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

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Ordinary insurers won't usually cover smallholdings, so there's a choice of just a few.

What do you need to cover that's different from residential insurance? What are the trickiest bits to insure and why?

Kennyboy66

lemonjelly wrote: »

Allegedly the 100 greatest novels of all time:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction

I've read 14. What's missing, & what is your score?

13 on the fiction and 3 on the non fiction.

How though is Primo Levi's The Period Table* on both lists.


(* haven't read it)

PasturesNew

It's tipping down with rain .... tipping .... I am plotting the bus routes onto a bit of paper... I'll go out on the bus later and sit and look out of the window.... I will probably treat myself to lunch later, which will be a supermarket layered pasta salad, eaten in a bus shelter in the rain.

That banana diet started to drive me nuts

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

What do you need to cover that's different from residential insurance? What are the trickiest bits to insure and why?

Theft is different at small holdings, or rather the risk of it. (machine and tool theft on a different scale' rustling animals)

The puplic liability aspect of both buildings and fields. (hedge and fence type are a question they always ask lots about)

My insurance also has to cover equestrian stuff, so its different to davesnave's and i get it through a primarily equestrian insurance broker.

Doozergirl

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Ouch! We've got a cellar that fills with water, and I'm getting it sorted professionally when I've got £20k spare as I don't want to damage the house, especially as we're thinking of putting it back on the market.

There's nothing particularly wrong with a cellar that fills with water on occasion. Cellars in their nature are damp places, it shouldn't affect the integrity of the house. If the house sits just above the water table or has a perching water table, that's the way it is. If you tank it, then the tanking will come under great pressure from the water that would otherwise penetrate it, making it difficult to design and more likely to fail. There's no bigger waste of money, IMO.

As long as your damp proof course works then a sump pump is all you need. Use it to water the garden.

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

Moment of excitement for the day. An England football player wandered into the library today and sat down and used the free wifi. Nobody interrupted and I would have been absolutely none the wiser had someone not pointed him out. Can't say who or where though...

"... sat down and used the free wifi ..." No mention of books. Just my prejudices coming to the fore.

michaels

THe GP suggested I should try eating more nuts but it drove me bananas

PasturesNew wrote: »

That banana diet started to drive me nuts

GDB2222

As a lover of short stories, I wholeheartedly recommend Saki (HH Munro). He has the added advantage of being out of copyright, so very MSE. This is one of my favourites:
http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=24

lemonjelly

zagubov wrote: »

I've read 17 of the fiction but at least 2 of them I heard as audiobooks.
Non-fiction- only 3: Golden Braid, Homage to Catalonia, and In Cold Blood. Reads bits of some of the others on a philosophy course.
Edit: 5 now didn't notice life of Johnson, and samuel Pepys' Diary

I'm supposed to have read Mrs Dalloway on an English course but can't remember any of it which makes me wonder if i ever got round to it.

Lj have you read any early Stephen King? If not, try some just after re-reading "In Cold Blood" - you'll feel like he gave Stephen a masterclass in writing to make millions.:beer:

Read quite a lot of Stephen King, especially when younger.
Recently read a couple of his books - was inspired after reading On Writing, which I felt was an excellent book.

Generally I find Kings books excellent, up to about 40 pages from the end, when they start winding up & become all anti-climatic. The endings are never as good as the rest of the book...

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've just been through the non-fiction list. I'd only read 7 of those. I read a ton of non-fiction and they don't like most of it by the look of things. Their travel list is cr*p. They don't have The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron, often regarded as the best travel book ever. Further there's nothing by Thesiger and no Down and Out in Paris and London nor As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning. Big omissions.

I'm not quite sure what it does say about me that two of the books I have read were The Art of War and The Prince. In my defence I did have to study both.

Agreed.
Also amazed that there is no Steinbeck on the fiction list too....