Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Spirit_2

Had a very happy Easter here. Not too chocolatey. DD bought me a pair of chickens, Speckled Marans, Hybrid birds that will lay dark eggs.

Weatherwise we got away very lightly in the storm, we are at the bottom of a hill. The hill shelters us from the south. As the crow flies not far from the south coast but the wind hit the hill and missed us.

The noise through the forest was like a train and the rain torrential. We are very waterlogged, should have got ducks.

I drove along the A27 this morning on a driving lesson.There were small sailing boats washed up on the shore at the edge of the road, one of oh's colleagues said she had an icecream kiosk wrapped around a nearby lampost, and the shingle beach was now on the road.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Re the internet being wonderful...
She always thought ... A year or so ago I found out that the outcome was altogether more positive, just by looking up where she lived and following the BBC history pages.

Brilliant isn't it!

What really annoys me is that the local newspapers where I grew up aren't digitised. There are a few on the newspaper archive website, but nothing much beyond about 1925.

I'd like to be able to look up/read/see stuff I hear or find out about etc.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Weatherwise we got away very lightly in the storm, we are at the bottom of a hill. The hill shelters us from the south. As the crow flies not far from the south coast but the wind hit the hill and missed us.

And I was sitting here thinking you'd be losing all sorts and fearing trees coming down! All the time you were sitting there all cozy and unaware.

ivyleaf

Oh Pastures, that is a shame - it sounds as if it's always a bit windy around your house though, isn't it?

Might be worth looking for a place with a less awkward internal layout too?

oldandhappy

sorry knackered but have read posts and and but consumed in my own world of ponds=wildlife=no mossies hopefully...but not holding my breath having had them at the last place in fits and starts=swarms of them at times=sealed nets at windows essential......pond building looking very good now back not so good spirits high pains are high..there you go swings and roundaboutsxxxregards Dianne

oldandhappy

like fish will eat all the mossies larvae...hopefully

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sometimes there's a wasp that just sits in one spot in the air and I think he sits there with his mouth open and just gobbles them up as the air flow moves them around.

I think that's likely to be a hover fly. Gardeners' friend! Eat all sorts of nasties. Same colouring as wasps, but it's to put off predators. Really nice if you have hover flies in your garden PN. They don't sting or bite or anything like that. They are fascinating to watch.

ukmaggie45

I got really angry earlier today about how Job Centres don't have toilets for claimants (or should that be "clients"?) to use...

So I've started a petition on the Gov petition site about it.

First hurdle is you have to have 5 people support you. Then they look at it and decide if it's allowable.

I've got the 5 (and more) so now am sweating over if the thing goes live or not. I'll let you know if it does!

Doozergirl

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I got really angry earlier today about how Job Centres don't have toilets for claimants (or should that be "clients"?) to use...

So I've started a petition on the Gov petition site about it.

First hurdle is you have to have 5 people support you. Then they look at it and decide if it's allowable.

I've got the 5 (and more) so now am sweating over if the thing goes live or not. I'll let you know if it does!

Mmm. I can imagine what some 'clients' might do in/to a loo in a Job Centre. Some people aren't intelligent enough to work out that the Secretary of State for work and pensions doesn't clean the loos.

vivatifosi

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I got really angry earlier today about how Job Centres don't have toilets for claimants (or should that be "clients"?) to use...

So I've started a petition on the Gov petition site about it.

First hurdle is you have to have 5 people support you. Then they look at it and decide if it's allowable.

I've got the 5 (and more) so now am sweating over if the thing goes live or not. I'll let you know if it does!

It won't be about the Job Centre per se, it will be about the building. If it is an older facility, it will have been built in a time when public toilets were more prevalent. If it's anything like a lot if older libraries it just won't have the right layout for access and may not have many toilets as only a few were provided for staff.

It's an on going problem... the public expects access to facilities but retrofitting can be difficult/expensive/disruptive to service. Though if this is in a newer building that wrong.