Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's the first NP Quest for house items. The living room floor is laminate - I want some big rugs.

I don't know if I want a 6'4' (or 6x8') in front of each of two sofas..... or if I want a much bigger rug that covers most of the spare floor.

I'll also want a small rug just inside the patio doors.

So, the first "taste/style" question is which would be better, one bigger rug or two smaller ones?

And the next item is: find that rug! Key feature is price, not style

I like: animal prints and geometric designs. No flowers...... and I do have a hankering for shagpile.

I have 2 x 2-seater sofas in a room about 12'x10', and one rug which covers most of the floorboards and is edged by the sofas. Actually, it's a piece of carpet which I had 'whipped' by the shop to form a rug.

Nikkster wrote: »

Bad meeting. Same old ground getting covered again and again and again. Missing out key bits that should be covered. Almost everyone else in the room nodding and smiling. Stupidly sat somewhere I couldn't get out easily, then had a strong urge to walk out. A large part of my reason for being in job is change (processes and ways of thinking). I didn't realise that when I applied for it, and boy is it frustrating.

A colleague talked me down from a metaphorical roof. I stopped off on the way home to buya rather large bag of crisps.

Sorry you had such a rubbish day. Hopefully a good weekend will at least help you to forget it and relax.

Yorkie1

lostinrates wrote: »

I've had a !!!!!!, !!!!!! day. ...
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So sorry to hear this. Take care. x

Nikkster

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I have 2 x 2-seater sofas in a room about 12'x10', and one rug which covers most of the floorboards and is edged by the sofas. Actually, it's a piece of carpet which I had 'whipped' by the shop to form a rug.



Sorry you had such a rubbish day. Hopefully a good weekend will at least help you to forget it and relax.

I don't have anything in the middle of lounge here. I need to think about some kind of table(s) for e.g. drinks, but I'm not sure I want a coffee-type table. It'll be a while before this room is beautified anyway so I should have plenty of time to decide.

Thanks Yorkie, it was rubbish. There was a follow up email today, but I managed to not let my blood pressure rise. I'm sure it won't be the last time that particular set of circumstances occur. It's only a job.

This, however is a lot more concerning:

Doozergirl

Rant alert.

I will never understand my DH. We give people to work. This week, we have lent money to someone in advance of them actually doing the work. After I said no. He is happier to say yes to anything that anyone asks, except me.

Today, I get a phonecall, leaving London at 5pm. He left he at 6am this morning. He is 'doing a favour' for someone else to 'pick up' a kitchen bought from ebay on the way home. He has just driven to Cambs - Cambs is not on on the way home from London. The guy he's 'helping' is lost, so H is now in the process of fully ripping out a kitchen (which has to be salvaged, obv, so takes longer) with cousin alone.

I've also worked out (this stuff gets drip fed to me by my own logic) that helping also involves using our truck to transport it. The guy lives 45 minutes further on from our house, so a 90 minute round trip from here.

Now, call me mean, but I think we're extending quite far past 'favour'. He is incapable of saying no to anyone and these things also usually cost us money. What will happen is aside from diesel we will pay cousin for the insanely long day he's just fallen into by proxy.

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I have 2 x 2-seater sofas in a room about 12'x10', and one rug which covers most of the floorboards and is edged by the sofas. Actually, it's a piece of carpet which I had 'whipped' by the shop to form a rug.

I had a friend once who carpeted her house and with the leftovers decided to have it whipped as car mats..... and, as I recall, the cost was staggeringly horrendous (even she said it was pricey and she never cared much for worrying about where money came from).

How much did your whipping cost?

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

My son lives in the real world. He understands and sees how we struggle to put him through his education. If I was satisfied with the state system, he would be there. As it was, he was an invisible child, ticking the boxes and floating for his year at middle school.

He is being taught the value of hard work - it pays. I won't provide him with the deposit for a house. He is also flourishing in sport. He does hours more than he would in the state sector and more variety, as it is, he's turning into an athlete. Every child has something they are good at and they are equally respected by their peers. He has also retained a few years of his childhood - invaluable to me.

I'd love it if we could all come out of the state system having been supported correctly academically and our other, softer talents nutured but it doesn't work like that.

DD will most probably stay in the state sector because she is very bright, has a natural work ethic, is competitive in everything and a bit pretentious. She will make sure that she is noticed.

Well you did send him to a school that produces the cream of the crop

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

...He is incapable of saying no to anyone.....

I'll start preparing my "if only I had a little man to do these odd jobs" list for my new house

neverdespairgirl

Coffee tables seem, to me, designed to catch people's shins as they negotiate around them.

We have two small, low square tables, about 1 ft square, which ambush fewer people but contain drinks happily.

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

Rant alert.

I'd be ranting too.
Hope he's on his way back home sharpish.

PasturesNew

The known world is all out of chips, so I have no chips.

I decided to treat myself to "proper chips from the chippy" but when I got there the queue looked long and the shop looked full, so I went all the way round again to check ... queue was up the road. So then I drove off, then thought I might get an indian, so went round again and parked outside.... and looked at the indian and thought "I didn't come out for an indian..... I can get chips from Lidl", so took off again to Lidl. Out of chips .... freezer was out of the 1Kg bags of chips I usually get ... so that was that.... picked up some crumpets... took another/final drive past the chipshop and it's still bunged.

So I had two crumpets for tea.