Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

GDB2222

hjd wrote: »

Halloween? Not in this house!

I totally agree with you, actually. It's commercialised twaddle.

Nevertheless, it was great fun seeing how much the kids enjoyed it, as well as how much trouble they had taken with the costumes.

ivyleaf

We'd got sweets in, but had only a pair of girls about 11 or 12, wearing zombie make-up.

Very pleased we didn't get any more, as neither of us is well atm so were glad not to have to keep answering the door. Oh dear, what a shame, we have loads of mini-Maltesers and mini-Mars bars, whatever shall we do with them? :A

ETA Lydia DGS didn't pass 11+ (Maths was fine, English not so) but they found a good school to put as first choice. It's their nearest one into the bargain, but uses "fair banding", so fingers crossed. They have to wait until March to find out.

Loanranger

We only had one pair of children last night. I didn't know you were supposed to put something in the wndow to encourage them . Next year I won't be buying anything, we both dislike the import of americanised commercialism.
So, yes what on earth to do with mini maltesers, hmm?? Oh well, waste not, want not:D

Pyxis

I don't mind Halloween, but it does seem to have pushed away Guy Fawkes night.
Shame, really, although to be honest, fireworks are so expensive, short-lived and dangerous that I'm all for restricting them to organised displays.

It is a shame there are no more Penny for the Guys, though, and no more home bonfires in the back gardens etc.


I can remember watching from indoors, when I was small, my faced pressed against the window,while my dad lit the bonfire and set off the fireworks. I was always scared to hold a sparkler, too, until I was older!
I used to love rummaging through the box of fireworks , looking at all the designs on the outside, and their funny shapes, on the carpet in the living room, while the open coal fire crackled nearby. :eek: :eek: :eek:

(It did gradually dawn on me that that might not be the best place to look at them! :rotfl:)

PasturesNew

I only popped out .... ended up having to go to three shops and then the main road through my area's closed by the police. It's shut off from the end of my road.... there's an ambulance up the road, but I've no idea what's going on. I'd guess at "random pedestrian crossing road got hit by a car" ... but nothing online, no twitter, nothing.

How can you pop out for a "pack of interdental brushes" .... only to end up in three shops and coming home with Xmas crackers, two bags of chocolate covered chocolate fingers and a pack of assorted jacobs crackers? I've never bought Jacobs crackers before ..... shops, eh .... they make you grab stuff

On the plus side, that's nearly Xmas sorted!

Conrad

I don't know where to put this comment, it isn't a chilled-out thang, but important all the same;




Ch Insp Jim Tyner ‏@ChInsp_JimTyner Oct 28
RT: please please please DO NOT USE SKY LANTERNS #halloween #bonfire



Sky lanterns are causing lots of damage, fires ( to thatched roofs for example), sea rescue services mistakenly being called out, birds such as Owls dyeing due to thinking they are prey and a ton of plastic rubbish strewn throughout the countryside and ocean, getting into the food chain at alarming rates.


This stance is supported by the RNLI, The Chief Fire Officers Association

PasturesNew

Conrad wrote: »

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This one's been dragging on years without very much being done about it. One Council's banned the launching of any such item from any land they own.

Trouble is, if you try to speak to people who are launching them you'd just get a gobful as they're normally doing it "... in memory of poor Laura/Bob/Debbie ... who died tragically of ...."

They don't think about "... poor Mary/David/whoever ... died in a fire when a sky lantern landed on their roof"

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

How can you pop out for a "pack of interdental brushes" .... only to end up in three shops and coming home with Xmas crackers, two bags of chocolate covered chocolate fingers and a pack of assorted jacobs crackers? I've never bought Jacobs crackers before ..... shops, eh .... they make you grab stuff

On the plus side, that's nearly Xmas sorted!

You're turning mainstream, Pastures!
Sounds quite normal to me!

Conrad wrote: »

I don't know where to put this comment, it isn't a chilled-out thang, but important all the same;




Ch Insp Jim Tyner ‏@ChInsp_JimTyner Oct 28
RT: please please please DO NOT USE SKY LANTERNS #halloween #bonfire



Sky lanterns are causing lots of damage, fires ( to thatched roofs for example), sea rescue services mistakenly being called out, birds such as Owls dyeing due to thinking they are prey and a ton of plastic rubbish strewn throughout the countryside and ocean, getting into the food chain at alarming rates.


This stance is supported by the RNLI, The Chief Fire Officers Association

You could open a thread in the Arms and post it there. It would get a lot of views there.

I must admit, I don't think I've ever seen one.

Maybe they should just ban sales of them.

PasturesNew

Just turned to BBC1 - bird who goes to the tip, then has trendy people charging her fortunes for makeovers before flogging the stuff to people she knows or from her barn's on. Altrincham tip.

I've missed the start.

Item 1: Hawthorn Stumps

Turned over to find her with two dodgy looking bearded blokes (Josh & Olly) with bobble hats. They've done something with some rotten old lumps of wood (dirty hawthorn stumps).

She advertised online 9 little "trees" at about £11 each. Also made some vases - not sold everything yet, she's not tipped over into profit yet.

£250 labour/materials. She's sold one vase, one tree, £67 total. Loss £183.

Item 2: A shabby chair
It was the lady's great-grandparents' chair that her great-aunt had inherited, then she ended up with it.

Anthony Devine's recovered it. "hand designed and digitally printed on velvet one of a kind". It's a sand coloured short velvet with words printed on it. Naff/rough as fook.

£750 labour/materials.

ONE !!!!!! CHAIR!!!!!! Original budget she'd set him was £500.

Nick Smith, an online client of Sarah's bought it (nutter!). Sold for £825. Profit £75

We are ALL .... in the wrong game aren't we.

Item 3: An old mower
I missed that, that all occurred before I turned over.

ukmaggie45

OH took my Motability car back to the dealership today.

Yesterday we did a last day out in it, to Pickerings Pasture, a nature reserve/park on the banks of the Mersey. It was a truly glorious afternoon, I took lots of photos.

Pickerings Pasture