Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

SingleSue

Youngest has been a lot calmer today, think it being the weekend helps as no stresses from school.

PN - your town sounds like my town......

FC - Scary!

PasturesNew

RenovationMan wrote: »

Do you have strong arms? I couldn't believe the weight of the plaster and how knackering it is to have your arms above your head for so long!

No, I'm a short, middle-aged, whiney woman who'd moan (if I could even lift it up) .... manual labour isn't really my thing.

Maybe I could do some "poncing about with mixes and wandering around with a clipboard looking important". That's more my thing.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

PN - your town sounds like my town......

Oh that wasn't my town... that was driving a 50 mile round trip to a town that actually has 'proper shops' of sorts. It's a tiny cluster, with a new bit (even has a cinema!). So there's now about 50 shops in total, none really useful. But you could at least find underwear and cardigans in that town - and even a shop with an escalator.... although the shop's on one level there's an escalator to it as it's the only shop on that level (built on a hill). There are no escalators in my town. I suspect there are probably 3-4 in the whole county.

It was also noted how empty the main/dual carriageway was .... it's built for the peak season holidaymakers with their caravans arriving/departing on Saturdays; rest of the time it's pretty empty.

The three largest towns in the county have about 20,000 residents apiece. Everybody else lives in villages/hamlets mostly. And there's lots of "nothing" between everywhere

LydiaJ

Coming home from a friend's house today, I stopped near the little co-op down the road from us. I told the kids to stay in the car while I dashed in for a couple of things - they're 10 & 7, and reasonably responsible. They asked me to leave the keys in the ignition so they could have the radio on.

I went into the shop and was just in the queue to pay when ds (10) came rushing into the shop to tell me that dd (7) had locked us out of the car. I had my wallet with me, but my bag, with phone, spare car key and everything else, was in the car. The radio was on full blast, the keys (with my house keys on the same ring) were in the ignition, all the windows were shut, and the car was securely locked. :mad:

I'd just met somebody in the queue that I recognised and we'd worked out that we had kids at the same school. She hadn't got her phone on her, but she was with a friend who had, so she got the friend to lend me her phone. I phoned friends of mine reasonably nearby and arranged to go round there with the kids. Ds and I walked there. Mercifully it wasn't too far. I had to piggyback dd because she'd left her shoes in the car. I borrowed my friend's mobile phone, left the kids there and went back to my car. The RAC man came within about 25min and took about 5 min to break into my car without damaging it. :eek:

Phew. Life returns to some semblance of normality. I'm hoping dd will have learnt her lesson and won't lock car doors without using the key ever again.

In other news, I've been having a browse on rightmove today and still can't see any houses I would like to live in for less than at least £50k more than this one. It really would be my perfect house if I could just summon up the motivation to unpack properly. So far I am not doing well at that, and this evening I really really must mark my AS-level coursework. I have promised my class their marks on Monday morning. _pale_

GDB2222

this evening I really really must mark my AS-level coursework. I have promised my class their marks on Monday morning. _pale_

I do quite a lot of my best work between 10 at night and 3 or 4 the next morning. I make a cup of coffee or two and just settle down. I'm more relaxed and there are fewer distractions than during the day. Sometimes I work through until 6 AM or so, then grab 2 hours sleep and a shower and start again at 9AM, but then I'm exhausted by 5 or 6 in the afternoon and have to go to bed. It's a good way to catch up with things.

michaels

Glad you got it sorted - these things can feel like a nightmare when they first happen and you don't know how you are going to resolve them.

We have been in a year, we recently repacked about 40 boxes from cardboard in the garage to plastic to go in the shed. I suspect most we will never use but very little was an obvious throw away'. I am now hoping that when we have extended and have room for all the books, dvds, cds, toys etc then everything else an be 'rationalised'

Sadly we didn't find the beaters for the hand mixer which we were hoping to.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Coming home from a friend's house today, I stopped near the little co-op down the road from us. I told the kids to stay in the car while I dashed in for a couple of things - they're 10 & 7, and reasonably responsible. They asked me to leave the keys in the ignition so they could have the radio on.

I went into the shop and was just in the queue to pay when ds (10) came rushing into the shop to tell me that dd (7) had locked us out of the car. I had my wallet with me, but my bag, with phone, spare car key and everything else, was in the car. The radio was on full blast, the keys (with my house keys on the same ring) were in the ignition, all the windows were shut, and the car was securely locked. :mad:

I'd just met somebody in the queue that I recognised and we'd worked out that we had kids at the same school. She hadn't got her phone on her, but she was with a friend who had, so she got the friend to lend me her phone. I phoned friends of mine reasonably nearby and arranged to go round there with the kids. Ds and I walked there. Mercifully it wasn't too far. I had to piggyback dd because she'd left her shoes in the car. I borrowed my friend's mobile phone, left the kids there and went back to my car. The RAC man came within about 25min and took about 5 min to break into my car without damaging it. :eek:

Phew. Life returns to some semblance of normality. I'm hoping dd will have learnt her lesson and won't lock car doors without using the key ever again.

In other news, I've been having a browse on rightmove today and still can't see any houses I would like to live in for less than at least £50k more than this one. It really would be my perfect house if I could just summon up the motivation to unpack properly. So far I am not doing well at that, and this evening I really really must mark my AS-level coursework. I have promised my class their marks on Monday morning. _pale_

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I do quite a lot of my best work between 10 at night and 3 or 4 the next morning. I make a cup of coffee or two and just settle down. I'm more relaxed and there are fewer distractions than during the day. Sometimes I work through until 6 AM or so, then grab 2 hours sleep and a shower and start again at 9AM, but then I'm exhausted by 5 or 6 in the afternoon and have to go to bed. It's a good way to catch up with things.

I'm at my most productive through the night, when it's lovely and silent and there aren't any interruptions. Last flat I lived at though had noisy bugg4h neighbours - one'd let his last batch of mates out between 2-3am and then one'd go to work at 6am, then upstairs would spend 6.30am to about 8.15am getting up, ready, out, back (one dropped off, one back), then pottering about until they went out ... with the compulsory stomping down the open wooden stairs and slamming of all doors along the way.

B4st4rds really put paid to me considering working between the lot of them as there was no stretch of time when I could have slept. I really need my isolation/silence to function. I'm like a cat on a hot tin roof living around others and their noise.

PasturesNew

My Internet's been going dog slow for days now. Most of today it's averaged 35kbps. I spent 3 hours earlier cleaning up my PC, moving 1GB of files I'd downloaded last month onto an external HDD, before doing a defrag, a Windows Cleanup, a Windows Washer, turning off restore, doing another defrag, a few reboots, another Window Washer, another defrag...... managed to tweak each of C: and up to 17% free and 26% free (from 8% and 15%). I hoped the cleanup + the time disconnected would mean I'd reconnect at a faster speed... but the three systems are really dragging.

I just rebooted and removed the usb stick for a few minutes again, hoping it'd improve. From typing the MSE url into the address bar it took one whole minute for this page to load. The control box thingy is telling me my current session has averaged 60kbps. So it's dire.

So, I need: A home, space, light, equipment, materials, space, time .... and a new PC and proper broadband

PasturesNew

Reading the DM, looks like it was a war zone in some parts of London... especially parts that somebody in this thread was keen to research earlier.

Davesnave

LydiaJ wrote: »

. The RAC man came within about 25min and took about 5 min to break into my car without damaging it. :eek:

In other news, I've been having a browse on rightmove today and still can't see any houses I would like to live in for less than at least £50k more than this one. _pale_

The roadside repair people are usually great at breaking into cars, but it's getting harder for them to do this now that the 'bent coat hanger trick' no longer works for so many vehicles.

It took me two days to break into the back of my van, because I devised a pulling tool instead of a pushing one. Once I realised the side and rear locks were different....

I still look at Rightmove too. There has been nothing comparable to this place for similar money, although I've seen a couple with less land and no solid outbuildings for a good deal more.

I also look in Wales though, and there, the picture is a little different.

We made a good decision and investment here, but I'm not sure that it's a long term one. I think if this was going to be our 'forever house,' I'd know it by now.