Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, that was the end of the tax year - and a quick tot up shows gross just under £10k (inc employment).

Definitely need to improve that this year (er... week, month, etc).

9:18, income today is 1p so far.

I reckon on average you put in at least 30 hours/week and should be claiming tax credits - this is probably the last year before UC which will also assess your assets so put a claim in now.

I think even I would struggle to keep a white sofa clean but with the kids as well :eek: Our sofas are black and wipeable except for 1 that has a throw.

I have a horrible cold and slight temperature but feel I have had enough days of sick in the last few months so have struggled in. Can't wait till 11.15 when I can take soem more paracetemol.

Did NDG say she just finished a big (high profile?!) trial and all 3 defendants were found guilty :eek:

bugslet

fc123 wrote: »

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

IIRC, she had a stroke following a tummy tuck operation - she used to be quite a bit larger than she is now.

In terms of building up the business, she's as hard as nails and could sell ice to Eskimos.

lostinrates

Ok, I know this sounds odd, but I quite like the way she looks. I am not arguing she is pretty, but she is individual. In trying to look polished and belying her hard character her heavy makeup etc reveals her insecurity about herself and her desire to remain feminine in what i presume to be a fairly male heavy business (is it bugs let? Or is that a misconception?).

I like that she looks like her (even though 'her' is someone who has had work done) and that she's flawed.

PasturesNew

Devey made her fortune launching Pall-Ex, a palletised freight network. Launched in 1996, Pall-Ex was the third palletised goods distribution network to be launched in the UK. It was based on the well-established hub and spoke express parcels distribution model - this form of pallet network was pioneered by Palletline in 1992. Pall-Ex handles around 10,000 palletised consignments through its Leicestershire hub each day and has annual revenues of approximately £75 million

Source: Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Devey

She was in the RAF - wonder if she was in logistics, so knew about "moving stuff around"

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you've got a local photocopying shop, it's worthwhile going in there and seeing if they've got/will save the identical type of boxes (with lids) for A3 paper. I had some of those years ago and they're a brilliant size.

And/or an architect's office as they're bound to photocopy plans onto A3 for people I bet.

Excellent suggestion. Actually I can get A3 ones from school too, just not as often. And if I do bring them home then DD tends to make craft projects out of them. So I'm waiting until the shelves are up before getting any of those.

michaels wrote: »

I reckon on average you put in at least 30 hours/week and should be claiming tax credits - this is probably the last year before UC which will also assess your assets so put a claim in now.

Ah, but would PN be willing to do all the form-filling that would be necessary to get TCs??

michaels wrote: »

I think even I would struggle to keep a white sofa clean but with the kids as well :eek: Our sofas are black and wipeable except for 1 that has a throw.

I'm sure somebody is on record as having said "Don't have white furniture and reproduce". Frankly, while DD would pose far more of a risk to white furniture than most other human beings on the planet, I myself would not be able to keep a white sofa clean even if childless.

michaels wrote: »

I have a horrible cold and slight temperature but feel I have had enough days of sick in the last few months so have struggled in. Can't wait till 11.15 when I can take soem more paracetemol.

Hope things improve soon. I am still just about fending mine off, but it's still looming.

michaels wrote: »

Did NDG say she just finished a big (high profile?!) trial and all 3 defendants were found guilty :eek:

Ah, but NDG's defendants only got "nearly a decade". She also said it was already finished by 29th March.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Sadly, Lydia, we came second in the trial. I was acting for the First Defendant, and all 3 were potted. They got nearly a decade inside, too.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

Did NDG say she just finished a big (high profile?!) trial and all 3 defendants were found guilty :eek:

I did indeed. FOrtunately, it was in Harrow, not Derbyshire. And it was immigration-related, no fires.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Respect. Making curtains at all is quite beyond me, but curtains that size are amazing. Well done you.


The toys and games and things are mostly going to go in a series of uniformly sized cardboard boxes that I got for free from school.

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So she should be able to create a cheerful variety, and if we decide we need a few more we can just get some tester pots. So it will have hardly cost anything, and I won't mind replacing the boxes if the kids grow out of wanting lots of bright colours of boxes as they get a bit older.

Making curtains that size requires only 3 things - firstly, the "how bloody much?!" shock of finding out what they would cost. Secondly, stubborness. Thirdly, arrogance. Sorted!

Your DD's idea about painting the boxes sounds a great one, more power to her elbow.

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, I know this sounds odd, but I quite like the way she looks. I am not arguing she is pretty, but she is individual. In trying to look polished and belying her hard character her heavy makeup etc reveals her insecurity about herself and her desire to remain feminine in what i presume to be a fairly male heavy business (is it bugs let? Or is that a misconception?).

I like that she looks like her (even though 'her' is someone who has had work done) and that she's flawed.

Before setting up Pallex, she worked for TNT and that's where she developed the idea of applying parcel principles to palletised freight.

Is it male dominated, very much so. There are periodic initiatives to get more women into freight/logistics whatever you want to call it. In terms of the operations side, I don't see why it wouldn't attract more women, certainly in the larger firms. On the driving side, it's nowhere near as hard as it was say 40 years ago and despite the occasional press scare stories, most companies run legal and with decently maintained trucks. But, it's still a long hours job, the money is appalling frankly when you consider the hassle and stress, and then you get to kip in a layby at the end of your 15 hour day.

What I will say, is at the driving end of the business, as long as you can drive and do the job, it's a really unsexist business. You get more sexism from white collar, however subtle, than you do truck drivers and warehouse people.

michaels

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I did indeed. FOrtunately, it was in Harrow, not Derbyshire. And it was immigration-related, no fires.

I don't envy you the work you have to do but I really respect the lawyers you manage to defend some of the, for want of a PC term, 'low life' who are still owed a fair trial regardless of what they have doen.

We have the plastic boxes - worked fine when we first sorted everything in to related boxes but now we just have random boxes plus loads of stuff next to, between and on top of boxes and lack the motivation to sort it out. The kids are doing a lot of Wii this holiday although enjoyment is reduced because they have broken one controller and are unalbe to find a second (it is probably in or next to one of the boxes) leaving only one controller between the three of them.

lostinrates

Dh decided to chase the complaints people today. They have had a response from the company that installed it and have been sitting on it grrrrrrrr. They said now they get a report written on the reports submitted, then some one will come to inspect. Dh asked if we could move this a long in anyways and they said if we got the independent report written it would help. Great, we are on to that, the independent expert is going to do it. What's annoying is, we asked this almost three weeks ago and were told nothing. They could have had that report by now.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

That's interesting, GDB. Do you find that the thermostat works well enough to keep the shower at a comfortable temperature regardless of what the rest of the family are doing with water elsewhere in the house?

The temperature does change a bit if DW runs the hand basin in the bathroom, say, but the thermostatic valve stops it going icy-cold or scalding-hot. I expect that the quality of the valve makes a big difference here. What is noticeable is a big difference in the flow rate if, for example, DW suddenly runs loads of hot water in the basin.

It's hard to correlate what's going on in the rest of the house, so I don't know how much difference that makes, but I expect it is similar.