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

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

Tumble drying socks is deffo a posh alert silvercar!

I'm not a fan of tumble dryers. We don't have one. We did, but in reality there wasn't room for it. We sold it for £20, & it packed up in a week1:rotfl:

I actually like air dried towels etc. I love towels off the washing line. I don't feel the need for all that excessive softness. Laundry on the line is great, & I'm always super keen to get the laundry outside whenever possible.

Am I alone in that? seems so glancing at the comments.



I'll keep it especially for your good self yorkie!;)

We dry outside despite owning a tumble dryer. We even have under cover washing lines as well as outside ones! That's pretty common over here actually.

The tumble dryer was bought from a pretty famous chain here that was going bust. The original sale price was about $1,500 and we picked it up for under $300 from memory. It's for Mondays when school uniform has been left in the washing machine by mistake, things like that. It gets used most months but not all but it's one of those things that we don't need until we do. It's a very helpful luxury and as even small flats have a separate laundry as a rule it doesn't really take up any space.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

One of the biggest problems with all this calorie stuff is that there is a lot of unclear guidance around what your daily intake should be. Nowhere does it explain what height and weight the average woman is who should be taking in 2,000 calories a day according to cereal packets, nor does it say how much exercise the average woman does. Similarly for the average man and his suggested 2,500 intake.

In reality those recommended intakes are for people who also do the recommended amount of exercise which is 150 minutes of cardio a week, but I think many people take the average as a starting point and then add extra on top to allow for exercise (whilst simultaneously grossly overestimating the amount of energy the exercise has burned off).

Recent news story was we on average eat ten percent fewer calories than...um....some time ago.

Wasn't paying attention that day or have since forgotten.

tomterm8

chewmylegoff wrote: »

One of the biggest problems with all this calorie stuff is that there is a lot of unclear guidance around what your daily intake should be. Nowhere does it explain what height and weight the average woman is who should be taking in 2,000 calories a day according to cereal packets, nor does it say how much exercise the average woman does. Similarly for the average man and his suggested 2,500 intake.

In reality those recommended intakes are for people who also do the recommended amount of exercise which is 150 minutes of cardio a week, but I think many people take the average as a starting point and then add extra on top to allow for exercise (whilst simultaneously grossly overestimating the amount of energy the exercise has burned off).

Firstly, you have to ignore the recommended intakes on the back of food packets and use a calorie calculator. Then you need to accept that the resulting reading is only a starting point. It won't be right. That's the case with all diets.

"Right" is the level at which you are losing the correct amount of weight. Which is somewhere between 0.5lb and 2lb depending on how close you are to the weight you should be. But mostly 1lb a week, which is what the 5:2 diet is set up for. If you aren't losing the right amount of weight you have to faff about a bit, reducing or increasing calories.

All diets basically require that faffing about because, actually, the calories these calculators predict are wrong nine times out of ten.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Tumble drying socks is deffo a posh alert silvercar!

I'm not a fan of tumble dryers. We don't have one. We did, but in reality there wasn't room for it. We sold it for £20, & it packed up in a week1:rotfl:

I actually like air dried towels etc. I love towels off the washing line. I don't feel the need for all that excessive softness. Laundry on the line is great, & I'm always super keen to get the laundry outside whenever possible.

Am I alone in that? seems so glancing at the comments.



I'll keep it especially for your good self yorkie!;)

Definitely not alone. Line drying is king and unbeatable. That's why I felt spending more on a better tumble dryer was not good money use for us.

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

Not great if I'm honest.

It';s a funny one, & relates a lot to expectations of you sometimes, I guess.

I've just bought Jerry Sadowitz tickets, & also Frank Skinner tickets. I thought phuq it, I need cheering up...

Dad's been in hospital since the weekend, & is likely to be there at least til next weekend, possibly longer. When someone close to you is ill, it is "normal" to take on a load of stuff, as well as fit in all the extras (eg visiting, sorting bags of stuff etc for them) & trying to give the appearance of carrying on as normal. Loads of people will contact me & say "how's yer dad?". It is rare that anyone considers the impact it has on you the person, especially if you're giving the impression of high functioning, and functioning well.

Further, you tend to bottle this up, especially as you don't want people to think you're struggling to cope/tired/burdened. Especially from the pov of the person you're supporting.

Look after yourself Gen...:)

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

It';s a funny one, & relates a lot to expectations of you sometimes, I guess.

I've just bought Jerry Sadowitz tickets, & also Frank Skinner tickets. I thought phuq it, I need cheering up...

Dad's been in hospital since the weekend, & is likely to be there at least til next weekend, possibly longer. When someone close to you is ill, it is "normal" to take on a load of stuff, as well as fit in all the extras (eg visiting, sorting bags of stuff etc for them) & trying to give the appearance of carrying on as normal. Loads of people will contact me & say "how's yer dad?". It is rare that anyone considers the impact it has on you the person, especially if you're giving the impression of high functioning, and functioning well.

Further, you tend to bottle this up, especially as you don't want people to think you're struggling to cope/tired/burdened. Especially from the pov of the person you're supporting.

Look after yourself Gen...:)

How's your dad jelly?



Health has a huge impact on the people near the unwell one. . People talk a lot about the difficulties of the invisible illnesses but I suspect the carers or family members of those with 'invisible' illnesses are possibly even more forgotten.



DH has been asked by another firm to interview with them. He said 'the guy read x at university, that means he'll have heard of my father, but I don't suppose it necessarily goes against me'. I pointed out the guy had called him to ask him to interview not the other way round so it cannot be that bad a sign.

I hate these interview sessions. They always lead to DH feeling self doubt I think. Even when he's offered something its the question of whether to take it or not and what is the right decision. Horrid. I think he should just accept that he's a bit 'stodgey' in career moves. He doesn't much like change. I don't either, so I really, really understand that. We were talking about it a bit over his time off and his desired progression and I think he has some really good self realised ideas, that take pressure off a lot, and put progression into place. So I feel this is actually a bit of spanner in the works.

neverdespairgirl

Hope both your Dad AND you are OK, LJ.

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I thought they were all mothballed - I catch trains to and from platform 19 at Waterloo a lot (the Reading trains, which stop at Feltham, usually use it) and I never see any sign of action at 20+. Did you find out why?

Yeah there was a failure in the switching points just outside Waterloo which meant that they couldn't get trains into platforms 16-19 or something like that. Apparently plat 20 was reopened a few months ago as an emergency overflow.

The reading trains used to be my normal commuter train but these days I'm on the Kingston loop line with its 1750s rolling stock...

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Recent news story was we on average eat ten percent fewer calories than...um....some time ago.

Wasn't paying attention that day or have since forgotten.

Probably not eating enough calories to maintain the memory!

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I strongly suggest that you simply give it a new coat of varnish before trying anything else. The water based varnishes can just be applied with a mop, so you can do the job in a few minutes. You may be surprised just how much better it looks. Obviously, you need to give it a really thorough clean beforehand.

You missed the bit about having to have a T-shaped chunk of it dug out in order to find/ disconnect/ re-lay some essential central heating pipe.

We have now looked at the kitchen tiles with fresh eyes. It is the grouting we don't like. With an extensive clean we could live with them going through the hall too.

I am wary of putting wood into the toilet, too many risks.

The parquet flooring dates back to when the house was built we think, 1937.

Plumber mumbling under his breath; all the internal walls appear to be solid brick.