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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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vivatifosi wrote: »I agree 're toilet bath combos. I like to have both in one room. However if I was to move again it would be a deal breaker to have one loo. Never again. Two loos minimum.
My brother has the upstairs toilet and separate bath and says that helps a lot when it is the only facility. He is planning to knock through once he's installed a downstairs loo though.
This is so rural of us, but if its really that bad......we have the fields. DH piddled on the compost heap or round the chicken houses/feed room anyway.0 -
I think it's gone too far the other way now - houses with as many bathrooms as bedrooms seem to me to be wasting space that could be used for living area. My house has 4 bedrooms, master en-suite and family bathroom (each with loo, basin and shower over bath) and downstairs loo. That feels about right to me for the size of the house.
Growing up, we had 6 people in 5 bedrooms, upstairs bathroom (bath and basin, with shower over bath added later) and separate loo, and downstairs bathroom (loo, basin & bath). It was fine.
The house that jelly posted the link to not only has only one loo, but also has no bath at all, which is unusual for a 4-bed detached, and will put families off it, possibly enabling jelly to get it for a better price, if he's happy to stick with the shower until he gets round to "doing bathrooms".
There is far too much "stick another bathroom in" mentality in property development from what I can see. It's almost as endemic as sticking the kitchen in the living room and turning the old kitchen into another bedroom which has happened in basically all recently converted flats in London.
The house I am looking at has a family bathroom, a wet room ensuite in the master bedroom and a downstairs bathroom.
If we buy it the en suite is probably going to go, even if it will reduce the value of the property I'd rather have a walk in wardrobe in that space, we don't need three toilets (and I hate the concept of having a toilet in a wet room it makes my skin crawl, so even if we do keep it the toilet will not be staying).0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Jelly you should go look. Even if you decide it's not for you, it will start to give you an idea of what is important to you.
Agreed.
Also, what ever a place is like on paper how you feel when you get there is really important.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »:rotfl:
NIKKSTER!!!!
That was toned down too! Its difficult trying to write about getting someone in to look at your plumbing without it sounding like something even michaels would consider too rude :rotfl:
As an aside though, I bumped into Mrs. Nice Neighbour this morning, and thought I'd check where their stopcock is (assuming mine will be in a similar place as the houses have the same layout even though mine is detached) - firstly she wasn't sure (which made me feel better about not knowing where mine was) and secondly Mr. Nice Neighbour turns out to be a qualified plumber... I did say to her that I didn't want to get in the habit of running round there any time there was a problem...
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chewmylegoff wrote: »If we buy it the en suite is probably going to go, even if it will reduce the value of the property I'd rather have a walk in wardrobe in that space, we don't need three toilets (and I hate the concept of having a toilet in a wet room it makes my skin crawl, so even if we do keep it the toilet will not be staying).
Written like a man who doesn't have kids yet....I think....0 -
Written like a man who doesn't have kids yet....
It's interesting too to consider your bathroom needs vs my brother's. His house is a wip, a bit like yours before you started extending. His household size is the same but the gender mix reversed. He feels that it's much easier to deal with the queue for the bathroom with boys rather than girls. I think my sil despairs though.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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PasturesNew wrote: »There are 5 dinosaurs, quickly explained as:
• The ones on the Flintstones
• T Rex
• Tricora somethings
• Something beginning with a P that flies
• The rest and they're all big.
I can tell you too need an Isaac to [STRIKE]bore you witless[/STRIKE] improve your knowledge....vivatifosi wrote: »:rotfl:I know I haven't met him, but I love Isaac. I need to sit at his feet and for him to teach me stuff. I adore brainy kids and their quest for knowledge.
I think that's almost the most important thing in a primary school - obviously children need to learn to read, write and count and so forth, but the real gift of a good primary school is to encourage and nuture the desire to learn, the fascination of finding things out. Fortunately, Isaac's school, although decidedly annoying in some ways, is fantastic at doing that. Which makes the annoying things (forgetting to tell parents about forthcoming school trips, then an urgent letter-plus-demand-for-£11.25-in-exact-change-by-tomorrow, and a vagueness about future term dates, and a demand for a cake for a party or baking sale tomorrow), easily to live with.I have posted before that DD has a close ex who she remains friends with. Chewie guessed his occupation without prompting when I posted that DD had had to change the wheel on his car.
