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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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china sellers make 3 tier cake stands by drilling holes in different sized plates. So it has to be possible.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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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.
I have written to the seller to confirm material.
The thing that makes me worry is the shape. Cutting flat ceramic is ok, tilers and DIY ears do it. Its the impact on structure of thickness and shape and irregularity that concerns me.
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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.
Yup - when my builders discovered that all the floor tiles were porcelain they weren't best pleased...however after I showed them the 19mm marble tiles for the bathroom they decided that cutting porcelain wasn't too bad after all....I think....0 -
Bad day with youngest yesterday, more meetings.....those stress levels are rising.
Oh, and I have woken with a blooming cold!
SOrry to hear that Sue - hope youngest is OK....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Posh alert.....Yup - when my builders discovered that all the floor tiles were porcelain they weren't best pleased...however after I showed them the 19mm marble tiles for the bathroom they decided that cutting porcelain wasn't too bad after all....
I'm used to a bit of cheap vinyl or some cheap old carpet
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I was sitting here watching over the world from God's control room and wondering how big a trillion was and then thinking how many trillion cigarettes were smoked this year. Thank goodness stoptober's coming up' Any NPs tempted?;)Todays google image, worth a look. Also google "google in 1998".
I'll send a google request to see it.
I should know by next month:DThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
There's a system that sorts out issues such as finding yourself outside without a key. The way it works is that you load up your trousers with useful things - money, keys, hankie, credit cards - at the start of the week. Then you wear the same trousers every day until they are grubby. At that point you transfer the whole kit over to some clean trousers, etc. It's a really neat, virtually fail-safe system. It's one of the few things that men do better than women IMHO. Of course, it's a triumph of function over form, so it'll never catch on.
That only works IF the people who manufacture clothing for your gender actually put pockets in trousers.
Bad day with youngest yesterday, more meetings.....those stress levels are rising.
Oh, and I have woken with a blooming cold!
Oh no! What happened?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
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One lots of men deviate from in annoying ways.
OH, for example, empties his pockets every night onto the windowsill. In the morning, he picks up the £1 and £2 coins, and leaves the rest. Over time, a huge pile of shrapnel accumulates. When we moved from our old flat, he took a bag to the change machine, and got £67-odd back.
My OH does the same, although he is almost cured, as if I get up first I take all pound and two pound coins and post them into a piggy bank. I will also post notes. Money left on his nightstand thingy is safe from posting, messy money is inviting trouble.0 -
My OH does the same, although he is almost cured, as if I get up first I take all pound and two pound coins and post them into a piggy bank. I will also post notes. Money left on his nightstand thingy is safe from posting, messy money is inviting trouble.
When I first visited America my mate (who was from Herts by the way) who I was staying with had a drawer full of "pennies". Turns out that's perfectly common over there.
When I wanted to take the streetcar to the city centre or any retail areas he just got me to use up the pennies. You poured them into as slot just inside the passenger entrance and they were counted electronically. He was pleased they were just bgetting used up.
Also some shops had a take a penny leave a penny bowl next to the till. If your change was just a cent, you left it there and if the next customer was short of a cent for paying the right money they could use it. Stopped people filling drawers with them and stores having to give out small change unnecessarily.
I heard they may get rid of 1 cent coins ( and for that matter the penny here). There's supposed to be a number of larger coins you can issue that will allow you to combine them to make all larger sums up to 100 but can't remember what that was. Any idea?There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Met a lot of foreign people the past couple of weeks, and many of them have said how confusing our money is because we have so many coins. I can believe it! I think we should get rid of some of the smaller coins.
Loving the masters so far. Met some really great people, tutors are great. Lots of work already but that's good for me. I need pressure!
Met a Nice Girl too. Really like her, and she's given me lots of signs she likes me (this doesn't happen very often)... but she split up with her boyfriend a couple of weeks ago, so I really don't know what to do “I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0
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