Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

Advice from my betters pleased,

We saw this garden furniture but have never bought garden furniture before. It's the right size and I think its pretty, but would it last well? Would it have to be brought in over winter?

http://store.whitehallgardencentre.co.uk/store/product/282402/Camelot-Heritage-Tea-for-Four-Set/

PasturesNew

It's made of steel - I'd expect that to rust. Doesn't look very comfy.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's made of steel - I'd expect that to rust. Doesn't look very comfy.

It's comfortable, we tried it but yeah, durability is my concern. It's not for lounging or long lunches) that will be another part of the garden, but for mornings for just us, or quick lunches. It's for the small garden at the north of our kitchen.....somewhere that should smell great, ( its going to be a herb garden) and I just want somewhere small to sit in it.

GDB2222

The finish is very important for steel. I assume that it must have been galvanized or at least painted. Otherwise it would be rusty within days, and it would be returnable under SOGA as unfit for purpose as garden furniture. Why don't you ask the garden centre what's been done to protect it?

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

No, never to Delhi, though I would love to go. Family background there of course and one of my godparents is Anglo Indian and raves about Delhi as it once was.....I'd love to go. Nearest I have got to India that I can recall atm is Pakistan.

I don't think eight is too young at all for 'that kind of place'. In fact, I think it can be formative to his advantage, But then I would!:)

I'd take advantage of the opportunity. We're limited in places we can visit by DS's dislike of the unfamiliar.

America, Europe have been possible but anywhere else would be stressful, never mind the cost!

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

And the other is removing the dust covers.:D

Lemonjelly,

Imagine, the girl of your dreams knocks on your door and asks you to take a bath with her and a book......would you say no?

If the girl of my dreams did that, I'd be too much of a jibbering wreck to complain!:o

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

If the girl of my dreams did that, I'd be too much of a jibbering wreck to complain!:o

Exactly.

You are sweet lj.

SingleSue

Yesterday was spent rushing around...blooming James and his student finance application.

We did the online stuff a while ago and he was then supposed to be sorting everything else out, I did keep reminding him. Well yesterday, I get a phone call from James asking me to get the cover letter out of his bag and send it off, seemed easy enough until I read what needed to go with it.

He doesn't have a current passport, so they needed his birth certificate (no problem, that was all ready) and a declaration..and there was the problem, he hadn't seen that bit! Or the bit about needing a copy of my decree absolute.

So cue lots of rushing around (for me as he was at work), trying to get things printed off (we don't have a printer that works), finding my decree absolute which had been randomly chucked in disgust somewhere in the black hole which is the loft, finding someone of the correct status and who holds a current passport and then getting it all sent off in time for last nights post.

The finding of the documents were not such a big problem, amazingly I found my decree absolute, something which had been lost for some time (well since it came through) and I had looked for before with no luck but it was finding someone to sign the damn declaration. We knew lots who were of the correct status but who didn't have an unexpired passport, or ones who had current passports but because they were retired were no good and James was reticent about calling one of his teachers...who was also a friend of mine from years back and had known James not just through school but as one of his son's playmates when they were small.

In the end, he phone the teacher, I then had to make a mad dash up to his house to get him to sign it and then dash to the post office.

I was absolutely shattered in the end, run ragged and very annoyed at James...and didn't he know it!

lostinrates

Yesterday a chum from green fingered sent me flowers, today someone else has, I could get used to daily flower deliveries!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've had three lots of flowers in my life:
1] In 1975, the fat/desperate/sweaty boy from a club I belonged to sent a proper bouquet for Valentine's Day.
2] In 1997 a female boss picked some daffs from her garden for me.
3] In 2013 a NP gave me some daffs when we met up



So they're getting more frequent

I once had a flower delivery and the card had about a bakery's dozen men's names on the card. You can imagine how the delivering florist looked at me :eek::rotfl: