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

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah, right... not done that for those in my road yet!

Although this new lot are "next door" it's actually a different road, with different entrance and different road name and different postcode. I can just see down their row ... although unless I lean right out of the window in a perilous fashion I can actually just see into half of two gardens and I can see one actual house. But I do have a panoramic view of their car park

The thing is, you have the perfect excuse to go up to them and say hello, because they are so new!

In a few weeks' time it might seem strange, but right now, perfect!

I went and knocked on the house at the back of me when I first moved in! That's in a different road! I wanted to know whom I shared a boundary wall with. Luckily, they were nice people.

ukmaggie45

We had a family barbecue yesterday from our newly bought gas barbie (long story but basically old ones burner had rotted away so OH had to rush out buy new barbie and then had to rush out again as the gas regulator was the wrong one for our gas bottle!). It was fun, and it was a lovely evening, though not very warm.

Today is a totally different kettle of fish though!

"View" from caravan today! by Maggie, on Flickr

Windy as well as misty and chilly. Hoping tomorrow will be better - forecast seems to say it will be, but I've lost all faith in them!

For weather watchers, I've been having fun looking at a rain radar site!

Pyxis

In order of rarity:-

vivatifosi

Thanks Pyxis. I have 12, 14 and 20. I've been collecting them for a one year old who loves Peter Rabbit. It took me ages to get one, then got four of the hedgehogs in quick succession.

Pyxis

There are also some extremely rare ones due to a mistake.

The Olympic swimmer is one........ I can't remember the mistake off-hand, but it was something to do with the water on the design.





Edit..... got it...... the rare one is on the left and has the water flowing over the swimmer's face. The normal one, on the right, has a much clearer face.

The rare one has gone for over £800.

PasturesNew

So hard to know what you're looking at; odds of randomly finding and recognising a proper rare/pricey coin is immeasurably small....

My eyesight's such that I couldn't even tell WHAT was on the coin I had ... until I stood outside and put my glasses on and got up close

PasturesNew

Watching Doc Martin and I'm sure the woman was ladling out dumplings! So I might use some of tomorrow's chicken to be a chicken stew with dumplings, rather than a roast dinner

Only in the NP thread can you go from rare coins to dumplings so quickly

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Pastures, at least, with a single lady next door, it sounds like you won't have doofing against your boundary fence, or balls coming over into your garden from that house.

If the granddaughter is getting married in December, then the grandson-in-law-to-be will probably be moving in now along with the granddaughter.

Pyxis wrote: »

Lydia, I don't really know the ins and outs of planning, but I would have thought that any garage conversion would have to leave a space between your house and the conversion, for that very reason.

In any event, you would have very good grounds for objecting to a joined-on conversion, I would have thought. Suddenly giving you a party wall with noise coming through where there wasn't one before? I doubt that would be allowed.

Thanks. I'll cross that bridge if and when I come to it. The sound does carry - on occasions next door's DIY activities in their garage have sounded quite loud upstairs in my bedroom. I wouldn't want to make things difficult for them, though - rather than object outright I'd probably just put in a request for them to have ultra effective sound proofing.

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble with most people's local transport is it only goes one way .... there's not much choice like in big cities. And it's slow. If I were to get a job on the outskirts of the nearest town (8.5 miles) it's 20 minutes by car or 40 by bus.

Which is why the company running school buses has me over a barrel for DD's commute to school. She'd have to leave at 7:00 instead of 7:30, and change buses part way through the journey. Last time I checked, she'd have had to leave even earlier, and, as you say, they could change it back to that at any time. Families who live on a public bus route that goes to her school pay a fraction of what we pay for the dedicated school bus and they can still use the service on days when the child has an after school activity, whereas I have to go and fetch DD.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah, right... not done that for those in my road yet!

Although this new lot are "next door" it's actually a different road, with different entrance and different road name and different postcode. I can just see down their row ... although unless I lean right out of the window in a perilous fashion I can actually just see into half of two gardens and I can see one actual house. But I do have a panoramic view of their car park

It's difficult knocking on random strangers' doors.... most people don't answer the door these days to strangers.... I noticed a neighbour'd left their headlights on the other day, so went round in torrential rain to let them know .... knocked....dog went crazy .... crazy .... no answer. Must've been on the loo or something. Anyway, it's not pleasant standing and knocking and not getting a response.

Whereas here, the new people will actually be my next door neighbours, so as soon as I see signs of them I'll go and introduce myself. Drove past on my way home this evening, but still all looks deserted and empty.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

If the granddaughter is getting married in December, then the grandson-in-law-to-be will probably be moving in now along with the granddaughter.

No - the grand-daughter is 2-3 doors along from me.

Next door is a "no show" so far; mortgage problem at the last minute, so it's not completed... "single woman ~40s" ... which could mean anything from somebody quiet and reserved like me ... or a party animal h00ker type who loves her lambrini and loud conversations on the phone in the garden .... but no kids.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

No - the grand-daughter is 2-3 doors along from me.

Next door is a "no show" so far; mortgage problem at the last minute, so it's not completed... "single woman ~40s" ... which could mean anything from somebody quiet and reserved like me ... or a party animal h00ker type who loves her lambrini and loud conversations on the phone in the garden .... but no kids.

Well, she could be a single-parent of teenagers! :eek: