Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Probably best avoided by everybody. My sibling does a lot locally and people are aggressively angry at the slightest thing that's not the fault of the local organiser/administrator.

e.g. if you offer to deliver the local newsletter to everybody in the village - and one person lives a mile up a dark/muddy track and you deliver the notices on foot, they get aggressive that they didn't receive one.

It's free, you're giving up your time, they live in the 4rse end of absolutely nowhere, but they STILL expect you to tramp your way up their mud-drenched, isolated road to drop one through the letterbox, running the gauntlet of their dogs/ducks, perchance they might read it and not just chuck it straight in the recycling

It never occurs to them to do a spot of volunteering!

My parents were both German refugees, and I guess it has rubbed off on me. My immediate reaction was that, if one has volunteered to deliver to the whole village, then nobody should be left out! This would be unjust.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

My parents were both German refugees, and I guess it has rubbed off on me. My immediate reaction was that, if one has volunteered to deliver to the whole village, then nobody should be left out! This would be unjust.

Well, I maybe worded it wrongly. It wasn't really "the whole village" - people were volunteering to "deliver some of the Newsletters".

Now, you have a choice....
1] Allow most people to receive a Newsletter as the volunteers will cover most of the village.
2] Allow nobody to receive the Newsletter, opting instead to putting a pile of them only in the local Post Office and people have to get their own.

You can't have "everybody" - especially in the countryside. It's a small village, then you get the people who live way out in the fields isolated.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Ooof - bit tired this morning after staying up half the night - new House of Cards and a bottle of something tasty - both of which are now almost finished.

Have a drink, watch an episode, get a bit excited, watch another episode, have another drink, rinse and repeat.

Such a good show - but a bit hangover inducing....

Under normal circumstances today would be a sleep until lunchtime sort of day but (a) I've paperwork to complete and (b) I need to be up for a delivery.

Generali

OMG. It's boiling and it just won't cool down. We're stuck in some never-ending summer.

I was driving the car at 5pm and the temperature said 36C outside. The BOM (Met Office) reckoned it got up to 34C where I was today. It's bloody autumn! Even now it's 25C outside according to BOM at 8:50pm. I'm hardly sleeping and the only room with air con has the most uncomfortable sofa in the world in it. I might sleep on the sofa anyway.

The Boy is off at Scout Camp so it was Mrs Generali, The Girl and me off doing chores and things. We didn't do anything particularly exciting: went to Grandma's to get some papers we left there, sausage sizzle at Bunnings (Homebase) for lunch and looking for sofas in the arvo.

Oh and The Girl had a project on Aboriginal art. I think I mentioned that I took her to the Art Gallery of NSW last week to look at some art so this week we've been doing her project and it's great!

We got a sheet of A3 card and she's done a huge dot picture of the Rainbow Serpent along with an embellished story of him (the Rainbow Serpent is a common Dreamtime/religious story across many Aboriginal groups). Then she's made some pictures of the story using common Aboriginal symbolism. It really is very good. I'm a very proud Dad tonight.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

... done a huge dot ...

That'd be the limit of my skill.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

OMG. It's boiling and it just won't cool down. We're stuck in some never-ending summer.

I was driving the car at 5pm and the temperature said 36C outside. The BOM (Met Office) reckoned it got up to 34C where I was today. It's bloody autumn! Even now it's 25C outside according to BOM at 8:50pm. I'm hardly sleeping and the only room with air con has the most uncomfortable sofa in the world in it. I might sleep on the sofa anyway.

The Boy is off at Scout Camp so it was Mrs Generali, The Girl and me off doing chores and things. We didn't do anything particularly exciting: went to Grandma's to get some papers we left there, sausage sizzle at Bunnings (Homebase) for lunch and looking for sofas in the arvo.

Oh and The Girl had a project on Aboriginal art. I think I mentioned that I took her to the Art Gallery of NSW last week to look at some art so this week we've been doing her project and it's great!

We got a sheet of A3 card and she's done a huge dot picture of the Rainbow Serpent along with an embellished story of him (the Rainbow Serpent is a common Dreamtime/religious story across many Aboriginal groups). Then she's made some pictures of the story using common Aboriginal symbolism. It really is very good. I'm a very proud Dad tonight.

When we were kids, we'd drag our beds out onto the sleepout. If it's not straightforward to get beds into the lounge, could you beg/steal borrow some camping gear? An upturned inflated dinghy (should you have one about your person) also makes a good improvised bed for little people.

mystic_trev

Spirit wrote: »

You park cars in garages?

Outbuildings.....How much clutter are you hoping to collect?

Don't be silly, my car will never get near the garage.

I'm a bit of a hoarder

Off to Twickenham this afternoon. I've got a nasty feeling Wales might sneak this one.

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

I'm a bit of a hoarder

Is it proper hoarding, of items of real interest/value, collections .... or is it random old grubby tat that you're hoarding due to some issues that mean you can't let go of anything at all?

In short: Are you a savvy, wise, investor of antiques of the future ... or a bag lady?

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

When we were kids, we'd drag our beds out onto the sleepout. If it's not straightforward to get beds into the lounge, could you beg/steal borrow some camping gear? An upturned inflated dinghy (should you have one about your person) also makes a good improvised bed for little people.

We have a tent etc but we also have a swimming pool which means that we'd have to bash tent pegs into the tiles!

I might drag the camping mattress into the sitting room and camp under the air con. Apparently we've had a record number of consecutive nights over 20C now in Sydney. Three weeks of them or something stupid.

Sheesh.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

The domestic staff just ventured out to Sainsbobs, quality purveyors of ready made pizzas .... whereupon, one of the foods I've been missing slid gently into the trolley

£2.20 for a 10" chilli beef pizza. Nom.

Once it'd been dragged back to the castle, Chef Minimus was tested for settings/time. Pack said "pre-heat, 12 minutes". Chef Minimus pulled it off without pre-heating and in 8 minutes. What a star.

So, I am now on the outside of 1/3rd of a pizza - and very tasty it was too!

The freezer's also been restocked with 30 fish fingers, a big bag of chicken dippers and two bags of Quorn in a curry sauce (half price/clearance line probably). So the freezer's now heaving again.

I am delighted that Chef Minimus is proving so helpful.