Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

Michaels, what about a corner loo?


We're going to have a similar squeeze in main bathroom (which annoyingly will be the smaller bathroom, but will only serve two rooms). I think you are right to go for a walk in shower, and a decent size (I hate claustrophobic showers). In a squeeze I'd personally rather have the bath in a family bathrom (despite loving baths) and having a lux big shower room. BUT you need both in there so.....what about losing the full glass screen for a half tilled one and having another half wall to play with...turning the loo as someone...GDB? suggested with no need to see it through the glass from the shower?


Not having enough room by the loo is not ''posh'' either!

Davesnave

Just a word of caution about car shunts. You may be hassled, especially if you seek on-line quotes for insurance thereafter.

We still have companies phoning and texting us, asking if they can pursue our 'claim' two full years after the blonde bimbo texter ran into our car and wrote it off. The last one was a text on Wednesday saying 'Our investigations show you could be entitled to £3750 for your claim.'

Our claim was settled by our insurers at the time, so I imagine these are all ambulance chasing outfits, or similar, hoping to make a few bob on some 'injury' we suddenly remember having. Whatever the moral aspect, these people are slimy creatures who just put up the cost of insurance for everyone. :mad:

Personally, I feel no ill will towards Miss Brecon Beacons. Being two years older, she may have now have concluded that texting and driving aren't things that go together very nicely, especially as her Mam hinted that we weren't the first people she'd hit!

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Met a tourist in the lane I use to cut across to 'Chez Dave' though. Big, new, very black Beemer & specs to match. Not happy to reverse, but 3.5 tonne van trumps that! :rotfl:

You've got to love the lanes and people in big/shiny cars.... I love that look of sheer horror on their faces when they're in the middle of the road and realise there's not room .... they don't seem to have been 'clocking' the last passing place/dent in the bush and seem unable to reverse their cars round two corners down a 1-in-5 with a sheer drop of 200' to the side. Sometimes I know my wider bit was 100 yards back and I can see there's room to pass if only they back up just 15 feet .... but they sit there like rabbits caught in headlights.

They often expect that if they drive in the middle of the road, others will give way to them ... well, it's not going to work like that down 'ere lover.... there's pecking orders and Highway Codes. And, sometimes, if we have to, us locals will turn the engine off and get the paper out until you've sorted yourself out.

PasturesNew

Have you seen those P baths? I found an image of one in a tiny space, to demonstrate just how small a space they can be fitted into http://i49.tinypic.com/dgi6id.jpg

Your chosen bath might look nice, but to me they look uncomfortable. I like to sit on the edge of the bath to wash my feet (especially when I've been on the beach in crocs/flip-flops, I am still wearing those when I sit on the edge to wash my feet as I kick them off and wash the shoes too then prop them up over the taps to dry). Where do you put your stuff on a posh bath? Your soap, shampoo, rubber duck and loofah?

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Just a word of caution about car shunts. You may be hassled, especially if you seek on-line quotes for insurance thereafter.

We still have companies phoning and texting us, asking if they can pursue our 'claim' two full years after the blonde bimbo texter ran into our car and wrote it off. The last one was a text on Wednesday saying 'Our investigations show you could be entitled to £3750 for your claim.'

Our claim was settled by our insurers at the time, so I imagine these are all ambulance chasing outfits, or similar, hoping to make a few bob on some 'injury' we suddenly remember having. Whatever the moral aspect, these people are slimy creatures who just put up the cost of insurance for everyone. :mad:

Personally, I feel no ill will towards Miss Brecon Beacons. Being two years older, she may have now have concluded that texting and driving aren't things that go together very nicely, especially as her Mam hinted that we weren't the first people she'd hit!

I don't know what the law is on texting/driving, but it should be a bit like the speeding one where if you're caught going over 100mph it's an automatic one year ban... should be that if you're texting and have any form of accident then it's an automatic one year ban.

misskool

i spoke too soon, sneezing fits have begun this morning. the pollen has arrived

PasturesNew

It's a bit windy here. I hate the wind - and this is a VERY windy county. You can't 'dress for the wind' it just blows your hair, clothes, coat, jacket, bag everywhere and is annoying. It does make big waves though to look at!!

SingleSue

Middle son got all his choices for his GCSE years.....so Music, production arts, ICT and business studies on top of the compulsory ones, he is most chuffed to get his music choice, that was his priority.

Youngest son got a letter personally written by the executive head of both high schools, apparently a piece of homework he did for ICT (they had to design and make something Olympic related - he did a new style Andoid phone) has so impressed him that it is now on display in his office. Being autistic, he took it to the nth degree and spent hours and hours doing that homework (approx 7 hours), using all recycled materials....even right down to the tear off screen protectors you get on new items with screens.

Weird thing is that none of us have an android phone, he has never seen an android phone in real life but he got everything absolutely spot on...he even wrote an instruction booklet, made a charger AND did a presentation box including the inside packaging to hold the phone, charger etc in place during transport to the new home.

Mum is giving me grief over the attendance allowance application, they hate being 'beholden' to anyone and now she wishes I had never convinced them to apply for dad...but then in the next breath goes onto say about how they need to do this and that in the house to help dad and in the process, her in caring for him. I've basically said, well if you get it, all well and good, if you don't, then don't take it any further and appeal or anything if you feel so eek about claiming and you have lost nothing by putting a claim in.

PasturesNew

I've so much stuff to buy, none of it that's available down here... and I really want to go into a big crafts superstore and see/touch everything to be able to decide what to buy. Buying things you don't know, online, isn't always easy if you've no experience of them at all. Even, say, sheets of silver I would prefer to go into a bullion place and see/feel the sizes/thicknesses of the metal. Need to be able to feel the weight and judge what I need. And it's like that for everything. I also have questions to ask....

Online forums are dominated by Americans, who have greater access to supplies and have brand names that aren't available here.... and, ideally, I'd like to 'have a go' with some things to try them out first.... e.g. trying out lots of resins/glues in various situations. See what I like the feel of using.

I have a head full of ideas and half-formed notions, but no definitive Goods List - and if I get to the Goods List stage then everything will end up coming from different suppliers.

I should have picked something easy to try to do ... like painting watercolours.

Looking at kilns this morning and thinking about dichroic glass and enamels. Love to have a go at those, but it's availability/cost - and waiting..... you can't just go online, find a workshop now/next week and turn up. And I see what access to these things other cities provide and I'm annoyed at being so geographically challenged.

Even a pair of pliers, it's a 40 mile round trip to the shop that sells one type ... and another 40 mile round trip to another shop that sells a different type. So far I've bought them online, but I still need another different pair.

Looking at dies/hammers, found a tools place to check out - but it's a 40 mile round trip to go and see what they have ... which might not result in them having anything like what I need.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't know what the law is on texting/driving, but it should be a bit like the speeding one where if you're caught going over 100mph it's an automatic one year ban... should be that if you're texting and have any form of accident then it's an automatic one year ban.

I can't prove she was texting, but she was so far behind us, the failure to note that everyone else had stopped was suspicious. She was certainly texting by the time I got out of our car about 5 seconds after impact. (Can't you tell I've had this happen before!:()