Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Wow, how amazing FC !

It is amazing and proves the worth of friends in high places...not so much as a POSH ALERT

How lovely for your DD fc.

lostinrates

I was half watching the horizons thing about a couple who bought a house I THINK we once linked to on the board??? It looked familiar anyway.

Any how, it was in York and they wanted to turn it into a hotel. Then credit crunch, horrid rows with national trust and the horrible impact of life.

It was a bad thing to watch on a down evening, that's all I'm saying.

They asked the woman a few times...would you buy it a gain and she didn't" want to say no. It, with a lot of other stuff, has made me feel very keenly, an escape plan and saleability is really important in our next plans for the house.

Nikkster

Michaels (selective quoting is a pain on phone) - groin thrusting isn't really my thing. Make mine a large G and T :cheers:

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

We didn't have chocolate advent calendars; we had the ones where you opened a door and there was a picture.... wise men, stars, donkeys, baby Jesus. They were "the norm" where I lived.

Even LESS choccie intake!

Me too. I suspect they were the norm where most people lived 40 years ago. Oh, and we had the same ones every year, too. They used to get put under the carpet during the rest of the year to make the little doors stick back down.

(Almost all the carpets in my parents' house aren't fitted, they're rectangular and slightly smaller than the rooms, so you can see stained boards round the edge. It makes it easy to put things under the carpet if you want to flatten them. Two bedrooms now have fitted carpet because they have needed recarpeting within the last 20 years when getting them fitted has been cheaper than getting the edges bound; one downstairs room has an odd shaped carpet that was previously fitted in another house belonging to a relative who died. Do you see where I have acquired the attitude that it's important to buy a big enough house with plenty of space, but doing it up is not a priority? BTW, "needed recarpeting" means "became so threadbare as to be a significant trip hazard".)

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm glad you are making it YOUR home nikkster! If the bedroom is homely do you have a next target to 'nikksterfy'?

Pp
Not sure. Think its going to be more functional stuff like that building work from the survey, a new front door, then getting the electrics sorted (more sockets etc)...

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I was half watching the horizons thing about a couple who bought a house I THINK we once linked to on the board??? It looked familiar anyway.

Any how, it was in York and they wanted to turn it into a hotel. Then credit crunch, horrid rows with national trust and the horrible impact of life.

It was a bad thing to watch on a down evening, that's all I'm saying.

They asked the woman a few times...would you buy it a gain and she didn't" want to say no. It, with a lot of other stuff, has made me feel very keenly, an escape plan and saleability is really important in our next plans for the house.

I'd have watched that. I never know what's on/when.

Spirit_2

I was 67% london, on the other quiz I think I was 25% london.

If anyone finds the other 8% of me can they send it somewhere warm please or donate it to science.

Doozergirl

Red Rockin is Cockney Rhyme for ketchup. Rocking Horse = Sauce.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

(Almost all the carpets in my parents' house aren't fitted, they're rectangular and slightly smaller than the rooms, so you can see stained boards round the edge.

In the house I grew up in, we had an edge of about 1', which was painted black. Living room had a carpet with the edge; dining room had lino and I think there was an edge; kitchen was standard lino floor tiles glued straight onto a concrete floor.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I was half watching the horizons thing about a couple who bought a house I THINK we once linked to on the board??? It looked familiar anyway.

Any how, it was in York and they wanted to turn it into a hotel. Then credit crunch, horrid rows with national trust and the horrible impact of life.

It was a bad thing to watch on a down evening, that's all I'm saying.

They asked the woman a few times...would you buy it a gain and she didn't" want to say no. It, with a lot of other stuff, has made me feel very keenly, an escape plan and saleability is really important in our next plans for the house.

I REALLY wanted to watch that. I always remember things until the time they happen.