Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

fc123

Nikkster wrote: »

That may well be true (not that I'm saying it is), but you are definitely a very Nice Person.

Sorry to hear that you may have another difficult decision to make.

seconded ....

lostinrates wrote: »

So, my eye is almost back to normal, but now my skin is going bananas. It's all dry and cracked, all over my face. My mother thinks its because I am too cold.
. If only she weren't so perky it would be an easier decision.

She could be right...like a bit of a chilblain?

Do you want me to send you some Cowshed stuff?.....it's amazing for dry skin and is paraben free. Let me know and I 'll pick some up from Carnaby next time I am up there.
Sorry to hear about old girl...

Question for Gen about the dangerous animals in Aus.....your weekend sounded great but I would be really fretty about death spiders and snakes...like ones that can actually kill you with one nip. What is the death rate pa from bites and stuff? Is it more than road deaths for example? Are they a big cause of death?

......and us? Well we picked the wrong week to dig out the ground floor of our house .....but it was booked so we did it.

No heating for the week, just big clods of dug up earth as a floor and we had to 'walk the plank' to get anywhere....and the dust...man the dust
We voted to bin the kitchen ( we won't get a new one for a while as it's going in the new back extension) so living without any kitchen at all was hard too.....but we have built a 'camping' style one now with a swishy halogen oven thing and the old sink propped up on planks.

One cat got the hang of plank walking but Ginger didn't so the under layer of concrete has cat paw prints in it.

We also discovered a cracked soil pipe under the floor so our kitchen was being held up with compacted poo....and OH had to dig it out....but we now have replaced the drains, all the CH pipes and the floor is now safe.

No loo for 48 hours was hardest bit ...along with cold.

DD and I coped by going to work @ 7.30am and coming home @ 8.30pm. I think OH used a carrier bag .....


The builder is now in Barbados for a week but we have a criss cross of heating pipes all along the floors (so walking in our house it is a bit like playing hopscotch) but it's soooo warm....and next week is putting the rest of the layers down.



I went to Hoxton today after an appt in W1 and bought a really nice bed that was one I had chosen but it went on 50% off until midnight tonight so would have been rude not too really ......


Oh and the survey for Margate is far worse than we thought as there seems to be worm in the roof ....going to have to chat with the owner about a further reduction I think but I'll book a full timber report.

lostinrates

Omg......fc123, does your oh and his carrier bag ever visit a library in herts?

Viva....hope you are reading!!!

michaels

fc123 wrote: »

......and us? Well we picked the wrong week to dig out the ground floor of our house .....but it was booked so we did it.

No heating for the week, just big clods of dug up earth as a floor and we had to 'walk the plank' to get anywhere....and the dust...man the dust
We voted to bin the kitchen ( we won't get a new one for a while as it's going in the new back extension) so living without any kitchen at all was hard too.....but we have built a 'camping' style one now with a swishy halogen oven thing and the old sink propped up on planks.

One cat got the hang of plank walking but Ginger didn't so the under layer of concrete has cat paw prints in it.

We also discovered a cracked soil pipe under the floor so our kitchen was being held up with compacted poo....and OH had to dig it out....but we now have replaced the drains, all the CH pipes and the floor is now safe.

No loo for 48 hours was hardest bit ...along with cold.

DD and I coped by going to work @ 7.30am and coming home @ 8.30pm. I think OH used a carrier bag .....


The builder is now in Barbados for a week but we have a criss cross of heating pipes all along the floors (so walking in our house it is a bit like playing hopscotch) but it's soooo warm....and next week is putting the rest of the layers down.



I went to Hoxton today after an appt in W1 and bought a really nice bed that was one I had chosen but it went on 50% off until midnight tonight so would have been rude not too really ......


Oh and the survey for Margate is far worse than we thought as there seems to be worm in the roof ....going to have to chat with the owner about a further reduction I think but I'll book a full timber report.

I don't think you have quite got the hang of this - during the worst bit of the building you are supposed to be in Barbados whilst the builder pushes on double quick....

