Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

What really naffs me off is everybody using the "single parent" label, when it was originally, in my world, meant for slappers who got up the duff without a thought ,.....

You're a widow. That's very respectable.

Benefits - scrounger!

Everybody left school at 16 .... for some of us the school would have refused to have us back No GCSEs - because you're an old duffer and it was O levels

However, on the matter of you being a chav...

Middle class people didn't leave school at 16 when I was that age. Everyone stayed on to 18. Except that I was an August birthday and a year ahead, so I was 16 when I left, by which time I'd got 10 O levels and had taken 4 A levels, although I didn't get the results until after my 17th birthday.

And "single parent" - well, I'm currently single and I'm a parent. It feels descriptive to me. OTOH, "single mother" feels as though it means the sort of people you describe.

I don't feel like a proper widow, anyway. I'm a platypus, me - not a proper widow, not a proper divorcee either - lay soft shelled eggs like a reptile, suckle my young like a mammal and have a beak like a bird and don't fit any of the categories.

PasturesNew

I've been doing a bit of stealth cleaning..... although I've not got the materials I'd like or that'd do a good job I've just been cleaning some annoying bits ..... and hoping it won't be spotted. Completely degreased, cleaned and scrubbed the hob and the stainless splashguard.... and every electrical item. Also cleaned the whole oven front and all the handles in the whole kitchen.

Cook's a "careless/messy" cook, who splashes a lot of oil about and doesn't mind that it splashes, or that they've stuff on their hands when opening/closing drawers and doors etc.... but, so there's a lot of grease that you can't really see too much, but you can certainly feel..... and I can't open a drawer if I can feel grease lurking under the handle.... I will probably get away with it undetected

Also vacuumed throughout and cleaned the downstairs loo.

Can't do too much, or told off for interfering.... but some things are just annoying to my OCD patterns

PasturesNew

I'm a spinster, not on any benefits, no GCSEs (I left with 2 O levels). Schools and teachers scarred me.

I'm sure a lot of my thinking/behaviours/lifestyle appear chavvy to some people..... but I'm not completely without some merits...... so I'd not want to put myself in that camp. I work with what I've got, which isn't a lot.... but it's all bought/paid for and mine

PasturesNew

I had another look at that bluetooth malarky ... and checked my laptop. There was some bluetooth stuff there, so I chose that and managed to get the two items (laptop/phone) paired. I then tried the laptop's bluetooth file transfer wizard and it said it'd contact the phone .... and it's not progressing, it wants a setup disc (which doesn't exist). So stumped there.

I've got photos on my phone I want to upload to PB, but not managing to achieve that.

Phone won't connect to the wifi here and there's no/insignificant O2 coverage.

lostinrates

Water is coming through a lintel over a window. This cannot be good news.

Does anyone know how, why or the scope of the bad news here?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Water is coming through a lintel over a window. This cannot be good news.

Does anyone know how, why or the scope of the bad news here?

Not having it actually happen in my house, it's easy for me to give my opinion/advice. If it were mine I'd be panicking.

However.... I bet it's just because of the unusual wind direction and speed, that's driving rain up somewhere it doesn't normally go.

Is the lintel directly under a roof/gutter, or is it ground floor where the roof is 1st floor?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not having it actually happen in my house, it's easy for me to give my opinion/advice. If it were mine I'd be panicking.

However.... I bet it's just because of the unusual wind direction and speed, that's driving rain up somewhere it doesn't normally go.

Is the lintel directly under a roof/gutter, or is it ground floor where the roof is 1st floor?

Its first floor, and on the side...hmm, there must be a word for this. The side where if you were looking at the house the roof forms a triangle...so the guttering is not on that side......

S its in the middle of a blank wall.

lostinrates

And rain is incredible. About three or four timea times as heavy as the temporary shower at least. I should have washed hair before going out to do the birds/horses.

DH and I were laughing as we crossed the field like kids holding hands, and the big dogs came, but kiwi (who usually beggars orf) ran home instead, looking back at us with contempt 'of all the days you are prepared to go further you choose this one?'

Dog dog, who hates the rain and normally stays home, uncharacteristic ally ran right across the field in front of us and brought the geese in quicker than we could, then came and nipped DH on the bottom and started chivvying me in....'not good for you out here'.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Its first floor, and on the side...hmm, there must be a word for this. The side where if you were looking at the house the roof forms a triangle...so the guttering is not on that side......

S its in the middle of a blank wall.

Is the driving rain hitting that wall?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is the driving rain hitting that wall?

Yes, certainly, its south facing and wind is coming from south. So definitely.

Seems to have stopped now.

Phew.