Insignificant Things That Make You Happy.

[cheb]

Badgers honk. Well, the remains of their food does. I've never got up close and personal enough to sniff one but their setts get a bit whiffy. We have a few regulars. They're a pain really (they scrag up the lawn every winter) but I like them.

I know we had badgers around the farm when I was a kid but I never got close enough to know if they smell

Skunk - that's what I was thinking he meant, until he started talking about english in the seasonaire bar!

It's odd, as we don't have skunks but I imagine the locals have some quite derogatory terms for tourists and the seasonaires. I wonder if he meant pandas? Y'know how the visitors have a tan (are bright red!), but not where the goggles are? Sort of -ve pandas.

Racoons? It was a nickname of WW2 pilots according to Yeager.

[Yorick]

Got 3 of my best pals coming to visit in January and Feb.
One I shared a flat with as a kid.
My pal who I started racing with.
And a real good pal from Thame.

Oh. And a pal from Nottingham

Gonna be fun to squeeze them all in

[Bigjawa]

Just met the new neighbours opposite and they invited us to have a look round.

Wow. Ours is 5 bed on 1,500m plot.

Theirs is 7 bed on 4,000m plot.

They've even got a tennis court

It really is a wonderful house. Bit did cost double the value of ours.
And they've no sea view

Lovely folk and we'll all get on well.

Clay or lawn?

Clay. I think.

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Is that the speedboat you won on Bullseye in 1985 at the top of the pic?

[Jody]

In the fruit and veg shop in Moutiers. I happen to spot a guy counting the change from his pocket. I didn't think much of it until I got to the till and saw he was in front of us. He purchases were €1.47 and it was clear that he didn't have enough money.

Normally I wouldn't get involved. But a combination of the fact he was buying fruit and veg and that I wanted him out of the way so we could get served got the better of me. I stepped in and paid for his shopping and sent him on his way.

[Felix]

In the fruit and veg shop in Moutiers. I happen to spot a guy counting the change from his pocket. I didn't think much of it until I got to the till and saw he was in front of us. He purchases were €1.47 and it was clear that he didn't have enough money.

Normally I wouldn't get involved. But a combination of the fact he was buying fruit and veg and that I wanted him out of the way so we could get served got the better of me. I stepped in and paid for his shopping and sent him on his way.

Probably the 10th person he suckered with that one today

[ogri]

In the fruit and veg shop in Moutiers. I happen to spot a guy counting the change from his pocket. I didn't think much of it until I got to the till and saw he was in front of us. He purchases were €1.47 and it was clear that he didn't have enough money.

Normally I wouldn't get involved. But a combination of the fact he was buying fruit and veg and that I wanted him out of the way so we could get served got the better of me. I stepped in and paid for his shopping and sent him on his way.

Good for you, not many people would do that nowadays

[Wscad]

It’s a bit wet and windy up here in bronteland. Saw a couple of biggish earthworms struggling on the drive. I picked them up, scooped a bit of soil out of one out raised beds, popped them in and covered them back in

Live long and prosper you hard working friends

[Felix]

In the fruit and veg shop in Moutiers. I happen to spot a guy counting the change from his pocket. I didn't think much of it until I got to the till and saw he was in front of us. He purchases were €1.47 and it was clear that he didn't have enough money.

Normally I wouldn't get involved. But a combination of the fact he was buying fruit and veg and that I wanted him out of the way so we could get served got the better of me. I stepped in and paid for his shopping and sent him on his way.

Good for you, not many people would do that nowadays

With me its always been the school kids. 10, 20p short for lunch at Aldi and the till jockey never let them go so i have often said give him/her it and add the money onto my bill. Not that i want them out my way but more i was a kid with not enough money a times.

[Druid]

With me its always been the school kids. 10, 20p short for lunch at Aldi and the till jockey never let them go so i have often said give him/her it and add the money onto my bill. Not that i want them out my way but more i was a kid with not enough money a times.

Me too, usually because I'd spent it on cigarettes. Easier to con people into buying me a packet of salt & vinegar than 10 Embassy

[Yorick]

When the house next door was developing we realised their wall was gonna spoil our sea view when sat on the patio.
No big deal maybe, but this was the final straw coz they are being twats.
We asked them to reduce it by one breeze block.
No. It's all legal !!!!

We can't denounce her for another 9 months, but then we've got shitloads of ammunition.

So as a temporary measure we'd thought of loads of ways to raise our patio furniture.
Decking was the favourite but lots of work to make it portable.

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[Yorick]

Brainwave idea to just make it a 10" higher.
Used the huge beams from the old pergola to make strong supports at each end of the 2 sofas. And guttering for the middle legs.
Took my time as wanted it all to match and work well

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Sea view restored

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Tomorrow will be painting it all and making the new covers to hide the scaffolding

[Greenman]

Finally uploaded my new Acid House mix.

[Horse]

We asked them to reduce it by one breeze block.
No. It's all legal !!!!

We can't denounce her for another 9 months, but then we've got shitloads of ammunition.

'Denounce' wossat then?

[Presumably this is the building work that tried to topple your terrace?]

[Yorick]

We asked them to reduce it by one breeze block.
No. It's all legal !!!!

We can't denounce her for another 9 months, but then we've got shitloads of ammunition.

'Denounce' wossat then?

[Presumably this is the building work that tried to topple your terrace?]

Yup. And it's still happening.
Denouncing is when we go to the govt and make official.

We can stop the building work tmrw, but need to guard our own backs in case she turns nasty.

[Saga Lout]

A little thing that pleases me: I've just found out that my watch automatically adjusts itself to local time when it finds itself in a new time zone.

(I'm not in Essex any more.)

[Cousin Jack]

A little thing that pleases me: I've just found out that my watch automatically adjusts itself to local time when it finds itself in a new time zone.

(I'm not in Essex any more.)

I will bet it is not a Rolex GMT.

[Saga Lout]

A little thing that pleases me: I've just found out that my watch automatically adjusts itself to local time when it finds itself in a new time zone.

(I'm not in Essex any more.)

I will bet it is not a Rolex GMT.

You win that bet. It's a fancy Casio, aka G-Shock.

[Mussels]

A little thing that pleases me: I've just found out that my watch automatically adjusts itself to local time when it finds itself in a new time zone.

(I'm not in Essex any more.)

That would annoy the hell out of me, like my alarm clock that sets itself from the atomic clock transmissions. It is frequently a few minutes, hours or days out, thankfully I can rely my phone alarm. I want a watch to be consistent and not guess which side of a border I'm on.

[Saga Lout]

A little thing that pleases me: I've just found out that my watch automatically adjusts itself to local time when it finds itself in a new time zone.

(I'm not in Essex any more.)

That would annoy the hell out of me, like my alarm clock that sets itself from the atomic clock transmissions. It is frequently a few minutes, hours or days out, thankfully I can rely my phone alarm. I want a watch to be consistent and not guess which side of a border I'm on.

Hmmm... My phone reset itself to local time as well. Maybe I should post in the other "Insignificant Things..." thread, Why can't my phone keep consistent time?

[Taipan]

Cultural gifts make me happy. My nephews other half is Lithuanian. During the summer when we had a BBQ she brought loads of pork on skewers, that were flavoured in traditional Lithuanian flavourings and various other things, including dried or jellied pigs ears! At Christmas she brought us a a Sakotis tree cake. Normally this is turned on a spit in front of fire and layers of batter added, which we cant do, but apparently you can just eat it as is, or with a sweet flavouring of your choice poured over it.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0akotis