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

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Frame is an old one from IKEA. Can't remember which cheap shop the pic came from. :rotfl:

I love that colour blue. It is my favourite. If it wasn't for the fact that it could be cold my whole house would be painted in it. Have compromised and painted the spare room that colour instead.

This is the blue painting that I have in my blue bedroom, it is very relaxing, sadly I couldn't afford the original:

http://www.jeanniemaddox.com/surf.htm

I love the sea

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

I know this is stupid, but I am going to post it anyway.

OH and I sent each other Valentine cards. I read that some NP do and some don't. We do this every year, generally not gifts just a card with an expression of how we feel about each other.

Today I feel sad that DD does not have 'someone', and a bit odd that our cards are up. She has been mostly single for a while, it is her business not mine...I don't know if she feels sensitive about it.

I did say it was stupid.

I can't speak for Miss Spirit, but my own experience of not liking being single is that while other people's overtly happy relationships may sometimes cause a pang, one's own parents' happy relationship is always always a good thing, and never a problem to be reminded of. If you've always done it every year since she was little, it would be weird for her if you didn't, and might even make her worry and wonder what was wrong.

[X-posted with silvercar]

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

1) You call that a mess?!

2)How old is your house? for some reason I think it is probably 30s? In which case are the beams structural or are they just 'decoration'? I have a strong dislike of interiors that are not in keeping with the age of the building, things like fake beams to look twee or hypermodern kitchens in Victorian cottages. So if I am right about the building age and they are not structural I would be very tempted to get rid.

Kitchens do get added in modern times to Victorian cottages. I on't mind that showing in design choice. Its not my design choice, but its one I like. If we were to be true to time period we'd have no bathroom at all in this house!

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I know this is stupid, but I am going to post it anyway.

OH and I sent each other Valentine cards. I read that some NP do and some don't. We do this every year, generally not gifts just a card with an expression of how we feel about each other.

Today I feel sad that DD does not have 'someone', and a bit odd that our cards are up. She has been mostly single for a while, it is her business not mine...I don't know if she feels sensitive about it.

I did say it was stupid.

I don't think its stupid.

You care, she's Been 'feeling rough' recently. Its natural to want to do the right thing.

She doesn't live in a bubble though, and a couple of cruddy valentines are almost a rite of passage for some, a life time for others. She's so lucky to be so well loved. Even if she won't notice that for sometime,

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Four, so shouldn't be crippling. Various issues inside that number though, one not right in the head , one injured.

I would not want to do four. It would take me all day.

Hard when they are in. Can you skip out or are they very wet? Is the muck heap close by and easy to access?

One of ours (Spirit) was very wet and very messy - had to muck out, take the wet out and add more bedding and redo the banks every day and throw the bed up as often as possible. If we could get in and scoop up before she had distributed it everywhere it felt like a triumph.

Why not right in the head? What is the injury?

GDB2222

DW wished me a happy VD this morning. I'd quite forgotten. So much messing about with the old lady, and her resisting attempts to help her.

Spirit_2

An odd coupling

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26186542

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

DW wished me a happy VD this morning. I'd quite forgotten. So much messing about with the old lady, and her resisting attempts to help her.

GDB it sounds upsetting and wearisome. Very hard for Mrs GDB.

What was you BiL's response? Helpful or not?

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I would not want to do four. It would take me all day.

Hard when they are in. Can you skip out or are they very wet? Is the muck heap close by and easy to access?

One of ours (Spirit) was very wet and very messy - had to muck out, take the wet out and add more bedding and redo the banks every day and throw the bed up as often as possible. If we could get in and scoop up before she had distributed it everywhere it felt like a triumph.

Why not right in the head? What is the injury?

Yes, only skipping out and digging out patches, they are barn kept...no stables. . Problem is that means its kicked about all over the show! I usually sweep a square of yard each days, that will go by the by, no point today for example. (We have quite a big yard ) .

Injury is a cut heel. Its dressed and in a hoof boot, (even though she is in I don't think being in a barn with bedding is that healthy for an open wound) so needs dressing and stuff twice a day. She is exceptionally clumsy. Not right in the head is a difficult one.

I suspect he's just like some people. He's not a bad boy, but he'll never be a novices horse, nor suitable for anyone not quite patient and prepared to treat him like a baby always, I don't really want to talk more about a client's horse on open forum though.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

DW wished me a happy VD this morning. I'd quite forgotten. So much messing about with the old lady, and her resisting attempts to help her.

Somehow those initials seem entirely inappropriate for the spirit of valentines....

lostinrates wrote: »

Kitchens do get added in modern times to Victorian cottages. I on't mind that showing in design choice. Its not my design choice, but its one I like. If we were to be true to time period we'd have no bathroom at all in this house!

I don't think interiors need to be period I just think they are probably better 'neutral' than being completely out of kilter so by all means put in a sensible modern kitchen in a victorian cottage but not a hyper-modern high gloss brightly coloured one - does that make sense?

silvercar wrote: »

Quoted wrong post, supposed to be the one about the house age.

Dangerously on topic, apart from thinking house built in the 60s and before have sensible sized accomodation and plots it must also be said that lots of houses like SCs and mine were built during this period on land that nowadays would be completely untouchable greenfield and yet there is no suggestion that such development should be bulldozed so how come it was OK to take new land into development then, the result is considered entirely acceptable now and yet suggest doing anything similar now is considered sacriligous. IMHO it would be possible to build a new town around a railway station on the main line S of St Albans and N of the M25. Yes it would lead to a 'urban sprawl' but if it was built as a town with the 'planning gain' in value of the land paying for the new station and other facilities needed and also linked into the major road network so as not putting pressure on the local roads then what would be the problem?