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

Davesnave

I like Bruce, and a few others who seem to prove that getting old isn't really any big deal at all. Of course we all know the truth, but these people fly in the face of that, or give the appearance of doing so.

A friend of mine, who was a pilot in WW2, still drives the 150miles to his holiday cottage in Cornwall several times a year. He seems to think that's a perfectly normal activity for someone bordering on 90. Just had a Christmas card saying, "Hope you've had a good year. All's well here."

Somehow, so long as I get cards like that, I feel "All's well here" too.

fc123

Davesnave wrote: »

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

:rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew wrote: »

Having a meal, but we've no idea where the old will be that day and might be moving the old between now and then, so we're not making a day of it, just having a meal, sans gifts. Nobody's got the stomach for list-making or shopping with so much changing so often and quickly.

You have to eat every day ... that's how eventful this will be.


I've never known anybody have outfits.... we've always just got up and pulled on whatever's nearest.

Certainly nobody would be wearing a suit ... courts are closed that day

I hope everything works out OK @ the weekend though.

My 2 adult children are embracing the fashion for giant fleecy bay-gros. I am actually liking the fact that this is the first trend I just do not 'get' Yippee, I am turning into my mum afterall

I look at them dressed as giant babies and think 'whoah, this is a fashion moment too far''.

I think they will be shuffling around in them Xmas day morning whilst OH and I wear proper clothes.

Doozergirl

fc123 wrote: »

I look at them dressed as giant babies and think 'whoah, this is a fashion moment too far''..

I love them but I think that derives from growing out of my last beloved one as a small child and never having, but longing for, another.

DS has been bought a monkey one and I could devour him whole. My 46 year old brother in law as a tiger? Not so much. :cool:

I have a fuzzy camera photo of the BIL I think. I'm tempted to post it.

Davesnave

SingleSue wrote: »

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

With me, it's parsnips. Not sure why, but they really do what chilli and vindaloo don't even approach. :eek:

Unsure why I grow so many of them. Luckily, this year something went wrong, so most seem to be grotesque shapes with umpteen roots and really bad canker, so I won't feel obliged by post-war conditioning to use them up.

Davesnave

fc123 wrote: »

I look at them dressed as giant babies and think 'whoah, this is a fashion moment too far''.

When we had the stall, we traded alongside a couple who made clothes for adult babies. i.e. people who got some kind of turn-on from dressing up like that.

They said it was a lucrative market, as few were catering for this minority.

I haven't noticed this trend locally, but then that's hardly surprising. Looking at DD2 and her arty friends, they're all in long sloppy jumpers and very tight jeans etc, and boots.

Me, I'm in boots too, but a different kind.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

DOOZERGIRL and maybe michaels....are you about?

taling about floors elsewhere n mse made me think I should ask your opinion. In the kitchen we are definitely having underfloor heating, but been advised its a big job to go through t concreted floors elsewhere to install it without reducing ceiling height (an issue in one room and all doorways). How big a job is it really...is it going to be a killer for resale....would we lose on this cost? t would mean not having to have rads in much of the house, but cost is boosted by me thinkingwell..if we are doing that we should go the whoe hog and have stone not wood in this part of the house and just have wood (w/underfloor heating) in the ''smarter'' new (restored from scratch )bit.

Missed this. You'll never get back the cost of UFH on resale. It's a case of if it you want it, have it. But a proper system is going to set you back £000s more than radiators and you will never get it back on resale.

GDB2222

Doozergirl wrote: »

Missed this. You'll never get back the cost of UFH on resale. It's a case of if it you want it, have it. But a proper system is going to set you back £000s more than radiators and you will never get it back on resale.

I'm pleased you said that. It's what I thought, but you've got the experience. LIR is talking about selling on the house when it's finished and moving to NYC (or wherever). Consequently, extra spent on UFH sounds like money gone.

michaels

Please don't hold back DG, you are our residnet expert on these things.

So basically as long as I become the local MP I should be fine flipping properties to my hearts content but otherwise don't?

Doozergirl wrote: »

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.

GDB2222

I read DG's advice differently: Do it if it makes commercial sense, but expect to pay tax on any profits. Obviously, the tax affects the risk/reward balance.

lostinrates

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)

well...not sure I'd disagree too much......money still not plintiful enough for our liking, good horse ..special girl:smileyhea and my sort of Latin lover-husband.

yep,works for me.