Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

You've just had a near miss!

I'm back over there for my MOT tomorrow. Had been thinking of travelling tonight, but a very Nice late night on Tuesday was followed by an even later night last night (a couple of friends stayed over as one is on a flying visit back to the UK) meant that I couldn't face driving over there tonight.

Shame!
Hope the MOT goes well. I annually dread my MOT. The things to monitor list grew significantly this year, hence me looking at a new car option...

Nikkster wrote: »

I wouldn't fight you. I'd rather be fought over (in my dreams) rather than be the one doing the fighting!

House is good thanks. Big. Long list of things to do. The most long term commitment I've ever made.

But I had 2 friends over last night and I could offer them a room. Each

I don't think Spirit would've been fighting you over me.:o
I'm 99.9% positive she was referring to Mr Tennant.
Ah well, I'm left on the shelf again...:(;)

lemonjelly

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24538143

T'was most enjoyable!

neverdespairgirl

I assumed you meant the RSC at the Barbican - thinking about it, I suppose Stratford's a bit closer to home for you!

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Michaels, let your tenant switch providers.

Your attempts there would piddle me off despite your other attempts to bend over backwards. £130 quid in the scheme of things is penny pinching to the point of jeopardising peace, which surely this week you are valuing highly?

I actually think you need to set better boundaries. I have always wanted good service from landlords. Its fair to be expected to do things like sort out heating at this time of year I agree....but other things at such short notice?

i agree. no offence michaels, but you've clearly take the contract out to get the voucher and cashback with the intention of passing the actual line rental costs onto your tenant at full price - i think that is sharp practice at best. as a landlord you make your money by charging rent, not taking cash back off your tenants utility arrangements. it's very similar to the sort of hidden charging practices which are banned in some regulated industries. if i was your tenant i think i might work out that this is what you were doing pretty quickly, and just change the provider over so i could get some rewards for signing up with someone else. either that or ask you to give me the vouchers and the cash back so i got the discount and not you.

moreover you don't need to 'let' your tenant change providers - there isn't anything you can do to stop them, so quite apart from anything else it doesn't make sense for you to expose yourself to the risk that they will just change providers without bothering to ask or tell you that they are doing it. i certainly wouldn't consult my landlord over it. my current letting agent somehow found out that we'd switched the electricity and gas supply (were prob receiving a backhander from the power co) and got rather narked and told us we had to stop the switching process. i just ignored them and changed it anyway.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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.
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Old houses can carry noise too.

I am slightly misophonic. It makes me sometimes hyper aware of otherpeople's noise, though not to the degree I want to kill them. (thankfully). I always remember this is my problem and not theirs and have very effective ways of dealing with it and getting on without it causing me too much problems. If I find myself getting 'wound up' I take stock engage one of my modes of dealing with it and get over myself.

I hear gas metres very badly, (my parents used to find ours padded with pillows with me trying to smother it or something when I was quite young, and noise through pipes, (so plumbing). One neighbour in our last flat used to pee at four am. It was a really good flat, not him being really noisey, I just heard it.

I just know I am going to be one of those peoe that hears 'the hum' when older. We discounted a few properties because of noise irritants. In general one just gets on with life and sucks it up though.

Sex noise is probably something I tune into keenly:o:think: because of that. Hadn't really made the connection before.

lostinrates

I just got a call from dh's secretary informing he he's had an accident in the workplace.........


.......he'll live. I think he feels a bit silly.

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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.

Nowadays they build them as a usable room, that has the advantage that there is no space wasted for emergency use only and that emergency access can be quick. It used to be that blocks of flats had a basement that double as a shelter, but valuable seconds could be wasted getting to it. Ours is the 3rd bedroom, you wouldn't know it was also the shelter other than the door is very heavy and wifi signal is impossible with the door closed. It does have air conditioning though the vents are a different shape, so I assume the air is filtered in some way- hope I never have the need to find out.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I just got a call from dh's secretary informing he he's had an accident in the workplace.........


.......he'll live. I think he feels a bit silly.

How serious that they need to phone next of kin?

Reminds me of when the school secretary used to phone and start with "Nothing to worry about but....."

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

How serious that they need to phone next of kin?

Reminds me of when the school secretary used to phone and start with "Nothing to worry about but....."

Not serious at all I think. He's been scalded and has refused medical treatment and isn't coming home early.

It was EXACTLY THAT...

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Not serious at all I think. He's been scalded and has refused medical treatment and isn't coming home early.

It was EXACTLY THAT...

Presumably he has to consent to you being phoned being he is (a) an adult and (b) conscious.

Sounds like he was trying to make himself a hot drink and being a man couldn't manage it without full concentration.