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

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Dunno ... never thought about kitchens big enough for a table. I am not entirely sure I would ever want an island.... I do want a breakfast bar area, that'd be kept clear for all the reasons I gave above.


That's what I never understand about sinks being under windows. When you're at the sink you're washing up and so looking in the sink/bowl and making sure you don't catch the plates/etc on the taps and break them. When you're preparing food etc you've time to look out of the window.

Can you have a corner sink? I've seen those. Drainer either side, sink in the middle. That'd also work well with the "nasty corner" issue as under the sink's another scarey place, so they might as well both be together.

I agree. I don't relly like th look of corner sinks.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah ... I am not from bespoke kitchen stock. I'll put up with what I get as I'd rather have the money in the bank really. I wouldn't be comfortable 'wasting' good money on stuff that wasn't essential.

That's how I feel. My parents bought their house in 1959. The kitchen wasn't fitted, natch. In 1975, they had a couple of base units, 3 narrow upper level units, and an aluminium sink fitted in one corner of it, to make the house easier to let when we went away for a year with my dad's work. It's still like that now. It's very small, and has three doors, plus an awkward corner with a chunk taken out of the room. There's a free-standing cooker, and a free-standing cupboard (the width of two base units) and some shelves, plus a slimline washing machine. When it's eventually sold, whoever buys it will gut the place - knock it through into the damp-ridden downstairs bathroom, or preferably pull down the kitchen extension altogether and rebuild it, as next door have done. There's no way any modern buyer would consider it even half adequate for a 5-double-bedroom house.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm always amazed when I see motorcycle sports accidents that the riders are not hurt more, but they do usually have plenty of room to decelerate slowly, and their clothing protects their skin.

I fell off my motorbike four times and the two most serious of those were both at very low speed when I got a leg trapped under the bike. Both times I was on teaching practice and, annoyingly, on the second occasion the staff room was upstairs and pretty inaccessible to someone with a stick.

The third time, it was on a very wet road and I literally skimmed along, stood up and found there was hardly a mark on me or the bike.

The last time, a hidden sheep leapt out from behind a gorse bush straight into my path. :eek: I was doing about 45-50mph. I don't know what happened to the sheep, but it was obviously well enough to run off. A horse doctor picked me off the road. Again, I was almost uninjured, as my clothes/helmet had protected me, but dropping from a height onto the road surface and bouncing around knocked all the wind out of me and I blacked-out.

I sold what was left of the bike. Never been on one since. Horrible things!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

do you think we could change the subject a little?:o If not I can talk about what chickens do when you kill them?:D

Sorry, only just cauight up with this. I'll remove my post if you want, but it will have to be later as I'm off hedging again until it gets dark, or rains.

Anyway I know about chickens.

Washing up is when I do bird watching, so under a window is essential.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Sorry, only just cauight up with this. I'll remove my post if you want, but it will have to be later as I'm off hedging again until it gets dark, or rains.

Anyway I know about chickens.

Washing up is when I do bird watching, so under a window is essential.

No. In fact I'm not in the least upset, but feel soe comments risk being close to the bone for some others. TBH....that sort of thing doesn't upset me at all. I'm a little heartless:o


I hope, n kitchen is done, I won;t be washing up much at all!

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

http://www.theusedkitchencompany.com/kitchens-for-sale/page:12?prod_sort=pdesc

I found this site recently. A second hand kichen still at £1ook is a bit out f my price range!!! But I thought it a good ide to start looking at real kitchens an printing out pictures of ones I like. We want quite a simple kitchen (not the clive christiansn ones, even though soething about the ott nature appeals) but I like th nes with curved cupboards at the end of runs. y ad says I'll regret that as it will date them.

You strike me as a https://www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk kind of girl.

I might get part of a kitchen this weekend. Flooring is down, downstairs and I think the doors are being fitted today. We're [STRIKE]moving back in[/STRIKE] camping there tomorrow. I think. Communications are down within the Doozer household as I'm stuck in a Holiday Inn with a poorly child and no phone reception.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

No. In fact I'm not in the least upset, but feel soe comments risk being close to the bone for some others. TBH....that sort of thing doesn't upset me at all. I'm a little heartless:o

It was mostly my fault with that physics explanation. I remember the first time I had to teach physics of seatbelts after "the" accident. I remember thinking I ought to be more upset or unable to talk about it or something, but somehow it just seemed all the more important to get the kids I teach to understand why seatbelts are so important.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

You strike me as a www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk kind of girl.

This is a nice sink
http://www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk/images/kitchens/nav_01_img.jpg

Sinks are annoying because they're not normally big enough to wash up your biggest saucepan or roasting dish, or many other random objects (e.g. oven racks, fridge shelves, the draining rack) and you end up tyring to twist the item round to avoid banging it into the taps .... and managing to wash/rinse a few square inches at a time.

That one's good as it's like a Belfast but only half as deep .... Belfasts you can get lost in... and just imagine how many spoons will be able to hide under the suds.

I'd like a sink that size in my utility ... that I'll have one day when I get a house....

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

It was mostly my fault with that physics explanation. I remember the first time I had to teach physics of seatbelts after "the" accident. I remember thinking I ought to be more upset or unable to talk about it or something, but somehow it just seemed all the more important to get the kids I teach to understand why seatbelts are so important.

I'll leave it, except to say, there was a TV advert about your killer being behind you and featuring a mother with teens in the back and some "sinister" white van following them, then it becomes obvious they meant the teens, not the van.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-9JR2P4wWI

But don't watch it as it gets graphic.

I shouldn't have mentioned it should I... oh !!!!... can somebody tell me how this 2nd foot's supposed to fit in now?

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

You strike me as a www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk kind of girl.

I might get part of a kitchen this weekend. Flooring is down, downstairs and I think the doors are being fitted today. We're [STRIKE]moving back in[/STRIKE] camping there tomorrow. I think. Communications are down within the Doozer household as I'm stuck in a Holiday Inn with a poorly child and no phone reception.

http://www.plainenglishdesign.co.uk/spitalfields-1

pretty perfect!