Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

misskool

Spirit wrote: »

Are there pictures?

and me too!

made it 4000 words today, might very well make it to 5000 tomorrow (but will have to pop to work in the afternoon). I feel like I should be doing housework things but there are other pressing matters..

Davesnave

vivatifosi wrote: »

Evening Mr Snave! Good to see you around these parts again!

They are parts I don't reach these days, because I can barely keep up with the smallholders, gardeners and daydreamers' thread.

However, I do sneak a look from time to time.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

I feel like I should be doing housework things

Don't believe what you read on other boards, it can be ignored. Nothing bad happens.

PasturesNew

Summer nom noms http://www.wearenotmartha.com/2013/07/berry-greek-cheesecake-pops/

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Nikkster,

Forget the house full stop. Time to worry about stuff when it completes. Even then, live in it buying just bare essentials. When you live in it you might feel differently about what you'd buy?.your taste and the house colliding ...

I love you so much for trying to crowd so much in your mind at once, but. You are only human, and you'll snap if you try too hard to do it all.

Well I'm actively trying to buy it, so I can't completely stop

I think I needed a day to rest anyway, the past few weeks have been tiring (work, not sleeping well with the heat, thinking about Chapter 1) - I wasn't going to go out anywhere and tv is rubbish too. I've done a bit of cleaning. There is not much else to distract with (I've eaten plenty).

I'm not worrying about getting anything - I really will only be getting the bare minimum. I'm not even planning on painting anything:
a) its not my house yet
b)I want to live in it for a bit and decide what I want to do/ what I can do/ what I think will suit
c) I have most of what I would need/ if my brother's house purchase was anything to go by, my mum will be desperate to provide me with things

I am still the same person who wouldn't let me mum tell her work colleagues I'd got a job until I'd been here for a week in case it went wrong

I've been constantly thinking about some aspect of immunology or another for work and thesis for too long. I needed a to give it a rest for a day.
Back on it bright and early tomorrow. Promise.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

In Devon the seats are not soft close so spent the first few days dropping it with a clang - still at least it shows I was putting it down....


I'm not sure which I would find more tricky - urinating with a random stranger in the bath not watching or bathing with a random stranger using the toilet. I have always assumed that in a relationship both could use the bathroom at the same time, a had a Japanese GF once who found this incredible (and no doubt incredibly disgusting)

In Japan I gather it's common (maybe a rule) to always have a separate toilet and bathroom in each house. I've never been impresed by the property shows where they talk about knocking them together into one.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I've never been impresed by the property shows where they talk about knocking them together into one.

That always annoys me - that they suggest it as if having separates is what nobody would want. Surely any family living in a house would need a separate loo.

The other one is when a room's got built in cupboards and they say "get rid of those, make more room" - and I think "Er ... but where's their stuff going to go? It'll take up the same amount of room if they have to faff about with wardrobes"

Davesnave

michaels wrote: »

Ours is beige (I know, but it was the best price). I also tend not to drive like a tourist .

Beige is good for around here, because that's roughly the colour of the mud on the roads. Believe me, if I could have found beige with one owner and low miles, I'd have had it in preference to blue....:(

I still drive like a tourist. The standard of road behaviour here is truly appalling, but everyone smiles and waves. They barge you into the hedge and wave with one hand while gripping the mobile with the other...and that's just the pensioners. I'm not kidding. During a half hour wait for a MoT last week, two of the three people I clocked driving and using mobiles were ladies considerably older than me.

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

I will save PN the trouble..POSH ALERT

Kinda.

1. Hunters Hill is posh.
2. The bowling club (aka The Bowlo) is not posh, not even in Hunters Hill.

20 bucks for steak and chips isn't posh.

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

Summer nom noms http://www.wearenotmartha.com/2013/07/berry-greek-cheesecake-pops/

greek cream cheese? is that like standard philly? i am tempted to do this