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

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh gos, it sounds heavenly! I can understand why you would be unnerved but, wow. I am. A bit envious. We keep sayiong we will go and sleep in the dutch barn in the hope of a summer storm, but then it seems too exhausting to drage duvets out there and haul me up on top of the hay.

Unsited mobile homes will be aplenty at the end of the season.... and cheap. You could snap one up and site it on your land easily enough

This one had been a private/family holiday home, on a site, so rarely used before these owners bought it and plonked it here.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

If we ever meet ... I'll tell a little story about this location ..... it has 'recent history' .... and ... er ... loony/ne'er do well connections... connections that might return. And ... it doesn't help that I was also googling this address and murder last night ...



The address is known locally for its past activities, not its address.

Hmmm... I can see how that might not have helped you feel relaxed! Perhaps save that for when you are no longer staying there?!

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Haha, rhe right general direction from you would have been stonehenge:D

Peoblem subsiding after a good night's sleep. And its a pretty morning, so not wasting it, and we have friends coming for lunch.

In the end instead of an out of hours doctor a nurse called me. Her advice was directly contradictory to the nhs website for this sort of problem. Which is. Confusing.

I never know what to do when you get contradictory medical advice, but my gut instinct would be take the advice that takes care of the worst scenario IYKWIM.

Glad you made it to today in one piece but still worried you're ignoring something.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Kind of OK... I nodded off, then the torrential rain beating on the tincan roof woke me up... then I nodded off... and was eventually woken by some banging in the field as the cows' owner decided it was an ideal day to do something in the stable-like structure in the corner.

Glad you got some sleep PN.
Stay away from thriller and horror stories/movies.
And if the rain doesn't stop for forty days and forty nights, warn us to start building boats!:D

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

And if the rain doesn't stop for forty days and forty nights, warn us to start building boats!:D

I live at the top of a hill. I may yet get prime beachfront real estate:o. Do you think it's too early to apply to change my house name to The Moorings?

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I live at the top of a hill. I may yet get prime beachfront real estate:o. Do you think it's too early to apply to change my house name to The Moorings?

From my experience with 'The Coach House', I don't think you need to let minor details stop you

PasturesNew

There's one of those random fords about 30' from me, by the exit to the field... in fact, looking at the lay of the land, if that floods it'll flood my exit route first... I am probably 6' above the height of that, at best.... but when you see how these flash floods go on bad days we know that 6' isn't enough. My 'on foot' escape route isn't cut off and immediately goes up another 2'.

The owner did say nobody's ever known the ford to be more than about 4" deep .... and there's nothing significant or unusual that feeds into it. But you still wonder why the ford markers go up to 6' don't you

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have that - and the super-heightened sense of odd smells (everything is always burning....). I called a gas man to a leak a few months ago and he said "I am totally stunned you could notice it...... my machine can barely pick it up".


Awww... licking his furry b4llz that DOES make a lot of noise though.

I'm the same with smells but I never used to be, it apears to be a side effect in the recovery from my break down.

Drives me crackers...as I am always one step away (well sometimes a lot closer), in thinking my house is about to burn down.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

I am always one step away (well sometimes a lot closer), in thinking my house is about to burn down.

Me too. I am petrified to plug anything in, or use anything. I can rarely use any form of oven, or shower, or heating system. The only things I am OK/safe about are my PC and a telly really. Anything else electrical and I have a meltdown. If an oven has 4 hob rings, I can never use more than 2 and am petrified while they're working. I imagine that inside every wall/ceiling of anywhere I am living the wires are going into meltdown. Even electric lights give me the heeby-jeebies as I fear that behind the ceiling there's something that the wires are heating up .....

I always say that in a perfect home scenario, the kitchen, bathroom, etc and all heating systems should be external to my living/sleeping areas.....

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I hate to admit it .... but it's dead creepy here... I mean REALLY creepy ... and I'm totally scared as it's all black out there and mid-nowhere

*cries*

Did you survive the night? Quality of survival?

Last night, the sky was clear, almost full moon. Lovely!