Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

lostinrates

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PasturesNew wrote: »

People should - it's darned annoying not being able to find/work out a number easily. Ambulances/emergency services struggle .... and so many taxis just park in the road and honk as they can't work it out either.

There was a law at one time that your house number had to be visible from the roadside, in the dark - or there was a fine.

Ours often is not, as you saw! I have a blackboard I put out when I need to, but everyone who needs to know knows. Naming of the surrounding properties is confusing in any case, I give emergency services a grid reference.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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Ours often is not, as you saw! I have a blackboard I put out when I need to, but everyone who needs to know knows. Naming of the surrounding properties is confusing in any case, I give emergency services a grid reference.

If it hadn't been for the blackboard, I'd have been 100 yards away, on the main road, banging on your neighbour's door

lostinrates

Well, it's not a killer say but we did cut one of the front hedges (not done all summer because of the lack of doors and windows on the house we thought it was safer.

The other one not cutting because we are pulling it out. Horses wormed, test paints on the wall. Other perent to tea.

I am happy, It's an upward trend. But tomorrow needs to be better!

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

It's funny, stuff with writing on it. I think I hate it, and yet, sometimes I feel the pull of its cutedom. It's a weird and worrying allure IMO.


The particular gripe is with tea and coffee and sugar things, or biscuit tins, I know what they are.

But then,If I object to it so much then why can I so easily see the logic in a day and age of privacy being considered important, do we still hang numbers on the front doors then?:rotfl: perhaps the names on things is for people less able to recognise tea/coffee/wine.

I dunno-I remember one day when my parents were driving us to visit cousins in London, stopping at a motorway cafe and my mum pouring salt from a weirdly large shaker over her food only to realise it was sugar.

Another time I was making coffee fior someone at a relatives house and poisoned one of them by putting in sugar from a bowl with a spoon in it to find it was salt.

mystic_trev

misskool wrote: »

hrms... charming rustic or twee?


trying to decide whether to get it.

Tut tut MissK My 24 bottles from M&S for £38 (thanks to a Grabbit a couple of weeks ago) wouldn't even fit on there!:rotfl: Now ask yourself....is it really worth it?

michaels

Generali wrote: »

The big difference between the UK and Aussie economies is that the minimum wage here is high: normally about $20/hr for an adult. That means that if you are prepared to put in the hours, anyone fit to work can earn a proper living. An unskilled couple can make $100k if they pull their fingers out just on the minimum wage.

What is 1 AUD worth in real money?

A high minimum wage obviously pushes a lot of payments on to employers rather than the tax payer as income support top ups but no doubt it also results n part in the high prices you mention and also at the margin no doubt reduces employment.

Is it in the case that in the UK tax credits are counted as negative tax and excluded from the % of gdp the govt claims to spend?

kabayiri

misskool wrote: »

hrms... charming rustic or twee?


trying to decide whether to get it.

Burn it with a blow torch to give it that distressed wood look.

Soak it in red wine to make it appear that bottles have leaked onto it over many years.

Tip Don't overdo the blow torch thing. A pile of charred embers can prove difficult to return

lostinrates

If you have loadsa money the terracotta things are quite nice for wine, otherwise, I just thing the very simple o.d fashioned ones (also cheap) really are best. They look honest. Problem with wine is having a good amount to store and a place with suitable even temps to store it. Ours has been challanged by winter temps I guess (doesn't get hot in summer)

We probably will put a cellar in the extention, because it's the right time to do it (I.e. cheapest time). If we didn't have that option I think it would be cheaper to put a cellar in a garden than digging one under a house. I don't know if those spiral ones are significantly cheaper than just digging out a cellar, the benefit of digging out a cellar is that it's useful for teetotallers too, and storage, Whilst a spiral thingy is a bit of a one trick pony.

Nikkster

kabayiri wrote: »

Burn it with a blow torch to give it that distressed wood look.

Soak it in red wine to make it appear that bottles have leaked onto it over many years.

Tip Don't overdo the blow torch thing. A pile of charred embers can prove difficult to return

Another tip... Don't blowtorch after soaking in red wine

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

If you have loadsa money the terracotta things are quite nice for wine, otherwise, I just thing the very simple o.d fashioned ones (also cheap) really are best. They look honest. Problem with wine is having a good amount to store and a place with suitable even temps to store it. Ours has been challanged by winter temps I guess (doesn't get hot in summer)

We probably will put a cellar in the extention, because it's the right time to do it (I.e. cheapest time). If we didn't have that option I think it would be cheaper to put a cellar in a garden than digging one under a house. I don't know if those spiral ones are significantly cheaper than just digging out a cellar, the benefit of digging out a cellar is that it's useful for teetotallers too, and storage, Whilst a spiral thingy is a bit of a one trick pony.

Someone near us has dug out a basement under the front garden. So no disturbance to the house. The stairs downwards go under their (now extended porch/ hallway) so all the work was done with the least disturbance and no worries about the foundations of the main house.