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

Doozergirl

LIR was asking earlier about the gap to a kitchen island. 120cm is perfect. Perfect for opening doors but perfect for dancing from
One side to the other without too many steps. I wouldn't choose more even with loads of space to play with.

We had 180cm in a galley kitchen and that clearly felt like two different sides.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wonder if viva's watching BBC1. It's about books/libraries and e-books.

Cheers Pastures. I missed it. Unfortunately I was out for the library Christmas dinner last night, that'll teach us. It was really, really noisy where we went, I couldn't believe it. I wanted to go round and say "shhh!" to all the tables. I think my ears got more of a battering than at a Motorhead concert (not for clarity, that I've ever been to a Motorhead concert you understand...).

It was so noisy we could barely hear each other. The result of which was some very interesting mis-hearings. At one point a friend was asking me about a function I had been to and whether I had good seats. I replied that "I had great seats" (holds up hands to show distance) "about this far away from the Queen". Unfortunately this was heard as "I had great se.x, about this far away from the Queen".

purch

When were you at UCL?

1979-1982

As we lived in Wimbledon I think I might have missed out on some of the Uni "experience"

I am trying to convince eldest that Edinburgh or Durham (or anywhere else 500 miles away) is a good option :eek:

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

LIR was asking earlier about the gap to a kitchen island. 120cm is perfect. Perfect for opening doors but perfect for dancing from
One side to the other without too many steps. I wouldn't choose more even with loads of space to play with.

We had 180cm in a galley kitchen and that clearly felt like two different sides.

THANK YOU! you are such a helpful woman

edit: re loos...I think the shape is quite important....I'm thinking about having the downstairs one built into a bench so I have no pedestal dusting to do on a weekly basis. there are some nice and cheap sinks on ebay.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

"I had great se.x, about this far away from the Queen".

did she wave?

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

I didn't go to uni, I was far too impatient to be out in the big wide world.

I didn't go to Uni either. I was ill at one point and it put me behind as I missed some exams and had to do resits. Instead I decided to go out into the big wide world too. I later did my first degree through the OU and my masters through PT study at Warwick, which is quite easy to get to from Hertfordshire as motorway pretty much all the way there.

I like Warwick and the campus Unis as they have a different vibe from ones where the towns are interspersed with the Uni buildings and the real world comes into the learning and living spaces.

My suspicion is that DH did his pre-PhD studies where missk is now and that one day they will meet up at some science function there, but as missk hasn't said (to the best of my knowledge) where she is now, that's probably something either best done by pm or ignored.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

did she wave?

No, just clapped politely.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Instead I decided to go out into the big wide world too. .

I think its un underated choice.

Fiw, as I'd worked as a kid, and had a working year out at 16 I felt this was incredibly valuable to me too...the fact I had made a choice to be there not just trundled quite as lemming like into higher education

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I think its un underated choice.

Fiw, as I'd worked as a kid, and had a working year out at 16 I felt this was incredibly valuable to me too...the fact I had made a choice to be there not just trundled quite as lemming like into higher education

I think it is an underrated choice, but it is much harder studying part time and it takes so long to get to the same point. I think gap years are a great compromise.

lostinrates

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