Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

michaels

Well I calculated that for the same depth the bath would use 50% more water than a standard bath forgetting that when you run a bath deep enough to lie under the water you only need to run it half as deep as once you get in the water level rises (displacement). With the big bath the effect is much smaller and hence you need much more water. The water itself is free, it is the heating of it that costs. Using the bigger bath s the same as running 3x as many baths per year and would cost about an extra 2-300 quid (possibly more, I will do the maths properly sometime when I can be bothered) in gas each year.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

You can buy duty free on the way out and they hold it for you to collect on your way home.

Yes, but then you have to return via same airport.....often dh flies out of one and returns to another. Next week we don't yet know what he will do but likely he will fly from london, go on from there to next place then return to a south west airport!

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Any chance of any pics?

From the telegraph? Yes, i can photo and email one to you but not put one here. To pit something here i now need to find it online to post a link.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Re this thing of eating yor partners meals, do other people not try each other's food? This is obviously poor table manners, but dh and i do it always. We choose what we are having partly based on what the other is having....to gove maximum menu sampling potential. We always feel a bit sad if we both want the same thing and uoften review the menu to see if one f us wants somehting els,e or both of us want some of something else. And it makes choosing wine easier if we are both eating both dishes, lol. And we share puds some times.

Yes, we always at least try intact others food. We often share a starter or a dessert as well (and the dessert usually has to be properly shared, I can't get away with eating 90% of that!!). If we both want the same thing on a menu one of us will order something else and then we swap plates half way through.

I don't really care if it's bad table manners either, if you're paying for it I reckon you can do what you like, including licking your knife. Although I would stop short of licking my plate clean in a restaurant!

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I think you may have missed a signal there...



We do the same but then I have to make sure that DW orders something that I don't mind eating (no mushrooms) and I order something bland tomake sure she has something to eat in case she doesn't like what we have chosen for her so we both end up eating something unexciting that wouldn't have been our first choice.



We went for a great bath and then find we rarely use it as we can't justify using 3x as much water for what is basically the same outcome so instead we use one of the other two standard baths.

You both get in, thereby using less water but potentially needing another bedroom in next house.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Yes, we always at least try intact others food. We often share a starter or a dessert as well (and the dessert usually has to be properly shared, I can't get away with eating 90% of that!!). If we both want the same thing on a menu one of us will order something else and then we swap plates half way through.

I don't really care if it's bad table manners either, if you're paying for it I reckon you can do what you like, including licking your knife. Although I would stop short of licking my plate clean in a restaurant!

Chewmylegoff, sometimes you are positively a softy.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Have you actually done the timing and calculations, or just assumed, or did you buy a triple bath/jacuzzi for 6?

Many people take 15-20 minute showers and the volume of water that goes down the plughole is a lot more than would be in a bath.

Thats my problem.

One of the things we are considering in the small main bathroom is a sunken bath(stealing from the secret dwarf room) with a lux overhead shower. When i have a shower over a bath i leave the plug in the bath and if i was clean i sit down in the bath afterwards:D two for the price of one.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know LIR likes her amethyst baths.... so, saw this and thought of her: http://www.etsy.com/listing/91576809/3-oz-soapamethyst-crystal-soap

Oooh, thats brilliantly hpfunny! I want one.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Not possibe. The paper is too far gone. Seriously, imagine a cat on a cat scratcher, then imagine a tiger doing the smae thing in the corner. The puckering etc will, i think, look worse painted. I don't mind painting over basically ok paper, ut this is very far gone.

It's an old house, so a bit of puckered paper won't be out of character.

In our old 30s place the plaster was shot in one room and the previous owner had hung heavy anagypta to hold it together, which was OK till our moggies started shredding it......:(

So.....after a bit of thought, I made up some glass-fibre resin and painted it over the bottom 80cm of the walls, where they were bad. That fooled the cats and it held the anagypta & plaster together.

Mind you, I'm not sure what names I've been called, if the current owners have since done a make-over in there! :rotfl:

Just an idea, anyway.

PasturesNew

Food and sharing.... did you ever see the Gavin & Stacey sketch where they were ordering an indian ...

Smithy has it SPOT ON: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssv-jSSoI7I