Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

silvercar

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?

Sunday Times in the "Homes" supplement.

harryhound

Ah yes but a real outside loo goes into a bucket.
My great aunt had a treble one: two big holes for mum & dad and a small one for the kid?
With the office flimsy of old invoices hanging on a nail.

Very cosy and thatched too.

lostinrates

harryhound wrote: »

Ah yes but a real outside loo goes into a bucket.
My great aunt had a treble one: two big holes for mum & dad and a small one for the kid?
With the office flimsy of old invoices hanging on a nail.

Very cosy and thatched too.

No, this is a modern out door loo. High level black plastic cistern and all.

In the very longterm I'm not sure it will stay in its current form

anyway, haven't heard from mortgage surveyor yet. :eek: everyone apart from me seems to think its totally a given the mortgage valuer will see what a great bet it is....

lemonjelly

misskool wrote: »

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

I have the PVC greenhouses. They're open all the time. The plants are doing ok.
I'm doing runner beans. I need to build up my canes first.

I'll start putting out the brocolli & sprouts as soon as I've prepared my slug defences.

Courgettes & cucumbers will be growing up the fence where my ladders are (for support). They will be out this month too, as soon as time allows. I think a couple of the cucumbers have given up the ghost. The courgettes are coming along really well. However the cucumbers are moving pretty slowly this year.

lostinrates

Getting edgey about the bank now. Went out yesterday to distract myself. Should know for certain one way or t'other today.

Anyway, the chicks ar playing in a broody coop in the sun. The growth they have put on is astounding. They are going to outgrow the broody coop very, very quickly. In the morning and evening I load them, one by one into a hamster cage to take them between the ''brooder'' (also known as the dog crate) in the kitchen and the broody coop in the garden. Its getting very snug in the hamster cage, and some of them are barely fitting through the door of it. They LOVE the outside, they spend their days pulling on grass as if it were worms and they cartoon birds, and skipping. They also hold races, running up and down the length of the coop, the clever ones flapping ings and jumping (chicken flying) to win. I'd love to let them loose in the whole garden, the would adore it, but although they look big to me, they look about snack size to the buzzard. we have preventatives, CDs in trees and balloons with eyes painted on (birds are that stupid they think this is a bigger predator than them and tend to stay away). I have two bought balloons with eyes on sticks. I have to move them often to make the buzzards think they are real, relocating predators. Trying to be innovative about placing them gets difficult. The new place has a lot of concrete yard which the birds ar likely to enjoy (some of mine have fluffy legs and hate them getting wet in longer grass) but placing the balloons on sticks is going to be harder.

I now have THREE broody hens. One was no trouble, but two others is a pain. It means fewer eggs for us, and potentially more chicks. One is my young blue maran, and luckily she hasn't realised she has to sit on eggs for her enterprise to be successful, but behind her the on/off broody who started this is sitting on five maran eggs! My dear, dear old cuckoo cochin also wants to sit. she is a superb mother (I wish she'd been broody to accept these chicks, because its so much nicer for the chicks to have a real mother). so I have to keep running out to turf the maran and cuckoo of their little nests:(

carolt

Our potatoes weren't earthed up enough and all caught the late frost.

lemonjelly

SingleSue wrote: »

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.

Sue, if you are interested, & haven't read much/any Jack the Ripper books, may I suggest that the best 2 to start with are either by philip sugden http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-History-Jack-Ripper/dp/1841193976/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274175264&sr=1-2 or donald rumbelow http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Jack-Ripper-Donald-Rumbelow/dp/0140173951/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274175298&sr=1-9

I've quite an interest, & there are a significant number of poor JtR books out there. Sugdens is probably the best. I've quite a few (some more specialist & some focus on particular suspects). Let me know if you'd like a little more info...

vivatifosi

Re Jack the Ripper

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've quite an interest

Is that something you should be admitting to female strangers on an internet forum;).

(sorry lj, couldn't resist)

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

Re Jack the Ripper



Is that something you should be admitting to female strangers on an internet forum;).

(sorry lj, couldn't resist)

Depends, on whether you think I'm part of the royal family (the royal conspiracy), though there is also a train of thought arguing a jill the ripper person. Other notable suspects include Dr Barnado, Lewis Carroll and so many others....

I'm comfortable with my slightly wierd interest in an unknown serial killer....

Besides, as he only killed prostitutes, none of you should have anything to worry about (unless you have a 2nd job which isn't for discussion on the income maximisation board...:D)

vivatifosi

Well I suppose it sounds significantly less nerdy than saying you have quite an interest in house prices. (oh and although I've got five jobs, none of them in that, ahem, field)...