Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

Have my procedure today and I am absolutely dreading it now, all the prep has been done, nothing eaten as instructed since yesterday lunch time (my thing is not until after 4 this afternoon!), childcare arrangements in place but I will have to drive myself there and hope they don't give me a sedative, or keep me in so I can drive back home again afterwards.

Your nans sound wonderful Sue, I bet they were both quite the woman in their day.

I didn't realise that hospitals did admissions at weekends (except from A&E etc), but wanted to wish you the very best for today. Hope all goes well Sue and that you are on the mend soon.

SingleSue

Nor did I! Was quite a surprise to get the letter last weekend for today. Think they may be trying a different tact to get the waiting list down as I was supposed to have had this done within 2 weeks of my emergency admittance just before Christmas.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Your nans sound wonderful Sue, I bet they were both quite the woman in their day.

I didn't realise that hospitals did admissions at weekends (except from A&E etc), but wanted to wish you the very best for today. Hope all goes well Sue and that you are on the mend soon.

What viva said.
Thoughts & prayers for your procedure, Sue.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

You can do self service here, but they also offer a service where the lady will do it for you and you just collect. I think its £8 for a double duvet washed and dried.

:wall:

I won't tel you what dh paid this morning for ours. I would have brought it home had they told me it would cost that much.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

:wall:

I won't tel you what dh paid this morning for ours. I would have brought it home had they told me it would cost that much.

Go on.....

Bet yours was duck down though, hand-sewn in gold thread by Tibetan monks, with the prayers of 1000 prophets hand sewn along the edges :P

It won't be a Tesco/Asda Basics one will it.

So long as it was cheaper than you buying an equivalent replacement then all's good.

LydiaJ

The DWP crack me up. Every year at about this time I get a letter from the DWP Pensions Service, with a JobCentrePlus letterhead, to tell me about the inflationary increase that will be happening to my Widowed Parent's Allowance when the new financial year starts. Except that the wording is all wrong.

It seems to get the numbers about right - I get 82% of the full amount because there were gaps in LNE's NI record when he was a student. But the list is barmy: it gives me a decent amount of "basic state pension" and tiny amounts (<£2/wk each) of "pre 97 additional state pension" and "post 97 additional state pension" - although I have no idea what those mean, and there is nothing in the accompanying 16-page booklet to tell me. I've tried ringing up (the first year it happened) and saying I don't get a state pension, I get WPA, but the DWP call answering person just said the computer couldn't tell the difference and lists them all as pension.

I mean, it's probably a good thing that they're not wasting billions on a fancy new computer system, but is it too much to expect for the letters to call each benefit by the right name?

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tesco Value ones are £7.78 at the moment... I'd buy new. But maybe there's some posh ones I've no idea about.

I bought a cheapie once for one of the boys, the quality was appaling. It lasted 6 months.

We recently replaced ours, I was horrified by the price, but the length of time since I'd last replaced prob had something to do with it.

We have to get feather free due to allergies, but the price of posh feathered ones is enough to bring you out in a rash.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I bought a cheapie once for one of the boys, the quality was appaling. It lasted 6 months.

We recently replaced ours, I was horrified by the price, but the length of time since I'd last replaced prob had something to do with it.

We have to get feather free due to allergies, but the price of posh feathered ones is enough to bring you out in a rash.

I've had three probably in 30 years. My first ever duvet was a 21st birthday present. The next one I bought myself when I was about late 30s. The next one I bought in 2007. The one in 2007 was still in as good condition as the day I bought it, but in the interests of "travelling light" it was binned. I have none now, just a sleeping bag. I'll get another new one next time I move into somewhere I expect to live more than a year.

PasturesNew

OMG OMG OMG ... did a quick Google of feather duvets and narrowed it down to Goose Down/Feather.... and there are some out there at £800-1000!!!!! That's more than it'd cost me to completely furnish an entire double bedroom, to include: bed, bedding, pillows, duvet, duvet cover, wardrobe, drawers, bedside table, bedside lamp, decent (wool) carpet, curtains, lampshade.... heck.

e.g. http://www.johnlewis.com/119178/Product.aspx

I had absolutely NO idea that duvets would cost so much more for super-posh people! And that's before you get virgins hand sewing the words of prophets in gold thread round the edges!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Go on.....

Bet yours was duck down though, hand-sewn in gold thread by Tibetan monks, with the prayers of 1000 prophets hand sewn along the edges :P

It won't be a Tesco/Asda Basics one will it.

So long as it was cheaper than you buying an equivalent replacement then all's good.

I have a basics one underneath un in bed. Its ok to slepp on, but we bought one as an extra top layer and i hated it. The feel and spund of it upset me in a very princessy way. Don't fet me wrong, if we didn't already have duvets i woul duse it and be glad, but we have four in cluding the quilts so seems stupid.

The quilts i didn't buy, my parents bought them from and so to bed some years ago. Tbh i wouldn't have bought them but they are a very nice hand me down that i would never turn my nose up at (they were for spare beds in. My parents houses, one has a duvet now and doesn't like quilts and the other prefers blankets). We also have one dh bought from ikea in italy and one i swapped for a dishwasher from a friend of my mothers. That one is our main duvet, but its gone lumpy...some squares have no feather in some are too full. And i find it heavy, which i dislike.

I quite fancy a silk filled duvet from how people describe the feel, but they are not washable, and i would want to wash ours once a year, and also, they look a bit mean and thin. If it were a quilt rather than a duvet it might look better i think.


The only sad part about cats in beds is that unwashable things seem a little unpalatable over time. Also, dog dog, when she used to sleep with me, i put a big blanket on the end for her, but she would wriggle up and sleep next to me. I think she felt somehow slighted by the request to sleep on a blanket.