Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

michaels

I'm glad I didn't have to census interview any of you lot.

It is a real loss not having access to the bicycles (it is no longer possible to get from the back to the front without going through the house - I am thinking maybe we could just chain them up at the front but need to install some sort of metal loop to chain them to. any suggestions of a suitable fixing - some sort of hasp? It would need to be done in a way that it could not just be unscrewed and stolen along with the bikes?

John_Pierpoint

silvercar wrote: »

I'm fuming.

Just got a solicitors letter addressed to the previous owners - who we bought off in 2006! Why are they using our address for a business they set up in 2009?

They sold to us in 2006 and then their business went bust and they personally went bankrupt. They moved to a lovely rental in the countryside a few miles from here.

Then they set up another business and that failed.

Then another one - the one that this letter refers to - owing money to a supplier!
So why the hell are we getting letters for them?

(I know it doesn't effect our credit rating, its just annoying.)

When we bought we got letters for them and bailiffs turning up at the door but I could understand that the address was legitimately this one; but now it means that they are still either using this address or hiding their address so well that all that can be found is this one.

To top it all, I saw her out driving this week in a Mercedes, don't know if its new but she'd transferred her numberplate across.

Parasites.

The next step will be to fake the death of a partner - then you will get the paparazzi knocking on the door, as well as the men in steel capped boots.

Here is an ongoing case:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/04/03/oap-faked-own-death-for-520k-insurance-payout-115875-23033575/

lemonjelly wrote: »

I love poached egg. I love egg in general.

Thing I find with cooking for one, is the motivation. I love cooking for more than 1, because a big part of the preparing/cooking process is the anticipation about how the other person/people will enjoy the meal. It makes me a little more adveturous, or extravagant. Cooking for one seems boring, & it is too tempting to do something very basic, simple, resulting in a boring and uninspiring meal.

If I'm on my own, I have to be careful not to resort to yet another bowl of cereal, in place of a real meal.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

weird weather. hot then freezing, then hot again.

It's snowed in North Wales.

lostinrates wrote: »

lj, cooking for one cheerups: have a nice set of plate/cutlery just for when you eat alone: my ''dinner service'' is mismathed antique/vitage/new china anyway, but I have a plate I love that's a bit cracked, I use that through the week. For soup/porridge/stuff I have an oversized cup from mont st michel which is tacky but funny, makes me smile. I use a proper napkin, even if I'm eating in a chair.

I like to have "just the right dish" for things, then get enjoyment from eating from dishes that I feel are perfect.... not up to your standards though.... I've never owned a proper napkin - and probably only ever encountered one on a small handful off occasions in my life.

My "indian takeaway dish" tends to be a Port Meirion serving dish. Huge enough to fit in a whole portion of rice and the curry ... which I then eat with a big spoon

I used to have 1-2 table pieces, bought donkeys years ago when I expected to one day have a proper home/house and people to eat with... but it's never happened. So I got rid of it all when I moved 4 years ago.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

If you think they are doing something illegal, you could contact Action Fraud, see: http://www.actionfraud.org.uk/. Alternatively, you could try calling Companies House. AF was set up as a one stop shop for fraud enquiries though, so could be the best first port of call.

The issue I have with all these "one stop shop" arrangements though is: none of them are. There are probably hundreds of "one stop shop" things... and they're just another place nobody knows about because there's on real "one stop shop" where you ask/get everything

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

Oooh secret meeting with GDB?

That would be lovely. Okay if I bring my wife along?

PasturesNew

There's a new doorbell security thing that can be used when you cba to answer the door. One switch and if anybody presses your doorbell it phones your mobile phone - and when you talk to the caller it comes out through the intercom.

Now - you could be anywhere. At work, on holiday, in the garden, having a bath, or just in your jim jams in the living room looking through the window at them. But for callers they think you're in the house, talking to them through the intercom.

It'll be in the shops soon - about £40.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Probably....what shall I do then, howl like a lunatic if someone approaches?


My pet hate is ''n turning signs''. It is a little annoying if people turn a ot in your drive BUT, I always think if someone asked me politely if they could turn I'd say ''of course'' but if they just do it I'm saved the caller not by appointment!

The trouble with "no turning" is that if you've made a horrible mistake and realise you're lost and need to go back, you've probably already spotted the place you'll turn in the distance and started to slow down/get ready to turn. By the time you see the sign you think "ha ha - I'll be gone in 10 seconds, what can they do about it??"

I think the worst "no turning" signs are those at the very very very far end of a dangerous and narrow, tricky lane - that gave no indication it would end in a dead end (you get a lot of those in the real countryside). So there you are, with no real option but to turn round wherever you can... unless you get out and camp/live there forever.

John_Pierpoint

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's a new doorbell security thing that can be used when you cba to answer the door. One switch and if anybody presses your doorbell it phones your mobile phone - and when you talk to the caller it comes out through the intercom.

Now - you could be anywhere. At work, on holiday, in the garden, having a bath, or just in your jim jams in the living room looking through the window at them. But for callers they think you're in the house, talking to them through the intercom.

It'll be in the shops soon - about £40.

Invented by a school boy I think?

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Invented by a school boy I think?

Yes, 14 year old. There was a competition, but to be in it he had to produce a working prototype. Now, for most people, that'd be the end of the idea.... but his parents were posh, so their family friend happened to be some bird that was the 2004 World Champion Female Inventor (or something).... so they asked her - and she sent it off to China to be made.

We all have ideas.... we're not all posh enough to know people that know what to do/sort it

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

That would be lovely. Okay if I bring my wife along?

But of course, the more the merrier;)