Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

My uncle and aunt lived in Sheffield, and I remember it as rather a nice town. I visited it first 50 years ago, and I was simply amazed that they could get from the town onto the Dales in just a few minutes of driving. I remember being taken to see 'The Stirrings in Sheffield on a Saturday Night', which I couldn't follow properly because of the accents.

Maybe they lived in/took you too the nicer bits

I don't know if I was in a nice bit or not, the only bits of Sheffield I saw were the bus route to/from town, then round the markets.

PasturesNew

Just trying to find out where I was, I remember the name of the pub at the end of the road, which is this one I believe: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1114044

That'd mean I was in the estate opposite that. Had to cross the road and go down 100 yards to the chippy, then go "in" about 2-3 roads to get back to the flat. Looks like it was Dykes Hall Road, Wadsley, S6 4EX

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe they lived in/took you too the nicer bits

I don't know if I was in a nice bit or not, the only bits of Sheffield I saw were the bus route to/from town, then round the markets.

Well, my best memories were of getting out of Sheffield, but the surrounding countryside is simply gorgeous.

I think they moved to Fulwood. Around here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stumperlowe+Park+Road&oe=utf-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

But they were closer in when I first visited.

PasturesNew

I bought a shiny dress in Sheffield market, that I wore to somebody's engagement party. Lovely dress, it was a squeeze to get into it though and it really only fitted me once, that night, if I kept breathing in and didn't touch the cake.



I found the spare button to that dress last week when I was looking through the old buttons pot.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

I was surprised that Denmark wasn't on your list SS so thanks for that story, very amusing. Haven't the Danes always been very good at Speedway? I seem to remember quite a few Scandinavians at the meets I went to as a kid.

Yes they have....and they still are. I think it is more to do with the fact that training opportunities are greater and cheaper over there for their youngsters than here, a british lad wanting to do it really needs to have well off parents.

lostinrates

Question for Pn and Tomterm....that google stuff that changed, what was it and why is it important...why does it change the order in which things come up on searches?

iB1

lostinrates wrote: »

That's what sold it to my parents too. I can assure you I needed as much soap, shampoo, washing machine powder and dishwasher stuff as we did before. the shower was still a wrtch to clean for limescale.

I live in a very hard water area and am struggling to get my shower tiles clean because of the damn limescale deposits :mad: what's the best thing to use to nuke the limescale that won't dissolve half of the shower? :rotfl:

lostinrates

iB1 wrote: »

I live in a very hard water area and am struggling to get my shower tiles clean because of the damn limescale deposits :mad: what's the best thing to use to nuke the limescale that won't dissolve half of the shower? :rotfl:

vinegar and elbow grease. I tried things like ''lime light'' but they were no better for the limescale and worse for the skin and lungs. when you have got them clean car wax hem and repeat about 3 times a year before the wax an have been washed off completely and you are back to square one.

edit: don't choose dark tiles when you retile. The blue tiles in London were a wretched nightmare every limey drop of water showed!

Doozergirl

We've had a pretty much acceptable offer on the "right" house this morning. It wasn't a final so we're haggling still. Sod's law suggests we could end up properly homeless for a few weeks, though I promise, promise not to complain. Perhaps part of me would rather contend with three separate 'chains' than the politics of being in the middle of two sales merging into one purchase...

The house we went to see the other day was a total mess. Potential, we could easily see ourselves living there with the most amazing downstairs but apart from the obvious (woodchip wallpaper clearly holding the plaster on the walls and ceilings) we separately thought something wasn't right. Between the two of us and the different things we spotted, we think the kitchen part is subsiding due to broken drains underneath. I can't see any survey, even a valuation not spotting the problem. If it goes without a problem, I will be amazed.

I don't know anything about fancy powering houses I'm afraid. We would never see the payback on an investment like and despite H thinking energy saving measures add to house prices, I think we're learning that they don't!

chewmylegoff

iB1 wrote: »

I live in a very hard water area and am struggling to get my shower tiles clean because of the damn limescale deposits :mad: what's the best thing to use to nuke the limescale that won't dissolve half of the shower? :rotfl:

strong vinegar (you can get it from gardening stores as it's used as a 'green' weedkiller) and one of those sponges with the abrasive green bit on the back. it works better if it's warm.