Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

Maybe. I was going to photograph its leaves to identify it but DW had got rid of it before I could do it.

Brambles are eveywhere. I'd like to keep the lawn and let the brambles die. And any saplings will be invited to leave.

These are sycamore leaves of varying stages of maturity.....

vivatifosi

Gen, if you get back to Europe, not sure if you'd fancy this. An old friend of mine has recently done the 312km sportive. Personally I think he's nuts, but he's in his 40s and did it in less than 11 and a quarter hours, so pretty impressive as well as bonkers:

http://www.cyclosport.org/event/25-Apr-2015/Spain/mallorca-312.html

vivatifosi

Why you shouldn't write your next economic theory on a plane:

http://mashable.com/2016/05/07/economics-professor-math-terrorist/#IoM4F04QVuqN

silvercar

First BBQ of the year tonight. invited friends that we have drifted away from (as mutual friends are coming) and had that dreadful did-they-drift-deliberately feeling. Felt totally inadequate, until they replied positively. Then felt annoyed with myself for letting such feelings re-emerge.

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

First BBQ of the year tonight. invited friends that we have drifted away from (as mutual friends are coming) and had that dreadful did-they-drift-deliberately feeling. Felt totally inadequate, until they replied positively. Then felt annoyed with myself for letting such feelings re-emerge.

Inevitable, though, and understandable. :A

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

First BBQ of the year tonight. invited friends that we have drifted away from (as mutual friends are coming) and had that dreadful did-they-drift-deliberately feeling. Felt totally inadequate, until they replied positively. Then felt annoyed with myself for letting such feelings re-emerge.

Hats off to you if you kept any kind of a social life going after you had kids. We just ran out of energy to keep contacting people. Life simply got a bazillion times more complex and demanding and our social lives just contracted down to our work and mutual babysitting circles. Assuming that your friends drifted away deliberately is probably crediting them with far more energy and purpose than they could possibly summon.

Everybody else just vanished. I think. Quite a few were in public-sector jobs and moved abroad for better pay/ job conditions /quality of life than you could get in London.

zagubov

lisyloo wrote: »

It's an idea, but depends on whether you can get to where you need to pick it up or can get it delivered and whether you can get it on a Sunday I.e. comes down to the practicalities.

I have seen a scheme whether you hire privately owned cars. Again depends if there is one near you and whether they deliver and what hours.

I remember reading ages ago about a syndicate you could buy into where you got a share of a range of cars for so many days in a year. It was versatile and quite classy. Sports cars, convertibles, bigger cars. I seem to recall there were 11 to choose from. Gave you far more versatile options than just owning one big car.

I've a horrible feeling we own one car too many as it is. Michaels's post sounds far too familiar to me. Our second car (a 7-seater) is only used for journeys exceeding 400 miles, carrying loads of luggage.

oldandhappy

hats off to you if you kept any kind of a social life going after you had kids. We just ran out of energy to keep contacting people. Life simply got a bazillion times more complex and demanding and our social lives just contracted down to our work and mutual babysitting circles. Assuming that your friends drifted away deliberately is probably crediting them with far more energy and purpose than they could possibly summon.


haha a very big remember hit....married Sept 67 living in flat,,panic when found unexpectingly expecting November 1968...panic saved upsenough for our first house just in time...Husband moved in the day our first boy was born...haha gets sillier one year later had twins...not laughing at that point but life was just as you expect it would be....crazy

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Popped into CoOp (as I was passing) and came home with a pack of Soreen banana cakelets, reduced to 29p from about £1.35. So tea's a couple of those nuked with custard probably.

Ooh! I love those banana malt loaves! Yum yum!
What restraint, though!
I'd have scoffed the lot! They're so soft and squidgy, it's not like eating food, is it?

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do have a "lovely gin" recommendation for those ladies who do like a gin, but find it's a bit "nasty/bitter" at times and want to lash out about £40 for a bottle that's very nice to taste.

Go on, then, what was it?
Not that I find any gin particularly nasty/bitter.
I keep meaning to develop my gin palate to be more discerning ..... your recommendation would be just the spur I need.
(Or not. But, heyho! Any excuse!)

oldandhappy wrote: »

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haha a very big remember hit....married Sept 67 living in flat,,panic when found unexpecting expecting November 1968...panic saved upsenough for our first house just in time...Husband moved in the day our first boy was born...haha gets sillier one year later had twins...not laughing at that point but life was just as you expect it would be....crazy

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oldandhappy

Would enjoy I reckon having a religion but I do not... love going into churches they feel good..went to Sunday school as a kidiwink my Father insisted we got married in a church which we did, Beddington Church gorgeous in the park setting which also became where our 1st house was.....and all because my parents had moved to Wallington a few weeks before the day of our wedding...My Mother was always very anti any religion now she is different in her older years(89) and has communion at home on a regular basis she says... although a christian type of person and never followed the catholic faith but sure it does not matter at all if you feel good about it.

Two people need 2 cars really and out of habit I guess I say that....miss my smart car sold it to a friends Son in Uk who also has our 7 (was 8 but mr bad horrid Fox took one) call ducks...Mantle Farm is there place they run a chicken farm business near Battle...struggle to make any income from it these days though however hard they work at it...the husband has terrible hay fever and has not been able to find any good relief really....its like he has a streaming head cold..a bad one at that.

heading out for a walk now...regards Dianne