Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Rain. 10 characters

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PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Only 29 hours to POLDARK TIME! :T

Cheers for the heads up ... I miss so much I'd like to watch.

I watch it, but I really don't get the way people think he's sex on legs. He's not my sort at all. And I despise the way he's objectified on Twitter and then the news talk of "twitter went into meltdown...." before posting irrelevant random tweets from nobodys on their website as "news".

oooh text... wonder if I'm being invited for tea.

EDIT: grrr... farquin spam!

PasturesNew

In other (boring/nobody asked me) news ....

Today I stared at a name on the tree and thought "today's your lucky day" and I've tried to find the parents of another GGG-grandmother. I just had her name and that she turned up in a church and got married; I had no father's name, or clues at all...

Well, I think I've managed to push that back to get to her grandparents, my GGGGG-grandparents. Seem to be a bunch of Quakers, which is why things are getting trickier, I'm pushing into all my Quaker lines.

I'm descended from long lines of Quakers and all I know about them is: "Don't they wear funny clothes?"

They all lived in a funny little hamlet about 25 miles from here. I'll do a daytrip and round robin at some point, all these places are in a 10 mile radius of each other and include cottages, castles and nice things to look at.

EDIT: Ooh bonus find - on my quest to find out what are quakers .... I've stumbled across the full tree linking me to the beheaded fella... so now I know, at least, what data they're working from and their methodology, enabling me to analyse and assess if I think they're talking out of their bums.

EDIT 2: I've had a quick scan, I think they're idiots and made it up. Maybe they saw the "rumour" too, so made it fit. Their tree has the beheaded man's wife dying years before she gave birth
Their dates simply would never work.

I do wish people'd take keyboards away from idiots - give them something shiny to play with instead!

Pyxis

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pyx, surely you mean only 2 1/2 hours to Strictly!

It's on now!

Actually, I haven't watched many of the previous shows, partly because I don't like the way they arrange pop songs into the various dance styles, when there are so many fantastic standards of the 30s and 40s to choose from.
I tended to start watching if there was a comic pair, you know, a rank outsider, or towards the finals.

However, as this is Len's last series, I thought I'd watch from the start.
Now that I've seen Will Young is doing it, I'll deffo watch, as I really like him.

I also like Naga Munchetty. I like her dry sense of humour and she's a very, very clever person.


I say watch; it's on the TV, but I'm on the internet! :rotfl:
I glance up from time to time! :rotfl:


At least there's no food on Strictly!

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Countdown to normal life resuming...youngest back at college on Monday, Josh back to university next Sunday and James back to university the following Sunday.

Youngest is seriously feeling the pressure, his own pressure I hasten to add. He has spent the whole summer holiday doing portfolio work and he is now very eek that it has come to the end of the holiday and he hasn't quite finished it. That sounds very bad on the face of it but when you consider that just part of his portfolio is what 3rd year uni students are doing for their dissertation project on his course of choice, it's not bad going (he saw what others were doing and wanted to go not just one better but several steps better!).

He has spent 100 hours so far on that one bit of his portfolio (he has other stuff already completed) for what will probably be a 5 minute glance at by the universities he is applying to. No idea if the effort will be worth it educationally but for youngest, it means everything, he hates things half done, or doing just enough to get by.

Oh to have his dedication....

DD and I are back to school on Monday, with DS on Wednesday. My first two days are inset, though.

It sounds like an amazing piece of work. I hope he's able to reuse it for other things besides this "examiners cast a quick look at it" portfolio. That amound of effort deserves to be properly appreciated, and he deserves credit for it in proportion to how hard he has slogged at it.

Jazee wrote: »

Meet my new puppy Poppet: https://app.box.com/s/852bwrm5c7ehsos2q66reyerdk4vyjad

Adorable! Thanks for sharing.
What breed is she, please?

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

And wind! SW gale. Got central heating on.

Tado has just turned the heating on here too.

It is very wet and windy here. We have just got back from DD's birthday party - so very glad she picked an indoor activity for it.

LydiaJ

mystic_trev wrote: »

Oh - and my mother died last week. Well she was two weeks off her 94th Birthday, so had a good innings.Now running round like the proverbial blue @rsed fly sorting stuff out!

Sorry for your loss, Trev. Losing one's mother is a big deal, no matter how old she is. Hope you have family to help with the sorting, and to remember her with you.

Thoughts and hugs and prayers.

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Rain.

OH's work colleague's garden party, after OH was delayed 22 hours getting back from the States. Not good on any front.

Trev - sorry to hear of your loss. Difficult time, hope you are looking after yourself.

zagubov

Sorry to hear about your loss, Mystic Trev.

PN, I've met many Quakers, and have found them to be non-dogmatic, supportive, generous, friendly and positive people. They don't fight wars, they make money, they support the poor and the oppressed.

I'm a kind of a pragmatist. I don't believe we can objectively determine whether one religion is truer than another.

However I (possibly misguidedly) believe we can judge them not on their temples or palaces, but on their good works, the benefits they bestow on the weaker people, if you like- their kindness, which I think is a grossly under-rated quality or attribute these days. In which case I'd reckon they'd be at the high end of the scale.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

OH's work colleague's garden party, after OH was delayed 22 hours getting back from the States. Not good on any front.

Hmmm - SE garden party just mentioned on bbc news channel weather forecast....

SingleSue

So sorry for your loss Trev, thinking of you all xx

Lydia - I think the biggest thing for youngest will be that he has done it. Others will be able to enjoy (I hope!) his work but the main thing will be youngest's feeling of satisfaction, of a job well done, of mastering a particularly awkward and not at all user friendly thing.

He likes proving to himself he can do things that neither he nor anyone else expected him to be able to. So even if it is a 5 minute glance, he won't care....he did it.