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

Davesnave

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

How big is the pit you've dug? Was it just to look at the foundations, or something else?

The pits are about 80cm wide and extend back a couple of metres from the house in 'steps,' as it's impossible to go straight down.

The top of a decent foundation should be at least 3' (95cm) from the DPC, so the bottom is usually around 4' down. One has to show the building inspector/structural engineer where the base of it is. (assuming the pit's not full of water, which is a possibility here at this time of year!)

Incidentally, the posh architects in the posh place (Wells) said it would cost us £10k to investigate the footings. Here, our achitect plans to have the whole lot sorted and the plans drawn-up for under £1500.....provided I do the digging!

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

And as an aside, I don't seem to have heard from Mrs Davesnave for a few days...

It is true that she has been absent of late, but only to tend family members elsewhere because of a hospitalisation.

She's actually here just now, but because of the limitations of the medium, I cannot prove this.

PS: She also claims never to have communicated with you, or indeed to have heard of you, but then M Rice Davies etc etc....

Davesnave

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Next we'll hear about his new patio....

Patios come last. Anyway, as I told michaels last week, us farming types have a special word for patio.....'concrete.'

SingleSue

Carers allowance sorted out..it was a glitch (think that is their code word for someone making a boo boo) and everything will be back to normal next week.

Youngest is coming down with his first cold of the winter season, lovingly given to him by his slightly older brother and of course, with colds come the plunging peak flows. Now is the time we will see just how effective his new treatment is, the peak flow has reduced (by 40 at the moment, so not really anything to get overly concerned with) but will it stop before we get to critical stage? Hmm, it remains to be seen. He will have to start carrying his steroid warning card again as all the extra puffers have to be added in at the first sight of a cold and continued for at least a fortnight after the cold has gone.

Re gender stereotypes - dad was always of the mind that girls wear dresses, do the housework and look after the children while the men go out earn the money and watch sports on the telly...I rebelled against that pretty strongly.

He soon changed his mind when he realised that his only son had no interest in watching sport and was pretty laid back about money or promotion at work and his eldest daughter loved watching sport and had the same quest and thirst for climbing up the employment ladder as he did.

My boys have had an upbringing which shows that woman can do things around the house, we have our own team of fixers called Ma Bodge and sons, no guesses as to who Ma Bodge is and that men can show emotion. The end result is that eldest is seen as an agony uncle, the one to go to when you need a shoulder to cry on, the one to talk problems through with...plus he can fix lights, plugs etc.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I am not in any way a pet/animal person so I guess the only thing I can relate to is my kids getting more independence which is already hard sometimes, still no doubt when they turn in to moody teenagers I will be wishing that the time for them to move on would hurry up...
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A relationship with a horse is different to a realtionship with some other domestic animals I think. I most often like it to a realtionship with a boyfriend/girlfriend. Not because its arousing (but then sometimes lack of arousal is a sdimialrity between relationships :rotfl:) but because you communicate through your body with them when mounted, as well as talking. A good rider feels what their horses is feeling..in the way of enthusiam or tension, excitement or boredom, as well as what they are doing that might not show these emotions to onlookers in quite the same way.

In the same way, a rider can say ''no, no, no'' with their voice while saying ''yes, yes, yes'' with their body, to positive or negative effect. You work as a partnership, each enabling the other. Some horse/rider relationships are as flawed as some human ones, but the good ones feel like a good marriage.

There is also an element of the fierce caretaker love as with other domestic animals, you relaise you are responsible for their well being in much the same way as with children....their diets, exercise, education, emotional well being mets are met by you or you fail them. But its not always like that. Special girl is intensely protective of me....I think she feels maternal towards me at times. Her daughter and I had a close relationship but different.


The cats are my ''babies'' (sorry gdb2222). I've een had dreams I'm giving birth to them:o. I sometimes have to remind dh that though they are our babies in their own right they are middle aged people really. The dogs I love too of course, but in a different way again. They are I suppose more what a ''non pet'' person would think of as a stereotypical pet owner relationship.(more child than baby?)

edit:
it is true in a way they are all like children....I wouldn;t tolerate anyone treating them rudely when they visited here....its their home and I am their protection.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

You are at risk of the revenue then classifying you as trading and getting stung on the tax front.

Doozer'd be a bit of an expert in that area I bet.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

A relationship with a horse is different to a realtionship with some other domestic animals I think. I most often like it to a realtionship with a boyfriend/girlfriend. Not because its arousing (but then sometimes lack of arousal is a sdimialrity between relationships :rotfl:) but because you communicate through your body with them when mounted, as well as talking. A good rider feels what their horses is feeling..in the way of enthusiam or tension, excitement or boredom, as well as what they are doing that might not show these emotions to onlookers in quite the same way.

In the same way, a rider can say ''no, no, no'' with their voice while saying ''yes, yes, yes'' with their body, to positive or negative effect. You work as a partnership, each enabling the other. Some horse/rider relationships are as flawed as some human ones, but the good ones feel like a good marriage.

There is also an element of the fierce caretaker love as with other domestic animals, you relaise you are responsible for their well being in much the same way as with children....their diets, exercise, education, emotional well being mets are met by you or you fail them. But its not always like that. Special girl is intensely protective of me....I think she feels maternal towards me at times. Her daughter and I had a close relationship but different.


The cats are my ''babies'' (sorry gdb2222). I've een had dreams I'm giving birth to them:o. I sometimes have to remind dh that though they are our babies in their own right they are middle aged people really. The dogs I love too of course, but in a different way again. They are I suppose more what a ''non pet'' person would think of as a stereotypical pet owner relationship.(more child than baby?)

edit:
it is true in a way they are all like children....I wouldn;t tolerate anyone treating them rudely when they visited here....its their home and I am their protection.

Explaining to me how the NP are all so very different.

vivatifosi

NP, if any of you are around, can you please click on the link and tell me whether it works properly. I may write to the body involved, but want to check whether its me or not (I use a weird PDF reader not Adobe).

I want to know if there is any text in the plan section of the document:

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/strategicplan2011-2014.pdf

Thanks!

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

NP, if any of you are around, can you please click on the link and tell me whether it works properly. I may write to the body involved, but want to check whether its me or not (I use a weird PDF reader not Adobe).

I want to know if there is any text in the plan section of the document:

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/strategicplan2011-2014.pdf

Thanks!

All looks fine to me.

vivatifosi

Cheers Silvercar. I have no text in the version I'm looking at. I'll have to load Acrobat, which means disabling the software I use. Its one of those freebie cheat versions, that enable you to do things you can't do without the paid Acrobat. Looks like I may have to buy the expensive version. I'm looking to upgrade my Office suite so its probably time to shell out a grand or so on some new software, haven't done it for about 8 years.