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

tomterm8

Electricity company has come and hacked away at some of our overgrowth. Not very much, to be honest, and after aheming and aharing have probably put us on the list for replacing the line later on at some point in the year.

Obtained the billhook. After using it for an hour my first impressions: it's more a skill tool than I assumed, although it's already quite useful for the bramble clearing work I have for it, it'll take a while to master.

PasturesNew

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's windy today.

But not quite the Stormageddon that the daily express led me to believe would happen.

There was some woman on the telly this morning, in Kingsand, Cornwall, showing the crew inside her house and saying how she'd opened up her front door to discover the waves had smashed up her windows and waves were crashing into her living room.

I did wonder though if she's a local or a Londoner with a holiday home as it's a VERY expensive place, full of Londoners who have relocated and second homes. Not many "locals" round there at all.

Kingsand and Cawsand have old houses built right into/on/along the sea wall and it's a tiny, expensive, two-hamlets spot on the border of Cornwall/Devon.

Some of the photos on here show you the proximity between houses/sea
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/detailMatching.html?prop=37762843&sale=49665119&country=england

PasturesNew

There was an Open Day on a house I could have looked at today, but I didn't go as it's an hour's drive and the weather's bad and:

• They bought it for £165k and have put hideous wallpaper up and now want over £195k
• It's got allocated parking, just one spot, I want a driveway
• It's interesting, but odd. Two bedrooms, each with an en-suite - but no loo for visitors, meaning if either loo/shower packed up, then there'd only be one other and it's in the other bedroom.
• It's not really where I "want" to be.
• I think it's a terrace, all at odd angles, so probably can't get that close to the house; lots of pedestrian areas I think (not driven round there yet)

On the other hand, I wonder if I'm just miffed at asking prices being so much higher now and if I'll regret it in time.... oh well, I can phone them next week and ask if it's been snapped up. If it's not been snapped up, I'll have a look.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Have you established that it is dead?

It's plucked, headless and its innards are in a bag. (There are two of them)

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

It's plucked, headless and its innards are in a bag. (There are two of them)

Ah but not necessarily dead... See around 3.20 in. Or even more bizarrely this! :eek: Though admittedly his innards were intact.

Apologies if I've put anyone off their tea!

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I didn't know you'd be interested:o. Jelly posted a link to the Ariely books on an earlier NP thread. I read both of them and saw an earlier version of this course on Coursera, but by then it was already fully booked. So I've been waiting for it to come back up again. I haven't read his third book though.

I've just reserved copies of the three books from my local library.

I signed up for the local library this morning (Happy National Library day btw, viva ).

Had a look at reserving the books - would have been £3.75. I now understand that this created an anchor point away from the 'free' of the course, and enticed me into looking at how much the books would cost. Very handily, Prof. Ariely has bundled the books together on Amazon (£8.95 for all three) which seemed like a great deal (and I can finally use the Kindle that I won at work a year ago).

I have just read the 1st 4 chapters There are a few things I don't completely agree with (oversimplification), and find some of the writing style a bit laborious (perhaps because I'm very used to reading about experiments, and not in books). But overall its very interesting.

Thanks viva :beer:

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I signed up for the local library this morning (Happy National Library day btw, viva ).

Had a look at reserving the books - would have been £3.75. I now understand that this created an anchor point away from the 'free' of the course, and enticed me into looking at how much the books would cost. Very handily, Prof. Ariely has bundled the books together on Amazon (£8.95 for all three) which seemed like a great deal (and I can finally use the Kindle that I won at work a year ago).

I have just read the 1st 4 chapters There are a few things I don't completely agree with (oversimplification), and find some of the writing style a bit laborious (perhaps because I'm very used to reading about experiments, and not in books). But overall its very interesting.

Thanks viva :beer:

I've read the first two books. I quite enjoyed the first one. The second one seemed to me to have quite a lot of repetition of the first one. Please let me know whether the third one is worth getting once you've read it.

zagubov

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Ah but not necessarily dead... See around 3.20 in. Or even more bizarrely this! :eek: Though admittedly his innards were intact.

Apologies if I've put anyone off their tea!

Makes me think of a movie called Eraserhead!

Nikkster wrote: »

I signed up for the local library this morning (Happy National Library day btw, viva ).

Had a look at reserving the books - would have been £3.75. I now understand that this created an anchor point away from the 'free' of the course, and enticed me into looking at how much the books would cost.

I used to be a member of that library. I was in there thirty years ago and the rain was pelting down like it was here right now, and I was looking at teacher training courses. I stumbled across a separate form for lecturer training courses, at Huddersfield, Bolton, Wolverhampton or London. Put the London one first, liked it at interview and been here ever since.

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

I've read the first two books. I quite enjoyed the first one. The second one seemed to me to have quite a lot of repetition of the first one. Please let me know whether the third one is worth getting once you've read it.

I am wondering how this is going to stretch to three books! Will let you know...

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

Makes me think of a movie called Eraserhead!


I used to be a member of that library. I was in there thirty years ago and the rain was pelting down like it was here right now, and I was looking at teacher training courses. I stumbled across a separate form for lecturer training courses, at Huddersfield, Bolton, Wolverhampton or London. Put the London one first, liked it at interview and been here ever since.

I imagine it looked then much as it does now!