Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

misskool

lemonjelly wrote: »

Cucumbers/courgettes & tomatoes won't go outside til june. I meant putting my brocolli, sprouts & beans into the proper ground, as they're still in pots.

broscoli and sprouts are hardy, my broccoli have been outside for weeks. I've forgotten to germinate some sprouts, must get round to them.

Broad beans and peas are ok to go out. Runner beans maybe if you're feeling brave. My french beans are all indoors and checking the sun out.

Courgettes in unheated greenhouses and doing ok (could be worse) but will go out by this weekend even if it snows as there's no more space. cucumbers in unheated greenhouse too but one has just died on me

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

I wonder if Sue knows those ones lj, I know she likes crime writing, I'm just not sure about true crime. I got the Niall Ferguson book today, it was in stock, but I wasn't quite ready for the size of it - gulp. Meanwhile this is what I'm reading at the moment - funny, scary and interesting all at the same time:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trust-Me-Im-Junior-Doctor/dp/0340962054/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1274110967&sr=1-2-spell

The first one wouldn't really interest me but the Jack the Ripper one would.

I do like true crime, not just fiction about crime....I currently receive via subscription (birthday and christmas presents!) True Detective, Master Detective, Murder Most Foul and am trying to add extra pennies to left over birthday monies to get True Crime too.

I have been an avid reader of the above magazines since my early teens, 'borrowed' from my mum who also enjoys them, as I like to work out the person behind the crime and why they do things and the historical data of crime past.

It is one reason why I have been questioning my choice of Law as a degree instead of my original attempt at doing a degree which was in criminology (middle son get perm excluded from school and study was impossible, so had to drop out in the first term), I like the psychology behind what makes people do what they do.

Gangsters and the like, are not my cup of tea though....Charles Manson et al, are.

lostinrates

OK.

So, siting surrounded by ''inspirational'' images and paint charts this afternoon I happened to look up the price of some stuff at an ''up market'' high street retailer of things like tiles, baths and paints.

How many people afford this stuff? How often? How do business like this grow so much with a fairly limited pool of people spending £30k on a kitchen and £10k on a bathroom regularly.


And they didn't give me many ideas about how to tart up the outside loo.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

OK.

So, siting surrounded by ''inspirational'' images and paint charts this afternoon I happened to look up the price of some stuff at an ''up market'' high street retailer of things like tiles, baths and paints.

How many people afford this stuff? How often? How do business like this grow so much with a fairly limited pool of people spending £30k on a kitchen and £10k on a bathroom regularly.


And they didn't give me many ideas about how to tart up the outside loo.

DAm, I read an article recently on buying tiles from Poland and they are half the price , even allowing for transport/shipping.

I only read mail on sunday and sunday times....but the odd standard if I am in London...maybe a google?

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

OK.




And they didn't give me many ideas about how to tart up the outside loo.

I feel outside loos should be one of the rare things left as is as they remind us of times gone by. We had one in our first place and I left it as is...all spiders, cobwebs and icy cold tiles.

So every time life feels hard....go for pee in the outside loo at 10pm on a February night...and it makes everything feel a lot better.:D

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

DAm, I read an article recently on buying tiles from Poland and they are half the price , even allowing for transport/shipping.

I only read mail on sunday and sunday times....but the odd standard if I am in London...maybe a google?

the tiles I wanted for the kitchen ar being discontinued anyway, and goodness only knows when the kitchen will be re built (not the current kitchen, that will one day be a reading or music room, the kitchen will be in a damp room at the back, but not any time soon. So I think I like my idea for the kitchen, reflecting its history in a modern art alluded to sort of way, so will be looking for tiles one day that I want for this room not that are in fashion.

Exocet

We have an outside loo that I use sometimes after a Friday night drink, do tend to leave it a bit messy sometimes. Strictly speaking it's next doors conservatory, but they are old and deaf, and leave the door unlocked.

fc123

Exocet wrote: »

We have an outside loo that I use sometimes after a Friday night drink, do tend to leave it a bit messy sometimes. Strictly speaking it's next doors conservatory, but they are old and deaf, and leave the door unlocked.

......does it have a concrete floor and assorted small wildlife crawling around....and the essential of all outside loos, a rusty victorian flush whatsit up high with a chain ending with a grimy wooden pull??

If next door are old, then their conservatory must have some sort of carpet....so your feet could tell you that you have wandered into the wrong place......

Exocet

fc123 wrote: »

......does it have a concrete floor and assorted small wildlife crawling around....and the essential of all outside loos, a rusty victorian flush whatsit up high with a chain ending with a grimy wooden pull??

If next door are old, then their conservatory must have some sort of carpet....so your feet could tell you that you have wandered into the wrong place......

Concrete floor or tiles definitely, and some kind of chain but that seems to operate a revolving fan which tends to spread the effluent. When I say old I mean over thirty, and to be honest the state of the place I tend to keep my shoes on, or better still wear wellies.

lostinrates

Exocet wrote: »

Concrete floor or tiles definitely, and some kind of chain but that seems to operate a revolving fan which tends to spread the effluent. When I say old I mean over thirty, and to be honest the state of the place I tend to keep my shoes on, or better still wear wellies.

Are you my new neighbour? If so, its ok, it is a concrete floor and that is a loo, not a conservatory.