Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

I've got to admit, I've never understood why english people have don't have canopies and patio heaters.

I'd never have a patio heater - think of all that heat waste.... but a conservatory is on my "wants" list.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Diet not going well? <ducks>



Allegedly Viva coudl see a few snowflakes overnight tonight :eek:



We have a pathetic flymo that we got when our lawn was 25x13 in our old house, it isn't really up to our new garden that is about 20x the size and the plastic blades are always breaking or flying off but it refuses to break down completely so there is no justification to get a new one.

DW irons at least 3 hours a week - with an ordinary iron that would be 6+ hours. I offer to some of it but apparently she would rather do it and complain than risk anyone else do some - we tried getting someone in, they did about 1/10th of DWs 3 hour ouput in 3 hours and then DW did it all over cos it wasn't up to her standard.

Is!'t the obvious mse thing here to wonder if mrs m would consider ironing a few hours a week for some extra spends?

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I've got to admit, I've never understood why english people have don't have canopies and patio heaters.

Aren't patio heaters pretty poor environmentally?

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Viva, could you use an evening garden rather than a day time one?

That's when I'm at my most tasty to insects who seem to like feasting on my vegetarian blood:o. This is the whole root of why I wanted a sleepout. A room that I can open the front of, with fly screens, enjoy the breezes and so forth but without having to go out in the sun.

I'm really losing the battle against my garden this year. I am also having trouble with my hip. So finding a day that is a) overcast b) not raining c) where my hip isn't playing up is a nightmare. I have just looked out the window and know that I have about 4 hours work out there just to get it straight.

The docs don't know what is wrong with my hip, other than that I don't have arthritis. The pain comes and goes and when it comes it is sufficiently debilitating that I can't walk. I've had xrays and examinations and what have you but to no avail. I probably need an MRI at some point, but they are expensive so for the moment I'll have to make do with being prodded a bit more. It is very annoying.

silvercar

We have gardeners, because we know we would not be able to keep up with the garden. Virtually everyone on the road does too.

I occasionally do some planting of raised beds with pretty things like pansies. That's it.

We do have a striped lawn. Previous gardeners in previous homes used to trim the edge of the lawn. By the time we moved out the front lawn was 8 x8 rather than 10 x 10. The flower beds were wider and so the gardener was getting more hours.

DS2's friends had astro turf put down. Their hallway was always covered in sand. So less maintenance outdoors and more in.

I iron. Shirts mainly, OH moans about perfect collars, he knows where the iron is kept - supposedly.

Patio heaters - is that some attempt to heat the outdoors, doomed to failure.

michaels

Do you take a vitamin D supplement as you can't do sunshine?

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Aren't patio heaters pretty poor environmentally?

Probably; then again, everything else is, too, including posting on this forum.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's when I'm at my most tasty to insects who seem to like feasting on my vegetarian blood:o. This is the whole root of why I wanted a sleepout. A room that I can open the front of, with fly screens, enjoy the breezes and so forth but without having to go out in the sun.

I'm really losing the battle against my garden this year. I am also having trouble with my hip. So finding a day that is a) overcast b) not raining c) where my hip isn't playing up is a nightmare. I have just looked out the window and know that I have about 4 hours work out there just to get it straight.

The docs don't know what is wrong with my hip, other than that I don't have arthritis. The pain comes and goes and when it comes it is sufficiently debilitating that I can't walk. I've had xrays and examinations and what have you but to no avail. I probably need an MRI at some point, but they are expensive so for the moment I'll have to make do with being prodded a bit more. It is very annoying.

Have you had a dexa scan? Could it be osteoperosis?

silvercar

I get bitten by insects, a lot.

I also get bad hay fever. In the last year or two it sometimes disappears totally. One of the benefits of getting older.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Aren't patio heaters pretty poor environmentally?

Definitely.

You would never put the car heater on with the window open. Yet a patio heater is acceptable ??????>?





PS the cabriolet car that OH is looking at has a scarf heater to blow warm air on your neck when the roof is open.:cool: