Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

tomterm8

You shouldn't do that yet, it doesn't help them bulk up, it helps them ripen. Wait until they start to do it themselves. Most onions still have a lot of growing to do at this stage..

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

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)

Got a dandelion prairie in our backyard. Gotta mow that lawn soon.

Nikkster hope you're not prone to hay fever - I wasn't till I lived in your neck of the woods. It was all the yellow fields of rapeseed.

I heard that people who live in the countryside are less prone to it (don't know if that's true) but a townie like me was a sitting duck for getting it.

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

Got a dandelion prairie in our backyard. Gotta mow that lawn soon.

Nikkster hope you're not prone to hay fever - I wasn't till I lived in your neck of the woods. It was all the yellow fields of rapeseed.

I heard that people who live in the countryside are less prone to it (don't know if that's true) but a townie like me was a sitting duck for getting it.

There are plenty of yellow fields in Shakeshire. Everyone else in my family gets fairly bad hayfever, but I seem to have been lucky so far.
Rapeseed makes my eyes feel a bit funny, and will coax a sneeze or two (as do lilies), but that's about it...

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

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.

No, it's normal render. The original bit was also sold as lime render but is normal. ( hence matching). In the long, long, long term we might re render the main building. At that time we'll make a decision about what is best for the house. Tbh, the render is the smallest of our concerns, as I plan to grow lots over the house anyway.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Mine wouldn't look like the one in the pic. It would run more or less the length of the back wall, slightly smaller on either side so as not to build up to my neighbours' plot lines. I don't need to worry about sunlight into my living room as that is dual aspect. Also, you would have plasterboard into the eaves so it wouldn't look dark.

I really don't want a conservatory, it would not be practical for my requirements and would also mean my living room would be even hotter than it is - it is south facing. Equally, there is a ceiling price for houses here and if I incur the cost of building a "proper" extension rather than a conservatory I may not recoup all of the build cost.

I'm not that keen on the solution shown in the picture, I'd prefer the kind of shingles on a roll that they have in Florida. I'm in the seeing what's available phase at the moment. Sadly, there isn't a lot. Lir is right, it's more like an orangerie that I'd want, but due to constraints on the ceiling price I wouldn't recoup the full build cost.

The whole have a ceiling on a conservatory is a fairly new concept that has taken off in the last couple of years. I think more solutions will come to the market if I hold off.

Can you post a link to a pic of the sort of thing you have in mind? You've obviously seen such things in other countries, so there must be pics out there. I'm still not convinced that what I'm imagining from your descriptions is accurate. But then I'm generally useless at picturing something from a description.

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:

Avatar dog was terrified of fireworks. He used to try to hide from them - either by trying to get round the back of the TV (causing havok with the cables) or by trying to dig a hole in the floor (usually the bathroom floor) and only succeeding in wrecking the carpet.

zagubov wrote: »

Got a dandelion prairie in our backyard. Gotta mow that lawn soon.

Nikkster hope you're not prone to hay fever - I wasn't till I lived in your neck of the woods. It was all the yellow fields of rapeseed.

I heard that people who live in the countryside are less prone to it (don't know if that's true) but a townie like me was a sitting duck for getting it.

Interesting. I'm fine with rapeseed. I don't know what pollen it is that I react to - probably some kinds of tree, I think. It always gets worse in the evening for me.

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

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:

!:D

The current teenage cohort don't seem to have any sense of urgency at all.

When I used to have my exams I'd get there one/two hours early and walk to the park and back.

Maybe modular exams are making them blase about being there promptly and on the right day.


I wonder how many of them would have gone down with the Titanic once the life boats were filled with the punctual types!

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

No, it's normal render. The original bit was also sold as lime render but is normal. ( hence matching). In the long, long, long term we might re render the main building. At that time we'll make a decision about what is best for the house. Tbh, the render is the smallest of our concerns, as I plan to grow lots over the house anyway.

The only concern is that some old buildings need a lime render + lime wash to be able to breathe, otherwise they can get damp problems, but tbh it doesn't look like that's the case for you judging by the brickwork...

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

The only concern is that some old buildings need a lime render + lime wash to be able to breathe, otherwise they can get damp problems, but tbh it doesn't look like that's the case for you judging by the brickwork...

Rofl.

Ours should be lime, I am sure. It's been pretty well ventilated, what with cracks I could fit my ATM and dodgy windows, shifted tiles etc etc. as we make it less breathable I think it might become more of an issue. The main reason I think we might be forced to re render in lime is the softer more flexible aspect. We have a fair bit of crazing in this render and while I find it beautiful it certainly doesn't help keep moisture out, probably makes it more breathable.

That's are the only rendered walls though.


The only damp problems we have he have quite ligical causes ( flashing issues, broken pipe undeground, very, very dodgy bathroom leaking every where....that one is stil on the too resolve list thanks to these stupid delays.

GDB2222

Handkerchief Tree - you probably think it's a joke, like spaghetti trees, but handkerchief trees are for real. There's one at Kenwood House, and it's particularly magnificent this year. It must be something to do with the weather. Everything has been delayed a month, but when it arrives it's particularly magnificent. here's a generic photo:

GDB2222

The rhododendrons are out in force this year, too. Even our bedraggled specimen struggling to survive in clay soil, is not looking too awful right now.