Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Davesnave

misskool wrote: »

Reckon if i keep a few of the purple ones to go over, i can save them for next year? mangetout come true?

tempted now (aside from having to protect them from birds)

Mangetout might hybridise with neigbours' normal peas, I'd guess, but it's free to find out.

Not a problem for me here, as all my neighbours are non-veggie gardeners, if they garden at all. Some plants can hybridise over 1/2 mile or more though!

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Perfect Men

They now know the 'perfect man' - so how many marks out of five do the NP blokes get?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2126093/Womens-idea-perfect-man-A-6ft--48k-year--beer-drinking-meat-eater-Audi.html

In a poll carried out by Austin Reed? Which demographic shops in Austin Reed, exactly? Our solicitor would make a pin-up for them.

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

No, there weren't any EPC restrictions when I got mine (Sept 2011). I have the EPC that the vendors did when selling the house, though. It was E54 for energy and E46 for environmental impact. However, it should now be C78 for energy and C73 for environmental, because that's what the EPC says it would be if it had low energy bulbs, thermostatic radiator valves, a new boiler, improved wall insulation and solar PV, because I've done all those things. Well, most but not all of the bulbs, but 4.0kWp PV panels rather than 2.5kWp. Insulation and efficiency are important to me because I like to be warm, so it's worth putting money into making it cheaper to keep the house at my preferred temperature.

My panels are doing well. As of today, I've had them 7 months exactly. They've produced 1605.7kWh, which is worth £720.16 on the old tariff (with "deemed" export). Actually that isn't the whole 7 months, because the inverter broked down in November. I delayed a bit before reporting it because it was just at the time Mum had been given 2 weeks to live, and then when I did get round to it, the company weren't able to replace it as quickly as they usually would, because it was just before the tariff change deadline and they were flat out. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do in the summer months.

The reason I asked was that I've never heard of this EPC condition before.

My roof isn't ideal for solar but I'm still in the "thinking about it" stage as a hedge to savings.

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

Perfect Men

They now know the 'perfect man' - so how many marks out of five do the NP blokes get?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2126093/Womens-idea-perfect-man-A-6ft--48k-year--beer-drinking-meat-eater-Audi.html

I can't imagine any such type article would present my perfect woman.

They do make up such tripe in these papers.

Davesnave

And girls like a handy man - the poll found that he should be able to change a car tyre, be able to knock down a door in an emergency and competently rewire a plug.

The usual muddled Mail.

Surely the handyman is needed after the Neanderthal has demolished the door?

Didn't wiring a plug end some time ago, when manufacturers began fitting tamper-proof ones, probably to comply with some EU directive?

....And have they ever tried to change a wheel on an Audi? The self tightening nuts they used when I had one meant that was a garage job. At my local tyre depot, the guys would reach for the 'long John' (a 6' pole wrench) as soon as I drew up! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

In a poll carried out by Austin Reed? Which demographic shops in Austin Reed, exactly? Our solicitor would make a pin-up for them.

I have no idea.... didn't even know they were still trading.

I've not got/had a man's wardrobe to sort out ever, so mens shops are a mystery to me.

zagubov

PN, taking the train to Europe is the only way to go. Have a friend who's never flown. Says he never got round to it. Goes camping and always took the ferry to the continent and probably takes Eurostar now. If I've got the cash I use planes for long journeys e.g to Scotland and train for short ones to Paris/Brussels.

Getting off a train platform in the Gare du Nord and seeing a British bobby walking up and down the platfrom is a strangely reassuring introduction to Paris, which is a cracking user-friendly city anyway.:D

Gotta go back there. Soon!

zagubov

Davesnave wrote: »

My 2006 Dell is limping along; it's OS is shot full of errors, the hard disk has a bad sector and the DVD drive is knackered. Like you, I've never done a reinstall, and although I might, it wouldn't be sensible to continue using this as a main machine.

So....last week I used the MSE local tool to find a computer on eBay. I got an Asus ex-granny PC + 19" widescreen + HP scanner/printer, all with about 6 hours on the clock for £101.

Granny didn't like computers.

Got 700 Gb of hard drives on a 11-year old G4 dual mac running 2Gb RAM and system 10.5. Will have to upgrade eventually to one of those intel-based macs from the dark side.

New hardware doesn't scare me but hard-to-learn software does put me off. Used to have a version of Photoshop 1.0 that fitted on a 720k floppy and laughably-simple software that did everything you could want (Nisus writer was a Word processsor with ten clipboard memories and "fuzzy-find" search facilities. Fitted in a small floppy disk, back in the early 90s. Doubt there's anything better in the microsoft-stuffed modern bloatware world).

I've fitted hard drives, memory and power units in computers including macs but find it boring and would prefer that macs were cheap enough so I could buy one in a box and never take a screwdriver to it but my budget doesn't allow it.:mad:

Biggest objection to Windows machines is the endless dialogue boxes that open up, and the "upgrading" which really means "trying to stay as good as it's just been, but not improving". I don't want to converse with the machine, I want one that can guess what I want and get on with it.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

you lot are too sensible

gym at work is £185 per year with 2 hours of free personal trainer sessions. The problem with gym at work is that it's a university setting so will probably be full of young lithe bodies, not frumpy women

Lucky yuong bodies. In truth, lots of students, while firm skinned, are soft around the middle and in s childhood based around tv and computers, not running wild, probably some of them always have been less than optimally fit.

Dh has told me he thouht you were as cute as a button, and so should be just fine ego wise in a gym. Buy decent, flattering gym clothes that also helps. Well, it always helped me to feel good in my gym clothes. And a really good sports bra.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

No, but his sweaty-looking shirt doesn't do much for him.

Even Bliar looked less ruffled than that in his more perspirational moments.

Its a terrble photo. They asked for feedback on it when they put up the new site and he was told, many times over by many posters, it was a terrible photo. I cannot understand why they went with it.

It puts me off moneysaving. It makes me want to go into debt, spend more on utilieties, ask banks if they can offer me more ppis and tear up all and any financial plans. He should certainly replace the pic.