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

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

or just buy 10 white non-iron shirts from tm lewin or equivalent.

Who/what is tm lewin?

Googled it ... some workwear outfit. http://www.tmlewin.co.uk/Store-Locator/Store-Locator,en_GB,pg.html

Edit 2: I had a look.... they look like old-fashioned work uniforms, in nylon, from the 1990s.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

at least 2 NPs have pools and one has a whole lake.

please can the other NPs list all water features within the boundary of their properties (bidets do not count as a water feature of the purposes of this survey).

i have no water features unless you count the puddle which sometimes forms on our tiny balcony, or the recurrent leak in the hallway.

I have witnesses as to the cakes delusions of grandeur now. It is big enough to swim on, but the canoe hits the other side with one stroke.

We also have...um....wAter troughs and a covered over well.

Their used to be a pond (bigger than the cake) in what is now our back garden, and a stream replaced that. No idea where they went but they are not here now.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Who/what is tm lewin?

Googled it ... some workwear outfit. http://www.tmlewin.co.uk/Store-Locator/Store-Locator,en_GB,pg.html

yeah, they're all over london. their shirts are rubbish but they are relatively cheap (especially as they give everyone an extra 25% off everything if you can be bothered to go online and download a voucher - a bit like gap).

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

please can the other NPs list all water features within the boundary of their properties (bidets do not count as a water feature of the purposes of this survey).

i have no water features unless you count the puddle which sometimes forms on our tiny balcony, or the recurrent leak in the hallway.

In my homeless hostel room I have a shower and a sink; one of the taps only has 3 prongs to grab/turn. The loo flushes OK... then leaks from the cistern .... if that counts as a water feature. If I flush it a few times in a row the leak could count as a waterfall.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Chewy you just answered a question i had abht where you worked. I am prettysure we must be only one person removed in the six degrees line of thinking,

possibly. i worked there for 3 years in the end, from 2004-7 (although i almost left after a few weeks as i found it so frustrating), but it was a very siloed place.

PasturesNew

Looking at buying -v- renting... I can afford to buy a little place that'd cost £1200/month to rent ... and if I were renting my budget would be £550-600/month to feel inadequately housed. So buying's got to be the name of the game.

So I was having a little look around and spotted something small and thought "that'd do..." and investigated it. Then I checked Zoopla... and Zoopla values it at about 60% of what they're asking, based on the last sold date of 2001.

Kind of put me off it really .... especially as I wasn't terribly sure in any case.

lemonjelly

I was pinting whilst listening to Jimmy Cliff earlier this week.

I have NP envy. & after my apologies, the bowls match got cancelled!

Nikkster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

at least 2 NPs have pools and one has a whole lake.

please can the other NPs list all water features within the boundary of their properties (bidets do not count as a water feature of the purposes of this survey).

i have no water features unless you count the puddle which sometimes forms on our tiny balcony, or the recurrent leak in the hallway.

My parents bought this house in the late 90s in prime 'Changing Rooms' era. As a result there is a small water feature in the back garden. It hasn't been turned on since about 1998 so it might just be a feature now :cool:

The wall/ ceiling lights in the lounge don't work as a result of some pipes leaking upstairs (water marks were eventually painted over). Do they count? They are solely decorative and non-functional now.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I was pinting whilst listening to Jimmy Cliff earlier this week.

I have NP envy. & after my apologies, the bowls match got cancelled!

Sshhh...twasn't everyone, and some not because we did not want to but cos of logistics. The venue is only so big!

We are going to do it again somewhere else and Hopefully have more of us.

lemonjelly

Ah well.
I ended up spending most of the day cleaning my turtles' tank. Productive at least....