The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

chris_m

Well, I've just started on my second semi-raised veggie bed - the first side and both ends are now sunk into the ground and levelled. Not really enough time to do the other side before the light goes, so hopefully I'll get it in before the rain that's forecast tomorrow afternoon.
Then it'll be a case of waiting for a suitable day (i.e. no rain immediately before and none forecast until I've finished) before digging out 2-3 tons of soil, installing the weed barrier and shifting the 2-3 tons back again. Who said retirement was easier than work? At least it'll be easier than the last one because I don't have to get the soil elevated out of the hole AND over a 3 foot fence and up to 6 feet away - I can just lob it into a pile next to the hole, phew

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Got a HUGE thunderstorm rolling in from the North - really "end of the world" rolls of black cloud moving over. It's about 8 miles to the East of me, so hopefully it'll just go past me, rather than over me.

I'll be able to tell soon if it's moving further away, or closer.

There's a rainbow out there to, to the East.

It's started raining .... just a bit.

6.40: Chucking it down now.
Party's gone a bit quiet, as it was an al fresco affair avec wobbly gazebo for food.

Ooh - I have never tried gazebo - is it a Mexican dish?

Looking like bad news on Irma as it is now due to track up the W coast of Florida rather than the spine so more storm surge coast and more time with energy from the warm ocean being added

I hope no NP are long insurance companies or Lloyds Names.

CBaker

A refreshing change. Thanks for the nice people thread!

Pyxis

Here we go again!









I am back.



Edit. Just caught up with thread!

SingleSue wrote: »

Yet here is me sat in my social housing house and the world outside is boring. No fights, no cars on wheels, no public domestics...just very boringly quiet with perfectly kept gardens and with no-one to be seen after 9 at night.

Wouldn't have it any other way but for some reason this road still has a horrendous reputation, lived here 19 years and the only thing we have had in all that time is next door singing whilst laying down in the road drunk about 10 years ago.

I was on a train returning home from London one day a while back, and was at the train door waiting for it to pull into my station with two guys standing next to me. One said "Where's this?" And the other gave the name and followed it with "It's a rough area".
I was so indignant, I turned and said it wasn't rough, and I live there! There is one small pocket of streets that was bedsitter-land for a while and there were a number of drug-users and even some prostitutes, I believe, which gave that pocket a very bad nam. However, the rest of the area is very nice, with mixed shops and mixed housing types.
Just goes to show how a small bit can blacken the name of a larger bit!

GDB2222 wrote: »

I live in supposedly a respectable and boring suburb of London. But, if I look on http://www.murdermap.co.uk/murder-map.asp and draw a circle of a couple of miles round my house, I can count around 20 murders!

Murder map! :eek: :eek:

(I'll have to have a peek in a mo!"

Masomnia wrote: »

Just had date no. 2 with a nice Jewish girl from Inner Herts, went well.

Thought of you all.

Don't know why you thought of me, as I'm not Jewish and don't live in Inner Herts!



Oh, hang on, I am a girl though!
:rotfl:


Oh, and I am Nice!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Here we go again!
I am back.

Oh no, here comes trouble




ONLY kidding, welcome back :T Were you all in good voice?

chris_m

chris_m wrote: »

Well, I've just started on my second semi-raised veggie bed - the first side and both ends are now sunk into the ground and levelled. Not really enough time to do the other side before the light goes, so hopefully I'll get it in before the rain that's forecast tomorrow afternoon.
Then it'll be a case of waiting for a suitable day (i.e. no rain immediately before and none forecast until I've finished) before digging out 2-3 tons of soil, installing the weed barrier and shifting the 2-3 tons back again.

Got it done, in between heavy showers - at one point I wondered if I'd be replicating a WWI trench, well the mud and water anyway.

Whilst waiting for that "suitable day" for the digging out, etc., I can get on with making the netting frames and supports. They won't be permanent fixtures so they can be removed when I need the space for swinging the shovel around.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Ooh - I have never tried gazebo - is it a Mexican dish?
:rotfl:

It sounds quite tasty! :rotfl:
Is gazebo tastier than canopiès?
Or vol-au-tents.
With pergolated coffee.

PasturesNew wrote: »

EDIT: Well, they've all left. That was all civilised and well behaved... you read so much about FB parties these days....)

FB party? Facebook?

Have I missed a deleted post? Confoosed.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Got a HUGE thunderstorm rolling in from the North - really "end of the world" rolls of black cloud moving over. It's about 8 miles to the East of me, so hopefully it'll just go past me, rather than over me.

I'll be able to tell soon if it's moving further away, or closer.

There's a rainbow out there to, to the East.

It's started raining .... just a bit.

6.40: Chucking it down now.
Party's gone a bit quiet, as it was an al fresco affair avec wobbly gazebo for food.

That was the monster thunderstorm that delayed my plane landing at Heathrow!
The clouds were something else! Towering grey monsters, and that was from just above them! Real Armageddon jobs! Was waiting for the Seven Horsemen to come riding out of them!

We had to circle a lot, (got fed up with seeing the same bit of coastline a few times!), got a lovely buffeting on the way down and then when the wheels hit the tarmac there was such a squealing of tyres! :j
What fun! Was waiting for the parachutes to come out the back!

chris_m wrote: »

Oh no, here comes trouble




ONLY kidding, welcome back :T Were you all in good voice?

Yup! It was great!

Would like to say more, but it could identify me to undesirables!

(Still on the run, you see! )

vivatifosi

If you're lurking at any time, thinking of you Purch. If you're back in Tampa, stay safe, if you are here at the moment, hope your place over there comes through unscathed.

silvercar

Pyxis wrote: »

That was the monster thunderstorm that delayed my plane landing at Heathrow!
The clouds were something else! Towering grey monsters, and that was from just above them! Real Armageddon jobs! Was waiting for the Seven Horsemen to come riding out of them!

We had to circle a lot, (got fed up with seeing the same bit of coastline a few times!), got a lovely buffeting on the way down and then when the wheels hit the tarmac there was such a squealing of tyres! :j
What fun! Was waiting for the parachutes to come out the back!




Yup! It was great!

Would like to say more, but it could identify me to undesirables!

(Still on the run, you see! )

If you put the flight details into flightaware.com, you can see a map of the route your flight took.