Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

That thing many office workers never see....


Aren't many of us supposed to be deficient nowadays?

One of the few (perhaps only) advantages of being very, very pale-skinned, like I am. Easy absorbtion of lots of sunlight (-:

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

That thing many office workers never see....

That's one of my major issues with "getting a job". As an office-type of worker, I've spent my life never seeing the sun .... being in an office, knowing it's out there, and always missing it as it's cooled down by the time it's home time. Then, at weekends, it rains ....

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Doesn't sunlight lead to your body producing vitamin D all on its own?

Yes - apparently 90% of the country doesn't get enough UVB for six months of the year and we're all going to get rickets. I suppose I could go on a sunbed instead but it seems easier to swallow some oil.

@fc you can get it from diet but it just isn't in many foods so you have to take dietary supplements get your levels up.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Gorgeous! We did our London bathroom in eat dr nil and skate. It's a beautiful combination, classic and calming and delicious in modern materials.


I just cannot utter about my building ATM. My soul might expire:o

I hope your sould stays intact

Gotta love the colour tones of ''eat dr nil and skate'':rotfl::rotfl:

We are stressing a bit as we have costed up the next stage of the work including a kitchen and looks to be a further 40k.

Then there is a further 20k of ''nice things that we can live without for a while''....like flooring, glass balustrade outside, glas banister thingy inside and an ensuite fitted upstairs etc. We'll build it to 1st fix.
Of course we also have the small snag of a beach house that is uninhabitable also needing 40k.

Going through the suns this week we can 'do' 30k build then 10k for the kitchen in Oct. Then we have to stop and makadamoremuneh

fc123

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Yes - apparently 90% of the country doesn't get enough UVB for six months of the year and we're all going to get rickets. I suppose I could go on a sunbed instead but it seems easier to swallow some oil.

@fc you can get it from diet but it just isn't in many foods so you have to take dietary supplements get your levels up.

Wrinkles or Rickets...mmm it's a hard one.
I wonder if we get less from food due to the soil (like magnesium is no longer in soil). It's the fault of Tesco et al.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

One of the few (perhaps only) advantages of being very, very pale-skinned, like I am. Easy absorbtion of lots of sunlight (-:

I was extremely pale, until a clue of weeks ago. I wear it well, I rarely look 'that' pale. But I am. I used to tan easily and go a really nice colour too. A clue of weeks ago, after trying to avoid sun for years I have learnt I go a nice colour still, but it takes a lot longer and I get there via pink.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

time to get a referral for a specialist then

The secretary of the specialist I am seeing on Monday called today to tell me my gp had failed to send or fax the referral. I apologised a d the secretary laughed and said, its not your fault...I just have to tell you before I call THEM and sort it out.

neverdespairgirl

I don't really tan at all. The bits of me that get the most sun, such as my hands, go a very pale beige, and the rest of me just gets pink with freckles.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't really tan at all. The bits of me that get the most sun, such as my hands, go a very pale beige, and the rest of me just gets pink with freckles.

I like freckles, I get some, and they are not why I started fearing the sun. Wrinkles are a little. But mainly age spots. My mother has really bad age spots and she had less childhood sun damage than I have had. Bear in mind I am pale pale and spend much of my young childhood looking like one of Michaels kids. Truth......I (white in so far as we know) was in an all black production of edited..a well known musical...I'm sure this stage version is not goolable but pays to be careful.:

neverdespairgirl

I think I've very, very little sun damage to my skin, because my mother was always very careful with us all as children, and I've carried the habit on. My mother also looks quite a bit younger than her age, with very little in the way of wrinkles or sun spots, so I'm hoping I've inherited those genes.

Because my sisters are outside so much more, with the nags, they probably have more to worry about in a few decades' time than I do.

I get my hair colour from my mother and her mother, as do my sisters and brother (we've all pretty much the same hair colour) but I have my Dad's red-head skin, and my sisters and brother have my mother's slightly less pale skin, the fair-haired sort.