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

PasturesNew

Strangest thing I've seen recently - but didn't take a photo - was down at the Quayside.... people were sitting on the quayside "crabbing" - you have a hook/line and a bit of bacon on the end and they catch tiny crabs, put them in their bucket, then toss them back in when they've finished...

Bobbing along in the water, alongside the quay concrete wall, just 1' from the edge, was a fully inflated dead hedgehog. It was the size of a football and just as round!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Strangest thing I've seen recently - but didn't take a photo - was down at the Quayside.... people were sitting on the quayside "crabbing" - you have a hook/line and a bit of bacon on the end and they catch tiny crabs, put them in their bucket, then toss them back in when they've finished...

Bobbing along in the water, alongside the quay concrete wall, just 1' from the edge, was a fully inflated dead hedgehog. It was the size of a football and just as round!

Are you sure it wasn't a blowfish?

ivyleaf

Jazee When we were on holiday in Devon a few years ago our hotel window looked onto a park where people walked their dogs. Every day a young man would come along with a big black dog and throw a ball to it, and the dog would leap into the air and hit the ball back to him. This would go on until the dog was tired, then they'd go home

ETA sorry, I think I've posted about it on here before. Oh well.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Are you sure it wasn't a blowfish?

From memory ... I'd say it was a hedgie... everybody else was thinking the same. It does look similar though...but my money would be on it being a hedgie still.

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

Jazee When we were on holiday in Devon a few years ago our hotel window looked onto a park where people walked their dogs. Every day a young man would come along with a big black dog and throw a ball to it, and the dog would leap into the air and hit the ball back to him. This would go on until the dog was tired, then they'd go home

ETA sorry, I think I've posted about it on here before. Oh well.

I've not heard it before!

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

I thought the big problem with dryers was a build up of lint in filters not being cleaned regularly and in some models this leading to the fans overheating and said highly combustible lint catching fire.

There really ought to be adequate thermal cut-outs, to prevent that. It's easy enough to implement, and lint is a foreseeable issue in a drier, so any that burst into flames because of it ought to be recalled and modified.

SingleSue

Just got an absolute bargain, a dress reduced down from £425 to £49! Perfect for James' graduation.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Strangest thing I've seen recently - but didn't take a photo - was down at the Quayside.... people were sitting on the quayside "crabbing" - you have a hook/line and a bit of bacon on the end and they catch tiny crabs, put them in their bucket, then toss them back in when they've finished...

Bobbing along in the water, alongside the quay concrete wall, just 1' from the edge, was a fully inflated dead hedgehog. It was the size of a football and just as round!

Crabbing is a favourite past time round here to take children for a cheap afternoon outing. We have an excellent place to do it down the ferry in the old part of town, the most expensive part is the parking, the cost of which makes your eyes water!

Re the dress purchase, even though it was vastly reduced, I was still treated as if I had paid the full price with the dress wrapped in tissue paper and the dress brand name bag (rather the shop named one) to put it into alongside the personal dressing/fitting service.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

....the most expensive part is the parking, the cost of which makes your eyes water!
...

Same here. Daft prices. Even when it's out of season and the car park's empty they want daft money .... if I owned it I'd make parking free out of season and try to get more activity/businesses down there to flog their wares....

1 April to 30 September it's
1 hour/£1.70; 2 hours/£3.10; 3 hours/£4.30; 4 hours/£5.50; 8 hours/£10; 24 hours/£15

Winter it's £1.50 for one hour up to £11 for 24 hours.

There's "nothing there" to speak of. Just a car park, a view and a pub really. Having looked at the view, dismissed the pub ... it's crabbing or nowt.

The nearest residential road you can park on is ½ a mile away too.

chris_m

SingleSue wrote: »

Just got an absolute bargain, a dress reduced down from £425 to £49! Perfect for James' graduation.

Good deal - but will it suit him?
:p:p:p