Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

zagubov

Very pleased to hear this, PN!:beer:

Reposting this link i saw elsewhere. A marketing event, but quite funny!

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Very pleased to hear this, PN!:beer:

Reposting this link i saw elsewhere. A marketing event, but quite funny!

LOL.... Bugg4h that. I'd have just gone and sat down with my drink.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, I survived the week ..... and got invited to a colleague's house for coffee. Hence my very late arrival. I'll probably be going out/round there again as the colleague's older/single too and fairly newly arrived.

Brilliant news!

Are they nice?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Brilliant news!

Are they nice?

Yes. New colleague told me it's taken a year for a lot of people to talk to her (no reason/she's nice) and she's been plesantly surprised that everybody's already talking to me ... even the 'gruff bear' has been chatting to me apparently .... I guess that's because I'm a Nice Peep

I never notice when people 'like me', it's not on my range of awareness/care (so long as nobody's actually being mean) - and I'd also have nothing to compare it with. But, apparently, I'm well liked.

I asked about Xmas, apparently they have a total shut down, which has to come out of annual leave. Nice; always wanted to work somewhere that did that .... on the flip side, I wish I'd been told. So now I know I've got to work out what I'll be doing that week.

SingleSue

Nikkster wrote: »

I like that

I have just had an emergency.stop at boots. Managed to forget to pick up the carrier bag with my contact lens solution, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel etc in it. Oops. Then got on next train to have a moment of panic when I thought I had left the dress ('the' dress) somewhere, only to realise it was over my arm. Phew. I can tell I haven't got out much recently

I am headed vaguely in Sue's direction (same county I think, but not quite so far across), but by the sounds of it pretty much in the.middle of nowhere!

My direction is actually just over the border from Essex....the border is literally in the middle of the river just 2 miles from my parents house. However, by road, it takes a hell of a lot longer......, by the ferry (not even sure if we still have the ferry to be honest!), we can be in Harwich in a mere few minutes, by road, it takes an hour. Only 25-30 minutes from Colchester though by road....

They talk funny the further north you go into Suffolk and have funny ways, we are more like Essex people with a twang of Suffolk :rotfl:

lostinrates

Ggggrrrrrree.


We should have been cracking a long in the attic and still not in there. The joists in our attic are not convenient distances (the insulation is 400mm or 200mm widths and our joists are a foot apart, lol.)

There is more rubbish up there than we remembered and now one of the cats is having a ball up there.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Ggggrrrrrree.


We should have been cracking a long in the attic and still not in there. The joists in our attic are not convenient distances (the insulation is 400mm or 200mm widths and our joists are a foot apart, lol.)

There is more rubbish up there than we remembered and now one of the cats is having a ball up there.

1 foot = 300mm
I'd imagine it'd be possible to cut the insulation, while still in the bag, at the appropriate point so the 400mm has 300mm and 100mm.

So, buying one of each size you'd have one run of 300mm (from the cut down 400mm roll) and then a run of (200mm + 100mm) using the narrower roll and the cut off from the 400mm.

I'm imagining laying the roll in the bag outside... and somehow anchoring it down so it doesn't move - carefully marking the spot with a fat marker pen and then using some fast power tool to cut a line right through it.

Or just buy 200mm, cut some in half - and do it that way.

kabayiri

MSE style win today.

DW had a screw in her tyre. I get drafted in when she notices it's flat and she has driven back on it.

Typical response from the local tyre centre :- The wall is damaged and a new one is a couple of hundred quid. No, it can't be repaired.

So we don't accept this advice; pop to a different tyre place; they repair for £15 - no quibbles, no pushing a new tyre at us.

It makes you wonder how much sales spiel goes on.

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

Ggggrrrrrree.


We should have been cracking a long in the attic and still not in there. The joists in our attic are not convenient distances (the insulation is 400mm or 200mm widths and our joists are a foot apart, lol.)

This is pretty normal and would be why you have those sizes (making 2 rolls of 300mm)

Think the best tool for the job was a normal (long) wood saw.

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

MSE style win today.

DW had a screw in her tyre. I get drafted in when she notices it's flat and she has driven back on it.

Typical response from the local tyre centre :- The wall is damaged and a new one is a couple of hundred quid. No, it can't be repaired.

So we don't accept this advice; pop to a different tyre place; they repair for £15 - no quibbles, no pushing a new tyre at us.

It makes you wonder how much sales spiel goes on.

I was led to believe that a side wall repair was illegal ... and the reason for this might be that with the side wall compromised the tyre might not have the strength to support the car.