Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

You really have lived in the Caribbean / somewhere else hot. You ad my DW would really understand each other whereas for me if there is a day when I don't have to get up then I will take full advantage - although that is pretty limited with young kids - can't wait till they are teenagers and understand that sleeping late is one of life's little pleasures.

DH finds it hard too sometimes. His worst thing is when I go to bed and can't sleep I try and scare myself into making the most of the tie in bed. DH says my ''only five hours, come on, sleep'' sends me to sleep but leaves him in horror at the prospect of five hours sleep...and thus panic striken awake.


when I was a kid in the heat it didn't bother me. I'd get up, get ''dressed'' (where it was 'acceptable' dressed was a pair of red bikini bottoms and red heart sunglasses, otherwise a dress and a weird little bag with essential stuff in it...like a fairy outfit, a piece of string and a lizard) and head off for the day. It terrifies me now what an independent kid I was..in the sea etc unsupervised, off whole days at a time. I do remember another expat mother nice commenting on it and my parents dismissing her concerns. I think I was very lucky.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

It starts at five. Some kids can read when they get to school, others can't. Parents turn up at the school gates in pyjamas..

TBF have seen this in public/private school primaries. Some of the intake in a v. well known school in the southwest weren't able to eat with anything other than a spoon nor really talk like 4/5 year olds, more like 2 year olds. You'd think paying a bomb ALL parents would have an interest in maximising value by teaching what should be taught at home so that the child is prepped for prep. The parents were always dressed though.

SingleSue

I just could not go to the school dressed in my night clothes, blimey, I got so embarrassed when I forgot to take my slippers off, so embarrassed that I put a note up by the door saying "Have you remembered to put outdoor shoes on" to remind myself.

Re talking like a 5 year old, with middle son, he spoke more like an adult at 5 which caused quite a few problems as the teachers didn't believe he knew what the words meant and he was just saying them...until they asked him what the words meant and he told them!

It confuzzled the life out of them.

John_Pierpoint

Good Friday is the most important day of the year for the DIY trade, in our multicultural society.

Am I the only male in the country, who knows that kitchens and bathrooms are consumer durables. They are not property investments.
A kitchen/bathroom may have a functional life of two generations but within a dozen years looks "dated".

Anyone for recycled glass work tops ? - those granite ones, made by exploited bare foot labour in India, are looking so last century.

Ever since blagging an invitation to a reception at the winner of "the luxury home developer of the year" award, where champagne and chef cooked nibbles were being served from a kitchen larger than my ground floor; I know that the quality of the cooking is in a inverse relationship to the price of the kitchen - I bet that kitchen would have been used for re-heating pizza ?!?

Ah well, pass the bucket, I'll have a go at flushing the toilet with water from the bath; perhaps we will have the water back on by lunch time tomorrow; and all I am doing is replacing a basin in a bungalow.

lostinrates

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Anyone for recycled glass work tops ? - those granite ones, made by exploited bare foot labour in India, are looking so last century.
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rofl, this strikes a chord. We're not having our kitchen fitted when the structure is repaired. I want to do it later when the rest of the house is done and we can stop and save money for the kitchen to be done properly. Until then we'll hopefully move the kitchen in the kitchen now to the new kitchen in the autumn (apparently phase one will be over in October, which I'm not counting on. I reckon December is more realistic.)

I don't want granite, I want the room to reflect its history....so milky colours and glass...it was a dairy (in fact it was a cheese room). But I always wonder if things like glass will date more quickly? I don't mind that much in a kitchen I then choose to keep forever, if its what I want.

lostinrates

So a good day is answered with a bad day. Can hardly move today. Can't feel left leg, apart from the sciatica, at all. Its just a big dead weight. It weight bears but that hurts. So, animals were done by DH this morning, and he's going to get me out to a weed patch to sit and weed while he gets on with the next coat of paint on that window. sheesh, what a croc! There is so much I want to do today too, so hopefully it will ease off as the morning goes on.

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I know that the quality of the cooking is in a inverse relationship to the price of the kitchen - I bet that kitchen would have been used for re-heating pizza ?!?

About 2 years ago there was a telly programme where a well known chef would work with a family for a week to get them to save money on their food bill by showing them how to eat food similar to what they currently did, but better/cheaper.

One couple had a big house and owned a kitchen fitting company. They had a full top of the range posh catering quality kitchen .... but couldn't cook. Their company had taken a hit in the recession and they were looking at losing the house, yet they were spending a fortune on food shopping. Not only were they spending a fortune, but they were then automatically scraping their extensive waste food into their expensive waste disposal unit in the sink.

I've got the figures somewhere, but if you could imagine somebody spending, say, £15-20k on food and scraping say £5k of it down the sink without even thinking about it.

PasturesNew

Yesterday was mostly sunny, with a couple of hours of "really hot", but by 4pm the rain had caught up ... ever walked the south coast path in shorts and a T shirt in the rain? You look an idiot. Oh I had a plastic mac, but my companion didn't and refused to walk without one, so to keep the peace I handed it over.

Today it's grey/overcast here.

I hope that's making you guys that are stuck inland feel a bit better about not being able to get to the seaside.... although the rain over the weekend seems to be confined to the west coasts of Britain. So if you're reading this and thinking of getting away today/tomorrow/Monday, check the weather maps and probably head East.

SingleSue

I have never had a choice of kitchen...our one now was because it was £50, we didn't care what it looked like, just that it was £50.

That said, it didn't actually look that bad and was amazingly, the sort of colouring I had wanted at the time.....but it was dated back then and is very very dated now (I am rather old fashioned in my tastes)

I keep hoping if I keep it long enough, it will come back into fashion!

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yesterday was mostly sunny, with a couple of hours of "really hot", but by 4pm the rain had caught up ... ever walked the south coast path in shorts and a T shirt in the rain? You look an idiot. Oh I had a plastic mac, but my companion didn't and refused to walk without one, so to keep the peace I handed it over.

Today it's grey/overcast here.

I hope that's making you guys that are stuck inland feel a bit better about not being able to get to the seaside.... although the rain over the weekend seems to be confined to the west coasts of Britain. So if you're reading this and thinking of getting away today/tomorrow/Monday, check the weather maps and probably head East.

Yesterday was glorious, last night was far too hot. Today we have woken to clear blue skies and climbing temperatures again, bit of a pain really as I am doing an Easter Egg hunt shortly and am now having to change from hiding the eggs, to hiding little tokens instead, as the eggs will melt if they go out there!

But then, I am East......