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

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

What does this mean?
Are you doing etching?
I can't do that as it involves stuff you have to be careful with, in a ventilated area and you have to dispose of stuff properly ... and so I don't have the space/disposal methods available to me.

Rofl, that mess wasn't me I don't think but the over zealous spell checker. I'm sure spell check would have sounded like a relief to you guys for me, but look at that....

I cannot remember what it meant either now pastures, but I am not etching. And who is baron a I wonder....prince charming's chum?

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I wonder what would happen if all the people in windowless offices demanded lights for sad. I think it's terrible to build a new building that is lauded but doesn't offer something which for full time workers in winter could be there only access to daylight.

It isn't the light.
It is the natural light. It is not seeing the weather. Not seeing the sun. You posted earlier that the light was beautiful. I can't see it. I don't see the sunset. I don't see the sideways rain when it is windy. I can't watch the trees in the wind. I can't see the sun come out of the clouds. I arrive & it is dark, & I leave & it is dark.

I saw last week ricketts is on the rise because we aren't getting enough sunlight...

lemonjelly

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i find that each year i get more depressed around this time of year. it's just the gradual onset of grumpy-oldness, i expect.

i'd quite like an office with no windows at the moment because the sun is shining directly into my eyes.

Should we change the name of the thread?
TNPT (except in jan when we're miserable old bugg4s, & it gets worse every year cos we're older...:mad:)

lemonjelly

Davesnave wrote: »

Me too. I only worked in an office for about a year, but at least we had windows.....which looked into other windows of offices, all full of people like us, looking out! :rotfl:

My worst working envioronment was probably the chicken houses, both battery and deep litter, where there was a great combination of dust, smell, low light levels and noise, but that only lasted for 6 months. I was 18 and desperately needed the dosh.

I spent most of my teaching career in nice rooms, some of them with direct access to a conservation area with woodpeckers and squirrels as neighbours. On the down side, some of those rooms had pretty poor heating systems and insulation, but then my fellow workers were mainly under 12 years of age and had little ability to stage a walk out!

Ah, here we have a distinction.
There are 2 sets of staff. Business support & teaching. Teachers have lush offices, some of them have walls which are glass with phenomenal views.

Business support staff are shoved into cupboards. We come out when we're allowed out. We don't get the teachers perks. We don't get the same generous holidays. We dig the tutors out of the cr4p on a regular basis. However, whenever anything goes wrong, we get blamed.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

It isn't the light.
It is the natural light. It is not seeing the weather. Not seeing the sun. You posted earlier that the light was beautiful. I can't see it. I don't see the sunset. I don't see the sideways rain when it is windy. I can't watch the trees in the wind. I can't see the sun come out of the clouds. I arrive & it is dark, & I leave & it is dark.

I saw last week ricketts is on the rise because we aren't getting enough sunlight...

Ljubljana, I really do understand. Fwiw, it's the same as I feel about light pollution atnight too, these things are good for us...light, dark, access to social activity, ability to get away from noise.


See what the spellcheck did to l j !!!

PasturesNew

I'd like to complain about lampshade designers (pfft!) and manufacturers. The fault has to lie with the designers as manufactuers actually only manufacture them.

I have a ball lampshade, the top opening is about 6" I guess - and I've a blown bulb. Now.... to change the bulb I have to get both hands inside that top opening, grabbing the white plastic thing and twisting it .... except, in order to do that I'd have to be really high up - and I have no ladder. People who live in small places have no room for a ladder.....

Why are lampshades so very very complex? It's 2012 .... and a small, but nimble, person should at least be able to change a lightbulb without having to get as high as the ceiling and "come down at the problem".

I can't get a photo of the sort it is, but it's got no opening at the bottom, just at the top and looks a bit like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/rabinal/1380820528/ (which is rubbish for a shade anyway as it lets no light out - especially with today's low energy lightbulbs)..... that's why I can't see anything here in the evenings/nights.

Anyway - while I was looking for that, I saw this and thought of LIR.... she mentioned these feathers as being part of her offered pay deal, which wasn't taken up, so I am guessing there might be some spares around and LIR could make these: http://www.shadesoflight.com/peacock-feather-chandelier-shade.html

lostinrates

It's fab pastures, Too small, but fab idea!

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

...

Quit, hook up a caravan and go to stay at LIR's..... who has lots of room and jobs that need doing.

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

have had a glass of fakes etching that is not berocca but sort of like it, I think baron a is better.

PasturesNew wrote: »

What does this mean?
Are you doing etching?

I was also pondering about that.
First I thought it was Olde English and being not native, I didn't get it.
Then I thought you meant you had a glass of Berocca but you think Peroni is better.
Then I gave up.

Goodnite boys and girls.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

It's fab pastures, Too small, but fab idea!

Theirs is small.... but far away.

Yours would be at your house, so large.

How big are feathers? I'd imagine 2' long.