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

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Could go private. My BUPA policy doesn't cover GP appointments but I can get a reduced rate so it costs £50 a go or something like that. Can be worth it sometimes if the alternative is having to take time off work to go as you can usually find a private GP very close to work if you're in Central London.

Yeah. He could go and see my old GP......but he doesn't want to. We also have a family friend who is a private GP. (To whom he could also mention RPs issues come to think of it) but would rather 'paddle his own canoe'. Which Is fair enough.

He should go private, He would make ME go private :rotfl:.

lostinrates

Big dog update.


Doing so bloody well the other two are plaintively asking me to take her off the new meds please, She won't let them rest.

PasturesNew

Another for LIR's collection: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42422776.html

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Another for LIR's collection: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-42422776.html

If I had that sort of space I really wouldn't be in a bother!

Mine is going to be positively pokey for head height and width.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

You probably all knew this already and I am just behind the times.

Pretty much

I was looking on RM the other day and when I clicked on streetview on a house it took me into a shop as the postcodes must have matched... bit annoying that was.

You can go in the tardis too ..... and Eden Project's been done years.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

If I had that sort of space I really wouldn't be in a bother!

Mine is going to be positively pokey for head height and width.

I was figuring you were looking for ideas/features .... perchance to find "a perfect fit to copy".... just stuff that works/doesn't.

I've got a real thing about stairs. Stair size, orientation, turns, different ways you can fit stairs into a space and what that impacts/improves. ...... I should have been a staircase designer ...

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

yesterday I also had a reminder that I want to pass on.... that even in the worst of weather you should get out of a broken down car and go up the embankment if your car breaks down. An 18 tonne lorry went over such a vehicle where the lady driver was still in it:(.

In daylight/good visibility, I think I'd settle for sitting in the back, with the siding door open .... looking backwards so I can leap out if anything looks iffy.....

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

PN - go for it. It is lovely.

I am just linking LIR to that sort of property when they come up in searches .... it's not for me. It's for LIR's design ideas portfolio.

Where'd my workshop with hammers, blow torches and acids go? And the car. And the kayak ... which I'd no longer need as it's too far from the waterside......so I'd not bother.

vivatifosi

I am playing catch up...

silvercar wrote: »

One of the very few people who use a garage as a garage.

We use our garage as a garage. My poor car is outside in the elements though:(. I think one of the seals may have gone because I had to demist the inside so much today:(:(

lemonjelly wrote: »

So, in addition to the new school of life books that I do want, Alain de Botton now has this newie coming out:
http://alaindebotton.com/news-users-manual/

In spite of the sheer volume of "to read" books I already possess, I had to buy this one. So, I pre-ordered.
That's 2 books I have on pre-order for the first 3 months of the year, & I heard about another book coming out in february I really will want too.

Thankfully I appear to have read approx 20 books since the summer (you know a list is likely to appear soon as a result...) so I am at least trying to work my way through them all.

That Alain de Botton book looks great. I will have to read that. I wonder how it compares to my perennial favourite Flat Earth News. I have only read about 6 since the summer, mostly because of doing research into family history. And one of those was a book about taxes in the reign of Henry VIII...

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was figuring you were looking for ideas/features .... perchance to find "a perfect fit to copy".... just stuff that works/doesn't.

I've got a real thing about stairs. Stair size, orientation, turns, different ways you can fit stairs into a space and what that impacts/improves. ...... I should have been a staircase designer ...

You could set up in business with my Dad. He built his own staircase.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Parquet - I remember them from school.

We have light oak parquet in our sitting room. it is a bit scuffed looking.