Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

GDB2222

It was chucking it down before, but it really has stopped. We are going out (on foot) for dinner tonight. Should be dry when we walk over, but a 40% chance of rain when we walk back. Could be much worse by the sounds of it.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

My DW took some curtains down a while ago, and she has charged me with buying curtain hooks. The only trouble seems to be that there does not seem to be anywhere to put the hooks. Normally, there is some sort of tape with loops in, but not on these curtains. They have some very deep pencil pleats at the top that have been gathered. Is there some sort of hook that you just jam through/into the material?

I'm really hoping the NPs can help with this.

Possibly. There are big metal hooks that just jam into the pleats. A clue would be to see from the length of the curtain, if the curtain hung below the pole or attached to the front of it. You may need to blame your DW for not putting the hooks in a safe place when she took the curtains down.

These:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.shop4curtains.me.uk/ekmps/shops/shop4curtains/images/50-pinch-pleat-goblet-curtain-hooks-38-p.jpg&sa=X&ei=bVXLUJr8I5K00QXMzoDACA&ved=0CAsQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNFjgJIWzQmkuUVnt2jQDIEvPPxcFg

misskool

GDB2222 wrote: »

No tiny eyes, and they used to be hung, but DW cannot remember what hooks were used. Gah!!!

are they white curtain hooks?
http://www.screwfix.com/p/curtain-hooks-white-plastic-pack-of-200/18155?kpid=18155?cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=CPbT9NqpmrQCFe_MtAod2B8AzQ

silvercar

We have a water softener and a drinking water filter. I have lost most of the cupboard space below the kitchen sink.

Water Board are coming here Monday morning to locate stop tap. According to their mapping notes it is 3m from a fence and 26 foot (or that could be inches she wasn't sure) from the white corner of the house. If that makes sense to them they should be able to find it easily!

LucacHumac

Thanks viva, I like the word quirkery.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Were you keeping this bottle for someone else, then? I thought they had given it to you.

No, one of us (not me) was given it as a sort of joke, but has an affection for it. Knows its broken and is sad. To go someway to make amends would be decent, I think.

Nikkster

Hmmm... Work Christmas do tonight. Here's hoping I don't make a drunken fool of myself ( bit of a speciality) :eek:

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Possibly. There are big metal hooks that just jam into the pleats. A clue would be to see from the length of the curtain, if the curtain hung below the pole or attached to the front of it. You may need to blame your DW for not putting the hooks in a safe place when she took the curtains down.

These:

http://www.google.co.uk/url?source=imglanding&ct=img&q=http://www.shop4curtains.me.uk/ekmps/shops/shop4curtains/images/50-pinch-pleat-goblet-curtain-hooks-38-p.jpg&sa=X&ei=bVXLUJr8I5K00QXMzoDACA&ved=0CAsQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNFjgJIWzQmkuUVnt2jQDIEvPPxcFg

I had forgotten those. Posh alert ones. . I have a pair of curtains ex window dressing/ advertising from a posh alert place. That have those.

I wonder what pastures is doing.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

No, one of us (not me) was given it as a sort of joke, but has an affection for it. Knows its broken and is sad. To go someway to make amends would be decent, I think.

You two are such a lovely coupling

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Hmmm... Work Christmas do tonight. Here's hoping I don't make a drunken fool of myself ( bit of a speciality) :eek:

Dh had a great time at his work do this year. He was treated like a hero by those who had heard the legend of the man who took on sadistic boss, and some of sadistic bosses colleagues too. Plus....someone he knew ( friend of a friend, very simpatico) has joined in his exile. I think they both got a little "jolly"