Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

You can cash out if:

You are aged 60+
The value of ALL your pension plans combined is less than 1% of the Lifetime Allowance (£1.5m from next year), ie all pensions combined have to be valued at under £15k.

you can get your contributions back from some schemes as well if you leave early enough - not cashing out in the sense of receiving the value of whatever is in there, obviously. cashing out was the wrong term to use.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bl00dy libraries....

So, I have these books that needed renewing. Tried to renew them online late Tuesday night and it said "You've reached your limit of online renewals, now you have to renew at the library". Great. So first hurdle is they're shut on Wednesdays. So I just went all the way down town, couldn't get into the car park adjacent to the library, so had to do a 1 mile circle to get as close as possible. Parked up, went in.... couldn't find my card. Couldn't renew the books without the card. So they took them off me. She has reserved them on the shelf in my name again though, but I now have to revisit, with my card, to get them back... and as I thought I had my card in my purse where it always is .... god knows where it is.

Don't you have a local village library? where we live, we can have our reserved books sent to the library of out choice. Wherever is nearest.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bl00dy libraries....

So, I have these books that needed renewing. Tried to renew them online late Tuesday night and it said "You've reached your limit of online renewals, now you have to renew at the library". Great. So first hurdle is they're shut on Wednesdays. So I just went all the way down town, couldn't get into the car park adjacent to the library, so had to do a 1 mile circle to get as close as possible. Parked up, went in.... couldn't find my card. Couldn't renew the books without the card. So they took them off me. She has reserved them on the shelf in my name again though, but I now have to revisit, with my card, to get them back... and as I thought I had my card in my purse where it always is .... god knows where it is.

That Viva - she's such a jobsworth!;)

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh, I didn't know there was a banking one. Too many forums. I only really go to "new posts", never minding where they are - or straight to nice people.

I also never see how many people are in any section, so thoroughly not aware of it.

I type F in my browser and it offers me House/Debate, or Renting/Buying - and I click one and end up straight in those two. When I've run out of loonies to read ... I click "new posts" a few times. That's it.

Where is new posts? I was sure it existed but have been seeking yet not
Finding. I thought it would be
Good for when it's quiet at night.

I'm on my phone again, can you tell (dodgy typing)

Wheezy_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

Where is new posts? I was sure it existed but have been seeking yet not
Finding. I thought it would be
Good for when it's quiet at night.

I'm on my phone again, can you tell (dodgy typing)

Oh, I thought it was haiku.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i like the fact that your first thought is for the duck's health.

the nice people thread: saving giant rubber ducks nationwide from glandular disease.

perhaps it can be coaxed back to health in your ickle paddling pool. you could start a duck sanctuary.

The ickle paddling pool I took to the tip today. Rats ate that along with the dinghy. In fact, that saw the worse of the damage.

we did once find the chickens in it, which was quite funny, but they didn't think so.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

we did once find the chickens in it, which was quite funny, but they didn't think so.

what does an amused chicken look like? what noises does it make?

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

what does an amused chicken look like? what noises does it make?

More easy to spot than an amused chicken is a fed up one. Fed up chickens floating have they wings outstretched and are silent.

Things that please chickens (as in measurable positive pysiological indicators and behavioural indicators) can also make them quiet and still, a chicken sunbathing, for example.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Ok LJ - your homework for tonight is to calculate the specific heat capacity of LIR's lake over the winter to see if it contains enough energy to heat her house - heroic assumptions are of course permitted.

The specific heat capacity is easy - that's the heat capacity per kilogram, which will be near enough 4200 J/kgK

The actual heat capacity is what you'd need to see how much energy it's got. To work that out we need to estimate the volume of the lake/pond.

lir's satellite measurements suggested a surface area between 400 and 600 square metres, so let's call it 500 square metres. She estimates depth between 10 and 16 feet, so let's call that 4m. That gives us:

Volume of water = 500 x 4 = 2000 cubic metres
Mass = 2000 x 1000 = 2,000,000 kg
Heat capacity = 2,000,000 x 4200 = 8,400,000,000 J/K

Decreasing the temperature of the lake by 1°C should therefore give a maximum energy of 8,400,000,000 J = 2333 kWh (call it 2000 kWh because we're only estimating and don't know things accurately).

A quick Google of efficiencies of these things suggests that by paying for 400 kWh of electricity, lir would be able to use her lake to get this 2000 kWh of heat energy into her heating/hot water system. However, I haven't found any information about how this ratio changes as the temperature of the external water source changes, and I haven't time to go looking for it.

Generali wrote: »

You might want to hold off buying your solar panels:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/05a4354a-91fe-11e0-b8c1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1OlBprfcj

Yeah, prices will come down, but so will FiTs. And I'm not able/willing to move to California to get more sunshine. But thanks for thinking of me!

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm not sure. I had assued it was the domestic scale models only that don't make sense (unless you switch the bigguns on to look good). There is a relatively local planning situation with solar and wind (large scale) I've been following and the wind power it seemed, was much less land usage for out put. Can't remember the details right now, they might surface later....

The point about domestic solar PV is that it doesn't require any land at all. The roof is there anyway.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

Don't you have a local village library? where we live, we can have our reserved books sent to the library of out choice. Wherever is nearest.

That is my local library. Next nearest is about 20 miles away. That's THE library.

I took the books in to renew them, they took them off me as I didn't have my card. She's bundled them up and written my name on them and put them on the reserved shelf .... when I have my card, I can go back and claim them again.

It's a bit like a kid having your toy confiscated at school.... it's got your name on, but you're made to feel very small and naughty ... and you have to go and collect item/s at a later stage.