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Omg......fc123, does your oh and his carrier bag ever visit a library in herts?

Viva....hope you are reading!!!

I've never said I work in Herts, though as you know I live here. I don't work in the same town as I live (beginning to think that this sounds like a logic puzzle). However at the library authority I work for, it is our number one customer that leaves us presents in carrier bags thankfully, and not our number two customer...

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I've never said I work in Herts, though as you know I live here. I don't work in the same town as I live (beginning to think that this sounds like a logic puzzle). However at the library authority I work for, it is our number one customer that leaves us presents in carrier bags thankfully, and not our number two customer...

Herts...greater herts,..it's all the same in nice people heartland

Still envying talent of going in a bag.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Omg......fc123, does your oh and his carrier bag ever visit a library in herts?

Viva....hope you are reading!!!

:rotfl:no.....and he put in in the skip under tons of rubble

michaels wrote: »

I don't think you have quite got the hang of this - during the worst bit of the building you are supposed to be in Barbados whilst the builder pushes on double quick....

I know I know...really we should have moved out but to where? + the cats, I can't leave the cats.
There wasn't meant to be this amount of work though....we just discovered that our foundations weren't made of proper hardcore (the lumps were too big) and our CH pipes needed upgrading and moving+ a gas pipe and so on + so on ....so it has turned from a simple 15k refurb to the front of our house into a total renovation job throughout half the ground floor.......and turned the house into a building site during the winter.

There were largish cavities in parts that they have now filled...but OH said if he had discovered the burial of neanderthal man under the house, all laid out with coins and artefacts he would have just poured concretre straight on top and not told anyone...what a terrible confession.


We had to have a week off as I had one of my good ideas...one of those ones that are good at the time.

We have high photography costs and don't mind paying for some of the work we have done (it's essential) but we need to expand the amount we do and do a seperate more informal style for instagram and things......but one of us needed to learn how to do it properly. We have a canon but none of us have got the hang of it and we want to do a bit more than point and click.

We voted OH so he is up @ Kings X at Central St Martins doing a beginners photography course for the week.....he has thoroughly enjoyed his 1st day and went to the British Museum to practise using aperture and photographing people/crowds/statues.
Tomo he is @ the Natiuonal Portrait gallery.

His tutor is a really interesting guy and there are only 3 on the course.

He wasn't allowed to go to art college when young as he had to leave school @ 16 to bring money into the house.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Herts...greater herts,..it's all the same in nice people heartland

Still envying talent of going in a bag.

:rotfl::rotfl:OH said it didn't require any particular talent...you put a bag (new swingbin one so no holes) over the toilet seat and go as normal.

zagubov

I hope your decision can be delayed and she gets more time.

lostinrates wrote: »

. Beware not to be on one of the 'canal road' cut throughs though.

A bonus of that area is you are near the minor injuries unit, and away from the worst side of the town and near the (flooding prone) way to the Historic city.. But it can be very busy there at peak times. . Fwiw, I have asked non resident parent NOT to buy in Trowbridge.

Crikey lir, you don't sugar-coat it much.

The only thing(s) you haven't mentioned are the regular earthquakes releasing the lions from the inadequately locked petting zoo/ the rusting condemned nuclear power plant subsiding into the plague pit/ sewage farm next to the town centre leper colony / annual serial killers convention every christmas.
A right old Royston Vasey by the sound of it.:eek:

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:OH said it didn't require any particular talent...you put a bag (new swingbin one so no holes) over the toilet seat and go as normal.

The guy in the library has no loo I think, and not sure viva has seen the donor, just the donation, so he/ she ( but presumably he) must be discrete. Honestly, it sounds like a talent to me.:D

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

The guy in the library has no loo I think, and not sure viva has seen the donor, just the donation, so he/ she ( but presumably he) must be discrete. Honestly, it sounds like a talent to me.:D

How bizarre...must be a psychological thing because if it was because he had no loo he would just out it in a bin, not take it to a public place and abandon it.