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

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We don't do too badly on the cupboards, garage, loft and outbuildings front. Where we fall down though is on the ability not to buy carp in the first place or to sell / give / throw it away when no longer needed.

I think our house would tick most of PN's boxes but it is too far from the sea. I think our town would suit Chewie.

It'd be too big .... I don't want/need a big house.... but I'd like one laid out right.

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

I know PN is a hard sell but...

I think I may have cracked it!!

It doesn't seem to have a hole for the back camera lens..... which means it'd have to be taken out for snaps maybe?

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... Lydia could sit in it soon without getting out and looking like a dog was on my list and hasn't been done........

That could probably do with some commas..... else it looks like you're saying Lydia looks like a dog that hasn't been done

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm not sure if that is a really, really posh alert or a really really whimsical alert. I've never heard of a cat fountain before.

Its distinctly neither posh nor whimsical. Ugly horrid plastic things. Horrendous. But cats often prefer to drink from running water. Ours have had to be without for a few years, but we have found it, so....

Right....now I am going to go and clean the bathroom and hope that makes the rose thorns I have got in my fingers come out. Times like now is when I wish we had plentiful hot water!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I stepped on my silly glass nail file. I always drop them then step on them, Such a twit.

That has to be a POSH ALERT.

I didn't know you could get glass ones. I thought they were either metal or sandpaper.

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lostinrates wrote: »

The thing we are undecided on today is a cat drinking fountain, The upshot is DH is going to set it up and if its complete it can stay, if not it must go. It seems the only fair compromise. They did used t love the drinking fountain.

Yes, such hard times .... poor abused kittiez without their own drinking fountain

*runs to phone the RSPCA*

Nikkster

Ok, lir made me feel bad so I felt I needed to properly complete the task and take the rubbish out to the wheelie bin rather than having the bags on display in the kitchen. Then figured I should vacuum the house and steam mop the kitchen before putting the vacuum cleaner and steam mop into their new home under the stairs.
Done.


Edit: lir, please stop! Cleaning the bathroom in on the list for tomorrow. And now I'll feel extra bad if I don't do it!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

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.now I am going to go and clean the bathroom ...

People'd have laughed if they'd seen me earlier. I was cleaning the inside of the shower enclosure; the water is VERY hard here, so it can become almost completely whited-over fairly quickly.

First I get nekkid, then tipped some bicarb of soda into a small plastic pot (ex cheesecake pot) ... and got a sponge/scrubber .... then stood nekkid in the shower enclosure holding the door closed while sponging all the enclosure insides .... then I turned on the shower head and used the cold water as it was heating up to rinse off, before putting the shower head into the wall holster and having my shower

Two jobs done.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

before putting the vacuum cleaner and steam mop into their new home under the stairs.
Done.

You can get a row of "grippers" or retaining circlips that you screw to the wall, that hold the handles of those things to keep them organised/upright on a wall.

Or, MSE style, you could use drawing pins to affix sturdy rubber bands to the wall and do it that way

I hate the way the whole vacuum pipe and handle thingy rarely stay in place unless you've got some posh vacuum that has a slot to keep them steady. So you put the vacuum down and all the pipe/head fall all over the place.... then you shut the door quickly ...

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

This is so like us. Chock full of carp. I am thinking of hiring a skip, throwing all the rubbish in, then having it taken away again - all before the children wake up and can start taking stuff out of the skip again.

I have had a couple of hints along the lines of 'please can you take away some more of your carp, now you have you own house to store it in'. Must remember that most of this stuff I have coped fine without for quite some time therefore it doesn't need to stay. I am however looking forward to finally having all my CDs, DVDs and books in one place again