Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o
Saw the photos of cars with personalised plates and thought, "I can't post my car because my number plate is personalised to my real name not my user name."

Took me a full minute before I realised no-one would really buy a personalised plate of their user name.

:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o

I would. I have. But it's a nickname based on my real name.

I could have posted it and looked like I had pretty good photoshopping skills, but it would be my car!

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Friend had a Lada equivalent model. Full of tips on how to start your car at -40 by turning on the headlights to start thawing out the battery. :eek:

A good design would have placed the battery in a container that was almost instantly removable (without tools), so you could take it into your house at night.

PasturesNew

I've not said before, but I'm now a house seller again.... it'll hit the market early next month.

Had the slimeys round for the photos/measurements. Not got to the contract stage yet but that's imminent.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

A good design would have placed the battery in a container that was almost instantly removable (without tools), so you could take it into your house at night.

I like that idea -you're a bit of a lateral thinker!

I suspect one flaw might be that the terminals left in the car would ice up and cause problems but there would be ways round that.:D

I gather Venezuela used to have lateral thinking in their school curriculum. Great idea! :beer:

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cooking for one, in the type of place that most singles can afford to live in, can be challenging because so many families in 3 bedroom houses are giving advice based on their lifestyle.

One thing is the spaces tend to be small, so anything you cook will stink out the place and all your clothes - and you don't want to open a window if you've just got home from work as you'll lose any precious heat that you can't really afford.

Then there's the "freeze the spare portions" bit .... you can only do that a few times before any freezer (if you have one, if you have room for one even) is full.

Some things can't be reduced in volume. If a recipe that serves 4-6 needs 1 egg, it's hard to measure out 1/6th of an egg.

Many things are simply not economical to cook in smaller quantities either.

So, by the time you get home from work, probably 10 hours after you left - and you're home alone and now got to cook etc in a confined space you tend to think "mmmmm .... peanut butter sandwich will do".

Living entirely alone, all the time, in a small space, cooking with limited facilities, is a whole new world that most people don't enter as a lifelong lifestyle.

For my limited exposure to foods, I'm sure I could cook anything I set my mind to and it'd be tasty and perfect .... thing is, when "it's just me" there's no point putting in all the effort and over the years any enthusiasm wanes. I know how to cook, I could cook .... I choose not to as it's tiresome with inadequate facilities and the smell.

I was on a thread earlier, somebody asking about cookie recipes "just like the supermarkets" and she said she'd made some and made 24 ..... my requirement for such cookies is 1/year at the most. I could easily cook 100 varieties of perfect cookies to die for... but I'd never eat them. Far better to grab a bag reduced to 10p for 5 when I spot them about once a year.

I find that after cooking for the boys (they like different things to me), I just give up for myself and end up with a bowl of cornflakes or a couple of weetabix.

If I do cook the same for me as the boys, I generally find I can't eat it because the cooking smells have put me off....so out comes the cereals again (or I just go without), I tend to not have an evening meal more than I end up having cereal.

I'm not keen on my cooking but the kids say it is alright.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought Aloe Vera was posh shampoo!

Nah, it's what I say when I meet the woman down the road!

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Some things can't be reduced in volume. If a recipe that serves 4-6 needs 1 egg, it's hard to measure out 1/6th of an egg.

yeah but this means that you get to eat six yorkshire puddings all to yourself so it's not all bad.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've not said before, but I'm now a house seller again.... it'll hit the market early next month.

Had the slimeys round for the photos/measurements. Not got to the contract stage yet but that's imminent.

make sure you get lots of vases with twigs in.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

make sure you get lots of vases with twigs in.

Because it's been a traumatic time and I don't live there and we've been de-cluttering... there's been no time for presentation or twig management.

If you start faffing around, where do you stop? Alone, de-motivated, uninterested, untalented, there's little one person can do in an hour to make any difference

Today, all I did was close the loo lid

That's as staged as it gets.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Because it's been a traumatic time and I don't live there and we've been de-cluttering... there's been no time for presentation or twig management.

If you start faffing around, where do you stop? Alone, de-motivated, uninterested, untalented, there's little one person can do in an hour to make any difference

Today, all I did was close the loo lid

That's as staged as it gets.

when we were selling my uncle's house, it was impossible to get it into a presentable state. everything i tried to chuck out was picked out of the bin/skip by mum and put back somewhere around the house, or in a pile which she said she would take to her house but never did. eventually i had to completely de-clutter the house by myself when she wasn't there.

then i tried to refurbish it...and two years later put it on the market, half finished. at least it taught me that property development is not for me. luckily this was in the first half of 2007, so i could have taken the roof off and left it in the rain for a month and it would still have sold.