Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

We probably get about 60% of our food from Herr A. There are a fair few things we prefer the quality of supermarket or branded - in some cases it is where there is a supermarket economy version which is cheaper than the aldi price. Also supermarkets have silly cheap yellow sticker stuff that aldi doesn't.

So in reality for us aldi delivered would work where supermarket delivery doesn't...and so of course supermarkets deliver and aldi doesn't.

PasturesNew

I am now the proud owner of this
https://www.aldi.co.uk/3-tier-expanding-airer/p/072117080780400
But at £8.99.

I've just plonked it in the downstairs loo "for fit" and it fits a treat alongside the radiator in there without getting caught on the sink or looming over the loo - something the larger airer wouldn't do. I bet it also sits in the bath a treat!

Hellishly busy again, I only just managed to get a parking spot before I left the car park. Shop full again ... some odd people in there. Had a "baby jiggler" behind me in the queue... they drive me nuts. They've got a newish baby and are holding it up and jiggling it .... and if you try to get some distance between you and them, they move forward too! Had to really bite my tongue as it brings out the 'tourettes' in me, which is a side-behaviour of feeling "trapped and unable to escape". The words "Will you just F*** off with your sticky brat so close to me......" whizz through the mind

I only had the one thing, woman in front of me needed the entire length of the conveyor to lay her shopping out ...

So, there I was, I knew I wanted this thing, I had it in my hand, so I had to sit it out ... but I had a "looming baby jiggler" just 12" from my shoulder. Thinking about it now, I should have faked sneezes and coughs, so she'd have tried to get the distance between me and her.
I'll remember that next time.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, there I was, I knew I wanted this thing, I had it in my hand, so I had to sit it out ... but I had a "looming baby jiggler" just 12" from my shoulder. Thinking about it now, I should have faked sneezes and coughs, so she'd have tried to get the distance between me and her.
I'll remember that next time.

I may have found the solution for you, PN.

I made home-made Aioli. 5 cloves of garlic chopped small, and 2 tbsp of mayonnaise, mixed together. Believe me when I say that's really quite garlicky. Judging by my experience after a couple of teaspoons of the stuff, you'll have no problem getting PLENTY of space in the queue.

Very healthy stuff, garlic. Probably because nobody gets close enough to infect you.

ivyleaf

Good one, GDB :rotfl:

PN I'm glad you were able to get the airer, it looks really good! Sorry about the baby-jiggler in the queue though. Well done for coping (I hope that doesn't sound patronising, it isn't meant to be.)

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

DG or anyone, have you ever installed electronic door locks? DD1 seems to have trouble holding on to her key and I quite fancy the idea of a fingerprint/keycode/mobile activated unlock system.

We have one at school that works on the capillary pattern in the fingers - so they only work if there is blood flowing through the finger and not if someone has taken a cast of a fingerprint (or got the finger but not with a live body attached). I've no experience of them in people's homes, though, I'm afraid.

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm pleased you enjoyed the zip line. The video scared me.

I'm on a gliding course at the moment - in between the rain showers. I find that not at all scary, despite normally absolutely hating heights. Anything more than five steps up a ladder bothers me quite a bit. Can anyone explain?

I don't mind heights as long as they're not cantilevered. Cantilevers scare the life out of me - I always feel they are about to snap off. Let me stand on something that's attached at both ends and I'm usually not too bad. Although I don't like leaning on parapets either - they give me the same "about to snap" feelings as cantilevers.

ivyleaf wrote: »

Pastures Same here, I put some washing out and then we went out, and it stayed dry right until we headed back to the car park. Then the sun came out again, so I decided to leave it out - but it looked as if it was clouding over again, so I brought it indoors....and so far it hasn't rained again after all. Sigh.

I've given up on hanging washing outside. Mine goes on one of these:



Although I've modified it. I got one of these that had broken at the top hinges:



I took the two halves of it and used strong plastic cable ties to attach them to the metal things that hold the wooden poles of the thing that hangs from the ceiling. Thus I have loads of nice thin horizontal bars to which washing can be pegged (for better air circulation than draping) and can put things that are very large (like sheets) or need to lie flat (like woollens) over the top of the wooden bars as well. I have a large washing machine and can usually get two whole loads on the thing, with maybe a little overflow onto a few radiators about the place.

