Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

That brick wall looks...um....interesting.

Two of the bricks near the top look like they are not attached to their neighbours.

It's been prepped for repointing . Some of the bricks are later add ins for where small trusses would have rested on that wall.....it had a building coming out of it towards the camera in the past.

It doesn't look like a new brick wall, and that's something we are keen to maintain, we want it to look old, show its history but we do need it repointed

Edit: btw...if you think that one is 'interesting' some of the others would terrify you . We're trying to keep them looking interesting too.

zagubov

Just like a year ago. Some cretin's let off fireworks and I've got to walk the dog later, but he's demented!

I hope I haven't got an evening of this. He's barking himself hoarse and we've got to live with it!:mad:

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Just like a year ago. Some cretin's let off fireworks and I've got to walk the dog later, but he's demented!

I hope I haven't got an evening of this. He's barking himself hoarse and we've got to live with it!:mad:

Oh no. Poor dog, and poor you and neighbours.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

It's been prepped for repointing . Some of the bricks are later add ins for where small trusses would have rested on that wall.....it had a building coming out of it towards the camera in the past.

It doesn't look like a new brick wall, and that's something we are keen to maintain, we want it to look old, show its history but we do need it repointed

Edit: btw...if you think that one is 'interesting' some of the others would terrify you . We're trying to keep them looking interesting too.

Is that lime mortar in the picture?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is that lime mortar in the picture?

There was a mixture of mortars, its being repointed solely with lime mortar. Tbh, cannot remember what's there now, but it looks pale, doesn't it?

tomterm8

I've been re-reading the early Terry Pratchett books. It's strange reading books you loved as a kid.

Edit: that paint colour looks good, but I think grey trim will look better. Have you used a lime render? Looks more like normal plaster.

misskool

so if you have hayfever, and you take your normal antihistamine (the drowsy kind) but your husband cuts the grass and you're still sneezing, do you double up and use both kinds?

(normally cetirizine but also have loratidine, they work on slightly different pathways)

tomterm8

You get hubbie to water the lawn with a sprinkler to try to get some of the grass out of the air...

Hayfever is a nightmare at the moment: I think you need to talk to pharmacy though bedfore doubling down because they need to check it against all your medicines.

lemonjelly

SingleSue wrote: »

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!

Tut tut...
I've spent the last 5 months trying to make people aware of this deadline. Naughty NP for pushing it!

If it makes you/son feel any better, the deadline applies more to the submitting the form. As a guideline, as long as ID arrives before late June, all will be ok.

Madness that the if you look at average figures nationally (& we're talking over 1 million people) that over 51% apply late, after the deadline!:eek:

Students, eh?:o

GDB2222 wrote: »

My daughter has come across a chap called Richard Fidler, which is inevitably shortened to !!!!!! Fidler. How can parents inflict this on their kids?

In the meantime, much schoolboy amusement for the rest of us, with just a smidgeon of guilt (but not too much).

Unfortunate choice of words given the point being made...:p

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I happened across two Turkish men when I was a pupil, called (I promise) Mustapha Kok and Mustapha Kunt.

Much better!:D

lemonjelly

Thinking that the warmer weather has enouraged the first batch of toms to get a move on. Re-potted 9 of them which had sprouted today. 2nd lot are still too small, so I'll leave them another couple of weeks.
Tried to get some of the greenhouse stuff out for a while in the sun today.
Recieved some chillis through the post earlier in the week. Planted them straight away. I'm not keen, but I'm sure I'll find a taker!

When do I fold over the onion leaves to encourage them to bulk up? I only grow onions to keet the carrot fly at bay anyway, so have no idea!

Hoping next weekend will see me eating the first lettuce of the year!

Alas, still no signs of movement on the ginger front though...