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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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With PN's suggestion in mind, I tried adding a bag (for textiles recycling) alongside the various boxes. This was objected to, for fear that the useful bag would be used to put the contents out at the kerbside and get taken away.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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With PN's suggestion in mind, I tried adding a bag (for textiles recycling) alongside the various boxes. This was objected to, for fear that the useful bag would be used to put the contents out at the kerbside and get taken away.
I hope I'm half as good as your dad when/if I reach his age. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I hope I'm half as good as your dad when/if I reach his age.
So do I. He's amazing, and I love him to bits. But two weeks of doing things at his speed doesn't come easily to me.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 -
My friend's dad died aged 104. He was still very with-it at that age, but he had slowed down an awful lot. She had to make a conscious effort to slow herself down when she entered his flat.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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PasturesNew wrote: »I cannot BELIEVE nobody mentioned it before!
How does that happen?
Was it self-published, or published?
I knew he was a writer. He wrote quite a few non-fiction books, mostly historical biography. I've read his account of the abolition of slavery, and his book based on the extensive diaries of his two maiden great-aunts. I just didn't know he'd had a go at fiction.
Yes, it was published. He wrote it while still married to his first wife, and it was published (and dedicated to her memory) after she died but before he met my grandmother, in 1919.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 -
....book based on the extensive diaries of his two maiden great-aunts. .... wrote it while still married to his first wife, and it was published (and dedicated to her memory) after she died but before he met my grandmother, in 1919.
OMG.... a TRUE insight into an ancestor .... you're SO lucky to have that! The diaries sound utterly,utterly, fascinating (it's one of my favourite books to look for/buy, real people stuff, who weren't rich/famous).0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »OMG.... a TRUE insight into an ancestor .... you're SO lucky to have that! The diaries sound utterly,utterly, fascinating (it's one of my favourite books to look for/buy, real people stuff, who weren't rich/famous).
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He died shortly before finishing it, so his friend sorted it out for sending to the publishers, and then got interested in the subject matter, and wrote two more volumes, to make it a trilogy of their lives:
Deleted link to two more booksDo 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 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »Going back to your previous posting ....
It's certainly NOT for everybody ... but is there any chance your dad would be interested/motivated to reading/recording it for you. For your dad to turn his dad's book into an audio book?
As I said .... not for everybody. It'd be a rare family/dynamic/situation that would find this possible/achievable and acceptable.
If it were the sort of thing "right up his street" though, it'd make for a super collection for you to "pass on". Gt-granddad's book; granddad reading it; mum arranged it.
He was my mum's dad, and she died in 2011, I'm afraid.PasturesNew wrote: »Not stalking ... honest.... but your gf wasn't very lucky in 1939 and 1949 was he!
And I see his first marriage had a notice published in the Globe.
Is his old house still in the family? As I notice it's an hotel and wondered if you'd ever stayed/been tempted to.
Oh dear, 1948 was a sad year too
My parents have stayed in the hotel, but no, I haven't. It was sold after he died and my GM decided to move elsewhere.
Not sure what you mean about 1939 and 1949. He lost his first wife in about 1917-18ish, and he lost a son in a rock climbing accident in 1948.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 -
PasturesNew wrote: »... still not stalking ... but ... that Emily was a saucy mare! A 20 year affair with a married man 20 years older than her, until he died.
Emily was really not very nice. She was considered "plain" and unlikely to catch a husband. When her older sister Louisa got married, she decided that if she was going to be left on the shelf, she didn't want to be on the shelf alone, so she set about persuading her younger sister Ellen to refuse every proposal she got, and she got many. This, in the mid-1800s when getting married and having children was just about the only acceptable way for a woman of their class to have an interesting or useful or worthwhile life.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
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