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

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I'd discount fashion for flooring. Flooring in hard surfaces is IMO more 'serious'.

If you want brown go brown. And decorate accordingly. It will be fine. .



Overall, what is your preference for the wooden floor: preserve or go back to scratch at replace?

For rooms off the hall, depending what they were, I'd be a bit more flexible maybe. E.g. Loo I'd be prepared to put down a different floor tile. Maybe a key might be to
Think stone so you are sticking t a natural finish?

If the hall parquet can be saved, we will save it.

If it is beyond saving then I think we will go for a tile as near to the kitchen one as we can. So light brown hard wearing tiles with light brown grout. Then the lounge, study and dining room remain in the parquet.

The loo is white tiles interspersed with little blue ones. As the loo door is generally closed, I am happy for that to remain as it is if the hall remains parquet. If the hall ends up as brown tiles, I am unsure if 2 tiles can meet. If I put brown tiles on the floor of the loo, I have a problem with deciding if I then need to decorate the whole room. I know it isn't big, but it has fully tiled walls. Mainly white with blue insets. So should it remain or should it go brown to match the possible floor?

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

... flow through to the toilet. Would need to be brown tiles to blend with the wood floors in 3 rooms off the hall.
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Can't have brown.... not in a lavatory. It'd become known within the household as the sh1th0le....... srsly. Don't do it.

PasturesNew

Tahlullah wrote: »

There are many people who do not have a pension, but are putting alternative plans into place, such as buying more than one property so they have both capital and rental income to supplement the state pension when they get it, for what it's worth. The difficulty is with those who have no plan beyond the house they currently live in and a reliance on an ever reducing pension pot.

What I am doing is not buying the cheapest house I can find, but buying the cheapest one that's as good as I can get, while spending the majority of my money - and - checking the price of local retirement flats, ensuring that there's a signficant difference in price.... so I'll sell the house one day knowing I can downsize to one of those OK.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

They only need to get one word ' Romania' then arrange talking him to consulate where someone would be able to workout what was being said.

Is it me or is lack of resourcefulness becoming increasingly common? I despair of it in myself, I'd like to think a copper could work out a pretty easy think like 'distressed foreign guy...where's he from...say country names at him till he nods, then take him to consulate or enabassy or areange translator.'

Leaving someone ap
Preaching your help on the streets because you don't understand them is not satisfactory,

I thought he must be able to remember part of his son's address... I'd have got a bit of paper and drawn a family tree.... pointed to me .... pointed to son ... then written down the part-address I could remember.

They'd work it out.

neverdespairgirl

He's clearly not the full shilling; it's not possible to stay lost in a city with the same alphabet as your own language like that if all your marbles are intact.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I thought he must be able to remember part of his son's address... I'd have got a bit of paper and drawn a family tree.... pointed to me .... pointed to son ... then written down the part-address I could remember.

They'd work it out.

I had friends who arrived in London to visit us but lost my address. Mobile phones were rare, plus I don't know if anybody remembers but reception was really patchy. They remembered the street, and just went door-to-door asking if I lived there. Luckily they started at the end of the street closest to my house.

Ten years earlier (sounds like a good name for a band;)) I visited London to attend a family friend's wedding. My sister travelled down from Scotland ( I was living closer in Nikksterville). I lost the name of the hotel. I had to find a phone booth with a phone book (yes, they did exist), and work my way through the likely hotel chains and ask if they were holding the wedding. Got it in five attempts.:T

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

He's clearly not the full shilling; it's not possible to stay lost in a city with the same alphabet as your own language like that if all your marbles are intact.

I'm thinking if he's in his 60s , spent most of his life in the police state that was Causescu's Romania, would he easily think I'll just go and ask those cops for some help........:eek:

Everybody thinks because Romania went to the LA Olympics and condemned the crushing of the Prague Spring they weren't a repressive country. They're the only Eastern Bloc country that executed their dictator, which doesn't sound like a vote of confidence in authority.

neverdespairgirl

I certainly don't think that - nor do most people, surely? Causescu was a tyrant to match many.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I certainly don't think that - nor do most people, surely? Causescu was a tyrant to match many.

I believe that when he first came to power he was widely regarded by westerners as much more benign than leaders of other eastern European states. (Not that I remember back that far myself.) Around the time of his execution, though, the UK press was full of stories about how inaccurate this earlier opinion had been, and details of his excesses and cruelties, and I do remember reading those stories myself at the time.

CKhalvashi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I certainly don't think that - nor do most people, surely? Causescu was a tyrant to match many.

Whilst I'd certainly agree with this, the Peoples Palace, Transfagarisan and Mamaia were all his creations.

I've never visited the Peoples Palace, but I deliberately drove down to Mamaia via Sibiu last year, and even with a large estate car, that stretch of road to Pitesti (before heading to Bucharest) is SO much fun, yet so easy to drive!

I think it's a mix of power and RWD that makes it that way.

Same with Mamaia; it's a long,man-made stretch of beach, that if memory serves me right was one of his holiday destinations for summer.