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

PasturesNew

Just started on More 4 (freeview 14),. A Place in the Sun, Home or Away - Hertfordshire.

150,000 commuters live there, it's £80k cheaper than London.

Houses rarely stay on the market for more than 3 weeks.. yeah, right, bet RM would disprove that.

This couple have a £250k budget, 2-3 beds, garden, commutable within an hour to his job.

Hemel Hempstead's their first one.

Edit: Now Markyate, St Albans.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

It's raining here now, thanks for sending it over

I didn't send it - it's still raining here.

Lots of tractors keep going past .... and there seems to be one doing something in the next field.... wonder what they're harvesting in the rain. Maybe they gave up on it and are ploughing it all in.

purch

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

LOL



The top 10 must do very little else but post here

Strangely, Graham from Devonshire is quite high on the list.

Shocker :eek:

lostinrates

Vivafitosi!!

Please may I get some professional advice, and other people's input welcome too!

I got a bookshelf today (hurrah) and am getting two more this week, so i am taking bos off the floor and starting to get them on the shelves.

I started thinking dewey was not necessarily appropriate for home shelves, and decided to dive ion with cookery and food books. But things just aren't right. Foratly, inlike a library, home bookshelves have an annoying foxed shelf, so mixed heights cause a problem, but size order is obviously useless (or is it, when i cannot find a book i say...its a book this size and green'). I think if i were cooking vegetarian food i would loook for a section of veg books on my shelf, so that seems clear, like wise, indian food withing indian collection in a larger ionternational section...so what is 'indioan vegetarian cooking' veg or indian??.?

Like wise...i thought food courses are a good plan, canapes, starters, fish etc etc, so what is tapas.......spanish within international, or somewhere between canapes and starters? Maybe international os a silly division?


Should i look up dewey after all?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Vivafitosi!!

Please may I get some professional advice, and other people's input welcome too!

I got a bookshelf today (hurrah) and am getting two more this week, so i am taking bos off the floor and starting to get them on the shelves.

I started thinking dewey was not necessarily appropriate for home shelves, and decided to dive ion with cookery and food books. But things just aren't right. Foratly, inlike a library, home bookshelves have an annoying foxed shelf, so mixed heights cause a problem, but size order is obviously useless (or is it, when i cannot find a book i say...its a book this size and green'). I think if i were cooking vegetarian food i would loook for a section of veg books on my shelf, so that seems clear, like wise, indian food withing indian collection in a larger ionternational section...so what is 'indioan vegetarian cooking' veg or indian??.?

Like wise...i thought food courses are a good plan, canapes, starters, fish etc etc, so what is tapas.......spanish within international, or somewhere between canapes and starters? Maybe international os a silly division?


Should i look up dewey after all?

How many have you got???? I'd just start with the bigguns on the left.... and if they were too big I'd lay some of the bigguns down.... then go across to the smaller ones... stacking the final smallest ones up if the row wasn't self-supporting.

If you're looking for something you'll roughly know the 4-5-6 books you'd want to flick through, I'd have thought.

Intrigued how many you have though .....

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

How many have you got???? I'd just start with the bigguns on the left.... and if they were too big I'd lay some of the bigguns down.... then go across to the smaller ones... stacking the final smallest ones up if the row wasn't self-supporting.

If you're looking for something you'll roughly know the 4-5-6 books you'd want to flick through, I'd have thought.

Intrigued how many you have though .....

I'm guessing the answer is a LOT!!

I want to know what a foxed shelf is. Sounds interesting
Joking aside, I've noticed that whilst my typing using a proper keyboard is passable, it is terrible using the touch screen on my phone - combination of the touch screen/ small buttons but mainly the autocorrect. Posts/ texts look ok, then press send and words have been changed all over the place!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

How many have you got???? I'd just start with the bigguns on the left.... and if they were too big I'd lay some of the bigguns down.... then go across to the smaller ones... stacking the final smallest ones up if the row wasn't self-supporting.

If you're looking for something you'll roughly know the 4-5-6 books you'd want to flick through, I'd have thought.

Intrigued how many you have though .....

Just cook books? Dunno.


Well, i have filled the first ikea billy book shelf of cook books from the ones we have had heaped on the floor just doing cook books, but don't have all of them on a shelf, nor, frankly out of boxes. We have books all around the walls in the whole of the first floor.....and messy piles aroun d the landing, but not just cookbooks.


I am being gifted two more billy bookshelves this week which i expect to take everything off the floor down stairs and the piles off the fllor of the landing, but not all of the pnes round edges upstairs.
then there are the boxes, which i do not plan to unpack until the builders are out in autumn.

Incidentally, the house is getting messier and messier instead of more and more organised. I am going to have to pray for sun when people visit so i can put loadsastuff in the garden:eek:

Nikkster

I've decided what a foxed shelf is - its like the staircases in Harry Potter, so it keeps moving. In light of this I wouldn't worry about organising the books using Dewey

PasturesNew

When we were decluttering the parents' house, a whole bunch of cookbooks were disposed of in the first attempt. But the departed kept grabbing back some of them (bizarre/illogical choices). So, once the departed had departed, we got rid of the rest. I kept a small handful of a few small ones.... to be honest I've never cooked anything from any recipe book.... but I've rarely cooked anything.

There's just not much point in cooking for one, when it's only ever one, never varying from one... and no special events. Even at, say, Xmas, when all the family were going to be present, everybody liked different things, so it all had to be the basics because anything anybody would have brought/made would have only been liked by them.

I can knock stuff up easily enough - and have done a few times.... but there's no enjoyment in it when it's only you that will see it, taste it .... and only you that has to clear up all the mess afterwards

PasturesNew

Foxed shelves look like this: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2009/363/9/c/Tungsten_Horniman_Fox_Shelf_by_aegiandyad.jpg

So you can see why there's problems putting books on them.