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JonahMan
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TICTH a builder, who'd done some work on our roof a couple of years ago, sealing some lead guttering. One of the kids noticed a damp patch in the same place after some heavy rain last night, so we called up our man, who happened to be in a nearby town. So he diverted himself to us, got onto the roof, took some photos which showed that the roof and gutter was ok but that the water might be coming in through where some nails had been put through tiles, cleared the gutter of bits of cement, sealed the holes, and refused to take a penny for his efforts.
(This thread is meant as the antithesis of TICTH in Hell, for one-offs not requiring further discussion, but if there's already something like this that I haven't spotted, or it's otherwise not appropriate, feel free to terminate it.)
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Wesley J
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Excellent thread. Had been wondering whether to start one myself. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Sioni Sais
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TICT Heaven cheese. Pretty much all of it, except 'mild cheddar' and ponced up Wensleydale with fruit in.
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jedijudy
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TICT Heaven, my son-in-law who did something especially nice just because it would make me (and D-U) happy!
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Kitten
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TICT Heaven - Wensleydale with blueberrys, food of the gods
[ 07. September 2013, 18:52: Message edited by: Kitten ]
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marzipan
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TICT Heaven the Proms and treacle tart
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formerly cheesymarzipan.
Now containing 50% less cheese
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Huia
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TICT Heaven - Christchurch bus drivers. The roads are a mess (due to underground pipes having to be relaid), there are detours all over the place, the traffic is a nightmare (think of dodgems at 50+kph) and their pay rates are low, yet the drivers not only drive well, they also manage to be friendly and helpful to people who ask daft questions.
Think I'll write a note to the companies involved.
Huia
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Celtic Knotweed
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TICT Heaven the amazing moment of stumping Blackwells! I'd usually be consigning the bookshop itself to Heaven, but... The book I want exists, but it doesn't appear to be possible to get it via all their usual suppliers. The lad I was talking to said that he wasn't really saying I should just go to Amazon, but given the supply situation, that would probably be faster than the delay if I tried ordering through Blackwells! (It's US published, I'm in the UK, and the publication date was only last week).
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St Everild
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TICT Heaven the lovely girl in my local Rohan shop, who phoned around what seemed to be every branch in the UK tring to locate an item in the right size nd colour for me. And finally finding one in Inverness....
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Dog people, i.e., people out with their dogs at 6 or 6:30 a.m. We all know the names of each others' dogs, but the people, well, we all have to say things like Wind's dad or Zeke's mum. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
They are simply friendly people with dogs as their friends, and we talk about dogs and nothing, and the goodness of being out along the river as the fog lifts, the geese squabble and sun promises us the day.
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Galloping Granny
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TICT Heaven: The Waikato District Health Board, who provided free lodging for me while the Grandad was hospitalised, almost-free parking, free shuttlebuses for getting around their vast campus, and a brilliant cafeteria where I could get an ample dinner (meat+3veg) for around $11. And where all the people were kind and helpful. It was quite sad to say goodbye, even though it meant we were coming home (initially to further hospital treatment)
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Galloping Granny
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Dear kind Host – I was interrupted by an arrival at the door; how I ever got triple posts I don't know, but please would you delete a couple?
Grateful Granny
[I live to serve-Kelly Alves]
[ 10. September 2013, 03:32: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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The5thMary
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TICTH the wonderful folks at the low-income veterinarian's clinic we take our ex-roommate's cats to. I called last week after hours, frantic about losing the twin to the cat that died on our living room floor on Labor Day (September 2). He has the same dreadful respiratory illness she had, only he's a bit stronger. Anyway, the kind lady called me right back to talk to me about the cats and she was so sweet when I told her that Lucy had died. I started to lose it, over the phone but this woman was just so kind and understanding. It made a terrible time a little bit better.
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Pigwidgeon
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TICT Heaven my dog. Just because.
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
(I just don't want her going to Heaven any time soon. I need her here beside me for many years to come.)
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churchgeek
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TICT Heaven that satisfying tiredness you feel after a long day of (thankfully, meaningful) work where you got a lot done and did it well.
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Stumbling Pilgrim
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TICT Heaven what I saw at the 4 Squares arts festival in Birmingham on Saturday: a ceilidh band leading in a Circassian Circle dance a crowd of people of every age, gender, skin colour and everything else you can imagine - women and girls in hijabs, a Chinese family, tiny children dancing together, two guys dancing together, mums, dads and toddlers, everything - and a huge smile on every single face. I'd like the real Heaven to look like that, please.
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rolyn
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The fried sandwiches ,(egg/bacon/mushroom), that my dear Partner puts in my packed-lunch some days . Lifts the spirits at mid morning .
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Pomona
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Kitten - Waitrose do a Wensleydale with stem ginger, it is wonderful.
TICTH sharing a new house with friends excitement, and a new start at uni
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Adeodatus
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TICTH the guys who thought, "It's three in the morning. We've had a great night out. I know, let's fix a damaged bike rack."
What the world needs is more mad, middle-of-the-night public-spiritedness! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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orfeo
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TICTH Australian magpies singing on the back lawn in the rain.
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Firenze
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quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH Australian magpies singing on the back lawn in the rain.
Are they actually singing 'Singin' in the rain?'
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orfeo
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH Australian magpies singing on the back lawn in the rain.
