Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Well it hasn't been rejected yet, but the EA told us that the house had to stay on the market for six weeks under the rules of the church trust that is selling it and it's only been on four weeks so far so wasn't expecting to hear much yet.

It sounds pretty positive. If the agent hasn't hinted to you that there is already a higher offer on the table, it might just be that they review all offers after six weeks and go with the best one.

If no one else offers, then that may be all you need.

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Oh, the shame! :rotfl:

This is the polar opposite of my larder cupboard. Mine has rice and pasta spilling out everywhere and everything is shoved in. It's even grown into the cereal cupboard. I have an entire shelf for tea and coffee. It's full but we have no 'normal' tea at all for visitors.

I've been meaning to address it, but haven't gotten around to it. Perhaps this is my motivation.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Looks practical that one....
We used to have a corner cupboard that things would get lost in. It had a rotating shelf thing that turned out to be a PITA.

I am now obsessed with 300 pull out larder units. I have planned the entire space around having x 2.



How is she?



I will confess here that having posh rooms is really stressful...I had no idea before we started how stressy it would be to use luxury bathrooms every day.
It's tragic really as I spot clean with bits of loo roll drips on the sink and taps in a way that I have never done in my life.

The new kitchen is going to be a nightmare as I won't dare move in it......I'll never fry again as I don't want to clog up the new smeg telescopic extractor fan.:o

Bathroom tip. (From the days when I cared!). Face clothes. Use a fresh one everyday, when finished yourself wring out till almost dry, uses brute force of huge quantities) then wipe down bathroom quickly. Because almost dry should pretty much buff everything up, and you can clean before than buff lightly with your face cloth, then you can buff up properly with the corner of your towel on the dry bathroom.,

Then facecloth chucked in wash......

We have LOTS of face clothes, all go through as a wash together.

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not a morning person. So 5am seems, to me, to be a time of day when everyone should be tucked up in bed, sleeping peacefully.

Isaac, fortunately, never went through a stage of starting his day regularly at 5am. I'm hoping #2 follows suit in that respect, although I'd also prefer it if it learned to sleep through the night before the age of 6.

I'm the same. The problem with trying to convince him not to go if it is blowing a gale at 5am, is that I know that in that moment I will genuinely believe that my sleep is more important than his life . We have spoken now, I gave him LIR's instructions. He has promised not to go if it is bad.

My children have always naturally risen around eight. I am eternally thankful. Perhaps they just know what is good for them!

Doozergirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

Doozer, have you used the recycled glass surfaces anywhere? I really like them (especially the crushed green glass ones) but haven't seen them anywhere other than in design mags. They aren't cheap, so was wondering what they were like in the real world.

No. I don't think I've seen them in real life either. They look wonderful on TV. I'm sure there were some again in 'The House that £100k Built' the other week (not in a £100k house) I'm pretty sure I researched prices yonks ago with a view to putting them in a house and balked.

I can't really get my head around recycled things costing more than yet-to-be recycled things.

lostinrates

I just checked my weather forecast on beeb and we now have no wind warnings here.....or rather we do..gusts and gales...up to ' 27 miles per hour' well, um ...ok.

We've spent most of the day 'taking coconuts off trees'.:(.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

I just checked my weather forecast on beeb and we now have no wind warnings here.....or rather we do..gusts and gales...up to ' 27 miles per hour' well, um ...ok.

We've spent most of the day 'taking coconuts off trees'.:(.

Sorry lir. Per Met Office, forecast for Herts is for max 50 mph winds, gusting up to about 60-65. However living on top of a hill, we get the worst of it here.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sorry lir. Per Met Office, forecast for Herts is for max 50 mph winds, gusting up to about 60-65. However living on top of a hill, we get the worst of it here.

Nothing to be sorry about. I'll leave everything down now, ( you never know) but could have done better things with the day!

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

We thought that when looking for our present flat - there were lots of brand new kitchens (included in the price) that I couldn't have lived with - like the bright gloss red one. I couldn't live with a bright red gloss kitchen first thing every morning, it would do my head in.



I don't know about "back then", because things are given new scientific names like that even now, aren't they?

There was some sugar in medieval Europe, but I'm not sure exactly where it came from. It was massively, horrifically expensive, so it was usually kept under lock and key with the spices and so forth in wealthy households. And it came in what was called a "loaf", a sort of block of sugar, and you chipped a bit off, I think. Not sure if it was beet or cane sugar.

As a child when I visted my Auntie May, she always had blocks of sugar.

She also had bread pudding and butterfly cakes. Yummy and magical to a very small me.

lostinrates

I have loaves of sugar. Atm Coconut sugar, cane sugar. You can buy solid maltose, I think its used in far eastern cookery....? Not my area really.