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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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PasturesNew wrote: »Where I used to live the train would take 1 hour to get to X, then it was a change; but time it wrong coming back and you could alight at X at about 9pm and the next connecting train wasn't until about 7am the next morning. But booking systems give no clues. They should flag it up saying "Look, you'll be sitting on a dark station, alone, all night .... why not stay on the train 2 more stops then catch the bus overland and arrive at your destination in a timely manner"
The best train times I came across were on the old Railtrack website. Travelling from Ipswich to London Waterloo it offered, IIRC, this itinerary;
Ipswich -> Liverpool Street (overground)
Liverpool St -> Waterloo East (underground)
Waterloo East -> Waterloo International (walk)
W'loo Int. -> Paris Gare de Nord (Eurostar)
Sit on platform overnight
Paris -> Ashford International (Eurostar)
Ashford Int -> Ashford (walk, changing platform basically)
Ashford -> London Waterloo
Depending on your times, it could also offer sitting on the platform overnight at Brussels Midi before returning to Ashford.
Both itineraries failed to take into account that in the third stage you walked THROUGH London Waterloo to get to Waterloo International, so the remaining stages were superfluous :rotfl:0 -
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78rpm records are very heavy. Heavier than books, in fact, for a box of them compared with the same size box of books.
Just saying.
PS Guess what I'm doing this afternoon!Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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They may of course be worth a fortune thoughI think....0
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They may of course be worth a fortune though
Maybe. I'm not particularly hopeful though. There's very little money in old stuff of most kinds these days.
Some of them are albums - a book-like album where each "page" is a paper sleeve that a record fits into.
We have moved onto books now. We are trying to get the books that are going to the flat into the bookcases that are going to the flat, and the books that are staying in the house into the bookcases that are staying in the house. This requires a lot of decisions to be made by someone who does not like making decisions. I am trying to view it as an opportunity to practise patience, which is not one of my best virtues.
On the plus side, I have discovered that my grandfather wrote a novel, and will be taking it home to read when (if ever) I have time.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
78rpm records are very heavy. Heavier than books, in fact, for a box of them compared with the same size box of books.
Just saying.
PS Guess what I'm doing this afternoon!
Guess what you're doing? That's easy. You're at the gym, getting into shape to move all those books and records of your dad's.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I'm currently a "believer" in the 38p Aldi Bags for Life. They are so pretty and many designs/colours. Only this evening I deliberately added the latest colour to my list and bought one! It's a cheery light/bright blue colour with an image of a lemon and glass of booze on it. I've got brown/bacon, sage green/tea, brown/onions ... and yellow ones .... and I've also got a Sainsbobs orange one and a bright blue CoOp one. They're invaluable, especially if you're going to do a lot of carting.This requires a lot of decisions
Here's what they look like: https://images.hotukdeals.com/comments/content/RVYLp/31882729.jpg - sold under the conveyor belt at the till.
Just a vague idea, but it might help if many of them were laid out on the floor with a note pegged to the top of them to help sort the mind a bit ....
Piles don't really work well - and you end up with piles all over the floor. At least if the decision making is done in robust bags they can be moved about easily enough... and the bags are robust enough for most books.
The bags of books could then easily be moved about to sort/re-sort, consider, move out of the way etc.
Colours could be used to differentiate decisions.
The trouble with a lot of sorting/packing is the endless trail of "stuff we're half way through thinking about" that get in the way with no easy way to move them about to clear a route through ...
I think, too, the bags aid progression as it can make it seem less overwhelming ... and can break the job down a bit - and make them portable to carry "half the next shelf" to a more comfortable sorting area (such as a chair with a cup of tea).
I cannot BELIEVE nobody mentioned it before!
On the plus side ...
How does that happen?
Was it self-published, or published?0 -
Lydia wrote:We have moved onto books now. We are trying to get the books that are going to the flat into the bookcases that are going to the flat, and the books that are staying in the house into the bookcases that are staying in the house.
Is the house being sold? With the bookcases? and the books?I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
chris_m I keep meaning to thank you for your comment that the clocks going back means Spring's on the way. That's a very cheering thought!0
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chris_m I keep meaning to thank you for your comment that the clocks going back means Spring's on the way. That's a very cheering thought!
Always looks for the positives
Actually, my veggie patch looks like spring's already here today. I planted onions, broad beans and peas for overwintering to give earlier crops, plus I also planted a couple of broad beans in every unused location to either give me a "bonus" crop or to serve as green manure. Most of them are up now and it's a lovely bright, sunny day with the sunlight picking out the fresh green leaves beautifully.
The only contradictions are all the dead leaves off the pear tree and the skeins of geese flying south overhead. Oh well, can't have everything I suppose.
The gang of starlings that hoover up any food that's been left out for the other birds have taken to roosting in a tall tree at the bottom of my neighbour's garden, chattering away for about an hour before dusk. They got an unwelcome alarm call this morning, though. Just as I went out in the half-light just before sunrise there was a hell of a kerfuffle from that direction and they shot out of the tree in all directions, followed very quickly by the local sparrowhawk.0
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