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

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

What do you mean by real buttons? one button per letter or real as in touchy feely rather than touch screen?

What do her friends have?

I mean the ones that press in or click rather than just touch a screen IYKWIM
I don't know what her friends have.

michaels wrote: »

At work you have to wave your hands around like an idiot every now and again when it us quiet as the lights turn off...

I bought a sensor switch for the garage but it needs 3 core wiring to the switches and by this time it was already wired with standard 2 core, so if anyone needs a switch...

I saw a motto once whicb was "All you need to get on in life is money, a good horse and latin" Sounds a wee bit outdated (except for the money but we all knew that being very MSE)

I expect the day will dawn when we'll talk about lightswitches and our grandkids will just stare at us like we mentioned iron lungs or built-up shoes and say "did cars still have wheels in those days?"

"Put your teeth in, granddad so you can tell us how houses were joined to the ground by some force only you can remember, time only went forward, the internet was in black and white, kids had two parents, cheeseburgers cost a penny, animals couldn't talk, robots did what we told them, and only neutrinoes were faster than the London-Birmingham fast train. And water that fell everywhere from the sky was transported in bottles in deisel-guzzling lorries." :rotfl:

Davesnave

I have decided that our larger presents this year will be joint ones, as there are things we need, rather than items bought with the vague hope that they might be useful.:)

Of course I've got her a few frivolous items too, like a book about chicken diseases and a jam funnel. :A

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

I saw a motto once whicb was "All you need to get on in life is money, a good horse and latin" Sounds a wee bit outdated (except for the money but we all knew that being very MSE)

I expect the day will dawn when we'll talk about lightswitches and our grandkids will just stare at us like we menitoned iron lungs or built-up shoes and say "did cars still have wheels in those days?"

"Put your teeth in, granddad so you can tell us how houses were joined to the ground by some force only you can remember, time only went forward, the internet was in black and white, kids had two parents, cheeseburgers cost a penny, animals couldn't talk, robots did what we told them, and only neutrinoes were faster than the London-Birmingham fast train. And water that fell everywhere from the sky was transported in bottles in deisel-guzzling lorries." :rotfl:

and ian beale's character in eastenders was only 40 something.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

and ian beale's character in eastenders was only 40 something.

and Bruce Forsyth's jokes still sounded fresh!

Itismehonest

zagubov wrote: »

and Bruce Forsyth's jokes still sounded fresh!

Good grief. Is anyone THAT old? :rotfl:

zagubov

Itismehonest wrote: »

Good grief. Is anyone THAT old? :rotfl:

I'm not sure there's even rocks that are that old :rotfl:

Itismehonest

zagubov wrote: »

I'm not sure there's even rocks that are that old :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl: That's conjuring up mental pictures of the Creation & The Almighty sitting there saying "Good Game, good game!"

SingleSue

I'm not well, think something I ate doesn't agree with me.

Youngest is doing a good job at being my nurse, lots of offers of cups of tea and heating my heat pad for my tummy without the normal emotional faffing others get up to...sometimes it is handy to have an unemotional child. He is even telling the other boys what to do to make me better, although not sure he is getting anywhere.

In true autistic style, he has been on the internet and found out what he should be doing and is following it to the letter! :rotfl:Gawd knows which site he has been on but it was certainly quite funny him saying "And now I have to pat your hand and say, there there, you will feel better soon!"

fc123

Doozergirl wrote: »

I an't make it out. Does he work up Nelson's Column?!

:rotfl:...... it's me looking out the window of my studio up the river @ the dome + Canary Wharf. The colours are really nice when it's dark.

Been some fascinating activity on the river recently...it's soooo busy, like a boat version of the M25 some days and we saw the barrrier part close for the 1st time. Handy as Chewy would have got flooded further up.

misskool wrote: »

You're welcome to come and do mine if you want. I really hate DIY and the whole limbo stage that is required. This house is taking 3 years and we're still not even close. I hate it so much.

I am not looking forward to all the disruption and dust and stress. Our 1st house was worse though...this one was a bit easier in that it was all interior (bathroom, kitchen, wall to wall anaglypta that I still haven't removed in a couple of rooms......it's such a PITA to steam off). I think we start in March if the PP goes to schedule.


Xmas? A usual, I didn't start anything properly until last weekend, ordered turkey to collect from carpark on thurs, did a bit of Amazon, ran into TK Maxx.
Sadly I haven't had time to make anything for anyone this year (like photo picture books or cushion covers) so some of our gift giving doesn't feel as special. I hope no-one notices.:o

More sadly, got to work through most of Xmas (apart from 25 + 26th) as uber important buyer meetings commence 10th Jan and the SS12 range is still comprising of bits of paper, toiles + scraps. They need to see complete garments . Still, I hope to catch up on some time out in...um...March maybe.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

As GBD2222 alluded to, if you do this too often the revenue could consider you to be trading and hit you with income tax liability but once is ok, twice you could probably get away with....

I don't feel comfortable with it. The PPR remains in ownership, you move to another local property for a short period which you subseuently sell, claiming it to be that your PPR and making a big fat profit; then move back into your original PPR. I don't think that if HMRC looked at it that it would really look like anything but turning over a property for profit.

Nobody in our household sat down and planned this year to be what it has, it wasn't done to avoid tax. It didn't plan all this moving; I simply did what I felt was best protection for us financially. It didn't make a fat lot of difference in the end, the project finally sold to someone who was genuinely proceedable soon after our bl00dy house did, but I believe things happen for a reason.

If you are afraid of a bit of fluctuation in interest rates and are talking of being risk averse then I just don't think it's a good idea, aside from the tax thing looking shaky. There are much bigger risks than interest rates.

If you love your house and you picked it to be your forever house then it's worth staying in. If you think what you've done is actually a stepping stone, then although you're letting go of what feels like a safety blanket, it's far better to jump to that next small step with both feet than hover precariously over two. There are no tax implications of selling your house and buying another locally and ultimately you have a home with no other liabilities. I've learned that happiness is you as a family unit and the friends around you; if they are constant, the house doesn't matter. Bashing it about affects family life.

I don't recommend knocking out the back wall when your wife is out shopping. I don't believe that happened for a reason, that happened because my H is sometimes an !!! I don't think trying to do it in six weeks is great either, although I can at least call an end to this year and kick it out the door in a couple of weeks.

Otherwise you view it as a business and you plan for tax. If there's profit, great, it's nothing but a good thing.

I've been trying not to say very much as I don't really like wearing the matronly hard hat on this thread at all, but people keep mentioning me!