Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

I know a few people here have discussed them in past. Now TV with 3 month ents package £13.99 on Amazon DOTD.

If you see a similar offer on the movies please let us know - I am down to my last 8 months of vouchers.....there is a new new now tv box out that does al the free view and catch-up stuff plus pause live TV etc currently on offer everywhere at £40 down from £70 with 4 months movies / 6 months entertainment.

Pyxis wrote: »

Wow! Your own oersonal flypast, PN! :rotfl:

You must be a VIPN! :rotfl:

That is what I was assuming, I imagined PN standing on her balcony and taking the salute.

Picked up the 'new' (12 year old) car this evening - it made it home 27 miles with no mishaps or breakdowns. So far it has made me realise just how good to drive our other electric cars is....

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

If you see a similar offer on the movies please let us know - I am down to my last 8 months of vouchers.....there is a new new now tv box out that does al the free view and catch-up stuff plus pause live TV etc currently on offer everywhere at £40 down from £70 with 4 months movies / 6 months entertainment.



That is what I was assuming, I imagined PN standing on her balcony and taking the salute.

Picked up the 'new' (12 year old) car this evening - it made it home 27 miles with no mishaps or breakdowns. So far it has made me realise just how good to drive our other electric cars is....

Could you guide me on the TV package, please? I'm going to bump our broadband up to fibre now, is it worth taking? We have a BT vision box but with no subscriptions.

The rest of the damily use netflix on our mobile contracts. Is this worth it?

Great news on the car

zagubov

Great to see lir back. :wave:

Glad that michaels' car made it home. I'm intrigued by the electric nature of said car ( i'll confess I'd forgotten we'd discussed this before).

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

So on a flight back home tonight and we take off... then I hear thump..... thump..... And I'm thinking.... that's one thump short of gear up.

Sure enough....

"Errrrrrrr, this is your Captain speaking..... Errrrrrrr....... We may have a slight indicator light problem with the landing gear and we're..... Errrrrrrrr..... going to return to the airport as a precaution."

Uh huh..... Indicator light.... We can all count the thumps mate.

Still - the 45 minute tour of the midlands at 3K feet while they ran the checklists was mildly interesting.

Not half as interesting as the final approach (to me anyway) was though...:eek:

All's well that ends well - gear stayed locked (as in didn't collapse) on t/d - spare aircraft - crew squeeked in the second departure just within duty hours - etc - so finally home - but it's now a 22 hour day for Hamish so off to bed.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Big Air Show today.

It's Britain.

It's raining.

That's ok. They can show off the seaplanes instead! :rotfl:



On reflection, are there still any seaplanes about?
trots off to google...............





Edit. Yes, there sure are! This one's on Loch Lomond.....

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

That's ok. They can show off the seaplanes instead! :rotfl:

On reflection, are there still any seaplanes about?
trots off to google...............


Edit. Yes, there sure are! This one's on Loch Lomond.....

Loads in Canada too.

There are even some flying boats around still too - mostly used for air-sea rescue or firefighting work.

SingleSue

Youngest enrolled for the final year of level 3, absolutely manic in that building yesterday...imagine about 500 young people all talking at the same time and you can understand why I came out of there with a headache! We were met by a very excited friend of youngest's as soon as we went through the doors, screaming that he was off to uni (he had been in the same year at high school) whilst at the same time giving youngest a bear hug.

Youngest is now looking forward to this time next year (yep he is strange, others are scared/nervous, he is excited).

Also got my car back from the repairers...she looks lovely.

Pyxis

Talking of PIP forms, a couple of weeks ago, I was helping my neighbour with hers, and reading through the instructions, I was amused to see them say that if you are filling in the form for someone else, to fill in details about the person, and not about yourself!


Derr!

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's Britain.
It's raining.

Handy - saves me watering the garden today.
Just about managed to get out before the rain, by about 2 minutes, to bung some grass seed on a small area I've decided to have grassed over.

Not so handy - I also wanted to measure up around my back door and outbuilding today so I can start designing the porch I want to build between them

silvercar

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

So on a flight back home tonight and we take off... then I hear thump..... thump..... And I'm thinking.... that's one thump short of gear up.

Sure enough....

"Errrrrrrr, this is your Captain speaking..... Errrrrrrr....... We may have a slight indicator light problem with the landing gear and we're..... Errrrrrrrr..... going to return to the airport as a precaution."

Uh huh..... Indicator light.... We can all count the thumps mate.

Still - the 45 minute tour of the midlands at 3K feet while they ran the checklists was mildly interesting.

Not half as interesting as the final approach (to me anyway) was though...:eek:

All's well that ends well - gear stayed up on t/d - spare aircraft - crew squeeked in the second departure just within duty hours - etc - so finally home - but it's now a 22 hour day for Hamish so off to bed.

Think yourself lucky. Tel Aviv airport last night had a flight take off leaving behind a tyre on the runway. It had to circle for 3 hours burning fuel before attempting a landing.