Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

ivyleaf

Lovely to see you, Lydia :j I'm so glad your DD has been able to part with some "stuff"

GDB2222

Pumpkins were only 19p at Lidl today. So, we got one, and I've cut out a nasty face and inserted a candle. We then had to spend far more than that to buy sweets.

Edit: Just had our first customers banging on the door. Too little to reach the letterbox, let alone the door bell.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pumpkins were only 19p at Lidl today. So, we got one, and I've cut out a nasty face and inserted a candle. We then had to spend far more than that to buy sweets.

Edit: Just had our first customers banging on the door. Too little to reach the letterbox, let alone the door bell.

Don't eat them all at once :rotfl::eek:

Pyxis

I don't seem to get any these days.

Mind you, that's probably because I haven't done a pumpkin in the window for a about four years. I used to, and got mini-bar sweets in. Then two years running, I got the sweets in and nobody knocked and I ended up having to eat all the sweets myself.
And I don't even like chocolate!

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

I don't seem to get any these days.

Mind you, that's probably because I haven't done a pumpkin in the window for a about four years. I used to, and got mini-bar sweets in. Then two years running, I got the sweets in and nobody knocked and I ended up having to eat all the sweets myself.
And I don't even like chocolate!

Unbelievable! Who doesn't like chocolate?

Edit Or was that a whoooosh?

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Unbelievable! Who doesn't like chocolate?

Me!







I much, much prefer toffee/caramel etc.
Oh, and liquorice.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Unbelievable! Who doesn't like chocolate?

Me!

Like they say, there's nowt so strange as folk

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Like they say, there's nowt so strange as folk

And no folk stranger than this folk!

hjd

Halloween? Not in this house!

LydiaJ

bugslet wrote: »

New dog arrived and it's:smileyhea all round. Well maybe not instant love from the other dogs, she's large and bouncy, with paws the size of dinnerplates. There's no malice, she has no concept of relative size. She's 16 weeks, called Lola as in the film, Run Lola, Run. Of course, everyone else thinks of Barry....

She looks lovely. I'm envious. DD and I are now thinking that we may be ready for a dog by Easter. I don't want a new dog during school term time - when we eventually get one, it'll be at the beginning of the school holidays, so we have time to get him/her to settle in and feel at home before school starts again. And Christmas is too busy to be a good time, obviously.

SingleSue wrote: »

Joe was not impressed with Lincoln as a place initially but I think that was more down to the fact he was tired and the first impression when you come out of the station is not a positive one.

However, as the day has progressed he is coming to love it more and more so it is fingers crossed the uni impresses tomorrow now.

We have done the cathedral, the castle (well the bits you didn't have to pay for anyway), quite a few shops and even Steep Hill...we cheated though and got a taxi up and took a very slow and multi break (as in rest not bones!) walk down again. I was absolutely determined I was going to do it and although my whole body was doing the weird jerky robot thing, I did it.

I am so not going to be able to do anything for god know how long and it was probably very silly and damaging but I am still proud of myself.

Oh and we went to the cinema tonight!

Sounds as though you had a lovely time. Do try not to push yourself into any truly irreversible damage, though.

silvercar wrote: »

If your area is anything like mine, prices have gone stupid in the last year and sellers now have very inflated ideas of what their home is worth.

My prediction is that there will be a drop in 3 yrs time. There are a load of new build flats around here that have been sold to young people buying together - friends, siblings and couples. They have all bought under help to buy with a government loan of 20% that needs to be either repaid in 5 years or the interest rate rockets. Too many are going to come for sale at the same time, either to repay the loans or because the pairings are splitting or the couples needing room for babies.

I am getting interested in houses again. One friend has just bought and moved in, and another is gearing up to put her deceased parents' house on the market and start looking for a house that better suits her requirements. I'm hoping to be allowed to tag along for the house hunting. (She's single, so I'm hoping she'll find it fun and also helpful to have another person with her to talk through the houses' plus and minus points.)