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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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ta, I get it....0 -
I agree about the difficulty of cleaning soil pipes, but those solid loos make me wonder about how the seat is attached. My friend has some that look a bit like this one, but as I've mentioned before, although cleaning it is easy, sorting it out when the seat becomes wobbly is not - you can't get at the screws that attach it..
how does your friend resolve this?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »how does your friend resolve this?
She hasn't. They were still wobbly last time I visited her. (It's a rented house.)Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Which also raises an interesting point. How many of us had ambitions to do some job or another when we were at school and then ended up doing something totally different?
I wanted to be an outdoor job in agriculture or the Forestry Commission, but people persuaded me that being in the Ministry of Ag Fish & Food, as it was then, would be almost as good.
It was a bit like that Monty Python sketch where the guy wants to leave chartered accountancy and take up lion taming, but he's brought round to merchant banking as a first step towards the lion job.
Anyway, I signed up for the Civil Service, passed the selection bit and assumed I'd be called up to the Min of Ag's regional office in due course. At the time, I was running a fairly large chicken farm. However, when the call arrived, it was vague, and then I learned that the next step of my training was in London.
After a few weeks induction in Holborn, none of us was any wiser about our placements, but I still hung on to the notion I'd be heading out of the smoke to some regional HQ where I'd be trained in....well, I wasn't very sure. However, many people on my Dad's side of the family were, or had been civil servants, and as they all seemed to have posh houses in the Cotswolds, it was obviously the way to go...;)
It therefore came as a severe shock when I found myself a week later, answering correspondence for the Minister of Pensions in Whitehall. I looked out the window at the office block opposite, to see many other folk, just like me, staring back.....and I knew, even then, I'd chosen the wrong thing.:mad: 0 -
but the one thing I was sure of was that I didn't want to be a teacher.
I was sure of that too, but opportunities were limited at the time, and teacher training colleges offered a back door route into university.
Besides, they were chock-full of young ladies, at a ratio of 5:1 with the men.
And finally, I'd seen so much bad teaching, I felt, "I could do better than that!" even before I started.
But no, the intention to teach wasn't there at the start. Honestly, I wondered how long I'd last before they rumbled me! :rotfl:0 -
Hi - if you think of something please order 2 as one will be ideal for my DWchewmylegoff wrote: »
... her hobbies appear to me to be nagging my dad, telling my dad off, belittling my dad, complaining about my dad to anyone who will listen, and annoying me ....I think....0 -
Me toolemonjelly wrote: »I never knew what I wanted to do, & still don't have a clue. Baby Spice's personal sex toy was the only thing I ever came up with.
I've always known what I didn't want to do...
WE have one like this in the en-suite
http://www.sanctuary-bathrooms.co.uk/toilets-and-bidets/wall-hung-toilets/vitra-form-500-wall-hung-wc-pan.htmlDoozergirl wrote: »I hate pedestal cleaning. I try to pick loos that are solid all the way to the wall with no detail for the same reason. You can't possibly clean a soil pipe properly which is why traditionally styled toilets bemuse me. I've never bought a house where the soil pipe wasn't an inch thick in dust.
http://www.victoriaplumb.com/Bathroom-Suites/Toilets/Close-Coupled-Toilets/Arc-Toilet-Cistern_440.html
My favourite toilet, simply for cleaning the outside.
God, I'm interestingI think....0 -
I feel like DG tonight - we did this house for living in long term but had the agents round yesterday just to see what they thought the value might be in case we wanted to raise money against another property ansd within 30 minutes of the agent leaving I had a text saying he thought he had a procedable buyer at 135k profit - of course it is just EA bullsh*t but still...I think....0
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Last year I bought mum fancy jams....raspberry, blackberry, strawberry, gooseberry...etc...two jars of each + honey and manuka (sp?) honey that was on promo in Holland and Barret. She was well happy with it
My darling Mama definitely wouldn't like that as a present, because she makes all of those types of jam herself....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Was that charming slogan lifted from the country and western song
"I Went to Bed at Two with a Ten and Woke up at Ten With a Two"?
I'm not sure. However, I regret to say, that OH and I got together for the first time after a night out there.
Perhaps not one for the grandchildren........much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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