Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's an old saying... many a true word spoken in jest.

I just want my own place so I can choose what colour the walls are (once I have saved up enough to buy paint) and who uses my toilet If I have enough room in my garden to sit outside in the summer (probably with a gin and tonic, mind you) and have a small veg patch I will be a very happy bunny indeed.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I just want my own place so I can choose what colour the walls are (once I have saved up enough to buy paint) and who uses my toilet If I have enough room in my garden to sit outside in the summer (probably with a gin and tonic, mind you) and have a small veg patch I will be a very happy bunny indeed.

You can't beat being in charge of your own life/decisions. Being able to decide to change a £5 blind without fear is priceless

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

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I keep dropping by the hairdressers to get s snip...but they're always closed and no opening times on the door/window... maybe they closed down. I should go to the place that does the streaking and get that done. I'll try to remember to go there tomorrow to see if they've a slot. If they have a slot it's always Thursday afternoons.... and, hopefully, they can fit it in this Thursday.

So the streaking gets done in a different place to the snipping?

At last.....

a PN posh alert!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

So the streaking gets done in a different place to the snipping?

At last.....

a PN posh alert!

Not really. I know this place that streaks at £27 .... even the local College round here charges about £70.... but only on Thursdays. And I'd seen this local place that does a dry snip at a passable price.... but as I can't just walk into that place and they'll say "We can do it now" I might as well just pin all my hopes on the Thursday lot being able to fit me in to do both, probably cheaper snipping too.....

michaels

chewmylegoff wrote: »

The problem with house hunting appears to be not that houses are too expensive, but that there are only about 4 on the bloody market!

And those 4 are the grot that no one else wanted, you always get shown those by the ever optimistic estate agents when you start looking.

Nikkster wrote: »

I just want my own place so I can choose what colour the walls are (once I have saved up enough to buy paint) and who uses my toilet If I have enough room in my garden to sit outside in the summer (probably with a gin and tonic, mind you) and have a small veg patch I will be a very happy bunny indeed.

Well you would be more than welcome to come and sit in the garden here with a G&T...if you had done a couple of hours on the vegetable patch first

PasturesNew

I need to google slugs and fags.... not seen one slug at all .... but just found one outside crawling up my fag butt container.... I think old fags attract slugs.

Edit: looks like they go for it ... but it kills them. Fag butts in water (which is what my container is) is an organic pesticide

I should flog my old fag butts to non-smoking gardeners. Or make fag water and flog that.

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

Well you would be more than welcome to come and sit in the garden here with a G&T...if you had done a couple of hours on the vegetable patch first

Thanks for the offer - if need be I'd go sit in the park with my large G&T. I have no shame! If I can't get a little garden, I'll have to keep saving so I won't be able to afford the petrol.

Did the Amex/ Shell offer today - needn't have put any thought into what to buy to make the transaction up to £50 as I managed to fit £50 of petrol in

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not really. I know this place that streaks at £27

Oh yes, PN - that is a posh alert. That's more than my hairdressing spend for a whole year!

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I managed to fit £50 of petrol in

It's not hard these days is it .... twice round the block and bang, another £50

BertieUK

Nikkster wrote: »

I just want my own place so I can choose what colour the walls are (once I have saved up enough to buy paint) and who uses my toilet If I have enough room in my garden to sit outside in the summer (probably with a gin and tonic, mind you) and have a small veg patch I will be a very happy bunny indeed.

Our living requirements in a lifetime change every so many years from saving every penny for a down-payment in buying our first home to raising our families, be they large or small, then you reach the time when you start to down size to make things more manageable, maybe that is where the saying 'the seven year itch x's whatever started.

For our family it has seemed to be 7x2 for our moves except this time where it has been reduced to four years. We are looking at the area of Warminster but the market is very quiet at the moment and where we are trying to sell has really took off these past couple of weeks so we shall have to watch the markets closely.

A small garden would suit us just fine to grow our own veggies but sometimes you just wonder if it is really worthwhile when you see the prices in Lidl's.