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

chewmylegoff

I have been playing online chess with a friend this afternoon. After a couple of hours I received an SMS from his very pregnant OH which states:

"FYI I am in hospital in labour and [OH] is playing chess with you. Total [insert expletive]". Ha ha!

neverdespairgirl

My Dad plays chess online a lot, mostly with an old school mate of his oop north. But my mother's not in labour....

My sympathies are rather with the OH (-:

Nikkster

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I have fallen in love with the woodpecker door knocker! :j

So have I

And a new front door is very near to the top of my list of 'things that need doing for the house'...

There was a green woodpecker that visited my parents' garden (called Woody). Occasionally a Mrs. Woody made an appearance too. They've not been spotted for a while though

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My old boss tells a brilliant story about an exchange of solicitors correspondence which ended with one solicitor forming his hand into "the bird" sticking it flush with a piece of headed paper, drawing around it and then faxing it to his opposite number. I've no idea if it really happened but you could scan something similar in and email it to your "client" for a laugh...

I have a lovely pen drawing that a friend drew of a pigeon carrying an umbrella. I don't think I could send it instead, but I think I may send it with the quotation just to amuse myself

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Thought you'd have built a spreadsheet for that.... quotes can't be that different from each other ... once you've 10 or so templates built bob's your uncle.

I do have a lovely excel based program which helps me a great deal, it makes new build elements easier but this has a large element of renovation and no architects spec to document the changes. I'm interpreting from drawings, estimating each element separately and then writing the spec out myself to cover us.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

So have I

And a new front door is very near to the top of my list of 'things that need doing for the house'...

There was a green woodpecker that visited my parents' garden (called Woody). Occasionally a Mrs. Woody made an appearance too. They've not been spotted for a while though

The cats brought a green woodpecker (very much alive ) in to the bedroom at the last house once.

Trying to get a hale and hearty wood pecker out of the house is not easy.

DH was home and he put on his 'rooster kit' to do it.

His rooster kit was two cereal boxes on either arm and a huge pair of gauntlets. :rotfl:


Here we have a sported woodpecker who comes to the bird feeder which is about six feet from kitchen window. I get so excited when he arrives I almost squeal.

At a house I used to live in we had a kingfisher who swooped through the garden on his route t a stream. How ever much you see that flash of colour its still exciting.

I'm kind of envious of peeps in London with wild parakeets or budgies or whatever they are.

Birds really aren't my strong suit at all, but I like them a lot in a sort of, 'oh, pretty bird' sort of way. But I do miss co,our ful ones a bit.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had no idea some hobs didn't get hot. Never seen one of those.

Thanks for your comments PN.

Induction hobs downside is you have to use ferrous metal pans on them. We did have to buy some new saucepans - just take a magnet when buying, if it sticks they'll work. DD2 lucked into some new to her (only a couple of years old) saucepans! :rotfl: But our cast iron stuff is fine, including prezzie from OH years ago of big Le Creuset casserole thank goodness! Plus some similar but much cheaper from A*di which work fine, but the colour isn't as pretty. Colour does actually matter to me it did make me more keen to cook when I still had the capability of doing it.

Good thing about induction hobs is they are reputedly much more energy efficient than others. As well as the they don't get hot thing. When my girls were little we had a gas cooker. We didn't have any accidents with it, but they were taught from tiny that flames are hot and you don't touch the cooker. GrandKids are a different kettle of fish, they need more teaching than I am able to do now, and OH might have a job over that too.

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

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.

I'm sorry. I saw that, then didn't connect with your other post. Do they have to destroy the parquet when lifting it?

SingleSue

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

So that might be ITRO 3,500 calories, or 1lb in fat, lost per week?

Once I get to 26 weeks pregnant, if I'm still throwing up, the obsteitrician (how the hell do you spell that? I can't get close enough for the spill chicken to help me out) will put me on stronger pills. That would be nice, I'm still down on my weight before I got pregnant, which isn't Supposed to Happen.

With James, I was still under my pre pregnancy weight at 30 odd weeks, in total, I put on 10lbs (he weighed 8lbs). With Josh, my total weight gain was 6lbs (he was 7lbs 8ozs but had lost weight in the last few weeks of pregnancy due to a true knot in his cord)

My metabolism went mental when pregnant, I could literally eat for England but not put weight on, several times the doctor accused me of being on a diet but that couldn't have be further from the truth.

With youngest, I had severe sickness into the 2nd trimester but then started putting weight on, in the end, he was the one I put the most weight on with, exactly 1 stone....most of which was water retention as I started to develop pre eclampsia (sp?) at the end, he weighed 6lbs 8 ozs at at least 3 weeks early.

Each time, I came out of hospital a lot less than my pre pregnancy weight..bonus!

Nikkster

Following on from the earlier discussion of fasting...

I've been doing the 5:2 diet on and off for the past year (stopped over the summer when I was spending a lot of time typing, then was difficult to get started again in autumn as there was a lot going on with work/ house buying and I was travelling quite a bit). Getting back into it now, even though I seem to be having severe will power issues (think I want to be hibernating).

I find it works better than the few other 'diets' I've tried, because for 5 days a week you're not dieting. It is much easier to be strict for a day knowing that if you want to eat whatever you are craving, you can do so tomorrow.

I can also buy into the 'it stops your metabolism slowing' argument. Plus it's supposed to have quite a good impact on insulin-related hormone levels. And not eating a lot a couple of days a week saves a bit on the food bill