Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

I don't like garden furniture much, I just trek out there with a blanket lie down and ne of the dogs or cats soon offers their services as a pillow/cushion.

I'm tired and panicky. Made poor housesitting father and the client who's also helping him go over everything three times. I don't want to go. I know this is partly a bit of fear about being out and about and away from here and partly fear about being tired and out of routine. I am not irreplacable, they'll cope fine without me here, even if everything is different from how I like it. But I will be sore and tired. Its going to take four hours to get to the airport without a car, and two changes. Travelling light, but with a stick and no speed atm it makes me worry. Suppose I don't get a seat? I'll be dad on my feet after travelling to the airport! also, we're leaving after morning chores....when I normally take first big break of the day....so I'll be tired anyway!

edit: fwiw, for security, the house will ever be empty. Housesitting parent is not leaving the house ONCE. so better than when I'm here en. Unless they take a critter to the vet.:(

GDB2222

If hubs are not doing so well, why can't you move your stuff elsewhere? You don't have to move it all, just the good stuff, and is there any problem with copying your own stuff, so now it's in two places?

tomterm8

GDB2222 wrote: »

If hubs are not doing so well, why can't you move your stuff elsewhere? You don't have to move it all, just the good stuff, and is there any problem with copying your own stuff, so now it's in two places?

Hubs are not doing well, but it is still easier to get traffic with them than most other options.

Before the change, you could write almost anything, and it would attract visitors. Now it is more difficult. But not impossible.

SingleSue

I'm not usually into garden furniture either, so either I must be getting old or my tastes have changed.

My days of laying on a blanket out in the garden are long gone, my physio would have a fit for a start and I would struggle to get upright after a while...so I need to have a nice seat with back to sit in for my joints.

tomterm8

I like a decent bench. We get ours in september / december, at the end of the season you can buy them for very little.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

If hubs are not doing so well, why can't you move your stuff elsewhere? You don't have to move it all, just the good stuff, and is there any problem with copying your own stuff, so now it's in two places?

You should really write "unique" stuff everywhere. So to move it to another site would ideally mean leaving it on hubs -and- doing a re-write and uploading it elsewhere. And there are other places to try... and it's always an option. But going to the effort doesn't mean you'll get results. So it could be a lot of effort for nothing.

If I had a chair/desk/proper lighting/space/quiet, I'd write something for one, then re-write it a bunch more times and upload elsewhere too. But I don't have those things at the moment.

I'm just sitting on the hubs and seeing what happens.

PasturesNew

Lying on a blanket in a garden isn't always possible. My last patio garden was hard/uncomfortable - and there were lots of creepy crawlies between the patio slabs and it meant lying very close to an open drain. So I preferred to be above the ground.

If one has a lawn, then it needs to be cut and dry before you lie down on it - not many days like that really. And it's not very comfortable if you're planning on lounging about for 4-6 hours or so.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lying on a blanket in a garden isn't always possible. My last patio garden was hard/uncomfortable - and there were lots of creepy crawlies between the patio slabs and it meant lying very close to an open drain. So I preferred to be above the ground.

If one has a lawn, then it needs to be cut and dry before you lie down on it - not many days like that really. And it's not very comfortable if you're planning on lounging about for 4-6 hours or so.

In that situation I use either a dog bed or sofa cushions.

Sue, I empathise with the getting up and about after lolling. I have been known to crawl to a wall/inside. Thankfully my knees stand that! I find getting down easier often than lifting my legs up, when they/back is dodgy. And hard chairs are wickedly painful for my back. (makes restaurant dining a bit of a bore as part of my mind thinks about the back) One of my dance teachers when I was a kid used to say to her class weekly that even if we gave up dancing we must make sure we sat on the floor every day...to maintain the ability too. Up to a point its worked for me....but I know there will be a time when it doesn't. Until then....the floor rules for me!

lostinrates

Ok, we bought a car.

Its NOT an automatic (hurrah) and it doesn't have cruise control (boo) it has a smaller engine (thank god) and its a less cool colour (boo). Its not got leather seats (boo) but its a year younger than the other, and 10k less on the clock (yay).

I think dh made the right decision with it. The one he liked on friday really was v.smart but probably too smart for our bank balance ATM . Purchase price about the same, but this will be cheaper to run.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

£200 is a pretty good second income.


Any pictures of a cake of your mother's NDG?

Here's the one she made my best mate - she made all the flowers out of sugar, too, and to match their wedding flowers.