Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

I hate bidets, though have to say, now everything is so cold a tart's wash with a bidet would be nicer than braving the horrid shower or a cold strip wash at the sink.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I hate bidets, though have to say, now everything is so cold a tart's wash with a bidet would be nicer than braving the horrid shower or a cold strip wash at the sink.

I saw a bidet once, in a building - there was a group of us and somebody found it and we all looked and giggled. I was about 14. None of us knew how to use it and we were far too well-behaved to start trying to make it work.

I've never worked out how they worked, but I did see a diagram on the Internet and by the looks of that you use them by facing the wall? All sounds very precarious and tricky if you ask me.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Naa, the posh alert is michaels lights telling you the temperature of the water.

With all due sniggers inserted.... I think that sounds a bit chavvy

silvercar wrote: »

Anyone still have a bidet? Latest thing is a "muslim shower". We have neither.

I never shower muslims.

lostinrates

I like the idea of the lights for temperatures if you live with children. We considered it for the downstairs loo tap for the same reason....some taps are hard to tell without sticking your hands underneath.

PasturesNew

Watching this The Intern programme (Channel 4+1). TO test if these young people are management material for a hotel.

I'd fail big time. They set the youngsters up in various nightmare scenarios that they have to manage.

One had to take 3 dogs for a walk and was told one was OK off the lead, so she let him off and he was an actor/homing dog and legged it. She walked round the park asking if anybody'd seen it - I'd have not known what to do.

Another one had a £110k car to park, then the set up was 30 minutes later when he had to go and get it, it was being towed away. I'd have been lost on that too.

I wonder if these youngsters have ever been in a hotel before, a posh one like that (it's got a proper bloke in a hat outside) .... because I certainly haven't and have no idea about what happens in hotels or what staff are supposed to do in them.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I like the idea of the lights for temperatures if you live with children. We considered it for the downstairs loo tap for the same reason....some taps are hard to tell without sticking your hands underneath.

But, as my parents would have said: "You won't do that again will you..."

PasturesNew

Ooh The Intern next week is one for FC123 - they are doing it in High Fashion.

misskool

i just finished a knitting project and wanted to start another but the wool i like is so expensive! it would have been cheaper to buy a jumper

neverdespairgirl

fc123 wrote: »

NDG, did you finish all your renovations on the place you bought?

Yes, most of it before we moved there in Dec 2011.

New floors throughout, every inch of the floors needed replacing. We went for oak floorboards in the bedrooms, living room and studies, and slate in the downstairs hall, bathrooms and kitchen.

New kitchen (the old one was cheap as chips in about 1990, and revolting) which is really nice.

Partition walls upstairs, which divided one massive upstairs room into a semi-open plan living room / kitchen, and two tiny studies.

New plastering on the upstairs ceilings, and most of the downstairs ones.

New bath, shower, loos and sinks.

Everywhere needed painting and so forth, obviously, too.

But we knew all that when we bought it, and we could only afford it in the first place because people in central London don't, apparently, want to have to anything to their new pads apart from move in with their spare pants and toothbrush.

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think my problem is working out where the beginning is ..... although I think I've worked that bit out. Started "at the beginning" today, which involved me getting distracted (by doing things methodically and correctly, which is dead slow) .... and ended up with me publishing a quickie article (using photos I'd just taken, which ended up taking an hour to transfer from the camera to the laptop, from the laptop to dropbox, from dropbox to the PC, to crop/cut in Paint and upload one image). I did have a card reader for the PC, but it's mislaid in all these moves ... it'll turn up soon.

The ability to quickly take/use photos is one of my major reasons for wanting a posh phone.

You'll do it. make some space, get organised and do the 1st one, your 'sample'. Time it to give yourself a rough costing. Then make a further 2 the same....you'll get quicker then you have your real costing.

Then go onto design no2 and so on.

If you get an iphone you can upload onto instagram.....register your brand on there .......It links to FB i think now.

Good photography is impt and outside pics are the best as the natural light won't distort colours too much.
Use microsoft picture editer or Picasa to edit..much quicker too.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ooh The Intern next week is one for FC123 - they are doing it in High Fashion.

oooh I am recording this for later but Hilary Dervay annoys me a little bit (just in a shallow superficial way).