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

lemonjelly

poet123 wrote: »

I am supporting a friend going through Cancer treatment atm and it is really taking its toll.

The sheer numbers of people you see at the hospital and how ill they look is just awful. My friend loves Coronation Street but the current storyline with Hayley is far too close to home. I find myself being upbeat when I am with her (and she is amazing) but I get home and slump. I also have little patience with the small stuff others find annoys them, illness like this just puts all that into perspective, but, of course, if you are not involved small stuff is still important, as it was to me before this.....

poet, take encouragement from the words & views of a certain Steve Evans:
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/01/15/ive-been-lucky-says-brave-steve-evans-in-last-interview/

lostinrates

Bugs, JUDD I was ranting about that yesterday when a tv was saying alternate day diet was new and of a youngish woman's 'invention. .

PasturesNew

Bit of a do-er up-er
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43506749.html

lostinrates

It really doesn't look THaT bad to me.

Have I been living in a building site too long?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Have I been living in a building site too long?

I think so.

I'd love to have seen it a year ago. Sold prices say it sold for £475k last year, although that could be a typo or something else odd (like an inheritance between two and one buying the other one out) as sometimes odd sales show up as odd figures on the LR figures.

It was probably untouched since the 50s or something before the last owner died.

Edit: In 1991 somebody called Ruth Aspinall was living there. She liked parrots.

Edit 2: Ruth was an author. She died in 2012.

Edit 3: It looks to me like she moved to Lelant, Cornwall a few years ago. Her full name was Honor Ruth Aspinall. Looks like she was moaning about a footpath in Cornwall in 2010 when she was aged 87.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

I also question whether the extra longeveity these fasting diets bring is worth it - if you extend your life by 2/7ths but spend 2/7th of every week feeling miserable, weak and hungry just what is the point?

That is question we will ask ourselves in our final hours. I have feeling I know what I'd rather choose on that day - living 2/7ths of the free 2/7ths of my life I'd just been giving, even feeling miserable, would sound like utter bliss.

Today I went to McDonalds. Living that wasted 2/7ths to the full!

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bit of a do-er up-er
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43506749.html

I have fallen in love with the woodpecker door knocker! :j Must keep my eye open for one of them - we have a woodpecker visit garden, last year she brought her youngster and was feeding him off the suet cake we had up... Must get some more suet cake in!

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bit of a do-er up-er
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-43506749.html

Nice that someone's already done the really gross job of ripping the ceilings down as well as hacking the walls. That's a bonus.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I have fallen in love with the woodpecker door knocker! :j Must keep my eye open for one of them - we have a woodpecker visit garden, last year she brought her youngster and was feeding him off the suet cake we had up... Must get some more suet cake in!

From £10 upwards.

Here's a colour one, hand painted for about £23
http://www.birdfood.co.uk/ctrl/node:156;product:1156;/green_woodpecker_door_knocker

£9.50 for a plain one http://www.worm.co.uk/products/woodpecker-door-knocker in cast iron with verdi gris

PasturesNew

I've had a new gas bill, with a really detailed set of calculations in it.... including one handy set where they estimated my bill, but then did an actual reading 7 days and 5 units later - so it shows me how much 7 days of gas was, which is £2.60. And, from my notes where I've been keeping records on how long I have it on I know that between those two dates I had it on for 13 hours.

So I know that 13 hours of heating cost me £2.60. Standing charge is £1.75 on top of that.

So 20p/hour + standing charge which you have to pay anyway. So that's under £20/month for heating and washing up water.... when it's not very cold, but is winter.