Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I reckon that the coffin-dodgers had better self-identify.
Maybe it's just me, davesnave and michaels; that's right just blokes really. Gen's kids sound young and I remember that michaels's are young maybe? so could just be me and davesnave, and GDB?

Painting myself into a bit of a corner here amen't I:rotfl:

How far outside 30 can one be a munchkin then? 31? 33? 35?

PasturesNew

There was some age thing last week.... I didn't take notes, but (of those whose ages were known/declared) I think I came in 3rd or 4th eldest..... and if we count everybody who's ever been a reg in this thread I'd slip a bit further down the list.

lostinrates

Dh has been skyping with the baby and is officially smitten. He seems especially fond of the fact she hits her dad ( his brother).

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

He said he was grateful you were not me when it came to spending power.

Cannot see links on macputer, but think one of the links below we're the ones I liked

http://www.ceramicstove.com/wp/?page_id=115



Still cannot find the floor I saw in a magazine for the bathroom, it's starting to get to me now. I know I didn't imagine it.

Also, This is the potential floor for the Cheese room I saw earlier

http://www.rudloe-stone.com/flagstone_white_limestone.html

I want to like the stoves, but I'm still very much into clean lines when it comes to permanent features. Some of them remind me of a 1930s public convenience, of which I am a fan (did you see the george clarke programme about small spaces and the public loo in Crystal Palace that is now a really lovely flat?) Others remind me of a 1980s loo, which is not so nice

The floor looks great, really, really great. I could really see that in place

We haven't made our house yet although I do appreciate we will probably never afford a Plain English kitchen. He wants glossy handle-less; he hasn't quite grasped that my vision of a long term house has no high gloss in it and does not have uPVC windows either. Natural materials only, I think! Everything I've ever compromised on is going to come back and haunt him, hence I want a fully itemised shopping list, down to the last screw.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I want to like the stoves, but I'm still very much into clean lines when it comes to permanent features. Some of them remind me of a 1930s public convenience, of which I am a fan (did you see the george clarke programme about small spaces and the public loo in Crystal Palace that is now a really lovely flat?) Others remind me of a 1980s loo, which is not so nice

The floor looks great, really, really great. I could really see that in place

There are clean line ones if you google for white ceramic stoves or wood burners I think.

I am ATM going through a modern thing with woodburners. I know of two sided glass ones and am wondeing if a three faced one exists. For an ingle nook.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Well I'm deffo older than PN and sc and spirit. Lir was an embryo when I was attending decent music concerts.
Wheezy was alarmed I was in the TOTP studio 40 years ago.
Unless GDB is older than me, (davesnave is, and JohnPeirpoint) I don't know who else is. fc sounds younger.
Purch I don't know for sure; johnny and stevie and hamish could be any age. Dear god, I might be the only person here with a fulll set of wisdom teeth!:D

Tbf, lir was attending music concerts as an embryo and playing in them just a couple of years afterwards so.....

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Along the way, both having people stay and dh lodging (and both of us in sharing) we have picked up some mistakes we will not make again I hope. They aren't very pc so probably best avoided discussing the rates rules for sharing and lodging.

Pity. I would love to know what the rates rules are. Don't suppose you could be persuaded to share them elsewhere?

zagubov wrote: »

I reckon that the coffin-dodgers had better self-identify.
Maybe it's just me, davesnave and michaels; that's right just blokes really. Gen's kids sound young and I remember that michaels's are young maybe? so could just be me and davesnave, and GDB?

Painting myself into a bit of a corner here amen't I:rotfl:

If coffin-dodgers are defined as 40-50 then I'm one. I'm 43. I too am playing at being a grown-up.

Congrats to Nikkster.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

fc sounds younger.

FC is younger than me.

zagubov wrote: »

Dear god, I might be the only person here with a fulll set of wisdom teeth!:D

You might be..... I've not got them, never had them and never will; they simply don't exist according to a dentist after an Xray 20 years ago when I happened to remark that most people by then had them coming through and he looked and said "you've not got any".

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

Are there two generations of NPs. the 20-30 generation of chewie, nikkster, CK, middymum (henceforth known as the "munchkins") and the 40-50 generation of .... too many to mention henceforth known as the "coffin dodgers". :eek:

Too close for comfort.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Pity. I would love to know what the rates rules are. Don't suppose you could be persuaded to share them elsewhere?


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They are not awful, IMO, but some might find them so. ( tbc nothing racist or homophobic), just basically that a cultural similarity is a best fit.....so a common language greases many wheels, but other things can mean least grease is needed. They are also not complex, but we are more 'basic' when we discuss it.