Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

CKhalvashi

Spirit wrote: »

Dear NP

Currently away on hols so not had time to read. Hope all is well, will catch up after 29th.

Enjoy! :beer:

PasturesNew wrote: »

What I dislike about travel distance to work is that if the car breaks down you're utterly stuffed. No other way to get there. You're there at the roadside, car's carted off ... what now?

No money to hire a car. Can't afford the potential garage bill. Will get the sack if you simply don't come in until the car's fixed. No other transport options.

That's why I want to work/live 2-3 miles apart tops.... to ease the stress of breakdowns, not to mention poor weather/potential for other idiots in the wet/fog/snow.

This is the problem for all single people, and I must say that I do, to an extent, agree with this decision PN.

We've got 4 road legal cars, and access to a number more in the office should we be stuck, and before I get a posh alert (I know I will), I do understand why for the expense of it, many people don't.

We enjoy classic cars, we can afford them, and that's why we have 2 of them.

CK

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

We had a bath in the summer, by pulling the head of the temporary shower and filling the old bath. Its too cold for that sort of business now. The water is cold by the time the bath is half full! It only really works on warm days!

I've been paying for those good health days these last two. But I no longer need to see the doctor as I lost patience and took care of the other little problem myself. .


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Good to hear about docs and problem being sorted.

So are you having to boil pans and kettles to fill the bath up to 6''? Been there too many years ago and not being able to bath or shower is just so grim.
If you had a posh gym place nearby, you could do the trial month on an offer and just go there to use the steam rooms and shower. I know I am writing from a London-centric POV and it's unlikely you have an LA Fitness down the road.:)

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd be put off because:
1] The spiral stairs [a] exist are then too narrow to get things up/down
2] The cost of maintaining a lift - and - getting stuck in it and dying in it. I was stuck in a lift in a shop when I was about 6. One of those old ones with the big clanking metal concertina doors.

Reckon that is embedded in your brain for life....our lift at the studio is pretty dire and the odd person gets stuck in it for a couple of hours quite regularly.

lostinrates wrote: »

There are really good tk max shops in London. DH gets really excellent suits there. In fact, there is a timely story...just last week a tailor was going round the office and was saying dh's suit was obviously really expensive. Its one of the few makes that fits DH well off the peg ( him being not as big as most English men) but it was a very good reduction in tk max. He saw another recently but decided he doesn't need another any time soon. Just outside, Croydon seems to get better furniture IME.

The quality of cheap and varied street food is incredible too. We lived very, very cheap and full lives in London. Yes, of course its easier to spend a bomb, but its easier with a bit of effort (and an oyster) to spend nothing or under a certain amount and be fully occupied and fed. Even things like buying food....DH gets shopping lists because there are no rural or provincial comparisons to so e of the London or very big city options. While I am glad to have finally found the Chinese supermarket in Bristol (it to ages, I cannot believe it was hiding behind ikea) that's a hefty day for me. And less choice that London. And the Indian supermarket whose name eludes me but is raved about by everyone we know. And the quality of fruit and veg cheaply, from markets....not apples and potatoes, more fun stuff.

OH got a made to measure (for someone else) Oswald Boeteng suit in TK Maxx for about £250 and I know it was at least £1400 worth of suit. He just got lucky as it the person who got credit crunched and never collected it was his exact size. His name is inside it I think. I heard they dumped a load of uncollected M to M suits into TKM after the credit crunch in 2009/10.

We have great indie food shops locally and a new Turkish one has opened next to Marks in our local High St........far cheaper than the supermarkets for fruit, veg, couscous etc.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Good to hear about docs and problem being sorted.

So are you having to boil pans and kettles to fill the bath up to 6''? Been there too many years ago and not being able to bath or shower is just so grim.
If you had a posh gym place nearby, you could do the trial month on an offer and just go there to use the steam rooms and shower. I know I am writing from a London-centric POV and it's unlikely you have an LA Fitness down the road.:)
we have a temporary [STRIKE]shower [/STRIKE]trickle. Its fine, its adequate. I thank god every day nice builder put it in ! We'd have been in real trouble without it.

