Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

silvercar

I have a box of my first books, nursery rhymes and the like. One or two even have my scribbles on them!!!

Don't know what happened to my childhood books, probably given to my sister. When my parents moved from the family home to a smaller house we were told to take what we want and everything else got binned.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

I have lots of mine. I wouldn't let mum get rid of my Roald Dahl or Meg and Mog collections

Dh has quite a few Roald dahl books too.

I like having them. Girlfriends who come to visit when a particular bos is open or books out squeal at an old favourite and borrow it. Visiting toddler knows where 'his' books are ( on a bottom shelf so he can get them alone) in my house.

We have got some really ugly plastic shelving but its letting us get boxes out of the way, and some unpacked. I feel really hesitant about doing anything with the house ATM until this heating thing is sorted out. Don't want to spend money we might need for a more expensive solution in cases like the study, and other things I just don't want to do and then have to undo for things to be changed...like painting or flooring where the pipe runs are.

(Shouldn't need changing but I have a feeling if we don't allow for it they will need doinga,)

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I am baking 'le cake' ( a Comte, ham and olive dense little loaf) and making a steak salad.

It's relatively posh nosh with steak , and we have a bottle of Cabernet merlot too.

I've got a cake (well two actually) in the oven.
There is a competition via work to win a kitchenaid - and one of the recipies allowed me to use up lots of bits and bobs... like some apples my mum sent back with me last time I went home. And the recipe included creme fraiche - I had the end of a pot of natural yogurt so that has gone in instead. The only thing I had to buy was some margarine.
I followed the recipe exactly, and had the right size cake tin, but the mix filled two (lucky I bought a double set). Not quite sure how that happened!

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh has quite a few Ronald dahl books too.

I like having them. Girlfriends who come to visit when a particular bos is open or books out squeal at an old favourite and borrow it. Visiting toddler knows where 'his' books are ( on a bottom shelf so he can get them alone) in my house.

We have got some really ugly plastic shelving but its letting us get boxes out of the way, and some unpacked. I feel really hesitant about doing anything with the house ATM until this heating thing is sorted out. Don't want to spend money we might need for a more expensive solution in cases like the study, and other things I just don't want to do and then have to undo for things to be changed...like painting or flooring where the pipe runs are.

(Shouldn't need changing but I have a feeling if we don't allow for it they will need doinga,)

I think one of our other favourite books was the Jolly Postman (?) which had lots of letters that folded out and came out of envelopes etc. I think I might have won that for something.

I think its sensible to allow for changing, if you don't it'll pretty much guarantee you should have!

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I have a box of my first books, nursery rhymes and the like. One or two even have my scribbles on them!!!

Don't know what happened to my childhood books, probably given to my sister. When my parents moved from the family home to a smaller house we were told to take what we want and everything else got binned.

I'm glad you have some of your early art work

Books are one of the things we had in storage that we don't begrudge, Its just trying to find somewhere to put them all!

Nikkster

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Here are the rules, and we'll be joining in backstage!

I'm luckily having nothing to do with live editing/cameras this year!

CK

Think I'll be giving the drinking game a miss, but I've got some wine and snacks ready for my Eurovision party for one

I'll be keeping an eye out for you, CK - make sure you give the NP a big wave if the camera comes anywhere near you

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We're trying to sort some boxes out in the study this evening and it occurs to me to ask how many books people have from their childhoods still?

I am wondering if we have an unnatural amount. Dh has a whole box of kids books from the eighties about aviation, for example. I have equal numbers of girly equivalents...like pony stories.

None. Most disappeared over the years really - probably given away when the parents moved over 300 miles + general sort outs etc + not having any particularly spectacular books + having 2-3 major culls in my life (last one 6 years ago) where I got rid of just about everything I owned to start again.

Kids' books .... they mostly went in the mid 80s.

It takes time/space/cost to keep books and lugging them about etc. There comes a time when there's no room/money to keep doing that.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Think I'll be giving the drinking game a miss, but I've got some wine and snacks ready for my Eurovision party for one

I'll be keeping an eye out for you, CK - make sure you give the NP a big wave if the camera comes anywhere near you

We're knackered (my right knee has not liked today and is HUGELY swollen so I want to get it up and resting soon. So because don't think there is much on the tv tonight that's cheerful we might watch too for the giggle.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

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It takes time/space/cost to keep books and lugging them about etc. There comes a time when there's no room/money to keep doing that.

This is true.

My parents moved a lot and of course, lots of my stuff went in storage from their place in my early twenties. I am amazed the things I still have that considered. .

I just found a pop up Cinderella book.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am always drawn towards those £15 pine slat shelves. Had a few of those over the years and they're easy to find/buy and even I have managed to put them together myself. They can also be taken apart/transported by some people (if you've a van, or an electric screwdriver).

I keep thinking of getting 2-3 sets here/now to try to stack my stuff/boxes higher.

£13 http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/00111994/

They are nice. We have one of something very similar to them.

The plastic shelves were free to us though, so a sensible reuse. Otherwise it would have been MUCH more attractive to get something like those.