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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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LIR whenever I'm off on a train journey, I take a book rather than a paper. Strangely, I rarely read it on the train. I think that is due to childhood memories of travel sickness. However I think it is also because until recently I was the only one of my friends to drive. As a result, any journey involved me driving. Being on a train is one of the few chances I get to stare aimlessly out of the window.
I always have my mp3 player & take advantage of the chance to listen to some music & just stare at the world.
(FWIW the book reading is usually at the station waiting for the train...)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
I have a washing basket from dunelm mill (so no posh alert), bamboo with lid. Inside is a canvas bag that fits around the basket with ties. Unstrap the ties and the bag can be removed and used to carry the laundry downstairs.
I love that idea.
What I'd like is a pulley fitted above the trapdoor at the top of the back stairs so I can just wind a handle or something and haul stuff up and down that way, folded on to a surface, like a sort of big, very deep wooden tray or box I suppose. Something that took two or three loads of folded laundry would be ideal, so that I could put a days worth on there with out going up to unload each one.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »LIR whenever I'm off on a train journey, I take a book rather than a paper. Strangely, I rarely read it on the train. I think that is due to childhood memories of travel sickness. However I think it is also because until recently I was the only one of my friends to drive. As a result, any journey involved me driving. Being on a train is one of the few chances I get to stare aimlessly out of the window.
I always have my mp3 player & take advantage of the chance to listen to some music & just stare at the world.
(FWIW the book reading is usually at the station waiting for the train...)
Like you I usually drive, so the window is a big appeal.. Just being able to relax is good.
I like a paper though, I don't buy them now, very rarely anyway.
Anyway, I haven't decided yet if I'll even get the train. 0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I love that idea.
What I'd like is a pulley fitted above the trapdoor at the top of the back stairs so I can just wind a handle or something and haul stuff up and down that way, folded on to a surface, like a sort of big, very deep wooden tray or box I suppose. Something that took two or three loads of folded laundry would be ideal, so that I could put a days worth on there with out going up to unload each one.
New American houses have the laundry room upstairs so you can wash, tumble dry and iron without ever having to change floor.I think....0 -
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Our US relatives had a laundry chute.
That's what we had usually too. If we ever build its certainly what I'd do.
. But here its not practical because of the nature of our house and because the utility is not below the upstairs but out on a limb by itself. .
I prefer the rudimentary dumb waiter option for this house, its more in keeping with the only slightly practical nature of things. 0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I am an Unhappy Person.
I'm instructed on a full judicial review on Thursday...
How infuriating. Hope things look up soon.Me too. White wash, coloureds wash all at 30/ 40. Towels and bedding at 60. One laundry basket.
Ah, but you are not washing for a teenage boy. The shirts still smell sweaty after washing if you do them at 30/40, and look grimy round the collars and cuffs.New American houses have the laundry room upstairs so you can wash, tumble dry and iron without ever having to change floor.
Because most Americans (well, the sort who are rich enough to buy new houses) do not ever hang washing out, but tumble dry everything. Not very MSE or ecofriendly either. Mind you, I haven't hung anything outside since the hole for the rotary washing line disappeared beneath the trampoline. I don't tumble stuff unless I'm in a hurry, though. It hangs up on one of those ceiling airer things in the utility room, or on a rack over the bath if the ceiling thing is full. If it's very sunny, I put the rack in the conservatory, where stuff dries very fast indeed.
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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 -
Not washing for a teenage boy, a fact that makes me happy now that you have pointed it out!
On the laundry basket subjet, mine is about 30 years old and was the very first home type purchase I ever made. Wicker type thing, tall, rectangular thing.0 -
iPad video yourself?lostinrates wrote: »Obviously, I'd rather stay on my feet normally! I just think it would be useful if the guy saw it...don't know if that can happen.0
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