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

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  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Posh alert --- Cheese Room :)

    Yeah, I was waiting for PN to come in and state she never seen a cheese room or that her nearest cheese room is a 200 miles round trip :p
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Wheezy wrote: »
    Yeah, I was waiting for PN to come in and state she never seen a cheese room or that her nearest cheese room is a 200 miles round trip :p
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    I wonder when ours was last used as a cheese room :( I guess it cn't have been all that long after it was modernised (Victorian rebuild)
  • GDB2222
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    edited 6 December 2011 at 2:16PM
    lostinrates wrote: »
    lol, did you see the picture!

    We're goig to keep calling it the cheese room when its the kitchen.

    What picture? Where?

    Edit: The other place. Found it. That's quite a big job you've taken on there, LIR. Hat taken off to you.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • lostinrates
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    edited 6 December 2011 at 2:39PM
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    What picture? Where?

    Edit: The other place. Found it. That's quite a big job you've taken on there, LIR. Hat taken off to you.


    Its going to take years, its a massive job and we can't afford to do it in one swoop, or even two. The cheese room LOOKS bad.....but its by no means the worst bit. Like wise the new dining room, its very folorn now, but not critical, the reason we are doing it first is because a: it will imporve circulation in the house and b: make it easier to seal bits of the house of in phases to kee work areas separate from living areas. :)

    The dogs and I took a peek aroud through the windows and a third of the ceiling is already down. :j The long timbers are going to be reused elsewhere (e.g. I need to build a frame for my pear trees next week) and as fire wood, just the big a -frame cross timber (s) will be left (one ''original''....its just a victorian plank) and one new.
  • Davesnave
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    My old boss called on me yesterday & was quite amused by the fact that we have both, independently, decided to grow tomatoes for Christmas this year. We're both succeeding too.:j

    Mine are in what we call 'the conservatory,' which is actually a 25' long home-made greenhouse with an interesting indoor rainwater harvesting system. As all the junk we drag in from outside, like logs, tools, chicken stuff and all our outdoor coats, trousers, boots, etc end up in there, I suppose we could call it the 'Old Crap Room.' :)

    LIR's place is pretty daunting, but at least she wants to live there. After a couple of years, I'm still not sure. Neighbour issues. :(

    Two of our hens are down with respiratory problems.:mad: Let's hope it stays at two. Thank goodness the ferrrets are no longer with us or I'd have nowhere free to isolate them. I felt a bit silly calling the vet and then holding the phone up so she could listen to them both wheezing, but that seemed by far the best option. I knew exactly what she was going to say anyway, so not much point in spending £20 to hear it via an appointment.

    Now watch them die! DW is away till tomorrow, so it will be all my fault! :o:o
  • lostinrates
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    LIR's place is pretty daunting, but at least she wants to live there. After a couple of years, I'm still not sure. Neighbour issues. :(


    Oh, Dave, is it worse?


    TBH, I still want to build BUT it wouldn't be an easy decision. we have super neighbours, a very well balanced comunity...some village concern but ts too big to be nosey or suffocating...its SO well located to get to things. we're continuing here and making all decisions FOR US. If a very, very, very special opportunity arose elsewhere sometime in the distant future we'd be open to it.
  • PasturesNew
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    John_Pierpoint wrote: »
    My water is costing £1.20 a tonne, or per 1,000 litres if you are into "freight tonnes", yours is probably more expensive.
    We have now got to the stage where using the washing machine costs more in water than (economy 7) electricity, and we really are spending a penny or three.
    When I last tried to calculate my water, a few years back, it worked out at £3/tonne .... they charge you for the water, then they charge you to take it away ... and they charge a standing charge. £3/cubic metre is what I worked it out at (South West Water).
  • PasturesNew
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Posh alert --- Cheese Room :)
    Not so posh .... in my house it's called the "free tupperware box the garage were giving away, on the top shelf of the fridge". To call it the Cheese Room would be simpler... I might use that tip.
  • PasturesNew
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    Wheezy wrote: »
    Yeah, I was waiting for PN to come in and state she never seen a cheese room or that her nearest cheese room is a 200 miles round trip :p
    Well I haven't ever seen one .... as for a round trip I know LIR's cheese room is probably a 300 mile round trip; maybe there's one closer.
  • GDB2222
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    LIR's place is pretty daunting, but at least she wants to live there. After a couple of years, I'm still not sure. Neighbour issues. :(

    Two of our hens are down with respiratory problems.

    Now watch them die!


    I have no idea. Do you ahem hasten the end of the chickens, so they can't infect the rest? Can you do the same with the neighbours? :D
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
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