Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother has a mouse in her kitchen cupboards. She cleaned it all out (sorely needed) and left nothng it could get too, hoping it would wander back out. The only thing not packaged was the tea. It ate some tea. My mother felt sorry for it, and has started putting in a cracker everyday for it.....

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PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother has a mouse in her kitchen cupboards. She cleaned it all out (sorely needed) and left nothng it could get too, hoping it would wander back out. The only thing not packaged was the tea. It ate some tea. My mother felt sorry for it, and has started putting in a cracker everyday for it.....

It'll have babies now .... by this time next year she'll be up to half a packet of crackers a day.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll have babies now .... by this time next year she'll be up to half a packet of crackers a day.

I might take the cats for a visit:)

misskool

lir: you might be interested in this
http://www.kitchengardenshop.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/26/products_id/421
Guessing it's probably brown turkey...

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

lir: you might be interested in this
http://www.kitchengardenshop.co.uk/product_info.php/cPath/26/products_id/421
Guessing it's probably brown turkey...

MMMM

And pomegranites too. Interesting.

Thaks misskool.:)

Doozergirl

SingleSue wrote: »

I had assistants pulling me into the outfit whilst I removed and reapplied the makeup.

I need one of those!

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

The best thing about all white is: it's cheap, you don't spend time choosing it, or finding it, or guessing how many tins you need. White is always available, and always cheap; it's never discontinued. For touching up, you just need to keep the one tin - and literally walk round once a year with the tin and a brush, just touching up the bits here/there that need doing. It's genius!

When you've done as much touching up as we have, it's not even that easy! In a whole house especially, the stuff changes colour. I told H the other week not to touch up the invisible stuff and he did it anyway. Touched it all up a slightly different colour, something had happened to the brush. All had to be done again, but an even wider area.

At home my favourite room is white, but it's a posh white. I adore it. Carpet is white as well. It's the spare room strictly reserved for visitors so it doesn't get grubby with the kids or me. But I like to open the door and look at it often. I have one of these hats in there which I also adore. (didn't pay that much, obv!) www.rockettstgeorge.co.uk/jeeves--wooster-bowler-hat-pendant-light---jeeves-blackgold-3192-p.asp

Touching up in our house always seems to involve repainting the entire wall my DS's hand are so grubby. Down the hallway they start on the opposite side to his room immediately in front of his door in the direction of the stairs. It was painted (again) at the end of the summer. DD has further to walk, she's not even half as bad.

The dog is worse though!

I despair. We moved on Tuesday, I am shattered yet I don't really feel like I've done much. Back 'home' looks like someone left in a hurry, this place is nearly there but we have no curtains up! Thankfully we're not overlooked at all but it's a big house and the curtains would help cosy it up some.

vivatifosi

Was anyone just watching Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall on C4? Have you joined https://www.fishfight.net yet? Website is very slow at the moment but this is a campaign I'll be supporting and I'm a veggie!

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh yes.

I've already used "If I sort it out I will throw away the stuff I think we don't need to keep without asking you whether you want it."

I'm also intending to try "We are going to move during half term. If you help with the sorting and preparation, you will be allowed to be there on moving day. If you don't, I'll know you're not able to be helpful, so I'll find a friend to look after you and you'll miss it all."

Congratulations It's lovely to be able to move at a bit of leisure although going back to the old place to clean it is the most tedious task.

Hopefully they'll excite up a bit when they see their new rooms and will packing with glee like mine were the other day. Great opportunity for a sort out and purge as well. It's very refreshing to be able to move into somewhere nice and just plonk your stuff down rather than start to fight the long fight immediately with someone elses grubby carpet...

Spent the last three years nearly doing our house. It's changed beyond recognition inside. Thought we were nearly there but it wasn't quite right somehow. Moved out, and sure enough, it looks like an incredibly messy family have been living there for the last three years. Nothing looks new at all!

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

The dog is worse though!

Curtains make it cosy and warmer and it ''sounds'' better with them up too. I hate that we still have curtainless windows. And on most of the others the curtains are simply latched over the rails,as none of the right plastic slidy bits were left....sigh. Curtain rails will come eventually.

Urgh, dog grease coat on a painted wall. I used to wash the walls at my mothers house every week. Here they only like one wall...and its much smaller.....they spend more time on their sofas and throws.

problem when you wash walls regularly is they fade!

I've just asked on the relevant board, but does anyone here know anything you can paint melamine work surface with? I want to make the work surface nice now too....:o