Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

I order ONE thing on the Internet .... and it arrives when I pop out for 10 minutes. So now I have to stay in ALL DAY Monday until it arrives.

Internet shopping doesn't work ... and yet it's so easy to make it work....

If I'd known it was coming today I'd have stayed in until it came. Could have tracked it online (if that gave any info) - but completely forgot a delivery MIGHT arrive anyway.

Annoyed!

Thing is, I had important tasks scheduled in for Monday

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Asking another random question:

Hiring a caravan or mobile home.....what is the cheapest way to do it? For about three months of summer? We have somewhere to put it for free....

Any other ideas for three months ish of accomadation?

Oh - am I moving into yours then?

Handy!

I would add - that if you plan to live on it, on site, while building work's going on - you'll probably need PP for that.

Alternatives to a mobile home could be a summerhouse - that you could keep up once you've vacated it.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I order ONE thing on the Internet .... and it arrives when I pop out for 10 minutes. So now I have to stay in ALL DAY Monday until it arrives.

Internet shopping doesn't work ... and yet it's so easy to make it work....

If I'd known it was coming today I'd have stayed in until it came. Could have tracked it online (if that gave any info) - but completely forgot a delivery MIGHT arrive anyway.

Annoyed!

Thing is, I had important tasks scheduled in for Monday

Rubbish innit.

To make it work you either need to buy from a site that uses royal mail to deliver (because you can go and pick it up from the post office after they try to deliver it at 11am when most people are at work) or you need to buy from a site that delivers it to somewhere else you can pick it up from (e.g. Tescos will deliver it to your nearest store and you can pick it up from there, obviously this doesn't help if the nearest store is a 100 mile round trip away).

Most site use a !!!!!! courier who never turn up when they say they will, and you end up having to take about a month off work to get the £10 thing you bought which you could have got for £10.50 from the shop next door.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Rubbish innit.

To make it work you either need to buy from a site that uses royal mail to deliver (because you can go and pick it up from the post office after they try to deliver it at 11am when most people are at work) or you need to buy from a site that delivers it to somewhere else you can pick it up from (e.g. Tescos will deliver it to your nearest store and you can pick it up from there, obviously this doesn't help if the nearest store is a 100 mile round trip away).

Most site use a !!!!!! courier who never turn up when they say they will, and you end up having to take about a month off work to get the £10 thing you bought which you could have got for £10.50 from the shop next door.

I could have picked it up from their depot.... on Monday .... and it's a 40 mile round trip there.

The thing was for my old's needs.... so not a regular/high street item.

They have a tracking service - it knows where the van is - and should at least text you once it's [a] on the van within 10 miles of your house, or the driver could press a button on the screen in his cab to say "going to this one next" ... that'd be easy/cheap to implement.

Porch door was open too ... he obviously didn't try it!

I paid extra for "24-48 hours" delivery and it actually arrived before after 23 hours 40 minutes

And now they'll come after 72 hours (as they don't deliver on Sundays).

Also - he could be round the corner, or could have popped back - but there's no button to select "In now, if driver's around he could pop back if convenient" which'd update his system immediately...

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

We might go for something like this:

http://unithire.rtrk.co.uk/?scid=26350&kw=6292416&pub_cr_id=5287039675

(Site chosen at random.)

I think we will buy and use afterwards, if possible. Can't have too many sheds!

For reference, what's the rough ballpark of those sort of things?

PasturesNew

Planning, mobile homes and building: http://www.joalleisure.com/mobile-home-questions.html

Looks like you don't need it for your circumstances.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh - am I moving into yours then?

Handy!

I would add - that if you plan to live on it, on site, while building work's going on - you'll probably need PP for that.

Alternatives to a mobile home could be a summerhouse - that you could keep up once you've vacated it.

I was wondering about a summerhouse. We could not afford new but ebay might help, but would need builder to move and erect and it doesn't give them showering facility or cooking. Its only going to be use three to four nights a week not by us...by them.

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I am never drinking again.

Mmmmm... IIRC you've said that before. Good luck though.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I would add - that if you plan to live on it, on site, while building work's going on - you'll probably need PP for that.

The practicality is that any enforcement action would take longer than 3 months. As long as the council understand that the usage is only temporary whilst the house is being renovated, would they even bother to do anything?

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Mmmmm... IIRC you've said that before. Good luck though.

Its terrible feeling, that whole day gone and my head feels full of nails and my stomach feels like a butter churn feeling. I don't miss it.

I am having the occasional glass of wine again, but really, very little at all. I think it is reinforced that summer has been so carp and no desire to mix up jugs of pimms or planters punch or long island ice tea and yet the season for brandy sours and alexanders and scotch and americans is not now.


Eating is also a bit 'blah' because it just doesn't feel like yummy salad weather however hard i try to get enthusiastic about light food the shivering suggests i should be having soups and stews.

I am cravi sushi almost all the time atm. I thought i might ask my mother for her rolly up thingy and learn to roll my own...