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

Nikkster

Washing meat - I wouldn't think it would remove much nastiness anyway. Certainly only anything on the surface. I would think that most bacteria would be inside (the meat, if not the cells). I think thorough cooking would be more effective?

lostinrates

I either like this a lot or not. I haven't decided yet.

http://www.artsupplies.co.uk/item-blue-green-variegated-metal-leaf.htm?recommended=1


My guess is if I do like it after having covered any sizeable area with it one would dislike it.


I have future plans to leaf a ceiling. I feel that's a good year to find teens who want a summer job!

Yorkie1

vivatifosi wrote: »

No, but I seem to recall a conversation where it was used in one of my former offices and very difficult to paint over when they wanted a change. I don't know anything beyond that, but may be worth looking in to. Again, I don't know what paint it was either, so some may be easier than others.

I'm not familiar with suede paint but I wondered whether a) it might lose texture if brushed against, or b) would be difficult to paint over subsequently.

lostinrates

In between posting here and reqding with dh (who turns pages much slower than i) i have siscovered Little greene do a paint in almost the exact colo
It of the suede paint we used in sparkly corner. The little greene paint is called dolphin. It might be a goer.

Yorkie1

Just saw this on a twitter feed and thought of you, NDG:
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/jan/05/barristers-solicitors-walkout-legal-aid-cuts?CMP=twt_fd Will be interesting to see what impact it has on courts in the morning.

PasturesNew

I don't like dark colours, they make houses dark.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't like dark colours, they make houses dark. My sibling decorated in a blood red/gold ... and originally put up a red lampshade. Can't see a thing in that room, ever. Even in daylight it's so so so dark. Kitchen, same size, but pale yellow/gold .... looks bright and much bigger.

I think a dark kitchen, unless you had exceptional natural light, like a conservatory and just essentially painted woodwork, would be a silly choice. . I think a room in which you work too, and need good light for reading, writing, detailed work......it wouldn't be that sensible.

I think a hallway, perhaps a dining room, or a snug for listening to music.....a dark environment gat set a stage for entering other, brighter lighter spaces, for letting candle light illuminate food a scintillating conversations, or for letting the mind relax and listen.

What I hate is the dinginess we have now that's not succeeding. We aren't allowed a roof light when we extend but I might be able to have one of those light tubes, that would pull light in to tumble down the stairs. Its always going. To feel odd, uncomfortable and a little creepy I think, as it stands, and I cannot make it bigger. I'd still like to paint narnia type trees but ATM no scope for that, so that will have to be on its refit. By then I might be bored of the colour scheme who knows. I might be braved and want to go darker still

neverdespairgirl

Doesn't apply to me tomorrow, I'm doing immigration. It's causing a huge amount of turmoil at the bar, though - the Bar Standards Board last week sent us all "guidance" which essentially said that taking part in the action opened an y barrister to disciplinary proceedings for "lowering the standing of barristers in the eyes of right-thinking citizens" that catch-all disciplinary charge for Things They Don't Like. Being threatened like that has, I think, increased support for the strike, not taken it away.

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Doesn't apply to me tomorrow, I'm doing immigration. It's causing a huge amount of turmoil at the bar, though - the Bar Standards Board last week sent us all "guidance" which essentially said that taking part in the action opened an y barrister to disciplinary proceedings for "lowering the standing of barristers in the eyes of right-thinking citizens" that catch-all disciplinary charge for Things They Don't Like. Being threatened like that has, I think, increased support for the strike, not taken it away.

It's having a serious impact on heavy fraud and similar cases; defendants cannot get anyone to represent them. I heard about a defendant turning up to up to court with no counsel and a pile of 250 letters from barristers declining to take on his case.

neverdespairgirl

There are lots of cases in which you'd now have to be entirely insane to take on the case at legal aid rates. For example, a "mention" in any case, for any reason, is now paid £40. Travel not paid extra. A mention might in some cases take 3 hours to prepare, 90 minutes' travel @ £20 in total, and 2 hours in court. That ends up being significantly below minimum wage rates in gross fees, before you pay your chambers expenses and all the rest of it.

A fellow-tenant was talking about a sentencing hearing he did a couple of weeks ago. Rather than earning from it, it cost him.

My Dad refers to legal aid cases as pro bono work.......