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

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Anyway ..... in my universe.... I think I just "got suited". Just been to see a flat and found myself being accepted/liked and offered it .... so I will get a call tomorrow.

LOVELY woman... VERY well connected locally ... runs her own handbag business .... all online of course. She's clearly a mover/shaker type, this isn't some chav numpty flogging a few old bags at £9.99 each at all. This is top drawer stuff.

Place has a few shortcomings, which I can overlook as it has location, location, location .... and a certain panache by association of saying one lives there.

Lovely room, en-suite (bath!!), huge grounds, almost direct beachio access

It's all looking rather splended all round.

Anyway, small detail (hence call tomorrow) of me having to leave here a month before that place is available.... so there's more water to go under several bridges that I need to wade through yet.

Sounds really promising, and a good person to have as a contact Esp if you were ever going to venture into selling pretty things to ladies wot lunch with too much spare £ . Fingers crossed!

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Place has a few shortcomings, which I can overlook as it has location, location, location .... and a certain panache by association of saying one lives there.

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POSH Alert.

It's not Sandbanks is it:eek:

I can see you going all footballers wives on us.

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

I had a friend, long ago, who was just embarking on a PhD in NMR - ie using the same technique as MRI but to do science on stuff rather than to scan people - and then got injured in a road accident and had to have her pelvis plated back together. After that she couldn't go anywhere near the room where the machine was located...

I spent [STRIKE]a summer[/STRIKE] actually it was more like a year(!) doing lots of NMR (my undergrad was in Chemistry). I remember having to take my watch off a lot that summer (don't think we had to have no metal on us at all, just that the magnets would mess with watches).

Thats such a shame for your friend. As if being in an accident and having plates wasn't bad enough. Did she manage to do a PhD in the end?

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

It's not S...

Not quite ... but not far off "just as good"... and I bet those people are in "the known circle" and I bet I get to see their shoulders even if I'm not the one doing the rubbing

There are 1000 perfectly good places around to rent.... and I just found myself thinking "I deserve this...."

lostinrates

Right. I have gound metal free loose comfortable clothing.

Crop top instead of bra with metal, and a ankle length jersey dress. And a cardi.

Much better than a tracksuit.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not quite ... but not far off "just as good"... and I bet those people are in "the known circle" and I bet I get to see their shoulders even if I'm not the one doing the rubbing

There are 1000 perfectly good places around to rent.... and I just found myself thinking "I deserve this...."

Absobloodylutely

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

By pure coincidence, that's the same number of staff as the FSA has!

And the FSA is in canary wharf....busted!

PasturesNew

Just looking at .... storage... again.

Stuff would be nearly 6 miles away from potential new place, but there's one just 1 mile away that looks just as good.... now, you'd think it mad to move it, maybe.... but the new place also do a "free pickup service", which is kind of genius/handy as I'd not need to find a new van/man, nor spend 2-3 days doing it myself (painfully slowly/badly).

If I get the new place.... I'll milk the new place for all it's got. They promise to price beat ... they promise a free pickup.... they promise the earth..... so it'll be my job, once accommodation is assured, to march in there and crack out the best deal possible. And this time I'd spend a bit of time "racking" out the space so I can find things before I move the stuff in.

PasturesNew

I'm probably qualified now to write an ebook bestseller: How to move 200 miles, with the most complications possible, live by the skin of your teeth for 3 months here and there at the drop of a hat while you painfully and badly relocate yourself in the longest possible, drawn-out process ever.

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I spent [STRIKE]a summer[/STRIKE] actually it was more like a year(!) doing lots of NMR (my undergrad was in Chemistry). I remember having to take my watch off a lot that summer (don't think we had to have no metal on us at all, just that the magnets would mess with watches).

Thats such a shame for your friend. As if being in an accident and having plates wasn't bad enough. Did she manage to do a PhD in the end?

I think so. I gather she was able to prepare the samples for measurement, and analyse the results afterwards, as long as somebody else put the things into the machine for her.

lostinrates wrote: »

Right. I have gound metal free loose comfortable clothing.

Crop top instead of bra with metal, and a ankle length jersey dress. And a cardi.

Much better than a tracksuit.

I think bras are OK. I've just tested one of mine with a magnet, and none of the metal bits seem to be magnetic. Doesn't surprise me, because you wouldn't really want to use steel in stuff that gets washed, unless it was stainless, I suppose. I am now wondering what sort of metal they generally use. :think:

CKhalvashi wrote: »

There are gents in here!

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

CK, you're a father of two in a settled relationship. A mere conversation about buying bras shouldn't be that much of a shock to you. Once your daughters reach their teens you'll have to cope with much more than that!