Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Other bad news was as my train let St Pancras today it stopped then limped into Kentish town - after many promises that we would be on the move (always in another 20 minutes) and 1 hour later they then told us all to get off and couldn't tell us if all trains were cancelled or only our one so tube back to London then a very overcrowded train to Hatfield - plus of course my phone battery died. Home eventually at 8.15 and I have an early meeting tomorrow

Edit: And the worst thing - I finished my book on the way in this morning so for nearly 3 hours all I had to 'read' was the metro :eek:

Someone jumped in front of a train.

GDB2222

oldandhappy wrote: »

We believed we could smell Gas at our first house in Beddington bought for £4400 1969 we sold it in 2000 for £134,950 and just sold again 2016 £390,000...I digress......Gas 'man' came out do not remember which gang....could smell something but passed with flying colours....several years later it was stronger smell..called out again the Gas 'Man' pointed out the little flower bed where the smell was and also mentioned it was clogged with worms like thousands....arrrrr that'll be the gas worms dear!!!!Yep dug up rotten pipe very rotten....replaced pipe and all fixed...in no time at all the worms moved elsewhere too....BW Dianne

All these worms were high on gas?

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Our super-dooper top of the range steam generator iron tripped the rcd today.

Good news is we bought in on 5th August last year.

Bad news is we only paid £60 for a £250 iron so I bet mr T Direct will just offer us our money back rather than a repair/equivalent replacement (it was end of line hence the price).

Who spends £250 on an iron? You can get all your ironing done for you for a year for that amount.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Who spends £250 on an iron?

Somebody with more money than sense?

vivatifosi

I don't know if this helps anyone's family history search..

The British Library has announced the addition of the Western Chronicle, 1886-1927, and Belfast Evening Telegoraph 1871-1898 to its searchable British newspaper archives. I have access if I can help out.

So much easier than going through microfilm for hours.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know if this helps anyone's family history search..

The British Library has announced the addition of the Western Chronicle, 1886-1927, and Belfast Evening Telegoraph 1871-1898 to its searchable British newspaper archives. I have access if I can help out.

So much easier than going through microfilm for hours.

Can one read them online, or is it just search or fee-based?

The Western Chronicle might be worth random searching/browsing.

Sometimes, it's easier to live with having no access, than to be able to search and see there's something you can't get at without physically visiting a building 200 miles away - and if you're idly browsing and something catches your eye you're not going to do that.

I like to type random words into the searches and then spot bizarre/sad/unusual reports to read. Like yesterday, teacher and 4 kids drowned on school camping holiday in Devon in 1924.... which I then left a postem on freebmd about, giving people the outline/names and source for more info. I figure this might aid somebody searching for somebody where the death is in an unexpected location + it'll let people searching for those names know if it's the death they're looking for. e.g. if you've four results in a freebmd search it could help somebody eliminate one of them as being not theirs.

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

Who spends £250 on an iron? You can get all your ironing done for you for a year for that amount.

Ironing? Wossat, then?

I can do irony, is that similar?

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Ironing? Wossat, then?

I can do irony, is that similar?

Ironing is something the poorly prepared do. I don't own an iron. If it needs ironing, I don't use it

Firstly, buy clothes that won't need ironing.
Secondly, when washed, hang/dry them on hangers and pull them straight when wet/damp.
Thirdly, a lot of stuff never needs ironing: nightwear, sheets, duvet covers, pillowcases, towels, jeans, jumpers.... so don't get sucked in.

I guess it also helps that I don't have many clothes, so none of them are squished/creased hanging

vivatifosi

Not free of charge PN, but might be from a local library, or could be one of the sources that gets linked to next time you get a free day. As in don't be surprised if you do a search, and something new pops up.

ivyleaf

I used to know someone who liked ironing so much that she even used to iron her J-cloths! (a brand of cleaning cloth, for anyone who doesn't know - I'm not sure if they still exist)

co-op lover I hope your water is back on now! Do you keep any bottled water to hand in case of emergency?