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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Today I have mostly set up the website for a certain new business (nope, it's still not actually started so I'm keeping it quiet, and no peekies). Wordpress for the win:D
It's a pretty fun project. I've kept the website as simple as possible because I've never been good at that sort of thing. If it works out some web designer arty-farty type can improve it later:D“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Come on, tomterm! I wanna know!Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Go on, PM me.... you know I want to sit in awe of your awesomeness and 1337 skillz.Today I have mostly set up the website for a certain new business (nope, it's still not actually started so I'm keeping it quiet, and no peekies). Wordpress for the win:D
... and wish I'd thought of it first..... then realised I'd have never been able to as I'm not so awesome.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Yes, since I calculated the figures I've looked up some actual figures and recalculated it at £480/month.
Rent is £610, including some bills, which makes it harder to be absolute.
Calculating all, on balance, I can at least say that I'll be getting double the space for my money....
... and never a S21 or other.
The other thing to take into consideration when moving is moving expenses, and how long you want to live where you bought.
The stamp duty on our last move was nearly £25k, for example, and agency fees on the latest valuation would be another £15k, so the cost of moving for us to the same property would be a minimum of £40k (!)
Average that out over 10 years, and I'd say it's reasonably fair, but if it's only going to be 2-3, then that's a huge expense.💙💛 💔0 -
At the local garden centre, run by our RHS, they make a frame of vertical and horizontal pieces of wood to form a box and cover that with chicken wire/netting depending on what's being grown inside.
My parents have a sort of cage for soft fruit - mostly strawberries and raspberries - to keep the birds, rabbits and other fruit-munchers out (although it doesn't work to keep their children out, they've found). But it's a walk-in cage, wire around a 7 ft high frame.Your first paragraph is pretty much what I wrote on my covering letter to answer the query of having no retail experience.
What sort of stuff does teh shop sell, Sue?PasturesNew wrote: »I'd not work in a shop. I worked in a shop for 4 days over Easter when I was 14. It was a small/corner shop, run by my dad's friend (an Indian friend and his wife). The sort of shop that's chock full of bags of rice and foreign foods piled high in plastic bags. This was in the mid 1970s. Out the front there was a vegetable display and out the back crates of milk.
A hard four days' work. I cycled 6 miles there/back to do 12 hour days, over a bank holiday weekend, I got £14 in total. Never again... I worked as an office temp after that
The only shop I've ever worked in (don't know if it counts) was during my third year at uni and the uni holidays, when I worked in a Ladbrokes. Interesting experience, but not one I'd care to repeat.PasturesNew wrote: »I've seen a lot chefs putting a bowl of water in the bottom of the oven on the telly for that.
Egg glaze on the top of the loaf - that's what my mother does. I'm so far out-classed in the baking department I don't even try.....
She made soda bread in our flat yesterday - she was staying for a couple of days to keep an eye on me while OH and Isaac were away, and then left yesterday evening to strip the alters in church....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Yes.... I can sit in my pants, with chip papers littered around .... and nobody will ever know. Finally I'll be free from housework
Set up a webcam and you will be able to pay someone to do the cleaning for you
Perhaps that is what TT is doing on his new website 'thenakedstationarycyclist.xxx'?I think....0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »left yesterday evening to strip the alters in church.
It is that type of petty pilfering that means most rural churches have to be locked nowadays
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PasturesNew wrote: »Fun ... such an odd word.
Men think fun = sex, preferably without strings, possibly a bit kinky.
Women think fun = going out for the day, having a steaming mug of hot chocolate with a flake/cream and maybe a sticky bun.
You might well be right - I think of "fun" as anything I don't have to do, but want and choose to do. Making jewellery, going to the theatre, curling up with a good book, surfing on the beach...
kinky random sex doesn't usually make my shortlist (-:In a simple paragraph you explain why I've not been with an English woman since I was 15.
In most of the world men and women both enjoy sex and the best way to have sex is in a consensual and mutually enjoyable form.
Carry On! sex is about men lovin it and women hating it. It's like Tom and Jerry.
I reckon that, should you attempt to expand your experience of English women at your current age, you might find that domestic harmony takes a bit of a nosedive off the nearest cliff.....
What about Barbara Windsor's various characters?
Sex is very enjoyable indeed, but not the only definition of "fun", honestly.PasturesNew wrote: »Calculating all, on balance, I can at least say that I'll be getting double the space for my money.... ... and never a S21 or other.
And no inspections, which drive you mad, and no landlord's fences to keep an eye on, and room to do your jewellery and other crafts and watersports kit?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
It is that type of petty pilfering that means most rural churches have to be locked nowadays
No, it's wholesale pilfering, turning the alter and church into a suitably gloomy place for Good Friday.
My mother's a very considerate burglar, though, as after the service she helps fold all the vestments and stash the candlesticks....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I knowCKhalvashi wrote: »The other thing to take into consideration when moving is moving expenses, and how long you want to live where you bought.
Mine's £2k now .... and, say, £3k agency fees when I move.CKhalvashi wrote: »The stamp duty on our last move was nearly £25k, for example, and agency fees on the latest valuation would be another £15k, so the cost of moving for us to the same property would be a minimum of £40k (!)
Different world....
Well, over 10 years mine'd be £500/year.CKhalvashi wrote: »Average that out over 10 years, and I'd say it's reasonably fair, but if it's only going to be 2-3, then that's a huge expense.
But the cost of moving around rentals isn't cheap either. It cost me £550 in fees/checks etc to move into here .... and you can get moved on every couple of years; there's no security in renting.0
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