Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did you see the news report this week about the glass staircase in America? It was a public/court building and they had to stop anybody in a skirt/dress going up it (including judges in long gowns) as you could see right up their skirts from underneath the stairs.

Link for anyone who wants it.

Generali

fc123 wrote: »

9c?? Sounds a bit chilly for Aus.

You mentioned coming back to Europe at some point Gen....do you think you'll come back to the UK soon?

The coldest I've been in here in the daytime was about 2C. That was up at Lithgow in the Blue Mountains in March:that is amazingly cold for March here. The Snowy Mountains get cold in winter, it's 0C there (Perisher) as I type at lunchtime.

I'm taking the Generalissimos to the UK in July for a couple of weeks. We have a plan to move to Europe (France?) at some point, perhaps in 5-7 years.

The trouble with the kids having started school is that there will never be a convenient time. We plan to send them to international school so hopefully that will make any move seamless and stress free:rotfl:

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I didn't comment on the gold wall, I think it would look brilliant on slightly rough, old plaster in an old house. Not so great on a freshly plastered wall in the Brownfield development mentioned above.

Agreed. We are actually considering gold or more likely copper leafing a smallish wall it the dining room (the wall of the dwarf height room going up to the ceiling when we knock through). That room is (we plan) to be a sort of sack cloth goldy brown and gold. I have a pic here of a room I'm using as inspiration. It would be fun to look at our ''ideas mood boards'' (yeah, I know that sounds pretentious but I can't think of another way to describe it ) with you doozer, I think you'd giggle.

My architect told me we are not the frst people to reference a dolls house in pictorial inspiration, lol. The ''mood boards'' were his idea to ease communication between us, he does them too and we compare. Its amazing how good they were for us talking to each other too. Making sure we're both well represented!

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, I like carpets rather than hard floors. But that's because I'm one of those people who almost always feel cold, often doesn't wear shoes, and likes a warm surface underfoot. I also have two elephant-footed children (or that's what it sounds like) who thunder about the house badly enough even with carpets.

This house has lino in the kitchen, conservatory and bathrooms, ceramic tiles in the downstairs loo and the utility room, laminate in the hall, wooden open-treaded stairs, and carpet everywhere else. I'm happy with all of it except that I would prefer it if there were lino in the utility, and I wish so fervently that the previous owners hadn't recarpeted the entire house in a variety of shades of beige in order to sell it. I hate beige carpet - it looks boring and it shows every speck of dirt or spill or whatever. But I don't believe in wasting money replacing serviceable carpet just because you don't like the colour, so I'm stuck with beige everywhere until we can wear it out. Maybe I'll get some rugs to cover up the beigeness - although of course that will make the carpet take even longer to wear out. For preference, I'd have carpet with a little bit of small pattern or a fleck or something - enough to make it forgiving of marks but not enough to draw attention to itself.

I feel the temperature, if I'm hot I'm ''baking'' if I'm cold I'm ''freezing''. Since my thyroid packed up anyway. And also, its mainly cold now. Underfloor heating on a hard floor wins ultimate award from me...warm, easy to clean etc. My thyroid packing up has made me use dressing gown and slippers for the first time in life.

I'm interested in the carpet colour thing. what would you prefer, matching the colours to the room decor? Or do you have another favourite colour that coordiantes well with other colours you might choose to decorate in?

I find old carpet very hard to live with.:o I think its probably because of the animals though.

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

I'm snuggled under the duvet in my bedroom keeping warm after watching the marathon F1 GP with the boys downstairs (feet got very cold!).

But what a great Grand Prix and an epic drive from JB! It's not bad when you can: 1) have a collision with your team mate, 2) have a collision with a Ferrari, 3) have a drive through penalty, 4) make wrong decisions on tyres meaning that you have visited the pits six times, 5) be at the back of the field at one point and in spite of all of this still go onto win. It's one of those rare drives that GP fans will be talking about for years and he truly deserved the win.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did you see the news report this week about the glass staircase in America? It was a public/court building and they had to stop anybody in a skirt/dress going up it (including judges in long gowns) as you could see right up their skirts from underneath the stairs.

Which made me think, Rhianna was at the GP yesterday. When it had its very l-o-n-g break, during which all but totally die-hard fans will have switched over, the world's press was filming Rhianna walking down the pitlane. One of them tripped over, fell backwards and was lying on the floor with his camera pointing upwards just as she stepped over wearing a short skirt. I'm sure those pics will be on the net later.

Davesnave

LydiaJ wrote: »

Link for anyone who wants it.

The news story about the glass stairs rings bells for me.....

Back in the heady days of the late 60s when I was (briefly) a civil servant , we had a R&R room in the basement of an office block near the Strand. The windows on one wall faced the street and were set high up, somewhat below pavement level. A line of chairs faced these windows, while all the others faced into the room. I soon found out why!

When the office building was constructed, probably in Edwardian times or earlier, women's fashion was more focused on preserving modesty than it was in 1969! :rotfl:

vivatifosi

A question for Gen if I may. My uncle has been staying with my parents and is flying back home to Aus at the moment with Emirates. I've subsequently found out that there are a lot of ash delays so I wanted to check if there's anything on the news there that fills out what's happening. I can see that there are flights being cancelled and don't want him being stranded in Singapore, or Sydney for that matter as he'll still have to get a flight to Hervey Bay. I hope he gets back ok. This is the same guy I mentioned earlier in the year that got cut off from his family by the floods. He's not very lucky! Plus he's in his 80s so getting stuck in a strange place will be a bit disconcerting (though I'm sure Emirates would put him up if he got stuck in Singapore).

Generali

At the moment it's Tassie and Melbourne that are really hit. Sydney is mostly ok barring flights to those places.

The possibly bad news is that there is a second ash cloud. The prediction is for it to go to Tassie and VIC again but nobody actually knows where it'll end up. Adelade is looking like it might close. Sydney is still an outside bet only. The most likely thing is that your uncle will be fine.

michaels

I don't suppose you would see anything that isn't in most of her videos anyway.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Which made me think, Rhianna was at the GP yesterday. When it had its very l-o-n-g break, during which all but totally die-hard fans will have switched over, the world's press was filming Rhianna walking down the pitlane. One of them tripped over, fell backwards and was lying on the floor with his camera pointing upwards just as she stepped over wearing a short skirt. I'm sure those pics will be on the net later.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

All our new bits will be real wood or porcelain tiles, I still want a glass staircase all the way up to the loft room - mostly to add a wow factor when coming through the front door but that will have to wait to phase 2.

I didn't find it cold here but did notice the rads were warm.

Glass staircase, young children, sticky fingers. Not a good mix. Wait a few years.