Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

vivatifosi

CK, if I put the app on my phone and another app on my tablet, does that mean I get 40 votes or does it IP track?

neverdespairgirl

Nikkster wrote: »

The slightly more expensive one is share of freehold. The cheaper one has precious few details on the website, but isn't in a large block - its a listed terrace (which I'm sure would present its own problems) which I think may have been purpose built as flats as that is all I can see when I look up sold prices.

Edit: I doubt either are on the scale of the flats you've lived in ndg!

I don't think it's a scale thing, exactly. Our current flat is pretty large, about 1,400 sq feet, and our old one was 3 bed, 950 sq feet. But I never lived there alone - there were always 3 of us, and sometimes 4, living there.

Flats don't have to be nasty, or noisy, that was my point, really.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wish they'd had music when I went to school. Pre-10 I'd had some 80 year old fella give me piano lessons for a sandwich and 2/6d (12.5p). Then we moved and that was that. I was "quite good" if I do say so myself..... but it was all over.

Did you not do any music at school? Class music lessons, singing, recorders, etc?

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

CK, if I put the app on my phone and another app on my tablet, does that mean I get 40 votes or does it IP track?

I would have thought it could be you voting on your phone and OH on the tablet.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

CK, if I put the app on my phone and another app on my tablet, does that mean I get 40 votes or does it IP track?

You could connect your phone on 3g rather than wifi

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't think it's a scale thing, exactly. Our current flat is pretty large, about 1,400 sq feet, and our old one was 3 bed, 950 sq feet. But I never lived there alone - there were always 3 of us, and sometimes 4, living there.

Flats don't have to be nasty, or noisy, that was my point, really.

But .... you have probably spent a lot more on your flats than the cheap seats end of the market

Posh flats will be better. Cheap/shoddy flats are most likely to have been built poorly in the first place. Also, cheap/shoddy flats dwellers are more likely to have "young , noisy, idle scum" as neighbours - and a never-ending line of them as they move in/out every 6-12 months (or do a bunk).

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wish they'd had music when I went to school. Pre-10 I'd had some 80 year old fella give me piano lessons for a sandwich and 2/6d (12.5p). Then we moved and that was that. I was "quite good" if I do say so myself..... but it was all over.

Piano for dd1 is 15 quid for half an hour and that was one of the cheaper teachers. Other instruments you can do as group lessons at school which is cheaper.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Did you not do any music at school? Class music lessons, singing, recorders, etc?

At junior school I had a recorder. But, at secondary school there wasn't any music. It wasn't that I didn't do it, it wasn't available. Music was an after-school activity for those with instruments maybe.... but no lessons called Music/similar.

Singing, again, junior school we'd sing (just sing, not be taught to sing), then my first secondary school did singing (where you sung, but were not taught to sing) and I changed schools aged 13 to a school with no singing.

I do remember, being 11, and being "forced" to pick and sing something from a pamphlet. Some posh tosh .... I got told off for miming and was given a solo piece (I can still remember it now) so, I sang - and I thought it was OK.... teacher then forbade me to ever sing again

The Magic Flute it was.... my line, from memory, was: "... did some power, to help were mine .... some power to help were mine". that was enough to be sent packing and allowed to continue miming.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

CK, if I put the app on my phone and another app on my tablet, does that mean I get 40 votes or does it IP track?

Mr Bakker says it's per app, so that will mean per device.

The app tracks in a similar way to phone numbers.

CK

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Piano for dd1 is 15 quid for half an hour and that was one of the cheaper teachers. Other instruments you can do as group lessons at school which is cheaper.

I just used the measuringworth website to calculate my 2/6d and it is now worth:
£1.60 using the retail price index
£3.05 using average earnings

He was just an old fella, happy to cycle over and work for half a crown and a sandwich. There were no grades or anything, it wasn't in that system, he just taught me to play.... which is how things used to work in this country. People would pay people an affordable amount to do stuff... without needing a degree, insurance, qualifications etc

But then we moved, my dad bought our house - and so money was more scarce too.