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

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Talking of mental images... Recently I heard a speaker say to his audience, "This is our only window of opportunity and we must grasp it now." And I thought, surely the point of a window of opportunity is to go through it while it's still open, isn't it? And if you're grasping it, you're still stuck in it, not going through it at all, and I had an amusing mental image of somebody trying to get through a window but hanging on tight to both sides of it.

Try having your back to the wall, shoulder to the wheel, and nose to the grindstone, that'll give an interesting mental image?

A mate of mine from school once had to sit through some torture involving a company "motivational speaker", where he said several times, "there's no "I" in "TEAM"!" as if he was being really, really clever. Mate could only come up with a list of other words which have no "I" in them, such as "fool", "half-baked", and "ego", for the rest of the speech.

LydiaJ wrote: »

My parents also only had snail mail, and I'm not sure whether they even sent their letters airmail or by sea. They had over 55 years of happy marriage until Mum died a couple of years ago.

OH and I had a period of 3 months when snail mail was our only option - he was in Montserrat, studying the volcano, I was going round different places in India, with my best mate from school. Phone calls and email not an option for either of us. That were back in the dark old days of 1999......

lostinrates wrote: »

Its true that one bathroom/loo for four bedrooms is difficult. I remember it being much more normal when I was a child..when did it change? I don my think its ideal but I don't think its totally unworkable. I mean.....it used to work for many, works in student houses. Worked in dh's family home. Thinking back to my parents home I remember that had more bedrooms and only had a down stairs loo and a shower (which was becoming popular then but would

The house I lived in aged 5 to 15 was one of those tall, thin Victorian houses, different levels at the front of back, which in effect had two rooms per floor and an awful lot of stairs. There were 5 of us when we moved in, parents + au pair + sister #1 plus me, and sister #2 and bruv put in relatively prompt appearances. There were two bathrooms, each with bath and loo, one with separate shower, one with shower over bath, and no downstairs loo. I don't remember any particular difficulties, though, seemed fine to me.

I do think it's silly to have, say, a 5 bed house with 5 small-ish bedrooms and 5 en-suite bathrooms. A real waste of space, it's not actually that likely that 5 people will all want to be in the bath or shower at the same time.

Our flat has 2 bathrooms, one has bath, shower and loo, the other shower and loo. That's ample, I reckon, for 3 bedrooms.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

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.

Here I'd imagine that one of the covenants would prevent that and I'd be referred to a committee.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I do think it's silly to have, say, a 5 bed house with 5 small-ish bedrooms and 5 en-suite bathrooms. A real waste of space, it's not actually that likely that 5 people will all want to be in the bath or shower at the same time.
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Is it that rare people all want the bathroom on the same window? (Hehehe, grasping that bathroom window Rofl) Not necessarily the bath/shower, but sink access etc.


I'm thinking of things like morning rushes in big families and getting ready to go out or for a 'thing' at home.......


I always get piano stooled in the bathroom. . (Edit this is a lirism and does NOT mean what it could sound like! I cannot really explain what it means concisely. It means sort of......dh's come and joins in enthusiastically because what I am doing looks fun (oh brushing teeth? good idea, shower? me too? but than ends up with me being sort of pushed out of the way when we are in a hurry because his enthusiasm is greater than mine.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH and I had a period of 3 months when snail mail was our only option - he was in Montserrat, studying the volcano, I was going round different places in India, with my best mate from school. Phone calls and email not an option for either of us. That were back in the dark old days of 1999......

Now I am really jealous. I took a helicopter from Antigua to see the Montserrat volcano. After the longer safety briefing (due to flying over water) we took off and flew over to Plymouth. I couldn't believe the extent of the ash, or that miraculously so few people died. I quite like the tranquility of the place now, where stray dogs and goats still roam. We were not allowed to land, but lets say our pilot found a way of not landing that enabled us to say that we'd been there...

I find volcanos fascinating. Much more so than dinosaurs I'm afraid (sorry Isaac).

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

There is a downstairs toilet at jellies off the garage.

I think master bedroom should have ensuite and if there is a 'guest' bedroom then ideally that should have an ensuite too, after that I guess one family bathroom per 2 (3 max) bedrooms. I think the family bathroom should have a bath as well as shower, the others could be shower only. Our family bathroom has two sinks which seems to help a lot. I don't like bathrooms without a toilet but I can also see the advantages in having a separate toilet.....

