Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

Oooooooooooh, DH was just told he's being put up to next pay scale a few months earlier than we thought.:) Its not going to pay off the mortgage but better than a kick in the teeth...it might pay the increase in train fares in the new year if we're lucky

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sounds like jellyland is a fun place to be at the moment! Glad James were good. You like to see them lots in the same way that I want to go to every Swing Out Sister concert (phenomenal live).

I trust you're going to go for something a little lighter now you've finished Simon Schama. I'm trying something different for a change, a spot of Boris Akunin crime. Sue, if you're reading this, what do you think of him?

I'd not heard of him...but after doing some quick research, he looks like one I would like!

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

There are many places down there, facing north and surrounded by woods, which never see sunshine for months. I'd think it's easy to buy them in summer time, with the dappled sunlight playing through the leaves, but I'll bet none of them go to locals!

There was a story in one of the papers many years back, featuring a couple with a house who don't see the sun in Wales as it never gets over the mountains in winter... they never realised when they bought it.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was a story in one of the papers many years back, featuring a couple with a house who don't see the sun in Wales as it never gets over the mountains in winter... they never realised when they bought it.

You don't need a mountain to be in that position, but yes, it's not the first thing that most people think about if they view in June.

We used to reject houses on the grounds that they didn't control their own sunshine, particularly late afternoon & evening sun. Some agents would be slightly 'off' about this as a reason, but most were smart enough to realise that if we understood the way other buildings, trees and the landscape might conspire against a property at a different season, or time of day, we weren't naive.

silvercar

I put an upside down plastic plate across the top of the bird's fat balls feeder. I thought that would be enough to stop the squirrel hanging upside from the pole and reaching the fat balls. Not so, the clever squirrel now sits on the edge of the water tray shakes the whole thing enough so that it can grab hold of the shaking feeder and then eat away.

So I've bought a squirrel blocking cage. The theory being that the birds can get into the cage and feed from the fat balls, but the squirrel can't. Time will tell.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

So I've bought a squirrel blocking cage. The theory being that the birds can get into the cage and feed from the fat balls, but the squirrel can't. Time will tell.

Then the birds will get so fat from eating the fat balls that they won't be able to get out of the cage again. Then your neighbour's cat can eat the birdies.....

I'm sorry. I just like to think these things through.

misskool

Opinions on a citroen ax? 100k, n reg (late 95/early 96), with year's mot. £495.

Worth a punt if the car looks ok?

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Opinions on a citroen ax? 100k, n reg (late 95/early 96), with year's mot. £495.

Worth a punt if the car looks ok?

ohh...I had one of those I think. I had a citroen any way, and also proper citroens...2vc. That's not that helpful is it.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

Opinions on a citroen ax? 100k, n reg (late 95/early 96), with year's mot. £495.

Worth a punt if the car looks ok?

I had one, lovely little thing it was, the AX GT I had. It died at nearly 100k miles with a head gasket gone. I was using it to do a weekly commute of 200 miles each way.

Reliable, fuel efficient. Can't fault it really, except the bodywork is thin, so potential to dent easily.

Just realised yours is about 100k .... so maybe not a good move.

sss555s

misskool wrote: »

Opinions on a citroen ax? 100k, n reg (late 95/early 96), with year's mot. £495.

Worth a punt if the car looks ok?

Does a Citreon AX do 100k miles?

You sure it hasn't been clocked, the wrong way?

You may get a better deal/condition on a Fiat Panda as any self respecting young chav wouldn't consider one. :beer: