Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

treliac

dopester wrote: »

Trel; that really is good news for your household about the new permanent employment position. I'm happy you are happy about it.

Ahh, thanks dopester. That's sweet of you.

We are very lucky. It could so easily be a different story - the threat is substantial at the moment. However, that's not to undermine DH who, with very little time, did produce an excellent and innovative presentation by which to demonstrate his abilities.

misskool

Good news for treliac!

I'm BORED

treliac

The other main worry I have had in the past month has been about my mum who has been in very poor health. However, I'm pleased to say that, mainly because I have done all the research and badgered her GP plus a few other things I have had to push for, she is a bit better and all the required referrals have been made and various tests are underway.

DH and I have three parents, all of whom have developed health problems which require time and attention. I've reached the point where the juggling is getting impossible without having to approach my employer to ask if I can be classed as being a carer and allowed the flexibility to undertake the responsibilities that I am now having to manage.

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treliac

misskool wrote: »

Good news for treliac!

Thanks misskool.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

Good news for treliac!

I'm BORED

I was always told "boring people are bored".

Is this because you're trying not to buy stuff? Stuff you don't need... stuff you'll never use .... stuff... then furniture to put the stuff in/on, or a bigger kitchen/bedroom/an extension to place the new furniture, that holds the stuff you don't want/need?

misskool

no, i'm bored because technically I'm on holiday and not supposed to work but I might as well dig something out in a minute. I'm not a holiday person.

PasturesNew

LIR. You could get a double, foldaway hammock - bound to be cheap now as they're a summer item - and you can use it in the garden in the summer. Or just get a double visitor/blow-up bed, Aldi had some good looking ones for £40 just a month ago, shame that's not this week. e.g. http://www.hammocksworld.co.uk/p/Palacio_Hammock.htm

For heating and water, with unlimited funds, I'd be thinking about every eventuality. A wood burner'd be on the list and those heaty exchange thingies, probably ground source. For water, in a big place, I'd get an electric shower and the bath water on the heating system/boiler/whatever... and it'd be good to also have either an "instant hot water tap" in the kitchen, or a tiny/mini instant electric water heater in the utility. With a woodburner, you can also heat up soup on the top and toast bread on a big toasting fork... we did that during the power cuts of the 70s.... except we had a coal fire and were trying to balance a saucepan of soup on it, which wasn't that great, so mostly we just ate toast.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

no, i'm bored because technically I'm on holiday and not supposed to work but I might as well dig something out in a minute. I'm not a holiday person.

DH want to know if you are bored enough to watch Ingmar Bergman...his deinition of suicidally bored. we're watching Beowolf.

Feral cat - who was found under a sofa cushion...DH ate his supper atop her and thought he was sitting on my feet :eek: is purring like crazy and the other two are content. Its lovely here to night.:)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

and it'd be good to also have either an "instant hot water tap" in the kitchen, or a tiny/mini instant electric water heater in the utility. With a woodburner, you can also heat up soup on the top and toast bread on a big toasting fork... we did that during the power cuts of the 70s.... except we had a coal fire and were trying to balance a saucepan of soup on it, which wasn't that great, so mostly we just ate toast.

I really long for one of those taps.

DH cooks chestnuts in the wood burner, I love toast over the fire!

tomterm8

Personally, with heating and hot water, I think redundancy is key. We moved in to a place with an oil central heating system, but because it requires a electric pilot light, when the electricity goes off so does our central heating. We are left with a single woodburner, which isn't fun.

You need a main source of heat, and a subsidiary source of heat...

Particularly if you live in the countryside.