Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

What happens if:
a) You bring a sweater to wear?
b) You bring a fan heater (and plug it in)?

I do have a sweater, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sit here at all, I also have my suit jacket on. If I had on thermal longjohns, gloves and a hat I would probably be ok. Having gone to get lunch it is definitely fairly localised, 30 feet away in the same open floor it is not so bad...but then in the summer when soem parts of the floor got riddiculously too hot this end wasn't so bad...

Some people brought in fans in the summer (yes the building is seled with climate control), I think it would be a first if I brought in a heater and H&S might have something to say about fire risk....

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

What happens if:
a) You bring a sweater to wear?
b) You bring a fan heater (and plug it in)?

How cold is it michaels?

Is it cold actually? Or does it just feel cold? Do you have a themometre?

While I look forward to heating IMO there is little worse than working in an over heated environment where you want to curl up and nap like a cat on dull weather days. I'd rather the temperature were cool enough for a vest. The other shocker is going in and out of overheated to freezing outdoors. I hate shopping in winter for that reason. I've always disliked it but now my temperature regulation is so bad its tiresome, as I spend ages putting on or taking off clothes (which is exhausting) or just shivering or panting. Its irksome to be sweating in a shop in winter when dressed for the weather (which lets face it these days is less than I wear at home) while a personbehind a til is 'just right' in a light t shirt.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I do have a sweater, otherwise I wouldn't be able to sit here at all, I also have my suit jacket on. If I had on thermal longjohns, gloves and a hat I would probably be ok. Having gone to get lunch it is definitely fairly localised, 30 feet away in the same open floor it is not so bad...but then in the summer when soem parts of the floor got riddiculously too hot this end wasn't so bad...

Some people brought in fans in the summer (yes the building is seled with climate control), I think it would be a first if I brought in a heater and H&S might have something to say about fire risk,,,,

Wear the long johns IMO, Why not?

michaels

Don't have a thermometer (when did they stop adding them to phones?) but it is definitely cold enough that you don't want to be sitting still - probably 15-18 degrees?

I know exactly what you mean about heat regulation - I hate going from office to outside to tube to platform to train, especially as neither the tube nor the train are conducive to removing layers

PasturesNew

Years ago I got a temp typing job at the Hospital. There were 2-3 of us hired and we were put into a "spare room" to do the copy typing. It was on some 1960s concrete elevated walkway, with single glazed ill-fitting windows and no heating - and the wind was bitter and whistling through.

The temperature was below 60 degrees, which is the legal lower limit for being able to go home after 1 hour - but that law's a bit of a nonsense really as nobody would ever dare do it. If we'd left we'd have not been paid, so we sat and typed, with purple fingers, in a freezing room. It was old manual typewriters too.... probably in about 1980.

BertieUK

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got denplan at a dentist I've had for 15 years as I hate dentists as I had a bad and unexplained experience as a child at school dentist.

When I was in my early teens my Mother worked as a Receptionist to a Dentist and I was never felt at ease when I had the school dentist so I foolishly put my full trust in the Dentist that my Mum worked for. Well he was heavy handed and certainly did not have the mannerism for such a personal job, he was very invasive and from that moment on I just could not put my full trust in any Dentist. I have to be past the caring stage with pain to sit in a Dentists chair.

lostinrates

Pink whistles just wiped all the channels from the down stairs tv. Sigh. Now she's furious as the tv is quiet and has no pictures.

She shouldn't be a remote control hog if she doesn't know what the buttons do.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Pink whistles just wiped all the channels from the down stairs tv. Sigh. Now she's furious as the tv is quiet and has no pictures.

She shouldn't be a remote control hog if she doesn't know what the buttons do.

What a cat-astrophe!
She was just trying to purr-use the channels.

GDB2222

Is it possible that our local rag is just a bit too parochial?

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/organic_porridge_oats_to_be_brought_back_by_hampstead_tesco_following_uproar_1_2963018

"Organic porridge oats to be brought back by Hampstead Tesco following uproar"

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Hi all - sorry not to have checked in earlier. Baby all fine, happy, bouncing around and being a bit difficult to check!

The doctor doing the scan is part of a research project at University College Hospital, and spent a while checking the placenta and so forth for problems that caused the bleeding, and a while longer checking hte blood flow in and out of the placenta and so forth. The whole scan took about 55 minutes, which I'm sure is longer than my 12 week scan with Isaac. The nuchal results came back as a 1 in 15,000 chance of Down's Syndrome, and a lower risk for the other genetic problems they check for.

She reckoned the bleeding's not sinister, that the baby was happy, healthy, right for dates, and generally perfectly OK.

Once OH and I got home, my Dad collected us in a cab and took us to the station, carrying all my bags, and we had a lovely out-of-doors harvesting stuff and bonfire night weekend, and I didn't so much as touch a computer.

I'm going to bed soon, so will catch up on the thread tomorrow.

NDG, I am very glad to hear this. Your Nice Pregnancy means a lot.

xxx