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

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I understand there are English sparkling wines better than some of both, but I don't know any English wines. Had some from a local vineyard that won an award but I am unable to recommend it:eek: which makes me wonder if the thing about English wine is true, if that stuff can win an award.

OH and I had some very nice sparkling white wine on the Isles of Scilly - light, and refreshing. I liked it.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, here's one just for you. A top developer's tip on corner loo placement:
http://media.rightmove.co.uk/6k/5912/32712877/5912_100198001039_IMG_09_0000_max_620x414.jpg

Who could actually think that is a good idea?

OH and I saw one place, where the lower ground floor was like a dungeon. You could only get to it down a steep flight of stairs - and then there was a large disabled loo, with grab handles, etc.

http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/SZFJ0023_FJL002303173/

PasturesNew wrote: »

A lot of you are fitting kitchens (some of you many times) and a lot of you have kitchens you like ..... how high is your worktop? I've recently started finding that kitchen worktops are too high, they're almost boob height.

Our new one is high waist height on me, and I'm 5 ft 6 or 5 ft 7. Our cupboards are very tall, though. About 8 or 9 feet, the top.

neverdespairgirl

misskool wrote: »

Good spot. Long story but the dates are all right.

I've always been Dr Kool. I didn't change my name and it amuses me when OH is called Mr Kool. :rotfl:

I presume you got a relationship visa, then married?

OH and I get called all sorts, he's frequently called Mr NDG, if I've booked something. We both just nod and smile.

John_Pierpoint

Fin de siècle Geneva modernised its flats by developing the origin of the must have wet room.
This idea, a hundred years before its time, meant putting a toilette à la turque (*) in what had been probably a storage cupboard, with a shower head over the top.

Concept still available over the channel - that would give your visitors something to talk about:
http://www.espace-aubade.fr/P-187-1895-tempomatic-wc-turc-delabie-pour-rincage-integral.html


(*) Anglo Saxon translation: Pull and Jump

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, here's one just for you. A top developer's tip on corner loo placement:

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH and I get called all sorts, he's frequently called Mr NDG, if I've booked something. We both just nod and smile.

the way to avoid that is to book thinks in your first name. People are sometimes surprised but rarely complain. Easier if you are a man though, as men's names can be taken as surnames by those totally resistant to informality.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'd make sure the space was right to start off with. If the door was in the middle, you'd easily get access to a toilet on one side, shower on the other. We've done it countless times.

But, as a developer, if you don't do it and you plonk a bog in the middle of the room, you make more money.

I see. So I'm not stupid for not being able to see a better way round the problem, but rather the problem ought to be dealt with instead of worked round. That makes sense. Thank you.

Actually, that rather reminds me of my house's weird entrance arrangement. It would have been better to reconfigure the hall, but that would have involved knocking through a supporting wall and having an RSJ etc, so they didn't. One day I will, though, when the rest of the house is sorted and I've saved up some money for it.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I've absolutely had enough of it all right now, I don't have the energy to put into it when you see people churning out bog standard or substandard stuff, which clearly means I'm in the wrong job. I'd rather H go off and work for people who care about their own houses than ever dream of trying to hold a straight face selling a stripped out, pasted over cheap magnolia and beige box.

I've totally lost the desire. People have no idea what houses look like behind the plasterwork, nor do they particularly care at the moment, as long as it's cheap.

Sorry to hear you're feeling like that. I can see why badly built beige & magnolia boxes would be soul-destroying to create. Is there a living to be made working for people who care about their houses? I hope you find some way to put your skills to work somewhere where you get some job satisfaction.

SingleSue

Spirit wrote: »

I am 5ft tall and find kitchen worktops an uncomfortable working height, so do most things on the kitchen table as it is lower. Can you do the same?

It is wall cupboards that are pretty useless to me as they are out of reach and I can't abe !!!!!d hopping on and off stools.

Mr Spirit is 6ft 3" so has the top shelves to himself.

I am a few inches taller and have the same problem....I do all my mixing and baking on the old, large, farmhouse pine kitchen table which appears to be immune to everything. Doesn't matter if something is hot, it never marks.

I don't put things in the top of the wall cupboards unless I know I will only be using them once a year.....like my Eternal Beau posh dinner things which was last used about 3 years ago.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

. Is there a living to be made working for people who care about their houses? .

From my side of that fence I'd say there are several livings to be made from those people.:o

SingleSue

I don't really drink so can't comment on wine, although I have found a rather nice non alcoholic one that doesn't taste like dish water.

I was watching a programme the other night where the presenter went without alcohol for 4 weeks...I sat there thinking "That's nothing, why get excited/stressed over one month without alcohol, I go months and months at a time!"

I have around 10 units per year.....yes, per year and sometimes a lot less. Over the Christmas/New year holiday, I had 2 units and I doubt I will have an alcoholic drink until the end of July now.

I've not always been this way and it has nothing to do with being healthy, I just get too scared to drink in case I am needed to drive at some point in the middle of the night for one of the boys....in my younger days, I could drink even the hardiest male under the table.

lostinrates

I tend not to drink at all fort the first three months of the year. I still cook with alcohol during this time if the dish calls for it and might break it for valentines day. This year, having decided not to go away with Dh over v day I won't be. I don't find it hard, though sometimes I do fancy a particular wine, but not uncontrollably

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

the lower ground floor was like a dungeon. You could only get to it down a steep flight of stairs - and then there was a large disabled loo, with grab handles, etc.

http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/SZFJ0023_FJL002303173/

I've seen this as a building regs requirement - if you create a new dwelling then you have to have disabled facilities. There was one on HutH the other week where somebody had taken a shop/office above and had split it up to provide a flat upstairs. The flat was accessed up a tiny/dodgy back lane, then up a steep outdoor metal staircase.... and he'd had to have a disabled access loo.

Therefore I bet that place is a new dwelling cut out of what was a basement.