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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »We have one of these, it's pretty good, but the battery life is annoyingly short.:(
Crikey Hamish... how big is your staircase?
Images of the Gone with the Wind staircase sequence are springing to mind now.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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The sitting room and hall are now painted a calico (magnolia!). We have two large rust coloured arm chairs and foot stool, a large dark red sofa and a small cream sofa. Curtains are an ivory chintz, with a chinese pattern, people including infants, large flowers, fishing. heading is in rust, pattern is rust, red, blue, gold. Lamps are stone coloured with pheasants on the shades, Rugs on the floor are well worn persian rug, and a rip off morroccan red/rust carpet. Floor is light oak parquet.
Our kitchen is yellow with a green & cream stripe blind, leading onto a smaller sitting room in the same yellow with orange, yellow and red tulip curtains. All looking a bit (a lot )grubby.
Carpets are a stone colour with a green stripe, a forgiving effect in a house where wellies may be worn upstairs.
DD's room still has the hunting scene stencilled all the way round that was done when she was about 12. Our bedroom is wallpapered in a toille with a voile London blind. Spare room in a pink rosebud Laura Ashley wallpaper with a LA fabric roman blind.
Our room was lovely once, but is now looking way past its best, we ought to take teh fireplace and chimney breast out....but as with all things house, we just do not prioritise it.
The sitting room needs "doing" too. So every where a bit scruffy except the spare bedroom and bathroom.0 -
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Range Rover Sports are the preserve of premiership footballers, WAGS and traders who couldn't work out what to do with their bonus. Surely the genuinely posh drive around in 25 year old volvos with 175,000 miles on the clock, wearing wellies and ill fitting tweed jackets with holes in the elbows and are as mad as a box of frogs.
Apart from the wellies and tweed jacket (oh and mine is a 17 year old Peugeot with 166k on the clock), that is me!
According to that article, I am upper middle.
NDG - The shop is a butchers. Not heard anything yet but then it has been Easter.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
We were going through a short spell of bad luck (except work) recently. For a couple of weeks, it seemed anything that could go wrong was going wrong, and that was before MiL's sudden death.
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I am sorry to hear of your MiL's death and hope all other trials resolve themselves soon.0 -
Big fan of Bonne Maman myself.
One of the finest marketing projects ever imo.
Hark back to the days when your families made jams and stick them into jars that look like they may be homemade.
The call them Bonne Maman (to be fair, they are at least French). To the rest of the world the appeal is "hey, she's a good mother, and not only that, but a french good mother, and they can cook".
They are damn good jams too and really cleverly branded. A brilliant niche brand that has gone well outside of its original geography.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I should be down the lotty, planting spuds and other things. Instead, I'm sitting in the sun in my garden with my sunhat on and the laptop on my lap. It's too nice for doing hard work!
My house was magnolia throughout when I bought it, and I was clear that whilst I wanted a neutral colour scheme, nothing would actually be called magnolia henceforth
Only 1 room to go, which needs some plastering doing first ... you get so used to living with things as they are, don't you? 
Nice bread Gen. Mmmm. I have some Belgian Easter bread to look forward to later. It has marzipan and hazelnuts in it :beer:0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We have mostly white walls (too many high buildings in central London, so want it to be as light as possible and make the most of our big windows) and nice coloured, in our view, dark red sofas and purple or blue curtains.
Sounds lovely.
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We did have the chat Lydia suggested a fortnight or so ago about early rising at home, but he's less able to sort himself here - can't reach drinks / breakfast type snacks, no idea where clean clothes were.
Sounds fair enough when not in his own home.neverdespairgirl wrote: »OH reckoned the explanation could be translated along the lines, "Jesus was a Jew like Abba, and the Romans thought he was causing trouble. So they killed him on a cross in Jerusalem after Passover, and three days later he stopped being dead and Easter is about being happy he was undead."
Asked how chocolate eggs fitted into this scenario, he said he didn't know, but suggested that Easter is supposed to be happy because Jesus came alive again, and eating chocolate makes people happy.
Well done Isaac. Sounds like an excellent explanation to me.neverdespairgirl wrote: »OH is a bit worried that this group of young Israelis has an image of Jerusalem in 34 AD or so being occupied by chocolate-scoffing zombies.....
:rotfl:
In my first job, when I was 17, it was generally reckoned that you had really arrived if you got promoted enough to have an office where the desk faced the door rather than the wall or window. I had a desk facing a window, but I imagine Nikkster doesn't want to be facing any potential distractions. My desk at work now and my desk at home both face walls.PasturesNew wrote: »Nice one. When I look at things like that I think "pull desk away from the wall, then turn it round, so you're looking into the room when using it" - as sitting up a corner is more like being in prison .... the flaw with this thinking is often rooms are too small to have the luxury of being able to do that without the whole room looking like an officelostinrates wrote: »Our chickens have staged a walk out. DH just caught sight of them marching off down the road.
Have they come back yet?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Went to a lunch party yesterday which was a bon voyage for a couple who have given up their jobs and are sailing their boat for the next year. They are late 30's early 40's. No kids.
Another couple there, were telling us about when they cleared off with their then 1 year old and sailed the caribbean for two years, another couple were just finalising their plans to move to Texas with two kids to set up a new business, whilst another chap had jacked in his conventional career some years ago and now restores VW campervans.
It was lovely to meet such a bunch of people who were not material and willing to downshift/take risks to pursue their dream.
OH was looking up campervans on the web last night. We might 'need' another one.0 -
Doozergirl wrote: »The truck is presently being loaded onto a massive recovery truck to go to London to be fixed. It's very broken. Something has shot out the side of the engine. It was a new engine two months ago so it should be covered under warranty. The cost of getting it to London isn't.
I'm also informed that it's been broken into outside the garage H took it to. Wondering why anyone would break into it, I was subsequently informed that my relatively new, fancy brand, lightweight £200 hoover was lying on the back seat. "Was" being the operative word.
Oh no.:(:(:(
Sending lots of hugs.There is a basic but functional green carpet throughout the house here ...
That reminds me, there was an unobtrusive green carpet in the whole of the downstairs, as well as the stairs and landing, in my last rented house. That sort of colour would probably work well in the dining room here, as well as on the landing above it and the half landing half way up the stairs (which are in the dining room). The stairs themselves are wooden, so no carpet needed. Thanks.vivatifosi wrote: »Surely you mean raspberry jam...
Another vote for raspberry jam here. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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