Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

misskool wrote: »

bought loads on the kindle store,

I got a kindle a couple of months ago, bought one book, can't get into it.

Find the kindle to be less comfortable to read than a book, laptop, iphone, etc.

Has anyone else had the same thing, and does it get easier as you get used to it?

misskool

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I got a kindle a couple of months ago, bought one book, can't get into it.

Find the kindle to be less comfortable to read than a book, laptop, iphone, etc.

Has anyone else had the same thing, and does it get easier as you get used to it?

It's definitely much more comfortable than a backlit screen (laptop & screen), and i read lots of books/pdfs for a long period of time. and you can annotate on them etc.

Should have sold yours to me for half price :rotfl:

lostinrates wrote: »

You have the power to stop

Remember you can't read and drive at the same time No reading time on the commute anymore.

:rotfl: But I have more free time at home

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Thanks doozergirl, I know you have a lot of experience with this.

Zoning? is it such an issue for a room with one primary purpose where there is lots of other ''reception space? If routes though are clearish? we do use our current dining room , so a dining room isn't something that goes unused here.


ATM these rooms certainly are not getting good usuage. I only go into the current study to rummage through unpacked boxes of books and cds, and the garden room is a lovely, room, really nice feeling, but not used it much since it got cold.


I need to show you all the plans..just can't work out how ATM.



I hope you are feeling better today doozergirl. My cold is improving :j:j

we're looking forward to camping in the sitting room tonight but it feels odd having got used to so much space to be huddling in one room!

Yes, I'd love to see the floorplans too! 11m is a loooooong space for a room with only one purpose, but it's hard to find purpose for many spaces when you have too much of it.

I still feel like the stuffing has been knocked out of me. I've never felt this bad for so long I made three hours of effort yesterday and had to go back to sleep. I've only just got the energy to pick the laptop up again, now that H has decided to keep me company with Match of the Day which I cannot bear.

PasturesNew

I've never seen a Kindle, nor an iphone. Books are good though as you can put your finger on the page where you are, slide anything into the page to remember where you are .... and not look an utter tw4t when you whip out a book to read in a public place

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Yes, I'd love to see the floorplans too! 11m is a loooooong space for a room with only one purpose, but it's hard to find purpose for many spaces when you have too much of it.

I still feel like the stuffing has been knocked out of me. I've never felt this bad for so long I made three hours of effort yesterday and had to go back to sleep. I've only just got the energy to pick the laptop up again, now that H has decided to keep me company with Match of the Day which I cannot bear.

I really recommend the tonics mainly targeted at older people after a bad dose of illness. They perk one up a little. whether they contain ingredient that works or if its just a sugar rush I don't know, but worth a try when you feel ready to get out of bed?

the floor plans are cool. The upstairs, believe it or not, is giving me more trouble. Ditching a bedroom is a bit of heart in mouth moment...but I'm now pretty sure its the right thing for this house, but leaves a very large ''master suite'' which I always think is a bit silly....as an adult I don't spend all that much time in my bedroom! But a nice size bathroom and dressing room will be nice.


How the rest fits together not yet sure...we have no number of bedrooms we just acheive and don't want pokey rooms, but on the other hands.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never seen a Kindle, nor an iphone. Books are good though as you can put your finger on the page where you are, slide anything into the page to remember where you are .... and not look an utter tw4t when you whip out a book to read in a public place

I've seen an iPhone and seen lots of annoyed looking jabbing fingers at iphones. For me book are wonderful enough. I love the smell of them, the feel of them. I know they take up space, but....what more wonderful looking thing is there than rows of book spines, the different colours and heights. The only think I don't like about books are the cost.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

The other thing that has totally changed the way we look at the place have been digital surveys. I thought it was a bit of ponce but was convinced by the architect they would at least help him, but actually they have been amazing.

Hmm.....it was just hours with a long measuring tape for us!

Luckily, my FiL does plans.

Although our layout is mad, when there's only two of us, we can shut off one end and just frostproof heat that. However, if we go in for electricity generation, maybe a layout with all the bedrooms in one area would make better sense.

PasturesNew

Colour ereaders that play video will be with us soon. Those using e-ink (not a backlight reader) will be arriving in 2011.

One of the things that makes me stretch out any purchase until I absolutely HAVE to buy it is that every day that you leave it, you can get a better spec at a cheaper price than if you'd bought it the day it was a whim.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

seen lots of annoyed looking jabbing fingers at iphones. .

:rotfl:

Bought one for Mrs McT for Xmas.

Have seen lots of annoyed looking jabbing fingers for the last 24 hours.

LydiaJ

lir

If you get your floorplans into a format you can send, I would love to see them. I have a bit of a thing about floorplans.

When I was househunting, I got very irritated with EAs who didn't bother giving them. The house I'm buying was initially put on RM without one. I could see from the description that it was the sort of house I'd be interested in, so I deduced the floorplan. I had a floorplan for another house further along the road that was on the market at the same time - although it was different because the one I'm buying is on the corner and has been turned sideways in some respects. I had the room dimensions. I had photos of several of the rooms, showing the windows and some of the doors. I had the bird's eye photos of the house (this was before street view). I worked out which window belonged to which room by comparing window shapes, and therefore which room went where, and then I used the room dimensions to work out how the house fitted together and made a scale floorplan. I got almost all of it right, too - just the extension bit with the utility room and downstairs loo etc was slightly wrong because there weren't any photos of that bit.

Then there were the floorplans I drew for the extensions I planned on "house 3" and "house 4". I spent ages on them, and felt at the time that even if I didn't end up buying the houses at least I'd had fun with the floor plans. When I showed my builder my plans for several different possibilities for house 4 (which I had drawn entirely from scratch, on the computer but with software that really wasn't designed for doing floorplans), he asked who'd drawn them for me. I said I'd drawn them myself, and was rather chuffed by the look of surprise and respect that came into his eyes.

So I would enjoy looking at yours if you'd be up for that, and I'll try to make some helpful comments if I can think of any.