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Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it
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I am sure you guys and girls will have the best solution.
In buying a house with a massive garden I now have a massive dandelion problem.
What is the best way to get rid apart form digging each one out (too many for that)
UNDOUBTEDLY the best way to get rid of the problem is for you to grow to like dandelions.
Our garden is full of the most amazing Forgetmenots, all of which arrived as weeds. My response was to plant some red tulips in amongst them. It looked gorgeous during the early spring, but a bit tired now. We'll yank them out in a couple of weeks.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I need to find/book my next address now.... line it up, so to speak, so on exchange day I can phone them and say "confirm booking".
Thinking a 2 week holiday caravan might be the best option, rather than a hotel. Only trouble is completion is going to be on a Friday and holiday caravans tend to be booked from Saturdays - although it's out of season, so should be doable. Plan would be to load up the car with all worldly goods, drive/arrive, then offload them, so one night in a hotel isn't an option due to security of goods. I can then have a more leisurely approach to locating the right self-storage place to relocate the goods too, while finding somewhere a little more permanent to live.... prices of accommodation are so expensive (whatever you do), it really makes moving and deciding very difficult.
Type in ‘leaving for Pastures New’ to Google and you have loads of choice Pastures :eek:
On a more serious note, good luck with it!💙💛 💔0 -
We have curved french windows, with curved glass. We've been here nearly 15 years now, and amazingly none of the children have smashed it.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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It is pretty idyllic but as is often the case appearances can be deceptive. Tonight is the 2nd anniversary of the death of my mum so I have been a bit reflective and I have really needed the company of this thread tonight. We have really comfortable garden chairs so being outside drinking mint tea rather than wine and only the backlight of the laptop and then the glimpses of everyone elses lives has kept my mood as peaceful and not sad.PasturesNew wrote: »It's sh1te isn't it.... until you've been there you've no idea how the thoughts are always just beneath the surface... all the dates that have more significance than they ever, ever did before.motherofstudents wrote: »Sorry about the day Spirit. Hope you are feeling ok. It's the first anniversary of my mum's death on 30th May so I know how hard it can be.
Hugs to all three of you. I haven't got to the anniversary of mine yet, but I've done Christmas and mothers' day. I gave my dad something on mothers' day; he had sent me a card on Valentine's day for similar reasons.
Today I've been concentrating on DD for LNE's birthday. We took flowers to the grave, and then went shopping - she bought some seeds to grow, and I got a bathroom cabinet (reduced from £25 to £10 in Asda because the packaging was bashed up
), and then she spotted a fleece throw that she fancied having to wrap herself up in while watching TV, so I got that for her and then we came home and watched kids' TV together (with the fleece thing round her). She's happy to have had me to herself; I hope DS has been OK but I won't know until Friday.
On a totally different note.... 25.1kWh = £11.80 today.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I need to find/book my next address now.... line it up, so to speak, so on exchange day I can phone them and say "confirm booking".
Thinking a 2 week holiday caravan might be the best option, rather than a hotel. Only trouble is completion is going to be on a Friday and holiday caravans tend to be booked from Saturdays - although it's out of season, so should be doable. Plan would be to load up the car with all worldly goods, drive/arrive, then offload them, so one night in a hotel isn't an option due to security of goods. I can then have a more leisurely approach to locating the right self-storage place to relocate the goods too, while finding somewhere a little more permanent to live.... prices of accommodation are so expensive (whatever you do), it really makes moving and deciding very difficult.
Good luck, PN!
Somebody once told me that time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted. When we last moved, we rented a house in the same borough for the best part of a year while we took our time looking around (and rented out our old house while we tried to sell it).
Did give us the opportunity to learn whether we liked the general area.
Also helped us find the exact perfect school to cope with DS's needs. :T
Till somebody bought it and converted it into something else.:mad:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
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It's all so d4mned expensive though - any accommodation ... and lugging your stuff about's tricky as you never know what you want.
Somebody once told me that time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted.
Maybe I'll do 2 weeks in a caravan, then shoot off over the channel for a week or two, then come back into a hotel, then look for a flat to rent, then crack on and look at getting a job flogging burgers or ice creams for the summer or something while I look around the area.
So tough making all these decisions on your own... and nobody around to bounce ideas off, or share the experience with.
Aimless, rudderless.... and everything feeling so pointless.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Your roof > my income today.
Again....
They seem to be fairly similar. That £11.80 was my best day so far, and my least lucrative day was 11p. Least lucrative, that is, apart from the two weeks when the system was down and nothing was doing anything at all.
It's been a long day, and I need sleep. Need to get up early in the morning, though, to leave v early for school run. DD is desperate to cycle to school instead of being driven, and it's obvious that this is going to be much less stressful for me if I do with with one kid rather than two. So it's best to do it this week, and we need to set off tomorrow morning in time for an 8-year-old to cover a distance somewhere between 1.5 and 2 miles (with a bit of a hill down and up again), and still arrive in time for school at 9:00.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »It's all so d4mned expensive though - any accommodation ... and lugging your stuff about's tricky as you never know what you want.
Maybe I'll do 2 weeks in a caravan, then shoot off over the channel for a week or two, then come back into a hotel, then look for a flat to rent, then crack on and look at getting a job flogging burgers or ice creams for the summer or something while I look around the area.
So tough making all these decisions on your own... and nobody around to bounce ideas off, or share the experience with.
Aimless, rudderless.... and everything feeling so pointless.
I know we are not the same as having someone in the room with you, but I hope we can be better than nothing.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Think of it like this: cycling is like walking.... but faster. Think how long the journey would take to walk and that's how long you'd need max.... because even if you push the bike up the hill it's at walking pace and downhill is a fast freebie!we need to set off tomorrow morning in time for an 8-year-old to cover a distance somewhere between 1.5 and 2 miles (with a bit of a hill down and up again), and still arrive in time for school at 9:00.
Should be 30 minutes tops on the basis there are the downhill bits. It'll be 15 minutes by the end of term.0
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