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

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I want to see this carpenter's kitchen!

Also, I would like to bottle this post and pour it on my garden. One day I will have one I can grow and keep

He seems to think you get to keep this one for a bit. Which is when he started talking about the garden. I agreed with him, a garden like mine would not work well, but that you have the style for so ething contemporary chic yet timeless like the ideas I am talking about. You could do it with just a few hours a few times at the right time of year, which is easy to work out.

Garden design books abound, and you have 'the eye'. Planting...well, that's a whole other art. I love crocus for plant ideas, then go to websites of specialist growers. For shady areas there is one called....Plantsforshade.co.uk I think. I just browse and make lists then dream of being able to do it all at once.

When you get ready yell, and if I can help in any way I will. . Davenave is a mine of knowledge...and answers questions patiently.

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

Chewy DH is colour blind. Very colour blind. He once went into a store to buy a pair of trousers that he thought were pale grey and came out with something so bright green that he looked like the fifth member of Bucks Fizz in the Making Your Mind Up Video. He also can't be a pilot for that very reason, though at least he has a good job with an airline. Apparently in an emergency, it is a good idea to know the way up the plane is and to be able to tell the difference between the sky and the ground.

I found out I was colour blind when I painted a picture at school and the teacher asked me why the face was green. It hasn't actually caused me that much problem, althoughh I did once buy a horrid purple jacket (not that I was bothered, I was sure it was grey).

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

And if I had kids they wouldn't be allowed to eat bread as it is evil.

They will be perfectly happy if you feed them Mars Bars and Nutella. Might not sit still, mind you.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My hearing is another thing that is awful, it really is bad. I think it's more to do with my brain being unable to focus on a voice when there is any background noise, as I find it very difficult to hear people in those sort of settings when others seem fine. Never had it tested though.

Shouldn't think anyone would want to touch the sandwiches I eat. And if I had kids they wouldn't be allowed to eat bread as it is evil.

I particularly love noise layering. The other night I fell alessp while dh was watching a video. I love the sound of men talking, I find it really, really relaxing, and when other people take things that make them bounce of walls the same sort of thing results in me being relaxed enough to sleep, particularly pleasant
Y as people are talking. Loudly.

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

They will be perfectly happy if you feed them Mars Bars and Nutella. Might not sit still, mind you.

They will eat salad, non-starchy vegetables, wholegrains and lean protein only. They will be allowed chocolate when they reach voting age.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Plantsforshade.co.uk I think.

That reminds me ... I saw a website in a mag at the quack's and remembered it to let you know .... only I've now forgotten it. I'll just google what I remember....

Here it is http://www.buythetreeyousee.com/trees
Buy the tree you see. They've video'd every tree - so you can look online and you're buying the one you're looking at.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

That reminds me ... I saw a website in a mag at the quack's and remembered it to let you know .... only I've now forgotten it. I'll just google what I remember....

Here it is http://www.buythetreeyousee.com/trees
Buy the tree you see. They've video'd every tree - so you can look online and you're buying the one you're looking at.

I found that recently....but cannot play the videos on macputer. Somewhere there are ppeople who can work these machines.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I found that recently....but cannot play the videos on macputer. Somewhere there are ppeople who can work these machines.

Video can be a b4st4rd. I think Firefox has finally stopped freezing on Youtube, but I still find most webcams unusable (live webcams showing towns and beaches); they seem to use some technology that's not installed and doesn't auto-install or give clues either.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I reckon I sneaked into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn't looking. Long-sighted (but that's just because I'm older than rocks), can roll tongue and have earlobes. No widows peak, have long palmar muscle, can smell freesias, and can tell red from green, unlike DS. Can hear kid deterrent alarms which puzzles me as i don't have ears like Jodrell Bank at the best of times.

Always liked hearing about the dodges they use to keep kids moving in malls, including using lighting that emphasises acne, but the bhets deterrent was using Max Brgraves/des O'Connor -typeMOR music, as adults can just "tune it out" or choose not to be bogthered, while asdolescents don't get to run their emotional responses that way. Oh yes and turing the lighting blue at night so druggies can't find veins to inject.

Yeah, red heat lamps are amazing, when you sit under them you turn into a mass of veins, arteries and .....hairs. I used to use one to check I hadn't missed a hair in the strive for perfect body baldness. Pft. Razor gets what it gets these days.

I can smell freesias. Love 'em. Cannot stand the smell of lillies. Smell of pee to me...in fact, lots smells of pee to me. I lost a bit of smell ability in the last coue of years butvthe main things I can smell really well are yucky things. A nice side effect opf theses ills is I seem to be getting my smell back. I noticed after the rain one day I could smell the straw in the barn at the end of the garden and the grass, it was fantastic.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I guess I just need reassurance that the cream will eventually work ... even though at least once a day all the areas literally explode with pain/burning/itching.

I was wondering about that. I'm glad you're getting some other treatment now, because if the original cream was going to work then you would have been seeing an improvement by now. Hope the new stuff works. Agree with whoever wondered about impetigo that it would be worth googling for some images and making the suggestion to your doc if they look similar and you don't get any joy with the eczema cream. Impetigo is foul but easily treatable.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I'm not good breeding stock either. Colour blind, long sighted, no ear lobes, can't roll my tongue, and men are fundamentally just mutants anyway. On the plus side my lung capacity is 110% of normal. Win.

But does it matter? Will Mrs chewy ever persuade you to breed?

zagubov wrote: »

And for those who PMed me, yes it's average UK life expectancy that's increasing by five hours per day.:D

It sounds amazing, until you realise that no actual person's life expectancy is going up by anything like that. Life expectancy is much higher for people born now than for people born in the 1930s or whatever, so as the oldies keep dying off and babies keep arriving, the average will rise.