Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks. Originally, I thought that the avatar was Michael's DW. !

I think one of the reasons I first thought Michaels was a woman was because I thought it was him!
Then I, too, thought maybe it was his wife/partner etc.
Then I wasn't sure, which is why I asked!

SingleSue wrote: »

Erm nope, he actually owns only one shirt!

I did point out to him that he doesn't possess anything that he could wear the cufflinks with but he just replied "Shiny......"

Maybe it will prompt him to want to purchase more shirts, we can only hope eh? :rotfl:

Is his nickname 'Magpie'?

SingleSue

More like miser with magpie tendancies....he loves collecting money which is shiny so not a huge jump to cufflinks! :rotfl:

ivyleaf

I just tried and failed to find a link to a brilliant Punch cartoon I saw years ago. It was in a competition where readers were invited to send in new captions to very old cartoons. (No idea now why I was looking at Punch, i think it must have been in a dentist's waiting room or something.)

Anyway, the cartoon with its new caption showed two early Victorian bucks squaring up to each other in a tavern or similar, cascades of lace dangling from their sleeves, and the "referee" was saying "All right, all right, I'll settle the argument and say Peregrine has the prettier cuffs."

Shame, it was so funny but you really need to see it!

SingleSue

Taken by James on my phone

Pyxis

Wow! What a lovely photo! :T

Pyxis

Interesting prog on at the mo......came across it by accident. "Find It, Flog It, Fix It", Channel 4, where a pair of bods find stuff. E.g. In garages, and fix it up to sell/upcycle etc.

Try an old potato oven, an old petrol pump and a gilt-framed mirror.
Be interesting to see how this varies from other similar progs.
They do seem to be real antiquey/collectible things, though.


Where's Pastures?




The old potato oven does seem interesting, though.



Edit...They've found an old cine film of Covent Garden market in .1962.
They say it's worthless! (But fascinating).

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

They do seem to be real antiquey/collectible things, though.
Where's Pastures?

Bit harsh referring to PN as antiquey, IMO :p:p

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Bit harsh referring to PN as antiquey, IMO :p:p

:rotfl: irriot! :rotfl:


And I wasn't referring to her as an 'old potato oven' either! (even though she is interesting!)

The potato oven, which was a mobile baked potato oven, was restored to working order and sold for 2k, a profit of £1600.
(Apparently a new potato oven would cost about 8K).

Pyxis

Now it's Kate Humble on BBC2 'Wild Shepherdess' .

She's in Afghanistan finding out about the shepherds that live in the Wakhan Corridor.

I've not watched any of this series. She spends time with shepherds in some of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Looks interesting, so that's me not doing much again!




Its history is fascinating....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakhan_Corridor
(Britain sticking its oar in in the 19C features!)

CKhalvashi

That photo is beautiful Sue!

Are there any NP working in insurance? Just have a quick question