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

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

You're frightened for your dogs? Why? Because of the revenge you are planning?

We both felt fairly short with them this morning. Revenge no, but not feeling much like cuddles either.

Feel better now, but not terribly active. I
We. have a friend coming over (surprised not here yet actually ) and had planned to have finished the floor upstairs before that...pffft. No chance.


Instead I've taken the opportunity to see what happens to nut Brittle if you put it in a cake...will the sugar dissolve off or with the nuts stay caramilsed? I don't know. But will be interesting to have them tell me. I've made it in the Christmas tin though, because it was down still and I didn't want to ask DH to get up and get me another tin down or do it myself, That kind of ....weary dragging feeling.

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

The firies came round yesterday and fitted a new one in the lounge as that was where the problem was. We had a hard wired one, but in the hallway the other side of a closed door. Apparently the optimum is one per room, which we will probably go with now. The new one is rather lovely to look at too, like a little spaceship has landed on the ceiling, would be quite happy to have those everywhere.

It's this one that has been installed if anyone is considering getting some:
http://www.fireangel.co.uk/Smoke-Alarms/Optical-Smoke-Alarms/ST-620.aspx

I'm all in favour of one smoke alarm per room, especially after our fire. We had that arrangement before then, and it helped save my son's life. We got them when the kids were very little, and we were worried that they might not be able to open the door to get out of a room that was on fire. These days, I think I would go for wireless linked alarms, although that makes it harder to find where the fire is. The big advantage is that you are much more likely to be woken up.

PN, I don't know for sure, but I think that story of a cooker catching fire is probably wildly exaggerated. The oven is non-flammable. The poster said that she had put some vegetables in the oven to bake. Maybe, she sloshed some oil on top, and that caught fire? The chances are that whatever was flammable inside the oven had burnt itself out long before the fire brigade arrived. So, probably lots of smoke - and not good for her if she breathed it in - but not much fire. I really wouldn't like to think of you not cooking because of worries about something like that happening to you.

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

Has anyone else found the BBC's forecasts particularly rubbish lately? They constantly tell me I can step out of the house in to beautiful sunshine when it is totally tipping down. Netweather seems a bit better though, as would be the Met Office if I could work out what region they think Hertfordshire is in. From their maps it is not straightforward.

The BBC forecast sun for us this morning, which we had. Followed by heavy cloud this afternoon, which we have!

vivatifosi

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm all in favour of one smoke alarm per room, especially after our fire. We had that arrangement before then, and it helped save my son's life. We got them when the kids were very little, and we were worried that they might not be able to open the door to get out of a room that was on fire. These days, I think I would go for wireless linked alarms, although that makes it harder to find where the fire is. The big advantage is that you are much more likely to be woken up.

That's really useful to know, thanks. Very glad to hear that your son's life was saved though it must have been a dreadful experience.

Up until now I'd not think of having one per room as I didn't know it was optimal, and I guess like most people, when I visit the houses of others, I haven't really noticed their ceilings. I just thought the norm was to have one upstairs and one downstairs (which is what we had until the new one was fitted). The adverts do a good job of suggesting that houses have a fire alarm and that they are tested, but I'd never heard of the one per room until I read the leaflet. It's good to hear what others have.

Do any other NPs have one per room?

lostinrates

Nope, not one per room. We have one in the kitchen and one in the hall outside the kitchen (both hard wired). We have battery ones (hmm, I think we still do) on either landing.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

I'm quite upset that the 10% brain thing is rubbish. Any idea where it came from?

I confirmed a factoid recently: a rod in your eye can detect a single photon in a dark room. It takes 7 to set off the optical nerve however.

I heard the grain of truth it was based on, was a series of experiments electrically stimulating the brains of conscious people during operations and asking the patients what they experienced. About 10% of the time they said they smelt or saw or detected something.

The whole brain is used over time, but small subsections of it are active at any moment. It's possible to reassign tasks to new parts of the brain, which is how stroke recovery can happen. I read that that's what colic might be; babies crying because their brains are rewiring themselves and it feels like something to them.

The 10% of the brain bit got popularised when there was a craze for self-help/positive thinking books and courses during the Great Depression. One of them used the tagline. "You only use 10% of your brain; let us unleash your full potential!".. And that seems to be all it took.

A friend who taught psychology used to claim it was the people who believed it were only using 10% of their brains, so I kept shtum about the fact that I'd believed it myself.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm frightened FOR our dogs this morning. Something was up last night, they had us up every hour. Both fir and I feel so e what exhausted and short tempered. We couldn't see what was upsetting them/ unsettling them.

Now THEY are sleeping.

Ours kept us up all night a few days back barking at foxes who were howling outside. Don't know when foxes mate. Wonder if it's to do with that. Mind you somebody was letting off fireworks the other day and I don't know what that was about.

lostinrates

Foxes are mating round about now zag.


Here bangs etc don't really bother mine much, as we get firing sometimes from MoD. But hedgehogs excite them. It could have been hedgehogs, but poor hedgehogs if they are out and about now, huh? Everything is so confused. ,

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've seen property for sale that doesn't have any windows you can access in a fire. I'll go and find links in a minute, if I can. It was a studio flat and the only windows seemed to be high up in the ceiling, no chance of reaching. I wondered how that'd get through fire regs....

Never mind fires. Got relatives who lived on an island on the river. The place just looks like houses in the middle of the river; the island's invisible and so's the road and bridge. Luckily most of the inhabitants have boats, but all the relative's insurance documents are unreachable.

Going to have to go and help with chucking all their possessions into skips when the water recedes. Horrible situation.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Going to have to go and help with chucking all their possessions into skips when the water recedes. Horrible situation.

That's so sad.

With unlimited money .... if I'd lived there I'd have converted the ground floor to a boat shed, parking and barbecue area.... and lived upstairs with a large balcony and .... an inflatable dinghy.