Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've had a busy week - on Tuesday, I drove to Heathrow and collected my baby bruv, and brought him back to our flat - he's just finished a three-year stint working in first a school and then a university in south Korea. He'd left his flat there 28 hours before he arrived in Clerkenwell, as he had to get from can't-spell-it to Seoul before he even got near a plane. He coped with remarkably good humour when confronted by a whizzing ball of enthusiastic energy in the shape of his nephew, who was overjoyed to see him.

I fed him several cups of coffee, and he then contemplated staying here overnight, but concluded he would be unable to get up the next morning and start another journey to Kent, so I dropped him at St Pancras with all his kit, and he met up with Dad, on his way home from work, who bought him a ticket (absence makes the wallet grow loser, apparently) and drove him from Ashford back to their house.

My darling Mama was overjoyed to see her favourite son, and fed him large quantities of traditional English moussarka.

He's coming back to stay with us for the weekend, and he's going to a mate's wedding on Saturday - in Westminster Abbey. He can't wear Dad's morning dress, as he's 3 inches taller, much wider around the shoulders, and a bit smaller around the waist, so he's had to hire some, amid much grumbling.

Today I was very busy, left home just before 8am, one case in one court room which finished at 1.50pm, and another case which wasn't (as we were assured it would be) in the same room started at 2pm, and over-ran, so I got to the Chambers meeting late and got bustled off sharpish for the post-meeting-p1ss-up.

Now I'm home, and taking a very deep breath!

He may (or as he's home perhaps may not) enjoy a visit to the burb I used to live in if he wants to reminisce on his overseas stay / sample the food. About 1/3 of the population were from where he's been and nice neighbours they were.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Really?

We bought the doors for our flat (total of 9 doors - 3 x bedroom doors, 1 x bathroom, 1 x hall to bedroom area, 1 x washing machine cupboard, 2 x studies) for £12 each. They are 1890s very plain hardwood.

Yes, really!

We've spent time at all local reclaim yards...( nice builder got all our bricks reclaim for example). Our kitchen ( internal) door was one of the midrange ge reclaim doors locally and is nothing special at all.....you could have got most of yours for it!

SingleSue

Bad day with youngest yesterday, more meetings.....those stress levels are rising.

Oh, and I have woken with a blooming cold!

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

Bad day with youngest yesterday, more meetings.....those stress levels are rising.

Oh, and I have woken with a blooming cold!

Echinacea!

silvercar

I had a handyman here for 2 hours yesterday doing all the little irksome jobs that we should be able to do but can't. Little things that annoy intensely.

silvercar

Todays google image, worth a look. Also google "google in 1998".

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd be wearing a pyjama top and some floppy leggings with my entire 4rse hanging out ....

oooh yeah....giggity giggity

lostinrates

Hmmm, what about cutting a hole in a big, lumpy very thick ceramic bowl..........like a garden pot.



I like damaging things ATM I think.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Hmmm, what about cutting a hole in a big, lumpy very thick ceramic bowl..........like a garden pot.



I like damaging things ATM I think.

Can be done. Diamond bit - I've seen where people have cut holes out of plates, making a clean cut. It's just a question of finding somebody with a drill big enough that's prepared to take the risk, that's close enough for you to take it to them.... and how much they'd want.

Ideally it'd be in a water bath to keep the bit cool.

GDB2222

If it's an unglazed pot, you can just use a masonry bit or even a hole saw. It's the same as drilling tiles. Ordinary tiles are easy, but porcelain tiles much harder - literally.