Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Job is lovely, thank you, I feel very lucky to have it and I do look forward to going each morning, but there is less time to fit everything into. It'll settle, it's a new routine that everyone has to get used to.

H went to a meeting this morning with a nice architect.

The sort of door you push and they click back to open? Not too hard if you have alcoves already in the room, or you could put the sinks in the middle in a sort of recess, depending on how big the room is. Would make nice airing cupboards if there was a tiny radiator in there and slatted shelves.

Accounts, Doozer!

Yes, the sort that clicks to open and close with a push. I think the tricky part would be getting the panelling to look right. Most new panelling i have seen looks like new panelling. That would be to be avoided at all costs imo. Otherwise the deception would be very shallow.

They do a lot of panelling at a place not far from here, it looks very smart but just too raw, even under globulous layers of f and b. too perfect. Not good.

So i want perfectly not perfect....what a nightmare i am. No gappy gaps, but no newey new paneling.

Hope meeting went well . I am out of it now, i only get the results when we are reqdy to go.

This bathroom, obviously not on the phase one plans you have seen, is an additional thing for this year, as my parent flatly refuses to use what is here now. So will be paying for a bathroom to go in. . Till we can afford to do an outbuilding for them in the future. Anyway, its not a huge room, but silvercar is right, i will need so ewhere to store loo roll etc. i hate things like leach out too. In lodnon i had service cupboards in the wood panel we had made for the bath, so that those ugly under bath areas took bleach, loo roll. Etc etc. but that will not work in what i have planned for this room. I know i do not want standard vanity unit, absolutly know i do not. Too...anchored in time, for my timeless minimal bathroom plans. But its a wee room, so need to be clever to keep it clear.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Have you found Pinterest yet?

http://pinterest.com/

It's like virtual scrapbooking that you can share. You put a little button on your tinternet toolbar and when you see a picture on the tinternet of something you like, you press the button and select the picture you like on the page. You can have different boards, I have one full of garden things for me and bathroom things for someone else, just lots of visual ideas all in one place. It's handy.

And you can show other people too.

Well, i have seen it, but not sure how it would work for me.....maybe i will try, but i find it quite.....scary...... As you know, the mood board thing worked quite well for us, so this should be right up my idea focusing street.

lostinrates

Bb

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's dominated by annoying, twee, middle-class women who bake cup cakes and have no better way to spend their time.

It's also on the way doooowwwwnnnnn the popularity stakes.

There are also image copyright issues over the model.

Perhaps thats what i find scary about it.

When i have loed i thought the demographic was....young though....sort of early twenties?

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm confused - this post (quoted was 9941), how does 56 add up?

I reserve the right to delete this post when my maths has caught up with me!

Edit - perhaps you meant 59 and it was a typo (more likely than wrong maths methinks). Unless my brain is still still lagging...

The post was 9944 when I posted it, and has now dropped to 9937. Somebody must be deleting old posts from earlier in the thread and causing renumbering.

lostinrates wrote: »

I use ant powder here, because we have crazy amounts of ants. I cannot find where they all live apart from...everywhere. But it was late last noght and i didn't fancy going out to the long barn to hunt for ant powder so googled and found cider vengar, which was right there on the work top, so used it, and cackled. It worked, and they have not come back:D

One year in a previous house, some ants who had never ventured into the kitchen before decided to come into the boiler cupboard through a vent, and so into the kitchen, when the winged ones were all coming out to go off and do their thing (found new ant colonies or whatever it is they do with wings???). I stood their with the vacuum cleaner and sucked them all up as they came out under the cupboard door. They didn't do it for long, and we never had any more trouble from them.

silvercar wrote: »

Shame really that we have no community spirited neighbours as the far end of the road is a cul-de-sac, so would make an ideal location for a street party.
I could not possibly suggest it as the people that live on that stretch of the road could feel invaded and I only know the names of about 4 of the neighbours. Plus anyone suggesting it could end up organising the thing and who would want that!

Our road is a crescent (well, not actually curved like a crescent, but 3 sides of a rectangle so both ends are turnings off the same bigger street), so we could easily have a street party in the middle section without stopping anybody getting where they wanted to go. After the royal wedding last year various people were heard wondering out loud why we hadn't organised anything. This year we don't seem to be doing anything for the jubilee either. I do know lots of the neighbours at least to say hello to, but like silver I don't want to suggest anything that I'm not willing to help organise.

Doozergirl

misskool wrote: »

we got offered an allotment today 2.5 rods so absolutely teeny tiny but woop

:T:TThat's great news! Well done

silvercar

I have never lived in Herts (but eldest wants to go to university there)

Missed that until it was quoted.

I take it you mean University of Hertfordshire? Accommodation would be cheap compared to other university towns...like Bristol

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Perhaps thats what i find scary about it.

When i have loed i thought the demographic was....young though....sort of early twenties?

Nha, me and Lynzpower. Middle class thirty something women who dream of cupcakes but cba to make them.

I'm on there under the company, if you want to see one person's boards.

It means you can take the picture of the limestone bathroom from that website and pin it on to a board with other things that would match that room - it doesn't have to come from pinterest, it can come from anywhere. I don't really follow anyone, just use it to put those interesting internet pictures that you don't have anywhere to put, mood board style.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

speakerphone!

Thank you!

Btw, your clients should get a better class of lawyer...one that can either spout nonsense more efficiently or be convincing for the half hour.:D

i don't have clients. i have victims.

LydiaJ

A question for the NP cooks:

Mashed potato on top of minced beef is cottage pie. Mashed potato on top of minced lamb is shepherd's pie. Is there a name for mashed potato on top of minced pork? Swineherd's pie????

It's nice, BTW. I made it when DD asked for cottage pie and the only mince I had in the freezer was pork.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

Missed that until it was quoted.

I take it you mean University of Hertfordshire? Accommodation would be cheap compared to other university towns...like Bristol

Is that an offer? You'll have a spare room, won't you! :rotfl: