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

sss555s

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Not heroin?

I'm so nice, that never entered my head


Drugs are for losers NDG

michaels

I must let you have a chat with my DW about how to be a DW.

lostinrates wrote: »

Me too. I'm just going to pretend its not an issue until its more evident whether it is or not. Ultimately, I'll do whatever dh wants to do.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I must let you have a chat with my DW about how to be a DW.

Hmm....should I caveat..within reason?

No. DH is the earner, I am not. Th thing I want most of all in life is for him to be happy and content where he cannot be happy. He feels the same, he'd never ask me to do something I wasn't ok with. so, we trust each other to think about each other.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm sad that the final plan we chose for the kitchen didn't include a larder. It gives us four or five feet more in th kitchen, and I till have space for a non walk in pantry in the utility, but still....alking larders/pantries are their own whole worlds.

As said, mum would love a downstairs shower room, especially since dad's strokes but loves her pantry more. It is a complete walk in pantry, about 10 feet long but only about 4 foot wide.

Pretty much every other house on the street knocked through the pantry, outside toilet and cupboard (the storage cupboard and outside toilet sit beside the pantry and behind the kitchen sink but can only be reached from doors off the conservatory) to make a very long kitchen many years ago.

michaels

Hmm - we have a large garage but not a 'double' as the planners were no too keen on a double door but may be we colud partition off a part as a 'larder' but I think it will be more useful as general garage storage and bike space, we can fit another freezer in the utility and we tend to keep almost anything perishable (eggs, bread etc) in the fridge anyway.

chewmylegoff

I've done no christmas shopping whatsoever, and I have to spend the next 2.5 weeks in a tribunal hearing. Excellent. So basically I'm going to be doing christmas shopping in the westfield shopping centre in london on christmas eve.

Does anyone have a gun, I would like to shoot myself in the face immediately.

John_Pierpoint

PasturesNew wrote: »

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).

There was some sort of fuss in the Autumn statement about subsidising the water supply in the South West?!?.

Silly really, loads of rain down there and expensive prices.

My locality get less rain than Rome but Essex water (Legally French water) is cheaper. Were I paying to have it taken away again the price would go up to about £2 a tonne - perhaps it is cheap because it is second hand, those nice people in Chelmsford get to drink it and thus filter out the agricultural chemicals, before it gets passed down to me.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HDPfibh8iWoC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=Hanningfield+reservoir+chelmsford+sewage&source=bl&ots=C0_lH6-IZw&sig=hc6mdYA0mGZu5saLyFG1SV_KyII&hl=en&ei=17PeTqyXGs-n8QPrqbDRBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hanningfield%20reservoir%20chelmsford%20sewage&f=false

zagubov

Our current house was in a great location, and a four-bed but the downside is no garage /driveway and no storage as we're in the middle of a village just yards from the bus, shops, banks, library, you name it.

After touring it a few times and realising the understairs was a shower-toilet, I couldn't figure out what was missing until I realised I had never seen a boiler or airing cupboard or any cupboard at all. Every room had maximum space but was an empty box (boiler turned out to be in attic).

Cue endless visits to ikea, building wardrobes to bedrooms, cupboards to kitchen, bookcases to living room (yes we're old-fashioned enough to still have books).

Don't miss a garage -not sure if the south of England (well certainly London) has even one "garage" big enough to hold a modern car unless you climb out its sunroof.

Were they built for penny-farthing bikes, bubble-cars or pogo-sticks, as either we and our cars got fatter or the architects read metres and assumed feet. Don't know anyone who has more than tins of paint or a spare fridge in theirs. :mad:

neverdespairgirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I've done no christmas shopping whatsoever, and I have to spend the next 2.5 weeks in a tribunal hearing. Excellent. So basically I'm going to be doing christmas shopping in the westfield shopping centre in london on christmas eve.

Does anyone have a gun, I would like to shoot myself in the face immediately.

Internet shopping is your friend!

Where is the tribunal? Lots are near shopping places, too. For example, the central London employment tribunal is dead close to Oxford Street.

neverdespairgirl

misskool wrote: »

Wow, I'm envious of those with that much space. We have the hallway (aka the dumping ground of coats, anything from outdoors, anything to be going out), the kitchen (anything from garden or going into the garden), the living room (which actually just has sofas and tv and stuff), the dining room (which has the current annual production of 18 gallons of cider, miscellany of hobby things and is the conservatory for growing stuff come feb/march).

Don't fret, we have not much space in our new place (more than our old, though).

Living / dining room, kitchen, 2 tiny studies, 3 small bedrooms, shower room, bathroom, and utility room under the stairs.

We also have a moving date! Next Wednesday!