Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

hehe, I've just rememebered a story about I think bars.

When I first had the car in italy it had had a tough drive, and I filled it with (little did I know) the last of the right oil I had for it and wanted to check my tyres. We drove into a garage and they asked what my tyre pressure should be (my car didn't have one of those helpful stickers) and I said what ever it was ...32 or whatever and the garage chap told DH I was dangerous and mad. DH and I went away with a flea in our ear...and remembered later they use the other measurement over there. Personally, I was impressed I'd remembered to maintain the car, trying to remember two units of measure ment was a step too far.

And I never did find the right oil anywhere in Italy.

These foreign chaps are darned difficult. They don't even know how to spell. My brother drove on the motorway right past Firenze before he realised that's how the for'ners spell Florence. :rotfl:

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Um,

Anyone got something alcoholic to hand?

Wohhoo! Good news, I toasted with a Dairylea cheese spread sandwich and a can of Perrier.

lemonjelly wrote: »

LIR I will eat my homegrown salad sandwich, & raise a can of pepsi to your news.

(whilst sat outside in the glorious sunshine).

PS no-one tell stevieJ!!!:shhh:

Stevie! That public sector worker is wasting your taxes again!

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Cheap - £13 when I've paid £22 before (Dell price is £39). Just noticed they don't include the power lead bit of the charger ie between charger and plug, so not that much cheaper.

That would be fine for me. It's always the bit that connects the charger to the laptop that breaks for me. I don't need one at the moment, though. Last time it broke I bought two, to have a spare.

lostinrates wrote: »

Um,

Anyone got something alcoholic to hand?

If so, please pour yourself a glass because I'd like to make a toast to the planning dept of my local council, who have today managed to agree that all they had to do months ago was say ''Yes''. We have our PP and listed buildings consent!!!

Yay! :beer::beer::beer:

I'll toast that with a glass of water and a cocodamol tablet. (Don't worry. My neck problem has flared up again - it does it every few years - but I've got a chiropractor appointment fixed for tomorrow and expect to be back off the drugs again as soon as I've seen her.)

michaels

Many congrats LIR but make the most of your fish-sticks, you will soon look back with fond memories to the time when you could just 'have lunch'. I got home for lunch to find the front door was cut off by another trench (front garden currently looks like something out of the Somme), a large hole being excavated in the front passage for an electric cable, the power off (of course) and discovered they had been the soil pipe in the wrong place in the side passage cos it was easier than putting it in the right place. Then when I was eventually able to get a cold lunch I had to quickly move half the front room so they could pull the floor up to connect the gas supply.

One piece of good news, the new cold supply was producing 45l/min at the house at 2 bar so no expansion tank needed although I got a bit wet while the builder demonstrated this.

I have decided to go for porcelain floor tiles throughout except in the en-suite where it will be marble - does anyone know anything about sealing stone floors?

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Many congrats LIR but make the most of your fish-sticks, you will soon look back with fond memories to the time when you could just 'have lunch'. I got home for lunch to find the front door was cut off by another trench (front garden currently looks like something out of the Somme), a large hole being excavated in the front passage for an electric cable, the power off (of course) and discovered they had been the soil pipe in the wrong place in the side passage cos it was easier than putting it in the right place. Then when I was eventually able to get a cold lunch I had to quickly move half the front room so they could pull the floor up to connect the gas supply.

One piece of good news, the new cold supply was producing 45l/min at the house at 2 bar so no expansion tank needed although I got a bit wet while the builder demonstrated this.

I have decided to go for porcelain floor tiles throughout except in the en-suite where it will be marble - does anyone know anything about sealing stone floors?

Poor you!

I'm hoping our phases are going to minimise disturbance. e.g. while ''they'' the builders get the end of the house with the kitchen, utility scullery and the dairy thats to be the kitchen and possibly the dining room (dining room might now be a separate first phase instead of part of the later one) I get to keep the current dining room and sitting room and upstairs. Then, when they are done in that end we'll have ''dust seals'' (which I think is a fancy way of saying they stick thick plastic up over the doors) and I get the new kitchen, the study and the utility rooms and they get the rest (in various stages.).


I'm guessing it'll be phase one and the dining room next year then a couple of years break to try and financially recouperate. Or we might do the ''main'' bathroom after that too, because that's the biggest structural upheaval up there. Then we might do the ''new wing'' next, so that ''the worst part'' is over for people waiting and watching to see what we are up to, and it will give us some spare bedrooms :j:j. Its going to take years and years and years, so might as well relax about trenches etc.


I have to go and see a couple of kitchen designers to try and get a better idea of layout for decided where things like points and water etc should go.

vivatifosi

Hey fantastic news lir! I have no alcohol in the house so I'm going to crack open the medicine cabinet and suck on an alcohol wipe.

silvercar

I could toast you with the only home grown thing I have at the moment - some cress that OH was given on some trendy management thing - watch the cress grow and think how your business can grow.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

re ''megaflow'' it sounds like a medicine for some sort of urinary problem and keeps making me grin.

<childish snigger>

just sounds like a urinary problem to me

<childish snigger>

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

I could toast you with the only home grown thing I have at the moment - some cress that OH was given on some trendy management thing - watch the cress grow and think how your business can grow.

Good lord! That is one of the crassiest things I have ever heard!!!!

neverdespairgirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

These foreign chaps are darned difficult. They don't even know how to spell. My brother drove on the motorway right past Firenze before he realised that's how the for'ners spell Florence. :rotfl:

In Israel, their spelling is indecisive.

On lots of signs (but far from all of them) they have the place names in English and / or Arabic, as well as Hebrew.

But there is no standard transliteration of place names. So in a few miles you can see signs for "Jerusalem", and "Yerushalym", and then "Yerushalem" and "Yerushalime" etc....