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

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you going to make a pie?


I'm seeing lots of gates I like the look of on Internet more than my bed head now.


Its all just getting so exciting that a part of my garden will be ready to roll on this summer.

Make a pie for my visitor? I'm having a bit of a tidy up - what more could she want?! I don't want her thinking I'm too domesticated.

I can't believe I'm going to have a garden - no, not just a garden, my garden! to hang out in this summer. There will be a fair few wheelie bins of stuff to be cleared between now and then, but I'm hoping I'll turn out to be better at gardening than I am at keeping houseplants


This is the bit of the garden I was working on last weekend:

lostinrates

What are those fabulous plaques? Oh how exciting!



Re gardens, I know you are clearing prickly things so am loathe to offer, but my japenese wineberry has had lots of babies, so if you want something with berries (grows like bramble tastes like......um.....a bit like raspberries but ....less red tasting. Very sweet) let me know one day. I'm going to pot up a whole load and see if they go as gate sale items......

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

I so agree with that! I don't like working for very big organisations either. I find my own a bit challenging at times. It's well run, but a bit lumbering for my liking (as it has to be). The one pro- though is that I work outside of one of the central hubs. So I get a chance to know my colleagues well and work as part of a great team. I've worked as part of a team in the head office too, and they were great also, but it is a very different vibe when you have your own building away from the mothership.

In my field job interviews are predictable and unexciting. About twenty-odd years ago I got onto the second round of interviews for a part-time library job. It was in a very interesting library (but not open to the public) within walking distance of where I lived and would have involved cutting up science articles from newspapers into scrapbooks and making A4 summaries of science topics. Also being "on call" as a "phone -a-friend"to give advice for people being put on the spot.

The first interviews were pretty brief but spread over a whole week. You could see loads of other applicants arriving for interviews.

My degree had been unusually broad and I must have spoken about enough subject areas that got me to the next round. Was gutted when I got to the last three and they gave it to one of the other people.

Not tons of money, but really interesting work, and I thought I could finish my PhD while doing it. Not to be, I'm afraid!

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

What are those fabulous plaques? Oh how exciting!



Re gardens, I know you are clearing prickly things so am loathe to offer, but my japenese wineberry has had lots of babies, so if you want something with berries (grows like bramble tastes like......um.....a bit like raspberries but ....less red tasting. Very sweet) let me know one day. I'm going to pot up a whole load and see if they go as gate sale items......

Other garden highlights are a small statue thing that my mum was trying to claim, a Belfast sink (!) and a little curved stone (or perhaps concrete) bench at the bottom of the garden (the latter of which I noticed for the first time last weekend). Don't worry, you'll be getting a photo-tour + updates :rotfl:

I became the proud parent of two baby strawberry plants last weekend, I like the sound of adding a Japanese wineberry

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

In my field job interviews are predictable and unexciting. About twenty-odd years ago I got onto the second round of interviews for a part-time library job. It was in a very interesting library (but not open to the public) within walking distance of where I lived and would have involved cutting up science articles from newspapers into scrapbooks and making A4 summaries of science topics. Also being "on call" as a "phone -a-friend"to give advice for people being put on the spot.

The first interviews were pretty brief but spread over a whole week. You could see loads of other applicants arriving for interviews.

My degree had been unusually broad and I must have spoken about enough subject areas that got me to the next round. Was gutted when I got to the last three and they gave it to one of the other people.

Not tons of money, but really interesting work, and I thought I could finish my PhD while doing it. Not to be, I'm afraid!

As a student I used my library, a different library on a different campus, and a nother library at another university. ( there was a reciprocal arrangement which later was ceased, but I'd got a job at the other uni by then so was ok....couldn't have done what I was doing without that library in my timescales. ) The main issue for me was my libraries were about 30 miles ish apart I think, (two of them, one was near the second one) . At the time I had a lover who worked in the first library. I had another job buit I felt like I spent a lot of time in libraries. . (And how hard it was to look up journals on the strange computers.......

lostinrates

Nikkster,..gardening is MUCH easier than house plants. MUCH.

Much, much, much.


Crocus is a great site for looking at which plants suit different sites. Know your soil (I dream of plants that like free draining sandy soil......I cannot have them) and your aspect and see what grows well in other people's gardens in your area. Best clue is what likes it there already.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Nikkster,..gardening is MUCH easier than house plants. MUCH.

Much, much, much.


Crocus is a great site for looking at which plants suit different sites. Know your soil (I dream of plants that like free draining sandy soil......I cannot have them) and your aspect and see what grows well in other people's gardens in your area. Best clue is what likes it there already.

Good! I am terrible with houseplants. Much better with cut flowers

What likes it here = brambles by the looks of it! Also have 2 large Buddleja. Sadly directly North-facing, but the garden is a decent size so still catches the sun as not completely overlooked.

I now have a fair collection of veg seeds which I will do my best to nurture. The [STRIKE]Lidl [/STRIKE] edit: Aldi (easy mistake!) specials this week are gardening things, so I have splashed out on some bits and bobs to motivate me

neverdespairgirl

Another quiz for you lot:

http://games.usvsth3m.com/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/

Poor old OH just got back. He's been in Leicester all day. His case in Manchester all next week looked as if it would settle, but hasn't actually yet, so he's got to spend most of the weekend prepping it, in case it doesn't settle on Monday morning and goes ahead.

I've fed him soup and bread, and run him a bath, which he's getting into, already 85% asleep, poor love!

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Another quiz for you lot:

http://games.usvsth3m.com/are-you-hated-by-the-daily-mail/

Poor old OH just got back. He's been in Leicester all day. His case in Manchester all next week looked as if it would settle, but hasn't actually yet, so he's got to spend most of the weekend prepping it, in case it doesn't settle on Monday morning and goes ahead.

I've fed him soup and bread, and run him a bath, which he's getting into, already 85% asleep, poor love!

I am hated by the Daily Mail!:D

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

I am hated by the Daily Mail!:D

Me too :beer: