Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

I'm still praying for more rain....sorry Michaels...I'll happily have your share too though.


Today's first snigger: someone sent me a document to proof read. rofl.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm still praying for more rain....sorry Michaels...I'll happily have your share too though.

You can have some of mine for free. Been bucketing down all night.

From previous experience there is one row of bedding plants completely protected by some bushes, so I need to water them in this weather!

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bizarrely, your offer of help suddenly made me realise my paternal aunt is HEAVILY into this - and might know some other small sliver of detail... so I'm going to risk asking her to look into it. Bit scared now as she might know more than I've been told and it might be 'sensitive', but as he came back 40-50 years ago, she might even have been told at the time, or after (unlikely), but you never know.

So I'll ask her and see what happens.... I'll try to get the b4lls to email her later.

Good luck with it. I was trying to find out about my grandfather's family. He died when I was only 4 and my grandmother had some sort of falling out with them at the time, so we never really knew them. An aunt of mine who lives abroad had an email address of someone who she thought was related, so I emailed. A week later arrives an email with a whole load of questions to confirm who I was (do people steal ancestors?) followed by a link to a family tree he had put online. So one email contact led to the whole family tree going back to 1854:)

silvercar

Redesigned the kitchen this weekend. We used to eat at the kitchen island on bar stools, unless we were entertaining when we would eat in the dining room. The kitchen is L shaped and the "L" had been occupied by 2 small settees and a small TV. Now we have instead a dining table that we can eat at. Positioned it just in front of the patio doors, so we can eat looking out onto the garden. So much nicer to eat at a table.

Only problem is I am meeting resistance in moving the last settee. "They" seem to think that it would be nice to still be able to flop on the settee in the kitchen. I don't see why, given that there are other rooms with bigger TVs to flop in; but he is used to flopping in the kitchen, so I'm meeting resistance. There is the room for a small settee, but I'm not sure I want it - my plan was to get other rooms used more, but they think the kitchen being the hub of all activity, should have one.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know I should PM people with random stuff, but that needs effort.... this is with TomTerm in mind: http://www.phplist.com/?lid=348

Looks a fascinating project, I think I will sign up for that this week.... I need something to bung on my latest site and didn't want to go down the big name route as their prices get silly and their interfaces are baffling.

Does look interesting, I've bookmarked it for future reference. At the moment I'm largely locked in to what I already have in place, too much hassle to change. But I'll have another look when I have the patience to 'techie':D.


RANT WARNING:

Am stressed... am pretty sure our sewer / drain pipe has collapsed. Is pitch fiber, apparently. We have multiple redundancy on the insurance... we have our own building insurance cover, and we have a separate cover with homeserve that covers the same thing (but which provides much more cover for blockages - and trust me, the private drain is very long, probably over 1000 meters to the road through other peoples land, so we thought we might need the extra coverage).

Turns out the home insurance cover doesn't actually cover pitch pipe... it's an exception on page 28 out of a 40+ page booklet. The home serve cover DOES include pitch pipes - which is lucky because we didn't know anything about them - but we are worried that they will try lawyer things (wear and tear etc) to get out of it.

We didn't even know we had pitched pipe sewer drains.

Waiting around for people to put a camera down it to see if, as we suspect, it is FUBAR.

Hoping we can make a temporary repair... the drains outside out land becomes someone Else's problem on 1 October when they do the private drain transfer.

BTW - anyone with NFU buildings insurance, check your drains are not pitch fibre pipe.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

but they think the kitchen being the hub of all activity, should have one.

I'm with them. Its the one you keep covered with throws and can sit on in between stirring things that need you in the kitchen al day and render you too mucky to go into the smarter rooms. I hope we can fit one in. At the very least an armchair.

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

Good luck with it. I was trying to find out about my grandfather's family. He died when I was only 4 and my grandmother had some sort of falling out with them at the time, so we never really knew them. An aunt of mine who lives abroad had an email address of someone who she thought was related, so I emailed. A week later arrives an email with a whole load of questions to confirm who I was (do people steal ancestors?) followed by a link to a family tree he had put online. So one email contact led to the whole family tree going back to 1854:)

My grandparents courted for a while. One friday, in the pub, some friend asked what they were doing the next day. My grandad said he was off to the football. My nan told him he was taking her shopping. He said "I always go to the football". She said "You are taking me shopping. If you don't, you'll never see me again".

He went to the football.

She didn't speak to him for 3 years!

I don't know how, but he got her back. They had 1 child. During the pregnancy, grandad was diagnosed with cancer. His treatment meant he'd never have another child (indeed, no-one ever expected him to survive, & everyone was amazed at how long he survived for - 52 years!) So my dad was an only child.

Sometimes, it is a miracle we ever came to exist...

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

Redesigned the kitchen this weekend. We used to eat at the kitchen island on bar stools, unless we were entertaining when we would eat in the dining room. The kitchen is L shaped and the "L" had been occupied by 2 small settees and a small TV. Now we have instead a dining table that we can eat at. Positioned it just in front of the patio doors, so we can eat looking out onto the garden. So much nicer to eat at a table.

Only problem is I am meeting resistance in moving the last settee. "They" seem to think that it would be nice to still be able to flop on the settee in the kitchen. I don't see why, given that there are other rooms with bigger TVs to flop in; but he is used to flopping in the kitchen, so I'm meeting resistance. There is the room for a small settee, but I'm not sure I want it - my plan was to get other rooms used more, but they think the kitchen being the hub of all activity, should have one.

How big is your kitchen?

I can honestly say I have never been in a kitchen with a settee in it.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

How big is your kitchen?

I can honestly say I have never been in a kitchen with a settee in it.

Most traditional farms and lots of country cottages have them. The kitchen is where you live (and often work from) during the day. And the dogs need somewhere to sit.

Wheezy_2

tomterm8 wrote: »

Turns out the home insurance cover doesn't actually cover pitch pipe... it's an exception on page 28 out of a 40+ page booklet. The home serve cover DOES include pitch pipes - which is lucky because we didn't know anything about them - but we are worried that they will try lawyer things (wear and tear etc) to get out of it.

We didn't even know we had pitched pipe sewer drains.

You probably researched this already, but maybe this is of interest to you:

If the pitch-fibre underground pipes have failed following ordinary usage, we are unlikely to be persuaded that this is sufficient to establish that the failure arose as a result of wear and tear – unless there is clear evidence of this.
This is because the failure is often due to an inherent flaw in the structure of the pitch-fibre pipes – a defect that was not known at the time they were manufactured and/or installed. In these circumstances, we are unlikely to agree that it is fair and reasonable for an insurer to reject a claim for damage to pitch-fibre pipes on the basis that it was caused by wear and tear.

http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/publications/technical_notes/pitch-fibre-pipes.html#8