Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always have two questions when I think of Boris/Mayor:
1] How come the London mayor's everywhere, you don't see my mayor on the telly?
2] How come Londoners picked such a tw4t?

Come to think of it .... I am not aware that we vote for our Mayor.... no idea how it works really though.

I don't think Boris is a !!!!. He is remarkably intelligent, remarkably, despite the buffoonary which noone can, or should, deny. Even if someone dislikes his intelligency to mistake him for a fool rather than an intelligent man is a mistake, imo, says more about the person making the judgement.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't think Boris is a !!!!. He is remarkably intelligent, remarkably, despite the buffoonary which noone can, or should, deny. Even if someone dislikes his intelligency to mistake him for a fool rather than an intelligent man is a mistake, imo, says more about the person making the judgement.

I don't really see/hear him much (or at all)... but when I've looked up and he's on the telly he just sounds like some Harry Enfield sketch character. Another oddball that's in the same bucket is some "Olly" wine choosing chap off the telly.

lostinrates

Re clutter an dealing with reluctant people, in my case, dh.

Baby steps, set a target (this weekend we are recycling, charity shop donating or bishing 100 things ...each, dh still thinks its only 100 between us, my target is higher) and aim to keep a set number of things, say three, or five, that you consider tat. This gives flexibility to the hoarder. I hoard too, so i underatand a bit.

I have been making dh watch the plethora of hoarding shows and then pointing at areas and whining, 'look WE are Richard' (the first hoarder show the guy was called Richard). And dh so horrified that we might be Richard agrees to off load some stuff.

If you try and do too much its daunting and 'threatens' the junk too much. Regifting also makes stuff easier....' you have grown out of this computer game, but so and so has not, they would love it.......' throwing or giveing to a faceless persn is harder i find, whre as giving something that is wanted to some one else is not hard at all.

sss555s

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's already been raining here this morning.

Not a cloud in the sky here. It's a bit nippy though and I can still see a touch of frost on the grass in the shade.

Should be a nice day.

I always seen Boris in the same drawer as "comical Ali" and Ken in Geoffrey Archer's drawer.

At least Boris will put a smile on your face

PasturesNew

As most of my stuff came from charity shops and/or has been owned by me for 20-30 years already ..... or, if bought new, was in a cheapo shop .... when I de-clutter it's 99% in the bin time for it.

The trouble I have at the moment is not knowing if something's worth more than £5 or not, re the furniture here. Opened a drawer yesterday and saw a tag of Stag.... so googled it - and on ebay they're coming up at anywhere between £1 at auction and £160 for BIN. And you wonder if it's actually got any value, or if it's just a £5 dresser.

Furniture's 1950s-1970s really .... matching his/hers wardrobes are the toughest thing as they have emotional attachment. They simply ALWAYS existed.

I guess I've got to dispose (with some eye on not trashing stuff that might be worth £30 or more): four wardrobes, a bureau, 2 chairs, a dining table (without chairs) and 2 wall cabinets. Need to get it dealt with in the next 2-3 weeks too.

lostinrates

I am about to strip some more paint. Stripping paint of stone takes forever, its really a little boring.


I have to plan the lay out for a bathroom now. Its a compact room and we are thinking, as it is above the secret dwarf room, we will drop an area in to there to have a ' sunken bath' that is more routinely used as a shower/wet room. The sunken will, i hope, make the bathroom feel bigger, plus, its a way to have a shower and a very occasional use bath not feeling like a comprimise. (i.e. it will not be a bath, but a tiled out 'well' like a roman bath.

Opinions welcome, be as damning as you like.

Tiling is the second issue. It has a sash window, and for some reason i think tiles all the way across will look wrong in there, like it is fighting the one period feature in there, but am not keen on the idea of peoe leaving the tiled shower area on to old boards with gaps and dampness potential.


A long time ago, probably in home building and renovatin or grand designs magazine i saw and advery for a wonderful sounding flooring which was a choice of cinnamon or coconut set in resin 'planks', in my meomory it was the colour of dark wooden boards, buit the resin made it possible to get a less damp prone gappy finish. Google cannot seem to help me with finding this flooring to see if its as good as my memory serves. I thought a dark wood over the main, then stone tiles just infront, all over the shower walls etc, but not all
Over the other walls, just as a spllash back for the sink.

