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

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

Yesterday evening (I think), the air was thick with the sound of lawnmowers around here. Not us though, we did it between showers on Wednesday ready for the garden waste collection on Thurs. We have a thing about getting things into the bin before collection rather than just after

garden waste collection? How un-mse!;)
All ours goes into the composter!:p

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

garden waste collection? How un-mse!;)
All ours goes into the composter!:p

When I have my own garden... Until then it's not up to me, I just have to try to do I as I'm told

PasturesNew

I used to have to take it down the tip.... bl00dy annoying as it wasn't my garden and I didn't want a garden and I HATE lawn mowing

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Visited a friend the other day who mentioned that apparently asda are doing pretty bra's at the mo - if this helps.

That's advice I seriously never thought I'd be giving!:eek:
(TBH it was a conversation between 2 sisters, where 1 was recommending the other go to stock up...:o)

This reminded me of the classic Father Ted episode where they get lost in the lingerie department

lostinrates

In all my frustration with things medical and medic related, and there has been much today, i have been thinking of silvercar.

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

garden waste collection? How un-mse!;)
All ours goes into the composter!:p

Our dalek-style composter can't be seen- it's next to the shed at the back of the garden but the ivy and thorns round have been advancing in the rain, growing past it and getting closer and coser to the house :eek::eek:
Did check inside it a few days ago and lo and behold there is the world's biggest anthill in it!

GDB2222

The rain has made everything grow out of control, and we can't get out to do much about it. The privet hedge is white with blossom. The lawn is 3 inches high. Both of these are quite nice, but a bit worrying.

A briar stem has grown in from the neighbours that is 1.5m long, and that is just in 4 weeks.

PasturesNew

Well.... that was a waste of time. Place was a bit shabby .... 'shared' kitchen was a standard/dated lounge room, with a couple of dodgy old/small tables (circa 1950-1970) and on top of those were one mini grill and one mini hob and 2 microwaves.... to be shared among god knows how many people (30?). The sink unit was a kitchen sink unit with 2 cupboards below... doors hanging off - and a random collection of a couple of plates inside. I suspect if I'd looked behind it I'd have seen a hosepipe feeding into it.

Telly in the room was a CRT style portable, but unusable as it's got no freeview box and there was a piece of string going across the room that I suspect was making it "safe" so it didn't fall off the wall mounting.

And the whole place smelt a bit funny and there were some strange 'mists' on that floor....

So that one's out of the running.

I suspect many laws are broken within those walls...

lostinrates

After much time on the ohone today (both dh and I) he had two successes.

Firstly BuPa are going to cover me despite Us presuming this would be excluded (hurrah) and secondly, because of the nature of the delays atm they have agreed to accept a referral letter from the non bupa registered consultant.

She btw has been amazing, she phoned me twice today to say she is doing what she can to push through the nhs imaging (they have lost her referral fax and letter, within the same building). She areanged with dh to fax a letter to him tomorrow ( they were talking after all admin had left and shje could not work the fax) and to BUpa, so bupa can start doing whatever it is bupa do with letters.

You know, i heard someone snip about the fact she was in a hijab, but frankly, she has been pretty lovely and proactive and if her hijab makes her feel able to do the job she is doing then i am glad it allowed her to be there for me and her other patients.

I also, ( big round of applause expected) went to the new gps satelite durgery first thing this morning to give them their pound of flesh, or rather pint of blood).

I am glad the end of this week looks happy, because getting back on this treadmill has not been without some......stress, even without letters going missing and things taking longer than people say is safe. I have reached the end of todayu and i feel like i did last week, last month, last year. So i don't think its all going to go wrong if i do wait three weeks for the appt. once viewed that way the things faiIng themselves are less scary. E.g. If the vision in the eye had not come back i think i would be very much more frightened.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I find it amazing just how much space kitchens take up .... in my opinion it's down to poor design - and they are all designed the same way..... so maybe it's just that I have bizarre ideas

Kitchens seem, to me, to be full of small/wasted space cupboards, with overbearing wall units that you can't reach into.

I figure one GOOD larder and a big run of worktop would be so much better to look at.

The unreachable wall unit thing isn't so much poor design as design for average height people. Very frustrating for you, I'm sure, but the sort of thing one would expect kitchen designers to do unless they were designing specifically for short people. I'm 5'7" and can reach into my wall units just fine. I only have to climb on a chair if I want to get at the things I put on top of them.

On a different note, may I ask for more property advice from the nice peeps please?

My friend has inherited her parents' house. It's a 1930s bungalow that's had a flat roofed single storey extension and a sort of loft conversion done, although not to modern standards - the stairs are very narrow and extremely steep and there's no door at the top IIRC. The whole thing is in a very poor state of repair, but it has a large garden behind it that widens out a lot, although the frontage onto the road is very narrow. She wants to sell it, but she thinks nobody will want to buy it unless they plan to pull the whole thing down and build probably two houses (she thinks maybe a pair of semis with a shared driveway) on the plot. She wonders if she would get a better price for it if she gets outline planning permission first. What sort of thing would you do if you owned it? Has anyone any useful advice about outline PP - is it worth getting, and how does one go about getting it?

Anyone who thinks they might have any useful ideas, let me know and I'll PM you the grid reference so you can see the actual property on Google maps or similar. In the meantime, here's some data to describe the plot:

Length of plot front to back: 53m
Width of plot at front: 6m
Width of plot at back: 27m
The left hand boundary goes more or less perpendicularly back from the road but the right hand boundary goes off in a straight line but at an angle to cause the widening out, IYSWIM.

Thanks everyone.