I'm not terribly keen on en-suites - the two larger bedrooms in our flat are exactly the same size, and one has a shower room en suite, the other doesn't. OH and I bagged the non-en-suite as our room. The en suite has too many doors - one in, one to the shower room, and one to the courtyard. Makes it much harder to live in, we both thought.

And it can feel, depending on layout, far too much like having a wee in the bedroom.

Some stupidly expensive London places have a bath in an actual bedroom, with a screen or step down, rather than a separate en suite. A fashion I'd loathe, who wants to sleep in a post-bath or spouse-having-bath steam room?

LydiaJ wrote: »

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".

In the long term, not having a bath would be off-putting for me, too, sometimes I absolutely require one. OH could be quite happy without, I think, he almost always only has a shower, but children need baths, too, I reckon.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not terribly keen on en-suites - the two larger bedrooms in our flat are exactly the same size, and one has a shower room en suite, the other doesn't. OH and I bagged the non-en-suite as our room. The en suite has too many doors - one in, one to the shower room, and one to the courtyard. Makes it much harder to live in, we both thought.

And it can feel, depending on layout, far too much like having a wee in the bedroom.

Some stupidly expensive London places have a bath in an actual bedroom, with a screen or step down, rather than a separate en suite. A fashion I'd loathe, who wants to sleep in a post-bath or spouse-having-bath steam room?



In the long term, not having a bath would be off-putting for me, too, sometimes I absolutely require one. OH could be quite happy without, I think, he almost always only has a shower, but children need baths, too, I reckon.

Hmm. Possibly me. ( wanting. bth in the bedroom). I don't like the idea of the moisture damage though. I think its a batter idea for those that don't love expensive fabric!


I'm sort of hoping I can find some reclaimed shutters or bifold doors (rather than have new ones made) so I can have best of both for the master bathroom. ( I really hate the term en suite. Therefore I am going to stop using it now for my house, )

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Is it that rare people all want the bathroom on the same window? (Hehehe, grasping that bathroom window Rofl) Not necessarily the bath/shower, but sink access etc.


I'm thinking of things like morning rushes in big families and getting ready to go out or for a 'thing' at home.......

I don't ever remember it being a problem when we lived in the 2-bathroom-no-extra loo house, to be honest. So no, I think it's pretty livable-with.

My parents' Kent house has an en-suite shower and loo room (a cupboard, it's tiny) for their room, and 2 full bathrooms with showers and loos for the other 3 bedrooms at that end of the house - one huge double, one normal double, and one small single. The other end of the house has a separate staircase, with a large double (that OH and I use when we stay) and a shower and loo room next to it, the only other door off the top of that staircase. There's another room, between ours and my parents', that Isaac sleeps in, which is only accessible through one of those bedrooms. There's also a downstairs loo.

The nearly-finished converted attic has two further bedrooms, and a bathroom.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Now I am really jealous. I took a helicopter from Antigua to see the Montserrat volcano. After the longer safety briefing (due to flying over water) we took off and flew over to Plymouth. I couldn't believe the extent of the ash, or that miraculously so few people died. I quite like the tranquility of the place now, where stray dogs and goats still roam. We were not allowed to land, but lets say our pilot found a way of not landing that enabled us to say that we'd been there...

I find volcanos fascinating. Much more so than dinosaurs I'm afraid (sorry Isaac).

When were you there? OH loved it, got there by boat from Antigua (a pretty rough passage, I gather).

PM-ed you.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

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!

My ticket to ride to Birmingham yesterday cost £84 on the way, and £25 on the way back. And that was, in theory, cheaper than it might have been.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My ticket to ride to Birmingham yesterday cost £84 on the way, and £25 on the way back. And that was, in theory, cheaper than it might have been.

People talk about the SPEEED of the network, but the problem often is the PRICE of the network. I think our train connections are quick. The fast train from here is quicker than I could drive (which is not the same as the line we used to use) especially allowing for traffic.

neverdespairgirl

Speed to Birmingham is extremely impressive. My train left at 7.23am and arrived in Birmingham at 8.33am. That's very, very fast.