I strip wash in cold water often enough anyway, and wash my face with cold water, and there is no doubt, my skin hates it.


Reckon that is embedded in your brain for life....our lift at the studio is pretty dire and the odd person gets stuck in it for a couple of hours quite regularly.




OH got a made to measure (for someone else) Oswald Boeteng suit in TK Maxx for about £250 and I know it was at least £1400 worth of suit. He just got lucky as it the person who got credit crunched and never collected it was his exact size. His name is inside it I think. I heard they dumped a load of uncollected M to M suits into TKM after the credit crunch in 2009/10.

We have great indie food shops locally and a new Turkish one has opened next to Marks in our local High St........far cheaper than the supermarkets for fruit, veg, couscous etc.

Yes, dh's suits have been reduced from around the £1000 mark to around the £100 and something mark. He's such an unenglish shape its hard to find something that fits. But this particular one always seems cut for him.



Turkish food shops are brilliant.......the sort of stuff DH has to bring home.

mystic_trev

Nikkster wrote: »

He's logged in recently, just not posted for a few days. Hopefully all is well.

I think he's got fed up with the bickering on the rest of the Forum, which at times seems to be descending into Civil war! Hopefully he's just taking a break.

PasturesNew

Do you think TK Maxx put the "posh stuff" into the posher towns/closer to London? Or do you have an equal chance of getting a good named one elsewhere?

Their business is in quick stock shifting, I doubt a "good named suit" would be spotted and bought so quickly in areas where designer names/labels aren't recognised.

I don't know/recognise any designer names. I look at the price tag and think "Is this item worth this much to me?" and I rarely shop at TK Maxx as it's very expensive (and they've usually got some really odd stuff that's just hideous).

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do you think TK Maxx put the "posh stuff" into the posher towns/closer to London? Or do you have an equal chance of getting a good named one elsewhere?

Their business is in quick stock shifting, I doubt a "good named suit" would be spotted and bought so quickly in areas where designer names/labels aren't recognised.

I don't know/recognise any designer names. I look at the price tag and think "Is this item worth this much to me?" and I rarely shop at TK Maxx as it's very expensive (and they've usually got some really odd stuff that's just hideous).

I hear charity shops have better finds in better areas.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do you think TK Maxx put the "posh stuff" into the posher towns/closer to London? Or do you have an equal chance of getting a good named one elsewhere?

Their business is in quick stock shifting, I doubt a "good named suit" would be spotted and bought so quickly in areas where designer names/labels aren't recognised.

I don't know/recognise any designer names. I look at the price tag and think "Is this item worth this much to me?" and I rarely shop at TK Maxx as it's very expensive (and they've usually got some really odd stuff that's just hideous).

Best bet is probably the website.


I only shop the clearance at tk Maxx really apart form some specific things. I am the lowest of the low, shopping the bargain zone of the bargain shop:o

michaels

Nothing wrong with M&S sale suits (well actually there is, they now cost half what they used to but the quality is also only half as good). however I like a good old fashioned conservative and definitely not too expensive looking suit - when working for the govt sector is very important not to make them think about what your daily rate might be. Plus 60 quid for a suit rather than several hundred equals a couple of terms of piano/netball/football lessons for the DKs.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Nothing wrong with M&S sale suits (well actually there is, they now cost half what they used to but the quality is also only half as good). however I like a good old fashioned conservative and definitely not too expensive looking suit - when working for the govt sector is very important not to make them think about what your daily rate might be. Plus 60 quid for a suit rather than several hundred equals a couple of terms of piano/netball/football lessons for the DKs.

M and s suits just op look wrong on DH. Massively wrong. By the time they are altered to look right might as well have bought something different. Its the same with most suits.

Funny shaped little beggar.

CKhalvashi

silvercar wrote: »

I hear charity shops have better finds in better areas.

I've bought endless designer suits from charity shops, as I don't believe in spending £300 on one outfit (OH, on the other hand.......)

There's often some good quality stuff in the charity shops I visit.

CK