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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Hairdresser had me book in for Christmas when I was in ages ago. Yesterday I realised that was the time I should have booked the dogs in for their Christmas hair do as well. I have managed to get kiwi and big dog in (dog dog is easy peasy so I'll do her) but has to be the week before and on different days.0
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Posh alert!!!lostinrates wrote: »I should have booked the dogs in for their Christmas hair do as well.
Even I don't get a Xmas hair do!0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Posh alert!!!
Even I don't get a Xmas hair do!
I didn't until vowing to buck my ideas up this year, or rather I did, I had one some time before Christmas and one some time at beginning of summer. On a good year I'd have a spring and autumn one too.
I've been going regularly this year. I don't necessarily think my hair looks better, but its part of helping me keeping myself ticking.
Dogs are because I'm not keeping myself ticking enough to want to tackle big dogs coat (takes a good four hours for me, which I never do, so becomes several days and the associated clean up) and kiwi takes hours because I'm not very good at it yet. I do it a few days before he goes in then they neaten up. Traditionally he should be done with scissors. They neaten with clippers. 0 -
mystic_trev wrote: »Don't do it, it'll end up in tears! I've always used an Agent. OK, so I have to pay 10%, but it's worth more than that to me to avoid the hassle. I've never met any of my Tenants in the 20 years I've been involved in this lark. Any problems, and the Agent deals with them and if a Tenant has had a problem, they've usually been resolved to their benefit. In all that time I've never had any problem Tenants, and for that matter no voids.But it's Business pure and simple.
Wait until they have problems with the Electrics, they'll be expecting you to sort them out a takeaway!
You're a brave man Michaels!
What Trev says.....doubled!
Apropos of nothing, post 10 on this thread made my day!There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
@michaels, if you can find someone like yourself, they'll be delighted to get a discounted rent for the inconvenience of living next to a building site. TBH, it wouldn't bother me at all.
Mine get a haircut as they need it. I cut Miss Till's fur myself, my hairdresser describes the technique I have, as 'disconnected'.:rotfl:0 -
Apropos of nothing, post 10 on this thread made my day!
:T I'm still smiling now
I finally found an old blue hair avatar :j None with my builders hat though. Shame.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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PasturesNew wrote: »It happens all the time in modern houses, flats.
Where I was 5 years ago, I could tell the bloke in the flat above me was shagging 2 different women as his style changed... I could also tell when he was "home alone" so to speak ... tugging.
I've never lived in either a modern house or modern flat - the newest place I've lived in was our flat in Holborn, before we bought our current place, and that was built in 1926, and was utterly soundproof. We'd no idea if our upstairs or downstairs neighbours were even at home or not (one flat per floor, so no sideways neighbours).
Our current building is just over 100 years old, and similarly, we rarely hear our neighbours at all. If we're upstairs in our living room or kitchen, we can sometimes hear them if they are moving furniture, and that's about it. We also hear our sideways neighbours if they slam their front door going in or out, but not much if they are inside.
Or maybe I'm just good at ignoring noise? Growing up as one of 4 children born within 7 years makes you well able to concentrate on what you are doing and ignore a semi-riot nearby.Home alone for 2 weeks now. Oh and dss's are off on half term holiday
Where's your OH got to?
Enjoy your peace and quiet. Are you feeling better now?...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 -
lostinrates wrote: »
Dogs are because I'm not keeping myself ticking enough to want to tackle big dogs coat (takes a good four hours for me, which I never do, so becomes several days and the associated clean up) and kiwi takes hours because I'm not very good at it yet. I do it a few days before he goes in then they neaten up. Traditionally he should be done with scissors. They neaten with clippers.
One of the advantages of border collies is that they are completely maintenance-free - they don't need haircuts, or anything of the kind. And because their coats are sort of waxy, mud slides off quite fast, too. Although Dad does hose Doglet down when he insists on rolling in fox muck.
I need to arrange a haircut for Isaac, he's looking like a haystack. He doesn't pay for hairdressing, it grows like a bush again in no time flat....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 -
lostinrates wrote: »Never? Not at university or in a hotel or loos in a restaurant or anything?
Impressive. I'm damning a lot of the sound insulation I've spent nights next to now I know its possible to never hear others ever. Halls were terrible in particular. Then the flat we shared, and the one after. And yeah, quite a few hotels.....and
I've heard a lot of sex I wasn't involved in. I'm never envious of sex in public loos. I mean, not everyone likes mood lighting and candles but.....a loo?
I honestly can't remember it, perhaps it's just slid from my memory (which wouldn't be a bad thing, really, I don't think I'd want to give it too much brain space).I was amazed to find in when I arrived in that there London that most buildings' walls are just made of stiffened wallpaper apparently, judging by the fact that you can hear the people in the next flat changing their minds, never mind doing anything.
The only place I've stayed in much where sound travels is my parents' house in Kent - the room OH and I have there is over the kitchen, and rather oddly, you hear things in the bedroom more loudly than in the kitchen where they are actually happening. But there's no loud sex to overheard in the kitchen (-:...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 -
Do you wear earplugs are all your partners very quiet?! Edit: Or perhaps you are so noisy you can't here what noise anyone else is making?
Spent an hour this evening at the btl - not sure I am cut out to be a landlord.
All my partners?! OH and I have been together since I was 20, and he was 19, so it's not that long a list (-:Loads of countries have compulsory shelters, but it never took off at all here.
Israel has them - all buildings, or groups of houses, have to have a bomb shelter, which must be able to be sealed against poison gas, too. And they are checked and used, too....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
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