Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

misskool

Doozergirl wrote: »

Don't know what else to buy. Lots of people and children coming on Saturday, need to think of something fabulous that can be made for 5 adults and 5 kids, but frugally.

What sort of food do you (and guests) like to eat?

Are the children being fed the same dishes?

PasturesNew

Popped out today, to make a bracelet, nobody else turned up so there was no workshop, but I was allowed to sit and make one anyway. Turned out good. It's really easy peasy to do that simple stuff. Having some big ideas about what I could make, then realised that my actual space here is 2/3rds of one single bed, that I am already sitting on. So not possible to sit and make anything.

I really need my own space, my things.... so I can have a table set up, with good lighting - and a photo corner. Then I can make stuff. In "perfect house" that'd all be done on the big breakfast bar ... with an optional workshop in the garden in case I turned out to be good at shifting stock and needed more stock/space. *dreams*

misskool

michaels wrote: »

If you are willing to eat cheap Salmon, how about Salmon en croute.

All our TV these days comes from tvcatchup, iplayer, 40d etc - we could probably lose the aerial now but I dread to think how much internet bandwidth we use each month...

I replied to the thread in the other place. Not very helpful I feel

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I was amazed that the young woman with the dark hair and the big smile was the shop assistant with all those levels of people above her. She was the stand-out worker and I hope she goes far. But I hope they turn the chain around (they should give her the responsibility to go out and talk to the workers in the other stores). I can't bear shopping in any of those places as I don't have the patience. Especially Primark. Every now and again I see someone in something I like from H&M or Primark but couldn't go there if you paid me. Eurghhhh....

I'm not amazed. Customer skill is clearly not interviewed for often! And maagement tiers abound everywhere now....and aren't really proving that motivating a force to take pride in job or role.

My best pair of jeans ever were from primark. I was very doubtful when my ex suggested I try them on, but did and took them home. In fact, they fitted AMAZINGLY and I went back three days later to get a couple more pairs....but they were gone. I still remember now that feeling of immese let down that I'd found MY jeans and they were a short stint in the shop then gone. I tried some others, but they just weren't the same.

And those jeans lasted barely a summer. They are cut offs now, that I could probably squeeze an arm into:o:o. That's the thing: you can't rely on fast turnover for things like great basic ts or jeans if they are such short term things.

PasturesNew

Years ago clothes used to change about 4x a year. Somebody would sit and decide what to order and it'd be ordered - and it'd be made, then shipped slowly to the UK and the shops stocked. Then all this modern just-in-time stock control/management came in and now it seems there are new lines every 2 weeks.

It is a pity that you can't rely on going back in 1-2 months' time to find something that turned out to be great, because you've no idea until you've worn it a few times if you like it or not. It's also a shame that all clothes don't have a barcode/ISBN style number on the label, which you could key in to find it on ebay/similar

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Not doing anything for a while. I'm quite happy with it (now that I've replaced the worktops with granite ) but I can see the layout is all wrong and could be far more efficient.

Separate utility room that has a much better layout.

I started writing a post before the one I made but lost it. I'd asked if you were keeping that granite!

PasturesNew

I want to know about importing from the Far East. You'd think I could have gone to the Govt website and looked it up easily, but no. It seems that I'd need to phone/ask them, but as it's just an idea at the moment I can't be 4rsed to do that. I know I'd have to pay 20% VAT, but it's all that other malarkey I'd like to know. I've seen some stuff I want to buy and at the moment it's pie in the sky as I am not buying items in at all, just looking and making lists.... but this stuff that seems to be just what I am after, needs to be bought from the manufacturer (this one's India, but next one could be China) and I have to buy it in Kg, so, wishlist would make that about 25Kg of stuff.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I want to know about importing from the Far East. You'd think I could have gone to the Govt website and looked it up easily, but no. It seems that I'd need to phone/ask them, but as it's just an idea at the moment I can't be 4rsed to do that. .

Can you not email them? worth doing to see if your idea has legs.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It is a pity that you can't rely on going back in 1-2 months' time to find something that turned out to be great, because you've no idea until you've worn it a few times if you like it or not. It's also a shame that all clothes don't have a barcode/ISBN style number on the label, which you could key in to find it on ebay/similar

Yes, that's it exactly. I loved those jeans. Eve though the thin denim meant cheap, it meant they were great through summer. I wore them with boots, and heels and flats and platforms, they made my legs longer and sat at JUST the right place on my hips as well as my back and tummy....

that said....with the inconsistancy of manufacture the next pair could have been rubbish. I've had that before....having learned from the jeans if I find something I love I RUSH back, buy he same size and its TOTALLY diferent from the one I bought the day before. :mad::mad:

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Can you not email them? worth doing to see if your idea has legs.

All my ideas have legs!
I just lack b4lls

Yeah, I should email them. My enquiry would be very specific on item/materials, so should be easy. But you'd think they'd have a search box and you type in what you're wanting to import - and then it asks you specific questions about it and tells you the answer. I'm sure for 90% of things it'd work fine.

Last idea I came up with, about 7 years ago, involved huge pallets and warehouses and trucks.... and it was all heavy/big stuff, so I never pursued it. But this is small stuff, so doable. Big stuff I also had to consider "so where the heck are you going to keep it ... and how do you move it about?"