Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

CKhalvashi

Tahlullah wrote: »

In the midst of our concerns for others, lets not forget the 62 dead and the 59 injured in the Portugal fire that is still spreading.

A bad time indeed.

Yes.

I've just had lunch in a Portuguese cafe, and it was on the TV in there.

It was 62 confirmed dead when we left, with the death toll expected to rise.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Grenfell Tower. Still gives me nightmares, but explain this:

They reckon 500+ lived in the block, 100 escaped, they expect the sad death toll to be less than 100, so where is everyone else? The fire took hold at 1am, so most people should have been home.

I haven't heard about the Portuguese fire....... I was out for a long time today, and all day yesterday. I will google it.




(Thoughts deleted, re. Grenfell Tower).

ukmaggie45

It's been hot today. OH power washed the decking where there was algae growing on it that made it slippery in the wet last time we were here. So safer when Grandkids here next week. I slept a lot. Gorgeous evening.

Calm evening over the bay by Maggie, on Flickr

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

I haven't heard about the Portuguese fire....... I was out for a long time today, and all day yesterday. I will google it.

Tower block victims

It is going to get messy as the official tenant list may well bear little resemblance as to who was actually living there

michaels

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

It's been hot today. OH power washed the decking where there was algae growing on it that made it slippery in the wet last time we were here. So safer when Grandkids here next week. I slept a lot. Gorgeous evening.

Calm evening over the bay by Maggie, on Flickr

You did well, much too hot to sleep here at night let alone in the day.

We have a light/ceiling fan combo above the dining table in the kitchen. The fan stopped working a year ago, today we got round to buying and fitting a replacement. (No doubt it might well have been a relatively easy fix but life is too short.)

zagubov

Legend had it that the borough really limited social housing in case that increased the number of labour voters. Other beliefs are available.

Pyxis

Woke up at 3am, too hot to sleep, so turned on the TV.

More bad news.
And following the superb Get Together day for Jo Cox's memory, too.

GDB2222

Great grandma's/grandpa's great grand-daughter - isn't that some sort of cousin? Umpteen times removed, probably.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Great grandma's/grandpa's great grand-daughter - isn't that some sort of cousin? Umpteen times removed, probably.

2nd cousins, 0 removal.

The parties' parents were cousins.
The parties' grandparents were siblings.
The parties' great-grandparents are who they have in common.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

2nd cousins, 0 removal.

The parties' parents were cousins.
The parties' grandparents were siblings.
The parties' great-grandparents are who they have in common.

I must admit, I'd always thought that the terms second cousin and first cousin once removed applied to the same pair of people, but from the different perspective of each of them.