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Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it
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I prefer reading minds to reading books. The last book I read was Digerati Glitterati around 8 years ago...oh wait! I think I read a few of the John Grisham books on various holiday's around then too but I much prefer listening to music on holiday now.
The type of books that would interest me would be time travel, invisible man, secret agent/ super hero type of books. I loved the Back to the Future films and how it showed what difference the slightest things can make and the how generations grow up similar but in a different technical age.
Weather's nice here today but it's supposed to change for Thursday/Friday.
I'll not get tired of pushing Ken Grimwood's "Replay"- man wakes uop 25 years ago as a young man and gets to relive his life (or change it) - he knows which stocks will rise and who wins what sporting events etc.
Philip K !!!!!!'s "Counterclock World" is a bit weird; the world enters the Hobart Phase where time runs backwards, the dead rise from graveyards, people unsmoke cigarettes and "food!" becomes a curseword. On second thoughts its one of his earlier books so not his best but full of entertaining ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" about a man trappedin a timewarp that mkes him materialise at different places and different intervals.
Or the Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. hey I've recommended most of these before but they're worth a read.:DThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I'll not get tired of pushing Ken Grimwood's "Replay"- man wakes uop 25 years ago as a young man and gets to relive his life (or change it) - he knows which stocks will rise and who wins what sporting events etc.
Philip K !!!!!!'s "Counterclock World" is a bit weird; the world enters the Hobart Phase where time runs backwards, the dead rise from graveyards, people unsmoke cigarettes and "food!" becomes a curseword. On second thoughts its one of his earlier books so not his best but full of entertaining ideas.
Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan" about a man trappedin a timewarp that mkes him materialise at different places and different intervals.
Or the Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. hey I've recommended most of these before but they're worth a read.:D
I might try 'em too if i can find this post on friday evening to et dh to help me with amazon.:o0 -
The problem is reliability - and they are a long way away. When I sold my house I had loads of things lined up to get stuff gone (ebay sales, well advertised garage sale, charity shop, house clearance) ... not only did NONE of those work, but the charity people only turned up to say "warehouse is full, we're taking nothing" - and the final "it's OK, clearance man's coming" last ditched attempt was that the clearance man never turned up, I spent half a day chasing him (the day before completion) and he just said "Oh, van's broken, can you leave it outside and I'll pick it up sometime).... when "it" meant an entire house contents. Er, no.vivatifosi wrote: »What about something like these people. You won't get anything for it, but at least it could help somebody and get it off your "to do" list:
http://www.sofawestcornwall.org.uk/
We have a similar organisation near us and they are great.
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It's funny you said that - there is actually one item I've identified that sells for about £1 on ebay .... or £160-250 in painted colours.lostinrates wrote: »Doubt it pn! Re selling. We were told we couldn't give purs away by the local dealers. Trick with brown furniture appears to be to paint it with a farrow and ball paint, statting which in ad, and flogging on ebay with the words french, shabby chic, vintage and retro in the ad.
Trouble is - space/time. All these things are possible when it's your house and you feel in control.... but it'd probably be a 40 mile round trip, I've nowhere to do the rubbing down/painting either - and don't want to do it in-situ in case I randomly need to let people into the space (e.g. buyers).
It is all brown furniture.
Re glass.... I'd rather try to get rid of all but 1-2Kg of it and be done with the idea It's the kind of stuff that I could use if I had my own house and space as I could make mosaics and !!!! etc
Trying to not be a hoarder, even though it hurts.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Oooh, pick me, pick me, but i want two terms please:D
I can think of few better ways to run the country than appointing the Nice People to govern as a ruling council. Put PN in charge of cutting public spending, deficit sorted in 3 months I reckon.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »It's funny you said that - there is actually one item I've identified that sells for about £1 on ebay .... or £160-250 in painted colours.
Trouble is - space/time. All these things are possible when it's your house and you feel in control.... but it'd probably be a 40 mile round trip, I've nowhere to do the rubbing down/painting either - and don't want to do it in-situ in case I randomly need to let people into the space (e.g. buyers).
It is all brown furniture.
Re glass.... I'd rather try to get rid of all but 1-2Kg of it and be done with the idea It's the kind of stuff that I could use if I had my own house and space as I could make mosaics and !!!! etc
Trying to not be a hoarder, even though it hurts.
Don,t rub down. Use that paint on thing...someone here will know the name. Tbh i don't even do that, and my stuff lasts unchipped painting stright over the varnished wood. E.g. My 'sparkley corner' was just a couple of coats (i flung a coat on last weekend actually, but to change the colour of one unfinished door). The rest has been painted over the varnished finished for a few years, Its perfect.0 -
Also, I'm not sitting in my own home, with the luxury of just one or two items to sort out ..... and it's not just furniture issues, there are loads of things to do. Also completion day is unknown until the last minute and is final - and one doesn't wish to sit in an entirely empty house because it all got carted off the day before exchange.... when exchange doesn't happen in the end.
Balancing act of effort -v- wasted effort -v- running yourself ragged -v- keeping everybody's balls in the air. Plus, a large dollop of "why me, I don't want to be doing any of this .... why me???" and new/emerging issues daily.0 -
I love it when I collect fanschewmylegoff wrote: »Put PN in charge of cutting public spending, deficit sorted in 3 months I reckon. 0 -
And here's another thing - do you EVER see on the telly, when people are taking old chairs to auction, that a big fat hand is held up and they're told "No - no fire label, can't sell that here"? That happened too.... I have a couple of padded seat Italian imported dining chairs (friend imported 6 with a table many years ago, she only needed 4 some years back, so I've got 2 of them).... can't sell them at auction as they're padded.... without a fire tag.0
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I would have thought you would have smoked it all by now....for medicinal purposes of course!lostinrates wrote: »My sibling did some importing back in the late eighties. Still has some of the stuff .....I think....0
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