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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

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  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,466 Forumite
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    You will anyway, by the time you've put up that stud partitioning and fitted bunk beds in all the rooms....

    True, I won't bother with fire doors etc though. I hope michaels has an HMO licence. Is there a shrugging smiley?
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    I guess I could sterilise a Kilner ( which autocorrect wants to call Kilmer) but tbh am reluctant to part with one.

    My knowledge is of one lab and almost 10 years ago (how did that happen?!) but if any samples came in improvised vessels they were discarded and another sample requested :(
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    My knowledge is of one lab and almost 10 years ago (how did that happen?!) but if any samples came in improvised vessels they were discarded and another sample requested :(

    And with sensible reason. Oh, well, if I pee more than two and a half litres and fill the bottle and test is voided then they will have to send me two more. :D
  • PasturesNew
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    I feel that having a different doctor for each day of the week might be a bit of a posh alert. PN can you opine please?

    ... oh ... I just assumed she was a drugs dealer, on something like Gen's Valium scam!!
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    edited 9 April 2014 at 8:17PM
    I feel that having a different doctor for each day of the week might be a bit of a posh alert. PN can you opine please?

    Actually I think you are right, but I'm posher than that I think.

    I have a hospital for each day of the week. Some hospitals have more than one consultant in them ( can think of three of those) but that's because they also see me out of multiple hospitals . Eg. Eye guy seen me at two, as does brain, and gastro sees me at one but I need a specialised test that can only be done at another for him, which is where hormone guy is. New guy is at the new hospital where, ironically I had one of the surgeries right at the beginning of all of this. I've lost track now...any way, yes, I think there is a hospital for each day of the week . :). Oh, unless you count the one they taxied my samples to on Friday!!:rotfl:


    Edit: only one hospital has a beautiful piano in the foyer though. I'm so shallow, its definitely my favorite hospital because I feel like I can pretend I am in an episode of star trek or something there. Its so clean, the staff are uber smiley and nice and its stylish and swishy. The nurses seem kinder. Apart from the clean none of this makes it better, but I hate my time there less.
  • PasturesNew
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    True, I won't bother with fire doors etc though. I hope michaels has an HMO licence. Is there a shrugging smiley?

    I bet you've not even thought whether he's an HMO license, never mind hoping he has .... sniff of trouble and you'll be out of there, cash in your back pocket and onto the next one.
  • michaels
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    That's a good point michaels. The people I know who have been looking in St Albans feel as though they are being priced out, so it could be bravado/all your tenants can afford. If it is the going rate though, it is the going rate...

    There isn't that much competiton - on right move anyway currently only one other which is similarly priced. The agent hasn't come back to me saying they will offer my price after all so perhaps I have shot myself in the foot for the sake of 1 months rent - I guess we will see if we get anyone else. The agent didn't say I was being crazy to turn it down but then again may be we just got lucky with what we got before. We are ideal for school catchment which most other properties are not.
    I think....
  • Nikkster
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    And with sensible reason. Oh, well, if I pee more than two and a half litres and fill the bottle and test is voided then they will have to send me two more. :D

    If it were me, I'd write the time the collection started and finished on the bottle, just in case it was still useful.
    Would serve them right if they had to send you two more though :)
  • Nikkster
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    michaels wrote: »
    We are ideal for school catchment which most other properties are not.

    Is there a time of year that catchment is most valuable?
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,660 Ambassador
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    Can most females pee accurately enough to use a coke bottle for collection?

    I couldn't.
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