Are they actually singing 'Singin' in the rain?'
Nope. That would be trite.
They do have an incredibly beautiful song, though. It's my understanding that they're not related to the birds called 'magpies' elsewhere.
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Welease Woderwick
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British Magpies and the related Asian Treepie make a sort of raucous croak that is in no way beautiful so I think you're probably right.
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orfeo
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This is fairly typical of the noises they make.
[ 18. September 2013, 13:55: Message edited by: orfeo ]
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Firenze
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A sort of liquid chuckling.
British magpies are a member of the crow family, so doomy squawks are more typical.
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JoannaP
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Today I commend to Heaven the taxi-driver who recognised me and remembered that he had overcharged me a couple of weeks ago - so undercharged me by the same amount.
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Wesley J
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quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:
A sort of liquid chuckling.
British magpies are a member of the crow family, so doomy squawks are more typical.
This is brilliant! Made my day! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
What an extraordinary bird! Another video here.
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Huia
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We have Australian magpies here too. Some immigrated.
I love Firenze's description of liquid chuckling , which I hear quite a lot as two of my neighbours feed them.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Lord Jestocost:
TICT Heaven Terrible Real Estate Agent Photos, which has brought much mirth and laughter to an otherwise dull, grey day.
Thank you! I'm laughing so hard I have tears running down my face!
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Herrick
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TICT Heaven the staff at the hospital I'm attending daily.
Thank you also for the magpie song, but they are swooping in the park around the corner right now.
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I see a wild civility
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venbede
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What does TICT mean?
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Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by venbede:
What does TICT mean?
Answer here. to save me typing it out again.
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venbede
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Thanks.
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And when this we rightly know,
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Adrienne
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TICT Heaven the guys at the garage who kept the cost of my repair to the minimum, and fixed a dent in the back of my car (which I hadn't even mentioned) for free.
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Wesley J
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TICT Heaven Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, and the recording of a performance in Leeds from November 2006, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, cunningly recorded by me off the web radio in 2007, and just found again.
Fantabulous! ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Sparrow
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
Kitten - Waitrose do a Wensleydale with stem ginger, it is wonderful.
They do a lovely one with apricots too.
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Lothlorien
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TICTH the tiny little radish seedlings which are popping their little heads out of potting mix with gay abandon. Probably three times as many out now as there were late last night.
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Adeodatus
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TICTH the feeling you get when you've had a niggling problem at the back of your mind for months - nothing serious, just a puzzle you can't find the solution to, even though you know you shoud be able to - and then suddenly a window opens in your head and you've got it.
(My colleague this morning said she would have to put the phone to her other ear now, as the one that had just received my yelp of revelation seemed to be temporarily deaf.)
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Pigwidgeon
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TICT Heaven the beginning of cooler autumn weather. When I went out for my paper this morning it was beautiful (just checked, and it's 68F). Here in central Arizona the first cool weather is greeted much as most of the world greets the first warm weather of spring.
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
TICT Heaven the beginning of cooler autumn weather. When I went out for my paper this morning it was beautiful (just checked, and it's 68F). Here in central Arizona the first cool weather is greeted much as most of the world greets the first warm weather of spring.
Nothing like what you're accustomed to, 68°F=20°C which is a warm summer day for us. We're also having nice fall weather, with 4°C=39°F this morning. ICTH not sweating on bicycle commute today.
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
TICT Heaven the beginning of cooler autumn weather ...
Yea and amen.
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Galloping Granny
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TICTHeaven the first true moment (apart from the gold of he kowhai) of a New Zealand spring, when you step out into the evening (or morning) freshness and smell the sweet spicy smell of the kohuhu flowers, so small and dark they're almost black and hardly visible but suddenly you see the tree is covered with them and you take a deep breath...
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TICTH the couple who handed in my smart phone at the shop where I left it......
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Huia
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TICT Heaven the Methodist Action team based in Wellington and the Hutt Valley, who have given my brother who is learning disabled a couple more weeks to get used to the idea of moving from the family home into a bedsit unit.
These people are not just there for a quick buck, but have supported our family, both with my late father whose last year they made one of the happiest of his life, and now with my brother too .
Being a bit cynical I sometimes wince when I hear about someone operating in a "Christian" way, but having experienced the love in action I am blown away.
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TICT Heaven the friend who is going to take out the bath from my bathroom, tile the resulting bare wall, and install a large shower tray so that my arthritic hips no longer have to attempt the increasingly difficult vault over the side of the bath to get showered.
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Galloping Granny
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TICT Heaven the neighbour who brought over a huge pot of excellent soup when she found I was confined to bed with a serious cold; she also brought a bottle of lemon/ginger/honey cordial 'to save squeezing lemons'. I'm feeling much better!
GG
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Huia
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Wow - good neighbour GG, hope you're feeling better soon.
TICT Heaven Dawn, the Practice nurse at the medical centre who helped me sort out some non existent breathing problems that a hospital nurse had mistakenly diagnosed
Huia
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Bene Gesserit
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TICT Heaven the cloudscapes after today's rain. Wow!!!
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Cara
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I love this thread. (And not just because I too laughed till I cried at the terrible estate agent photos!).
TICTH the kind friends who offered us their apartment to stay in during a house move, even though they will be away at the time--not sure if we'll need to take them up on it, but such kindness.....
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