Nb, there is a requirement for a Double shower in there, hence this plan, it will be the bathroom parent usues, and parent needs a double shower. If it were just a guest bathroom i would just have a bath in a trad style....with feet or something, but i am making a good working compromise that works well for parent but makes me feel joypus too. It also means we will have an alternative to the bath i hate, because we will obviously use the done bathroom too. That way we can start buying bathroom stuff for that one now if we see tham on sale.. I did consider a brass bath that was on ebay, a second, but still not sure i want a sitty up rather than a lying down bath for our bathroom.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Re clutter an dealing with reluctant people, in my case, dh.

Baby steps, set a target (this weekend we are recycling, charity shop donating or bishing 100 things ...each, dh still thinks its only 100 between us, my target is higher) and aim to keep a set number of things, say three, or five, that you consider tat. This gives flexibility to the hoarder. I hoard too, so i underatand a bit.

I have been making dh watch the plethora of hoarding shows and then pointing at areas and whining, 'look WE are Richard' (the first hoarder show the guy was called Richard). And dh so horrified that we might be Richard agrees to off load some stuff.

If you try and do too much its daunting and 'threatens' the junk too much. Regifting also makes stuff easier....' you have grown out of this computer game, but so and so has not, they would love it.......' throwing or giveing to a faceless persn is harder i find, whre as giving something that is wanted to some one else is not hard at all.

The regifting thing definitely helps with DD and DS. Love the idea of watching hoarding shows with them to make them understand what's at stake. Will give it a go. Thanks lir.

lostinrates wrote: »

I have to plan the lay out for a bathroom now....

In my first year as a student, I lived in a house where the bathroom floor was tiled in cork tiles. I loved them. It was a nice bathroom anyway - light and airy with a clear glass window that looked out from a great height over a few much lower buildings and the botanical gardens (in Oxford). The cork tiles had some kind of coating or polish, so they looked not out of place in an oldish house with plenty of polished floorboards. They were also water resistant, and warm to the feet, and a cheerful honey sort of colour. I have thought ever since that if I ever redo a bathroom from scratch I would have cork tiles like those.

Personally I am not a fan of baths with straight vertical edges, and would always prefer something you could comfortably lie back in if you chose to. I'm aware that not everyone feels that way, though - or about cork either.

Do keep us posted with what you choose - and remember we'll be wanting pics, please.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't think Boris is a !!!!. He is remarkably intelligent, remarkably, despite the buffoonary which noone can, or should, deny. Even if someone dislikes his intelligency to mistake him for a fool rather than an intelligent man is a mistake, imo, says more about the person making the judgement.

Absolutely agree with this.

House is 1956.

It's not raining here now but it rained this morning. we only have a petrol mower and it digs into the ground so the grass is getting a reprieve. I NEED to plant out 2 trays of assorted peas/mangetout and 12 tomatoes, need to repot everything but my back is still playing up.

Got a frozen bread from the freezer and stuck it on. Apparently heat is the worst thing for inflammation and ice is the answer. It's cold enough and I've stuck something frozen on my back.

you lot have been busy, taken me over 45 mins to catch up.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Absolutely agree with this.

House is 1956.

It's not raining here now but it rained this morning. we only have a petrol mower and it digs into the ground so the grass is getting a reprieve. I NEED to plant out 2 trays of assorted peas/mangetout and 12 tomatoes, need to repot everything but my back is still playing up.

Got a frozen bread from the freezer and stuck it on. Apparently heat is the worst thing for inflammation and ice is the answer. It's cold enough and I've stuck something frozen on my back.

you lot have been busy, taken me over 45 mins to catch up.

This is true, but cold is not good for relaxing muscles, warmth is! So iding the cause of the pain is key. For me heat is almost always better than cold, because my neurological thing likes to 'turn muscles on' but is negligent about 'turning them off' so encouraging relaxation can help my nerves stop saying, 'tense tense tense'. Essentially, spasm.


Poor you, at least lots of us can truiely say we know how it feels with sciatic nerve issues, so we can truely appreciate how sore you have been, you poor lamb.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

This is true, but cold is not good for relaxing muscles, warmth is! So iding the cause of the pain is key. For me heat is almost always better than cold, because my neurological thing likes to 'turn muscles on' but is negligent about 'turning them off' so encouraging relaxation can help my nerves stop saying, 'tense tense tense'. Essentially, spasm.

Poor you, at least lots of us can truiely say we know how it feels with sciatic nerve issues, so we can truely appreciate how sore you have been, you poor lamb.

Thanks for explaining it so clearly lir. That explains why heat is so helpful when my neck is playing up - usual problem is that something isn't perfectly aligned, and everything tenses up round it.

Missk, it sounds awful. Really hope you are better very soon.