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

PasturesNew · 13 January 2014 at 2:52PM

lostinrates · 13 January 2014 at 3:00PM

I think we are essentially talking one storey) or maybe flying free hold sort of idea.

The coach house

is ummm, about sixty feet long. And....of width yet to be determined......but narrow. I wonder how long the car is? And all the second flor will be in eaves. I think I might be wise to look at narrow boat layouts?

We're not a hundred percent sure but had thought we'd keep down stairs as some sort of arangment of workshop, log store, garaging, yard/dog kitchen (could double as kitchen for upstairs) and equine/dog (and desperate human) wash down room.

It HAS to be timber frame and not veer off foot print. But no one ever told me how tall the building I am meant to replace was..........but I np don't want to have to pull the thing down so building something ridiculously tall would be a foolish move.

GDB2222 · 13 January 2014 at 3:23PM

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

What a great use of my day - left home at half eight, went to Feltham, case got adjourned (back in on 10th March) and I've just got back to town. Would've been a better and cheaper use of my morning to stay in bed!

Is this all Legal Aid work? What do they pay for an adjournment in Feltham? Or is it all supposed to be included in the overall fee?

Perhaps buy a bottle of Château Thames Embankment to drown your sorrows?

LydiaJ · 13 January 2014 at 5:18PM

Busy weekend. Trying to catch up on two days or more of posts, but have a lot to get done this evening so may have to leave most of it until later.

Just wanted to contribute to the phobia discussion. I have two. One is drowning, with a particular emphasis on any form of being trapped or constrained underwater. The other is swans - I am always sure they are going to attack me if I go anywhere near them.

lostinrates · 13 January 2014 at 5:20PM

LydiaJ wrote: »

Busy weekend. Trying to catch up on two days or more of posts, but have a lot to get done this evening so may have to leave most of it until later.

Just wanted to contribute to the phobia discussion. I have two. One is drowning, with a particular emphasis on any form of being trapped or constrained underwater. The other is swans - I am always sure they are going to attack me if I go anywhere near them.

This probably doesn't help but I got attacked by swans/a swan swimming in the Thames. It was pretty hardcore:eek:

poet123 · 13 January 2014 at 6:08PM

LydiaJ wrote: »

Busy weekend. Trying to catch up on two days or more of posts, but have a lot to get done this evening so may have to leave most of it until later.

Just wanted to contribute to the phobia discussion. I have two. One is drowning, with a particular emphasis on any form of being trapped or constrained underwater. The other is swans - I am always sure they are going to attack me if I go anywhere near them.

:rotfl:I read that as "constrained underwear".....a theme close to my heart at the moment as I have been up during the night being sick with some kind of bug and when I put my clothes on I felt worse. That might be tmi sorry:o Fortunately, I already had the day booked off as we had a really busy weekend, so I had a duvet day till noon, then did a bit of pottering. Still feeling under the weather though....

PasturesNew · 13 January 2014 at 6:28PM

lostinrates wrote: »

I think we are essentially talking one storey) or maybe flying free hold sort of idea.

The coach house is ummm, about sixty feet long. And....of width yet to be determined......but narrow. I wonder how long the car is? And all the second flor will be in eaves. I think I might be wise to look at narrow boat layouts?

Yes, narrow boats and mobile homes. My mobile home was 30'x10' and had 1 bedroom.

lostinrates wrote: »

We're not a hundred percent sure but had thought we'd keep down stairs as some sort of arangment of workshop, log store, garaging, yard/dog kitchen (could double as kitchen for upstairs) and equine/dog (and desperate human) wash down room.

I am surprised to see you say that. I thought it was for RP - and you have to consider RP's mobility in the coming years (stairs).....

Also, to provide any workshop, log store, garaging, yard/dog kitchen facility etc could be easily incorporated outside of that structure in many more flexible/cheaper ways.

PasturesNew · 13 January 2014 at 6:30PM

LydiaJ wrote: »

The other is swans - I am always sure they are going to attack me if I go anywhere near them.

I was trying to persuade 3-4 of those to stay still while I photographed them in the floods the other day .... they kept moving about - they knew I was trying to take a photo as they kept looking at me.... darn them!

ukmaggie45 · 13 January 2014 at 6:40PM

De-lurking to say there's an article on Dementia came up in the Grauniad on Saturday:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/11/losing-mother-dementia-sally-magnusson

Both my parents died with dementia nearly 7 years ago (estates still not finally wound up! :eek: ), Dad had vascular dementia but was still "himself" to the end. Mum had dementia given as primary cause of death on death certificate. She most certainly wasn't "herself", luckily she did apologise to my girls and OH about how awful she was to them, but she never did to me. But she thought I was her sister so maybe fair enough - long story.

Currently my dear MiL is in Nursing Home with prob some form of dementia - short term memory is shot. If you visit in afternoon she will say not had any visitors even though some were signed in at front door to NH that morning.

Sorry to appear from nowhere! But after the discussion on dementia last week I wanted to make sure you saw the Grauniad article.

lostinrates · 13 January 2014 at 6:47PM

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, narrow boats and mobile homes. My mobile home was 30'x10' and had 1 bedroom.

I am surprised to see you say that. I thought it was for RP - and you have to consider RP's mobility in the coming years (stairs).....

Also, to provide any workshop, log store, garaging, yard/dog kitchen facility etc could be easily incorporated outside of that structure in many more flexible/cheaper ways.

Workshops/log stores /dog kitchens are are for life.....

We'd look at a stair lift for RP if/when needed, but not before, becAuse 'use it or lose it'.

I think the key thing with that space is to think not just how we'd use it now but how we would in the future or even how others would. I think a granny annexe remains a possible, but so does a teen annexe or holiday let or small rental unit or even staff accommodation.

The building we were really thinking of for RP originally was the dairy, which is an actual building. The 'coach house' (or cake house on some plans) is just a red brick wall now, that we have obligations o rebuild. They gave us the original materials, a load of tiles lots of which are broken, and a load of slimy old mushy wood.....explaining why the thing fell down in the first place, and a couple of photo graphs. Shame the quality of the photos was carp, I'll be designing it now we want it as a result, so long as the road side is plain (which is what we want, plain and plain can be, austere) I feel a little leeway over the side that faces the yard.

We're getting a bit of that sort of blindness that you get when you use a place. We cannot think either how it will look when finished nor very laterally about anything else (doozers too, were saying keep on ground floor, but its not a very farm friendly way to have things, agree it works better residentially, but if you go on any where where there are coexisting things you'll note the successful ones often have residential up, and business down.

You cannot easily carry wood miles, so its the logical place, near all three buildings,

. And the wash down in that building keeps plumbing together, and one set of stalls so I can wash down and see vet in same place, and I want to be near gates for vets really.

I could do without stalls for vet. I've never had them before

. But I really like the idea.

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