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

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

It'll be Nicky, eating Sugar Puffs in her Jim Jams most of the time. Then maybe Nicky and some random bloke.... just needs a smallish round table with drop leaves.

Or a breakfast bar of course.

I'd prefer to split that huge room in half, with some big, double, glass doors.... so you're only heating one end. One end and kitchen wall opened up to be a breakfast bar would be what I'd prefer - but that chimney's in the way.

Swap sugar puffs for marmite on toast/ muffin/ crumpet, and jim jams for hoodie and joggers combo and you've got it about right. And its usually the sofa (table if I'm feeling particularly refined).
I'll keep an eye out for any random breakfast guests

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm currently thinking the kind of thoughts about Bob Crow and his Merry Gang which would, no doubt, get me chucked off any pretensions to NP status.

But anyone working out how to get across to Waterloo and back two days in a row during a tube strike might have similar thoughts, do you think? I've got quite a load of papers tomorrow, too.

I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover (but then, only a fool doesn't judge by appearances) and Bob Crow looks to me just like a man who would start a fight in a pub after a football match:

Bob Crowe seriously rankles me. Being from a working class background, I can appreciate some of the advances that unions have gained on behalf of their members. However for the most part I feel a consultative two way approach to staff is much better than collective bargaining. And I absolutely detest the firebrand type, incapable of either compromise or walking a mile in my shoes, when they would rather develop personal fiefdoms.

It doesn't matter whether it is Crowe now or Scargill 30 years ago, who benefits long term from their actions?

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

Would we be allowed to have a no money, no payout, just for fun sweepstake on when they go? If so, I'm going for overnight Friday to Saturday.

The background is that they have been on the path, but hidden from the road by cars etc for a while. Since Sunday afternoon they have been very visible. Since Monday they have been on the edge of the drive just ready to be picked up.

It is bin day tomorrow, which raises the possibility of them going either because the bin men may tip off mates that they are there or because scrap searches may tour bin routes in the hope of pickings.

There is a time limit on this, if they don't shift then plumber is obliged to take them away.

Nikkster

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

he thought

Let me stop you right there.

I don't really have strong pro- or anti-union feelings, but Bob Crow makes me very cross.

neverdespairgirl

OH and I were chatting about it this evening, because so much of the union's rhetoric sounds dated, to me.

OH thinks it's that the union is stuck in a very old-fashioned mind-set, that of a class struggle, workers v capitalists, etc. He reckons that a lot of it is party political - with a Conservative mayor of London and Conservative PM, and that this is a large part of the motivation. He might very well be right.

I wholly agree that the right to withdraw labour is an important one, and that unions have, in general, achieved a great deal from Tolpuddle days onwards. In this particular instance, though, I think it's more about power struggles than the good of anyone else.

vivatifosi wrote: »

And I absolutely detest the firebrand type, incapable of either compromise or walking a mile in my shoes, when they would rather develop personal fiefdoms.

It doesn't matter whether it is Crowe now or Scargill 30 years ago, who benefits long term from their actions?

My gripe is that I don't particularly want to walk miles in my own shoes tomorrow and Thursday, let alone anyone else's.....

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Swap sugar puffs for marmite on toast/ muffin/ crumpet, and jim jams for hoodie and joggers combo and you've got it about right. And its usually the sofa (table if I'm feeling particularly refined).
I'll keep an eye out for any random breakfast guests

One day it will be you elegantly spread out with partner eating each other for breakfast probably

I think the wind might be dropping a bit. I'm not sure I want to go to sleep just yet though. I love weather, but tonight's has unsettled me a little. Exciting though. And beautiful.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

One day it will be you elegantly spread out with partner eating each other for breakfast probably

I think the wind might be dropping a bit. I'm not sure I want to go to sleep just yet though. I love weather, but tonight's has unsettled me a little. Exciting though. And beautiful.

So long as I have marmite, I'm fine if it's just me. Also means I don't have to share the marmite

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm not really a breakfast bar person anyway (which is fortunate).

Do you actually use a table?

I'd sit on the sofa with a tray on my lap for meals.... and the breakfast bar would just be one huge, empty, usable space for cooking, organising things, sorting paperwork, reading big Sunday papers, spreading things out, doing crafts, food buffet layout if the NPs came for a BBQ ..... with the potential to be used to eat at if people were coming over.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

One day it will be you elegantly spread out with partner eating each other for breakfast probably

I think the wind might be dropping a bit. I'm not sure I want to go to sleep just yet though. I love weather, but tonight's has unsettled me a little. Exciting though. And beautiful.

News report was live from the Lizard, Cornwall earlier - huge wave expected tomorrow. They say "biggest wave in the world coming", but then the small print says "right now", so it's not that big.... 30-40'.... which is a LOT larger than most of Cornwall usually see

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Do you actually use a table?

I'd sit on the sofa with a tray on my lap for meals.... and the breakfast bar would just be one huge, empty, usable space for cooking, organising things, sorting paperwork, reading big Sunday papers, spreading things out, doing crafts, food buffet layout if the NPs came for a BBQ ..... with the potential to be used to eat at if people were coming over.

I mainly sit at the kitchen table in cheese room now...in a big black arm chair.

Arm chairs btw, are very hard to tuck in to tables,