Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Hmm, i have a better dictator name already.


Ay way, more important things to do atm than run the country, I am deciding what colour tO paint my altar and what semi precious stones to decorate it with. Did i mentIon i bought an altar?

Picture please.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I know, they are hilarious.

I think my taste in such tackiness might be either unique, or lead to a fairly unpalateable clientele. I have never thought about importing anything. My sibling did some importing back in the late eighties. Still has some of the stuff .....

I'd worry about how you clean it. anything without a smooth surface could carry germs. What cleaning products are safe and won't either cover it in limescale or eat away the surface.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a bulky item I was interested in importing a few years back, but if you've never had anything to do with importing whatsoever, then you can't find out what you need to know, in order to do some sums, to find out if it's a good idea.

I figured I had to get the stuff from some mountains to a foreign port, then onto a boat, then I had to land it into a British port, into some special warehouse, where I had to do some paperwork and pay an undefined amount of duty. I then had to get it out of the special warehouse and onto a lorry, then into my own storage. And then .... I had a shedload of stuff to flog.

I kind of went off big/heavy stuff after that.

Contract it out. I export and know nothing about the logistics/ paperwork or duty.

I get product delivered to a warehouse and they deal with all that for me. Customer collects from warehouse and transports overseas. Every few weeks a load of paperwork lands via email and jobs done.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Picture please.

I put it up and took it down already!

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

What if the review was about a best seller written by dan brown? Woul you trust it then? Worst. Written. Books. Ever.

There was a physics A-level question recently about one of Dan Brown's books. There were several quotes from the book, and the students had to calculate and/or explain whether the science was right or not. In one case it came out right, but all the others were hopelessly hopelessly wrong. Lots of other stuff is hopelessly wrong as well as the science, I understand.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Raining here, wet and grey .... and I try not to mention old issues too often else I'd be post 10x as much as I do with doom/gloom, that nobody wants to read.... but the old's got the "C" thing to be looked at and I hope it's not raining later this week when I have to go with them to the Hospital..... it's going to be a tough drive as I have to take them next to the building where the other old died. Hoping they're so confused they don't realise really.

So sorry to hear that, Pastures.

tomterm8 wrote: »

Orson Scott Card has done a lot of alternative history, he is one of the leaders in the genre. Turtledove is also good - his All the Guns of the South is worth reading it hits a lot of what you say in your 'perfect' book.

Aha! The book conversation mentions something I've read. Somebody lent me the Guns of the South years ago, and I read it. Found it absolutely gripping, actually, although my mind isn't spacial/visual enough to cope with the detailed descriptions of the battles. I enjoyed all the rest of it, though, and I thought the way in which the people's attitudes gradually changed was very well done.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I'd worry about how you clean it. anything without a smooth surface could carry germs. What cleaning products are safe and won't either cover it in limescale or eat away the surface.

Not on the top, on the sides! Same could apply to any handle, beading or decorative embellishment on most sides, so, not too worried as long as not on the top:)

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Aha! The book conversation mentions something I've read. Somebody lent me the Guns of the South years ago, and I read it. Found it absolutely gripping, actually, although my mind isn't spacial/visual enough to cope with the detailed descriptions of the battles. I enjoyed all the rest of it, though, and I thought the way in which the people's attitudes gradually changed was very well done.

ah, the boy bits.
I gloss over these looking forany dialogue. With films its easier. Its very rare i watch what i call 'uniform films' which include anyting miliatry, anything set on a boat or a plane and anything where they where camoflage or are a alcoholic veteran. The boat exception is rare, but i do like sci fi which is comparable, but the uniforms are 'costumez' and the ships tend to go to more interesting places.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also, I'm not sitting in my own home, with the luxury of just one or two items to sort out ..... and it's not just furniture issues, there are loads of things to do. Also completion day is unknown until the last minute and is final - and one doesn't wish to sit in an entirely empty house because it all got carted off the day before exchange.... when exchange doesn't happen in the end.

Balancing act of effort -v- wasted effort -v- running yourself ragged -v- keeping everybody's balls in the air. Plus, a large dollop of "why me, I don't want to be doing any of this .... why me???" and new/emerging issues daily.

You are bringing back hideous memories for me of trying to clear LNE's rented house in four weeks over Christmas, because his parents had given notice on his tenancy before we realised I was the executor. You have all my sympathy. I hope it's over soon.

silvercar wrote: »

Picture please.

lostinrates wrote: »

I put it up and took it down already!

Missed it. Pic "elsewhere" please, for the benefit of those of us who aren't so quick off the mark, please? I am having a mammoth marking week at work - which may turn into a mammoth marking month until exams start after half term - so I may not be around here quite so much for a little while. I'll try to keep up when I can. Or perhaps I'll be on here more than usual as I read a post or two between marking each batch of questions to stop myself going insane.

LydiaJ

Wow! It's lovely. Where did you get it from? Can we have an "after" pic when you've finished sparklifying it, eventually, please?

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Wow! It's lovely. Where did you get it from? Can we have an "after" pic when you've finished sparklifying it, eventually, please?

Ebay

I don't think its been used. Seller new nothing about it, but it looks quite clean and sharp.

Yes to pics. Will ber painting for kitchen soon but will not be 'finished' for a few years, when it is ready to go upstairs. Sparklification is an artistic process subject to alteration.:D