The Nice People No. 17

Cakeguts

PasturesNew said:

Cakeguts said:

PN you know that rustling paper thing is very annoying because it is just an unpleasant sound. Why people can't get everything out in one go and not lots of goes I mean you are going to have to unwrap it before you cook it unless they have got boil in the bag bats?

I've never been in a chinese supermarket, but I have been in a couple of pokey asian shops over the years and a vast amount of their stocks come in the wrinkly, rustley, plasticy wrappers...  unlike British food which is cardboard/paper packets and tins in the main.  It's just super annoying   Once, fine, open it.  After that .. more? you have more? wasn't one pack enough?   It seemed endless earlier. 

There was also some chopping of something in a paper bag, so I had to endure nearly 10 minutes of a hand in a paper bag, something removed, then peeled, then the hand in the paper bag again - all within that sound spectrum that it's "painful" for me.  

And that's the thing, the hearing ... once alerted it's painful to hear... drives you nuts. 

I'm looking on airbnb, cheapest is £1200/month (priced for the peak holiday times) ... and spareroom is £900+ for rent + bills (so nigh on £1200 again) as most are a room in a shared house.  

I'll tap into RM and see what's there. 

Do you have to be in an expensive area?  Would a much more peaceful location like somewhere halfway up Snowdon be better?  Are there no holiday rentals available? I mean they aren't going to be exactly booked up with people going on holiday this year are they?

SingleSue

Traffic in Lincoln is obviously bucking the trend, it was hellishly busy and with some idiots about. He didn't pass unfortunately due to one of the idiots...

Ah well, onto the next attempt, no idea when because who knows what will happen with driving tests. 

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

What about flying?  

Went once, well there/back, with a work colleague, about 1999.  He said "follow me" as I had no idea what to do... trouble was, he was pulled aside for checking/frisking and, as I had no idea, I just followed so had to then get waved over to somewhere else as I wasn't looking dodgy.  It was Bristol to Dublin, so probably hardly counts. It was short/smooth so not scarey.  Wouldn't choose to fly though .... 

PasturesNew

SingleSue said:

Traffic in Lincoln is obviously bucking the trend, it was hellishly busy and with some idiots about. He didn't pass unfortunately due to one of the idiots...

I don't want to be racist... but can't stop myself stating facts.
To be honest... there are an awful lot of Eastern Europeans living there now.... not known for their high standards of driving.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

Do you have to be in an expensive area?  Would a much more peaceful location like somewhere halfway up Snowdon be better?  Are there no holiday rentals available? I mean they aren't going to be exactly booked up with people going on holiday this year are they?

I need to be fairly close to where I'm considering buying so I can continually do the occasional drive by and viewings aren't a drudge. 

RM is chucking up some stuff at £600 I've bookmarked.  

It's too soon for holiday rentals to realise "nobody's coming".  It's tricky for holiday rentals as even fewer are "tiny/small for one", but mostly, say, a whole mobile home/caravan sleeping 4-8... which is pricier.

I don't want to use my phone until post-garage-call as I can't view without a car in any case.  I also don't want to use my phone here as every word could be heard and I retain a ninja silent presence. 

Just endured round two of cook-fest.  Breakfast over (9.20 to 10.20).... there's just been an early lunch (12.20 to 1.00).  

Cakeguts

PasturesNew said:

SingleSue said:

Traffic in Lincoln is obviously bucking the trend, it was hellishly busy and with some idiots about. He didn't pass unfortunately due to one of the idiots...

I don't want to be racist... but can't stop myself stating facts.
To be honest... there are an awful lot of Eastern Europeans living there now.... not known for their high standards of driving.

Do they have driving tests at home?  My husband tells me that Belgium was very late in introducing driving tests. It was a Belgium driver that wanted us to pull over into thin air so that they could get past on a road halfway up a hillside in France many years ago.  Basically a question of the fact that the Belgium driver didn't seem to have any spatial awareness. They didn't seem to know how wide their car was or how wide the road was either.  So they needed a space big enough to get a large tank through which would have been about twice the width of the road and well into the thin air off the edge of the cliff on our side.  

We always give Belgium drivers a very wide berth now just in case although they seem to have got better.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts said:

 

Do they have driving tests at home?  

Looked it up, not in depth.  They can drive here, up to 12 months, then they have to sit a British test.  As a lot live in communities, HMOs etc and tend to work very close by I'd imagine there was a lot of car sharing going on with the latest one with a license..... so relying on new blood rather than taking any personal responsibility for taking their own test as it's expensive and there's no need while a mate will drive them about.  

Boston, Lincs is Polish, Lithuanians, Bulgarians and Romanians. Since the Brexit thing there was a new rush of Romanians into the area. 

A few years ago Boston was described as the most Eastern European town in England. 

PasturesNew

B4lls. Garage.  New door handle, about £250+VAT.  Ordering parts today, should be here tomorrow.... hopefully. 

I'll cancel the dentist, don't want to go faffing about on buses as it's an hour or more and four bus changes each way to go 7 miles. 

Cakeguts

PasturesNew said:

Cakeguts said:

Do you have to be in an expensive area?  Would a much more peaceful location like somewhere halfway up Snowdon be better?  Are there no holiday rentals available? I mean they aren't going to be exactly booked up with people going on holiday this year are they?

I need to be fairly close to where I'm considering buying so I can continually do the occasional drive by and viewings aren't a drudge. 

RM is chucking up some stuff at £600 I've bookmarked.  

It's too soon for holiday rentals to realise "nobody's coming".  It's tricky for holiday rentals as even fewer are "tiny/small for one", but mostly, say, a whole mobile home/caravan sleeping 4-8... which is pricier.

I don't want to use my phone until post-garage-call as I can't view without a car in any case.  I also don't want to use my phone here as every word could be heard and I retain a ninja silent presence. 

Just endured round two of cook-fest.  Breakfast over (9.20 to 10.20).... there's just been an early lunch (12.20 to 1.00).  

How much can they eat?  They will be through their stock pile by tea time at this rate.  It might take months to get another shipment from China.

PasturesNew

Driving test centres closed tomorrow and Friday, all tests to be rebooked. 
More information next week.