He is an ACEAW, specialising in tax, in a v large professional firm. Lovely guy, horsey, gentle natured, self effacing, with a total absence of style. He was with us last night and we are fond of him.
Today I spent time with three of his colleagues, they were more typical of this firm - had style, confidence, "charisma". I did really well to only come across as grumpy...and not knock any patronising g!ts head off.
Why struggle? The only way to remove temptation is to yield to it.....
OH recently came across a description of an accountant as someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had, in a way you are completely unable to understand. It was something to do with capital depreciation write-off that prompted it in his tax return, I think.
What went wrong so that he is an ex? Tell me to mind my own damn business, naturally, whenever appropriate.lostinrates wrote: »He's lovely, He has a sharp mind, but a soft sweet smile. A very dear little man indeed. I enjoyed his insights very much.
Its really amazing that nice children are all so nice. You know the doozer kids are sweet too. Doozerkid1 is seriously hard working. And doozergirl the tiny (who is probably quite a bit bigger now) looked like a doll and was so brave with my dogs, and polite and just sweet. She looked like a child from a picture book but also quite like her daddy.
I'm quite fond of him too, but I admit to being biased. I introduced him to the phrase "when you're in a hole, stop digging" today, after he said "good old Mummy!", then paused, and said, "you aren't actually old, just middle-aged, aren't you?"
Sam and OH were too busy wetting themselves to be of any actual use at this point....
I think doozergirl's almost exactly the same age as Isaac - born mid-2005? Or perhaps I've misremembered. I'd love to meet doozerkids, and Michael's DKs, and Lydia's pair, too. And other NKs, too, of course.I think they are in the walled garden...yesterday they just looked like sticks, or sticks with rosehips. There was a signup saying they were sorting out the companion planting.
I was admiring the raised beds and unfavourably comparing the poor raised bed that Mr Spirit made in my veg patch. Do not think it will have motivated him to greater things.
Isaac has me beaten on dinosaurs. Being a woman, and mother of a daughter dinosaurs have not featured much in my life.
I did however once share a house with an Iraqi and and Iranian. We were all great friends however they went home and we lost touch. I hoped Ahmad and Ahmed never found themselves face to face in conflict. They would have been of combatant age, and both in their respective elites.
What is wrong with your raised beds? Just size, or grandeur, or what?
Do you have brothers? OH was saying that another son was in his comfort zone, as he has almost no knowledge of small girls - no aunts, no sisters, no daughters.
If they were in their respective elites, perhaps they'd have been able to stay well out of the dirty end of conflicts - that's what being in an elite is for, partly, isn't it?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Where is Pastures? We need her to fill this in for NP as a sort of independent assessor.
http://poshtest.com/test/index.php
If we do it ourselves we may not tell the truth.
I got 73%.
I did it for my parents, too, and they got 83% - that's, I think, the house-having-a-name and more-than-one-car (which seems to me something much more easily explained by where you live than how you live)....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I got 73%.
I did it for my parents, too, and they got 83% - that's, I think, the house-having-a-name and more-than-one-car (which seems to me something much more easily explained by where you live than how you live).
Predictably its causing a row on the relationships forum.
More than two cara is presumably also and economic indicator as much as a social one, and as you say. NDG, how you live.
Getting a train these days seems pretty luxurious option for me!
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I got 33%.
Think I only got that because it's strictly shoes off inside the house.
My Dad's got a real bee in his bonnet about shoes - he loathes people being barefoot or in socks in any house he has any say in. He'll put up with people wearing slippers, in a noisy kind of silence. But living on a farm currently doubling as a marsh, it's normal for people to change out of wellies or riding boots into normal shoes as soon as they come in, otherwise the house would be ankle-deep in mud.
I've never seen my Dad in slippers, I doubt he owns any. Wellies, boots, or normal shoes, that's his lot. He does have an ancient Barbour, but I can't quite see it as posh, it's more revolting than anything else.I am still mystified by the red top thing. Am I being very dim?
Probably, which is a first for you - red top = tabloid, surely?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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