Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

If that's a genuine just-post war prefab, it's a desirable antique! Probably quite fashionable! Some have now become listed buildings, you know!

A lot have become listing buildings, though

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

A lot have become listing buildings, though

Hahahahahhaa!

PasturesNew

Nice to see you again LIR, sorry about dog dog

PasturesNew

I left the house ... yes. BBQ/beach combo.
Was great, except carrying too much gear and the car park was bunged, so ended up walking, from the top of a high cliff.... doing 125 paces down's not hard, doing it up again's never welcome.

Got home and with all the excitement I nodded off by about midnight and didn't wake up until 7am... then I discovered I'd not locked my door. Oops! I'd known I'd be popping outside, so hadn't locked it when I came in, I wouldn't usually do this, but it was a conscious decision as I was laden with BBQ paraphernalia that I'd be popping out "soon" - but had then nodded off unexpectedly.

Scorchio/ish here today. Bit breezy though. Stuff to go and stare at down the town, so popping out for awhile at some point. Already made my "grab and go" sandwiches, in the fridge, awaiting a phone call at an indeterminate time, to get the "go now" call to go down and stare at stuff.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I left the house ... yes. BBQ/beach combo.
Was great, except carrying too much gear and the car park was bunged, so ended up walking, from the top of a high cliff.... doing 125 paces down's not hard, doing it up again's never welcome.

Got home and with all the excitement I nodded off by about midnight and didn't wake up until 7am... then I discovered I'd not locked my door. Oops! I'd known I'd be popping outside, so hadn't locked it when I came in, I wouldn't usually do this, but it was a conscious decision as I was laden with BBQ paraphernalia that I'd be popping out "soon" - but had then nodded off unexpectedly.

Scorchio/ish here today. Bit breezy though. Stuff to go and stare at down the town, so popping out for awhile at some point. Already made my "grab and go" sandwiches, in the fridge, awaiting a phone call at an indeterminate time, to get the "go now" call to go down and stare at stuff.

I'm boggling about what sort of 'stuff' you'll be staring at!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I'm boggling about what sort of 'stuff' you'll be staring at!

Stuff you walk past between parking the car and arriving/sitting down at the destination.

Stuff ended up being: bit of river, some small fish, some ducklings .... before ended up sitting beside a quay while an assortment of (generally bad) singers 'entertained' until a Freddie Mercury tribute fella came on and bashed out his renderings. Then fireworks

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

Oh dear!
Sorry! Had no energy to even log on and hover!

I think I'm on the mend now.

Thank you so much for caring. That means a lot, you know. :A xxxx

Been there, done that. ((HUGS))

SingleSue

Rather than pinning down what universities youngest is interested in, he seems to adding to an ever growing list!

He is also rather confusing, he said he wanted to go to a city where there is life as it's so boring here with little choice in shops/small cinema etc, yet one of his favourite ones is in a town smaller than here and with even fewer shops and no cinema at all! His argument is that he can get into London for that...all well and good if it weren't for the fact that you can actually reach London quicker from here than from there.....

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

Rather than pinning down what universities youngest is interested in, he seems to adding to an ever growing list!

He is also rather confusing, he said he wanted to go to a city where there is life as it's so boring here with little choice in shops/small cinema etc, yet one of his favourite ones is in a town smaller than here and with even fewer shops and no cinema at all! His argument is that he can get into London for that...all well and good if it weren't for the fact that you can actually reach London quicker from here than from there.....

I lived in a small town without loads to do and it was boring as anything. It depends how big the student population is and how friendly they are. At my uni the students very few were of the same age as me (they were all about 10 years older).

Three years is a very long time to be somewhere you don't much like. I'd get on one of those student review websites and find out what people reckon about the place. Hope he makes his choice after a it of research.

GDB2222

zagubov wrote: »

I lived in a small town without loads to do and it was boring as anything. It depends how big the student population is and how friendly they are. At my uni the students very few were of the same age as me (they were all about 10 years older).

Three years is a very long time to be somewhere you don't much like. I'd get on one of those student review websites and find out what people reckon about the place. Hope he makes his choice after a it of research.

I found that there was a lot of student-produced entertainment, so maybe I wouldn't worry too much about cinemas.

How about starting with the course the lad wants to study? There's nothing worse than being on a course you don't like. Even with the same course title at different unis, the course content can vary a lot.

Then look at practicalities, like whether halls are available? How easy is it to get to? Living costs whilst there?

I don't see how you'll know in advance whether you'll like the place?