Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

dopester wrote: »

A length of such copper is absolutely magic to prevent roof moss forming on a roof, when fitted up to the upper part of a roof. I look at people's roofs and there is often green copper flashing around the base of their chimneys. You can see a lighter patch of the roof where the rain mixing with the molecules of copper have treated the roof, with no moss below, compared to the rest of their roof with moss growth.
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How amazing, I might try that,we have some old copper piping...

Chestnuts expensive? A net cost £1.50 can be lunch for two of us alone, more often its afternoon tea. 75p for a meal pp isn't too bad. More often I do other stuff...e.g. one of our favs it to have them with some roast pumpkin and blue cheese, maybe a couple of rashers of bacon. Not as expensive as many suppers, cheaper thanmost things with meat! Chestnut soup the net would stretch to four, maybe 6.
Better still to buy them loose...more fun and usually cheaper.:)

SingleSue

Size of car is very relevant for me, especially in the recent past. The car had to be able to accomodate 2 big child seats in the back, complete with extra restraints plus an older child. The boot needed to be able to take firstly a large double buggy and then a stonky single buggy (stonky because it was a disability one) plus all the other equipment I have to lug around.

Now we have got rid of the buggies but have gained school bags, youngest's car medical kit (we have kits for home, school and car) plus at the moment, my ever present boxes of books to cart around to the second hand book shops. Our major problem is if we go away, the amount of stuff we have to take as essential is eye watering, so we need a boot that can cope.

Think the smallest engine size I have had is a 1.4 petrol, the largest a 2L petrol (I could be wrong, my memory is good but not always THAT good!) but seemed to have settled quite happily around the 1.6 petrol/1.7 diesel.

The best diesel car for getting going from a standing start was the Audi, the worse, my current Astra (put foot down and wait for a response).

The best petrol....errrr....errrr.... I forget.

The most comfortable was the Renault.
The least comfortable was the Sierra, closely followed by the Audi.
The most reliable was the Passat, the least reliable the Lada.
The most blooming annoying was my first Astra with the fuel leaks, the Passat was mildly annoying in that the fuel gauge only worked when it was full and the sun roof had a tendancy to open when you didn't want it to.
The best car for me, hubby, children plus buggies was the Passat, the boot didn't look much but by god it held a lot, closely followed by my current Astra which can fit oodles and oodles in (but without the comfort).

Value for money for us was the Passat, followed by the Astra (bearing in mind it only cost £461 but has cost for MOT's..less than the Audi though, a lot less!)

misskool

GDB2222 wrote: »

Misskool, do I get the impression that you have taken job B (or was it job A?) and are starting work soon with a longish commute?

It's worth looking at BCA if there's a centre near you. Car dealers don't want to buy cars at this time of year, as it's a slow time anyway and the country shuts down for 2 weeks over Xmas. So, it's a great time to get a bargain at auction. I bought my latest car at auction this time last year, and it's been faultless - 3 years old, just came to the end of its lease, and perfectly well looked after by main dealers.

Job B that I first accepted the offer. I had a second interview for job A but wasn't offered the post. The commute is short compared to my current one (10 miles instead of almost 50).

I doubt I will be any good at a car auction. I looked at some cars today and weren't impressed at what I could get. I'm going to have to get used to driving something not pretty and shiny.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

Job B that I first accepted the offer. I had a second interview for job A but wasn't offered the post. The commute is short compared to my current one (10 miles instead of almost 50).

I doubt I will be any good at a car auction. I looked at some cars today and weren't impressed at what I could get. I'm going to have to get used to driving something not pretty and shiny.

Not pretty and shiny = can park it anywhere and no longer fret. It's great.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not pretty and shiny = can park it anywhere and no longer fret. It's great.

Oh yeah, that's a great thought.


Just been threatened with furry dice as a chrimbo present though :rotfl:

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Oh yeah, that's a great thought.


Just been threatened with furry dice as a chrimbo present though :rotfl:

deicer, an emergency snow pack- thermos, sleeping bag, Kendall mint cake etc and a jack & jumpleads would be more useful Or a sat nav and or really good road map (that stays open on the page):D

dopester

lostinrates wrote: »

How amazing, I might try that,we have some old copper piping...

OK chestnuts not so expensive.. just thinking 'expensive' compared to if you were right next to a natural source of your own, to freely pick up - like you used to do as mentioned in a previous post.

I've flattened some copper piping myself with a sledgehammer, and saw some copper piping pressed flat by machine on ebay.. but suspect it will take many years of natural weathering to turn green. It seems to me it's only when copper turns into a patina (green) oxidising state that rain run-off inhibits moss growth. Also any rain run off won't be strong enough to remove any moss which has already formed. That would have to be removed by other means in advance. I've read cleaner air in the UK is leading to more instances of moss forming - which not only unsightly, can roll off into gutters and may cause build up problems to drains, but also problems for the tiles.

Just had a quick look through AutoTrader, and had forgotten that worrying feeling you get when thinking of buying a 2nd hand car. It's quite a commitment, with possible traps to fall into, when you really want to try and ensure you're going to get something good, reliable and value for money. This was a Corolla spin off model (00-02 years) from the main model of the time, and probably something I'd consider at just over the £1K mark. At the same time, these types of cars have association with other stuff which might not be appealing.

Or the Ford Fiesta (FORD FIESTA Hatchback 1995-2002).. plenty of those about at the £1K marker for near end of the line perfected build models, including this 2001 example. Plenty of them built, so parts all available, and seems to get good reviews at AutoTrader forum and at Ciao.

PasturesNew

I think we all need a Pocket Dopester in our houses/lives, organising stuff for us.

Maybe I should start a new business knitting them.....

dopester

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think we all need a Pocket Dopester in our houses/lives, organising stuff for us.

Maybe I should start a new business knitting them.....

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here - I didn't watch it but apparently Nigel Havers got tired with Linford Christie's views and described him as 'an encyclopedia of opinion'. I'm not that bad and just trying to be helpful having been asked about possible cars. I'd probably go for the latest type of Fiesta from that particular model (cheap on insurance, tax, fuel, parts.. but it's a trade off between not having that power on cars described like Sue's Passat when putting your foot down, which I could personally live with even on longer commutes).

misskool

I think the problem is that I'm at the south end of the country and not at the north end of the country. No cars with that low mileage around me

Any car around the 1k mark seems to have done 100k miles around here.