreams can tell you where lost things are!

LOL/screwdrivers.

I can't remember before this point, but I was in a light coloured car with a blonde woman/girl who was driving. We were at the end of a narrow/dry dirt track at a cliff edge and had to turn round a left hand hairpin bend, at about 5mph. I thought "that's a bit narrow" and then I spotted the (by now) slate pathway had a chunk missing that we were about to drive over and I figured the car would roll off what was now the cliff edge.

So I leapt out of the open passenger side window just as the car gently tipped over the side.

I then stood looking down into the water - which was about 15' deep - thinking "should I jump in to save her or is she getting out OK?" - it was calm water. Then I saw her coming up to the surface.

The next second she was with me on the track (some 20' above the water) and I said "my house/car keys are in that"....

Then I woke up.

Jazee

PN, you did the right thing.

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

I forget elsewhere too at times and it is 'my' elsewhere! My excuse is that my main site has taken off again this last month as the season has started and that is taking my time and focus.

Just for comparison

My main site - 2,792,042 page views and 2,801,358 forum requests over the last month (not even a full month of the season in full swing completed yet), almost 10k unique visitors in the last 24 hours.

Elsewhere - 740 page views and 1180 forum requests over the last month, 9 unique visitors in the last 24 hours.

That's really quite a valuable site! Are you sure you can't get some of the advertising revenue from it? It could transform your finances.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

LOL/screwdrivers.

I can't remember before this point, but I was in a light coloured car with a blonde woman/girl who was driving. We were at the end of a narrow/dry dirt track at a cliff edge and had to turn round a left hand hairpin bend, at about 5mph. I thought "that's a bit narrow" and then I spotted the (by now) slate pathway had a chunk missing that we were about to drive over and I figured the car would roll off what was now the cliff edge.

So I leapt out of the open passenger side window just as the car gently tipped over the side.

I then stood looking down into the water - which was about 15' deep - thinking "should I jump in to save her or is she getting out OK?" - it was calm water. Then I saw her coming up to the surface.

The next second she was with me on the track (some 20' above the water) and I said "my house/car keys are in that"....

Then I woke up.

Can you remember whether you were Thelma or Louise?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Can you remember whether you were Thelma or Louise?

I was pee'd off!
My keys were in that car and I knew I'd get very wet diving for them!


Good job I woke up else in the dream I'd have had to have thrown her back over the cliff and forced HER to dive for them!

chris_m

I've been spending (and saving) money today.

I've decided to terminate the contract and return my Mercedes, since I'm not really using it - my Dacia Duster is far far better suited for the sort of driving I'm doing now. I had originally planned to keep the Merc until the end of the contract, then hand it back, however I worked out that doing that would cost me more than handing it back now - what with the remaining payments, insurance, at least a couple of tyres, etc. probably coming to around £6K. I had thought that it'd cost me about £4.5K of shortfall value to hand it back, so would save around £1.5K, but didn't realise that the deposit I'd paid counted towards the minimum amount I have to have paid so in the end the shortfall was only £1.9K to pay - which will save me around £4.1K, lovely jubbly. Just waiting for them to arrange to come and pick it up now.

Got a settlement figure for the finance on the Duster too, but for keeping that car - and that was less than I anticipated, so I'll call them on Monday and pay that off.

I will then be officially debt-free for the first time in 30+ years

As I previously posted, I'm paying these things by loading my Tesco account then paying on the Clubcard debit card - the £20K I put in my S&S ISA earned the points OK, so these can do so as well. Every little helps

Oh, and I received a request for payment instructions for one of the endowment policies I had for my mortgage, which matures in a month's time. Although the maturity value isn't set in stone until the maturity date, the forecast indicates that I'll actually get back more than I've paid in, by around 60% !! It's just a pity that the other policy I had (the larger of the two) which matured last year didn't make any gain whatsoever, let alone such a reasonable one.

LydiaJ

Thanks for the best wishes for the wedding - it was lovely, thanks. Very informal and low-key, but absolutely personal. For example, everyone who came was told what to contribute to the "bring and share" food, so no caterers, but stacks and stacks of yummy food. The main thing was that two very very lovely people, who've each had a really really tough time over the past few years, are now very happy together, and wanted all the people who'd supported them through the aforementioned tough times to celebrate with them. There was a very obvious atmosphere of everybody being very very pleased about the marriage, with the wedding of much less importance.

The bride was late, which was great because at least one of the guests had got stuck in a traffic jam because of an accident on the motorway, but still got there before it started. The littlest bridesmaid (age 5, daughter of the groom) was in floods of tears right at the beginning - I'm not sure but I think the strewing of fake rose petals hadn't gone to her satisfaction - and had to be picked up by daddy on arrival at the front of the church. Then a car alarm went off! After that it all went reasonably smoothly. The usual speeches were augmented by one from the bride and one from the oldest bridesmaid (age 13, daughter of the bride) saying how much she thought of her mum for everything she'd done as a single parent, how much she liked the groom and her new sisters, and how grateful she was to have such a great father figure (her birth dad is completely off the scene).

Got some pics in the dress but not sure any of them came out particularly well. If they didn't, I'll put it back on tomorrow or next week, and get DD to take some more.

chris_m wrote: »

I will then be officially debt-free for the first time in 30+ years

Yay! Well done. :T Enjoy the feeling.

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

That's really quite a valuable site! Are you sure you can't get some of the advertising revenue from it? It could transform your finances.

Youngest is working on a solution (I say working, he has it all worked out but there are things to iron out first).