[Am attempting to reply to a month's worth of posts three at a time. This could take a while. Off to put the first coat of varnish on the underside of the shelves that need to be ready to put up tomorrow. Back soon. :hello:]

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

[Am attempting to reply to a month's worth of posts three at a time. This could take a while. Back soon. :hello:]

Great to see you again
We'll stay quiet while you catch up ... actually, it's quieter here recently..... some people have been absent you know! We blame them.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

'A good cure for a sore throat and low grade fever is to stand outside in torrential rain for 2 hours soaked to the skin watching DD2 play football' - discuss.....

This is why I am very very very grateful that both DS and DD are into drama rather than sport. I get to watch them while sitting down in a nice warm theatre.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Hello NP, long time no speak...

Hope everyone is well.
Had GT day mark 2 last month. Letter from the lender arrived saying not only was everything cleared, but they owed me £50.

Nice....

Yay! Lemon is back... or was back ... while I wasn't here. How exciting - I get to carry on working through the month's posts while waiting to see whether he is still around on the thread by the time I get up to date. Am hoping he is.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Job is going well sir. Very hectic at the moment.


Groin thrusting 2, the final instalment.



Yep. 2 years and 2 months. And I got a refund...
:cool:

Awesome! Let me think... I bought in Jan 2011 and was MF by Aug 2014, so that's 3 years and 7 months - you win. :T

I didn't exactly do it in the conventional way, as long term NP are well aware, of course.

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Anyway....... In short, the holiday was fantastic! Every part if it was good; the travel, the hotel, the food, the people, the hospitality, the tour manager, the weather, the experiences, and last but not least, the fabulous singing! :T

Sounds lovely. V glad you had such a lovely time.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've been in the Half Awake Club all night, now in the Wide Awake Club and got coffee.

I am not looking forward to getting up for work tomorrow morning. Body clock definitely still on half term time.

Pyxis wrote: »

I'm assuming it's something like Siri on the iPad

I've had my iPad nearly 3 years, but still haven't turned Siri on!

Or Cortana on Windows. DS was tickled pink when he asked Cortana what its favourite TV show was and it replied that it likes Star Trek: The Next Generation.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Great to see you again
We'll stay quiet while you catch up ... actually, it's quieter here recently..... some people have been absent you know! We blame them.

No need to be quiet on my account. Feel free to keep posting away while I'm doing my three at a time. Break up the monotony of so many posts by the same person!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate lettuce. I just don't see the point of it.

I'm with you on that one.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I need a wireless battery controlled speaker, so I can place it in the relevant corner, so it can only be heard when in "nuisance distance"

Could you get one of those things that makes a high pitched noise that only children and dogs can hear???

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

If Max Bygraves doesn't do it, try Plainchant!

I like the way you think, Pyxis.

Pyxis wrote: »

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I thought you were a guy! :eek::o:eek::o:eek::o
I have succumbed to the dreaded stereotyping disease, of assuming a haulage person is male. Shame on me. I can't believe it!
Grovel grovel.

But then, I'm always getting people's genders wrong. Thought Michaels was a woman (probably the avatar), then a man, then a woman, then a man! :eek: :eek: (I still might be wrong! Just 'cos someone has a wife, doesn't mean they're a man! :eek:)

And there have been several others on random threads that I got wrong.

Mind you, more than one person has thought I was a man. Initially. Until I blew my cover! :rotfl:

I prefer not to have people think I am male - hence choosing a name that indicates I'm female. (Lydia is a name I quite liked when we were choosing names for DD, but LNE didn't like it because he had known someone of the name whom he didn't think much of.)

I expect somebody has already confirmed that michaels is male. I have met him, and not only did he look male to me but he and his wife have produced some delightfully attractive children who look like both of them. Seems fairly convincing to me.

bugslet wrote: »

I definitely had you down as a woman Pyxis. I think it's the truck thing, everyone thinks I'm a bloke. My pic ( I am wider now:( ) is on torbrex's gallery thread.

I ought to mention the bellydancing more often - though in fairness there are a few male bellydancers about.

What is this gallery thread of which you speak, please?