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

michaels

Sadly I sit there thinking twitter doesn't make sense and although I was a textaholic when younger now I barely find a time when just calling the person doesn't make more sense - I guess having enough minutes also come sin to the equation. I have also never online gamed and I can't be bothered to figure out how to get the girls NDS's to network. I wonder which technologies we will be the 'old people who don't get it ' for?

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I wonder which technologies we will be the 'old people who don't get it ' for?

For me it's:
posh phones
Sky
dish washers
tumble driers
iPad, iPod, thingies like that....
Wii

... and loads of other stuff that many people take for granted and I just don't get yet.



My reason is that I've not seen them/had them/used them so they sound like a big, fat, expensive white elephant.

Although, having said that, I'm kind of working my way towards a smartphoney thing..... when it's time.

I leave all technology purchases until the very very last minute - thus ensuring I can get the best options/spec and at the lowest price possible, rather than buying early and sitting on something outdated before I get to use it.

michaels

Thanks DG

The 3 bed semis (and this detached) built in the 30s round here are about 75-85sqm. The new build estate '5 bed detached' are about 150 with some of that being in the eves as it is over 3 floors. When you calc floor area is it just footprint x no floors or do you adjust for stair wells etc?

Wood to be waxed/varnished/painted is just standard knotty pine.

Seems to be a lot of housing market activity round here with properties going sold which surprises me, I would have thought it would have shut down for the winter. There is still though a lot of sold back to available a few weeks or months later followed by a price drop happening.

Doozergirl wrote: »

150 metres isn't a five bed house to me though? Not worth knocking down a three bed for to rebuild.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

For me it's:
posh phones
Sky
dish washers
tumble driers
iPad, iPod, thingies like that....
Wii

... and loads of other stuff that many people take for granted and I just don't get yet.



My reason is that I've not seen them/had them/used them so they sound like a big, fat, expensive white elephant.

Although, having said that, I'm kind of working my way towards a smartphoney thing..... when it's time.

I leave all technology purchases until the very very last minute - thus ensuring I can get the best options/spec and at the lowest price possible, rather than buying early and sitting on something outdated before I get to use it.

I understand posh phones but they don't like me, something wrong with the fingertip temp which makes touch screens unresponsive 8 out of 10 times. Also apps, I can use apps on my phone but I tend to just put in the addy's of sites in the normal browser bit, just appears easier to me and less of a kerfuffle. Talking about apps, someone has offered to make one for my site, I tried to sound intelligent and knowledgeable about them but think I failed completely.

Ipads/pods etc I have no choice to understand, youngest has given me the lecture (yes, it really is a lecture), umpteem times....I switch off now :rotfl:

Wii - we had one, I couldn't see the point of it.

Tumble dryer - would be lost without it.

Dish washer - now that is where I get confused, surely it is just as easy to put some water in a bowl and do it by hand? Or if you can't do that, get the children to do it to earn their pocket money.

E readers - I really cannot see the point, electrical so would always be worrying about getting it wet and by the time you pay out for the blessed thing, it works out to quite a few second hand/boot sale books, so would be hardly worth it. Not as easily portable as a book, you would be worrying about having it stolen, or being bustled about in your bag and you couldn't take it to the loo for a 'quiet read' either!

You drop a book and it is fine, you drop an E reader/Kindle and it is beggered, books don't run out of charge, electronic formats do, so you would be forever having to check to make sure there is enough charge or a place to charge it/plug it in....complete waste of money.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Thanks DG

The 3 bed semis (and this detached) built in the 30s round here are about 75-85sqm. The new build estate '5 bed detached' are about 150 with some of that being in the eves as it is over 3 floors. When you calc floor area is it just footprint x no floors or do you adjust for stair wells etc?

Wood to be waxed/varnished/painted is just standard knotty pine.

Seems to be a lot of housing market activity round here with properties going sold which surprises me, I would have thought it would have shut down for the winter. There is still though a lot of sold back to available a few weeks or months later followed by a price drop happening.

Michaels if you started with 80 sqm, does that mean that your extensions have roughly doubled that?

Does that make your house much bigger than others in the road, or have other people done much the same?

I would say that 80 sqm for a 3 bed house does not sound like a lot. I always thought it's calculated on the overall footprint rather than the usable space.

sss555s

GDB2222 wrote: »

Michaels if you started with 80 sqm, does that mean that your extensions have roughly doubled that?

Does that make your house much bigger than others in the road, or have other people done much the same?

I would say that 80 sqm for a 3 bed house does not sound like a lot. I always thought it's calculated on the overall footprint rather than the usable space.

I'm not up on this but think he means cost or value per sqm.

Rough calculations say my house is around 575 sqm for what i see as a small to normal 4/5 bed 3 bath house including the conservatory.

I have no idea what the sqm value is in my area or if I'm even making any sense


Heating engineer seems to be getting on fine and doing a good job. Time to make him another coffee me thinks.

michaels

Do you live in buckingham palace. - 5 beds at 5mx5m each which is pretty large is only 125sqm add say 50sqm for bathrooms and landing and a second floor the same size and you have a huge 5 bed at 350sqm. This one is about 150sqm. but I would say it is as small as you could go for 5 beds.

Yes we have doubled my house in size (although I never know if you should include integral garages and conservatories in the calcs) and it is probably the joint largest on the street - they all started out in the 80-85sqm range and most are extended to some extent wither single or two storey at the rear, a few with wider plots like ours have side extensions. None of the really big ones have sold prices available in the last 10 years.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

I am fairly convinced that you are my older sister but 10 years younger (and a bit posher) if that makes sense.

Don't you start with the posh thing (-:

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

I was deeply underwhelmed but used it as a primitive word processor for a while. I've no doubt it was very cutting edge.



If you connected your tape player tgo the BBCmicro it would then load made a simple game. Never got into it either.

If you'd asked me if computers had a future....:cool:

I've just realised half the posters/lurkers here won't understand a word I've said! Prestel, BBC Micro, teletext, cassette! :rotfl:

My Dad bought them, and used them, for wordprocessing. He got tired of getting typists to do things for him, correcting it, sending it back, etc. He wanted to be able to edit as he went along.

His handwriting is terrible, too. He sometimes can't read his own writing.

neverdespairgirl

sss555s wrote: »

NDG does remind me of my cousins from Woking a little. Uncle worked for the inland revenue in London and one cousin was working with the EU and doing very regular trips to Brussels the last i heard.

I have also seen NDG as many times as i have seen my cousins in the last 20 years

My uncle also worked for the Inland Revenue, in Sussex.

I've never seen any first cousins. Don't have any (-: Neither does Isaac (although that could all change, of course).

OH didn't have any first cousins, either, until 3 years ago, when his uncle (then about 55) and uncle's wife (late 40s) had twins by IVF. They don't really count as OH's cousins, though, as they're younger than his own son!

We both have horders of second and third cousins, though. In OH's case, literally a horde. One of his Dad's first cousins had 9 children, and 7 of them now have families of their own, ranging from 1 child to 8.

OH says that at family gatherings the children are literally uncountable, as there are so many moving around, you can't tally them up, Fortunately, it's easy to find Isaac as they are almost all dark-haired.