Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Why frightened? Worth while getting to even if just for paperwork to dispose off. We have huge bonfires, but use incinerator that sounds like yours too.

I'd have no problems meeting a fireman, but I'd rather do so on his night off than at work!

Paperwork goes into the confidential waste at work. Or through my parents' shredder.

Will delete:

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just make sure it's moved well away from anything else, and make a tiny fire and just add the bits one tiny twig at a time...... you don't have to have an inferno going.

Maybe when the garden is a little clearer and there is somewhere away from all the weeds. We'll see.

Anyhow - what I have is probably a bin!

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

For the price I paid,

I set off looking to pay about 70k less than I did. Towards the end my 'limit' was about 40k less than I paid. I'd also ruled out main roads.

But I wasn't expecting to get off-road parking, a detached house or a mahoosive garden (I'd have to look for other [STRIKE]distractions [/STRIKE] vital jobs if I'd ended up with a block-paved courtyard garden )

lostinrates

Our budget came down. A lot. But we got a house ( we were looking at a mixture of places with houses or just land). We took a sacrifice on acreage. Turns out it might have been a blessing.

Like nikkster we have super neighbours, we're nearer a station that we could have hoped to be and being near a town is as much a blessing as a curse. I miss isolation a lot, but on balance, its ok.

Pn, stability brings blessings of its own. I found I couldn't help thinking about ones we didn't get. The one near by us I mentioned last week, with lilac carpets, is nearer our original budget, and comparable to this when its finished. ( its got some stronger things, some weaker, I think they pretty much balance) On that basis I'm satisfied. It might not be the house of my dreams, but I'm happy for it to be the house of my realities. When things don't go wrong that is!


I hope when you are in, and have a sanctuary that's yours the frustrations over the other bits soften. .

zagubov

Tom, get a dishwasher. It looks like it's a faff to someone who hasn't used one but it's a different kind of faff. You won't regret it.

PN you made the right move by moving centrally. Our last move puts us in the middle of a village. Parking's a hassle (just been outside to check we're legally parked) but at least we can get the train/bus anything from a box of matches to anything bigger with a ten minute walk. Can't be doing with living far away from everything any more.

Bought a Three sim for 99p the other day. Now found we've no old phone to put it in. Thought we had but must have chucked it or maybe DD took it away as she's cracked hers. It has occured to me that the few quid I'll save by cutting the price of my absurdly infrequent phone calls is easily offset by the cost of replacing a sump if I drive over another pile of sand in the road without checking if it has a brick in it.:(

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

... a block-paved courtyard garden )

Oh yeah .. and that... I never wanted a "garden" ... open the door on the first good day of the spring and not to have to stare at a bunch of disheartening jobs to be done

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

It might not be the house of my dreams, but I'm happy for it to be the house of my realities. When things don't go wrong that is!

Ditto

I swing between being fairly excited about the possibilities for this house and fairly down by the reality of what is here/ what I need to do to make it/ anything happen. Nothing at all on the scale of casa Rates, but enough for little me all the same.

I don't look at rightmove too much, but I do look through the property pages of the 2 papers that come through the door. Not seen anything I'd rather have bought yet.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh yeah .. and that... I never wanted a "garden" and would have loved to have bought a house that had been paved over entirely ... no grass cutting would be bliss. No green stuff. No garden. That's what I wanted.

Open the door on the first good day of the spring and not to have to stare at a bunch of disheartening jobs to be done

Oh yes, but I LOVE sitting in MY garden in the sun (I can tune out what needs to be done when the green bin is full). Beats having to traipse to the park any day.

Edit: and there would be nothing stopping you getting your garden paved over...

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never had/used a slow cooker - and not had anything cooked with one. While some recipes appear interesting, most of them are simply things you can cook in a saucepan anyway.

True you can cook them in different ways, but they cost less than a lightbulb to run, so are really economical. If you would like to cook stews, rice pud, or the like - and freeze portions - then it's a worthwhile investment.

Nikkster wrote: »

There is actually what looks like a metal dustbin in the garden (next to what I think is a composting dalek). Not sure whether it is a dustbin or an incinerator as it is surrounded by weeds. Not sure I'd be brave enough to incerate even if it is one tbh. Chopping everything down small I don't think it'll take too long to get rid of everything. I'm not in too much of a rush (though there is plenty more stuff for me to prune).

Incinerators are fab - I have one on the lotty. However I'm a very failed pyromaniac. I had to get my lotty neighbour to light it for me a couple of times as I just didn't have the knack! :rotfl: PN's right about making sure you've no overhanging trees though.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I popped into Morrisons today ...

Were they ones with detachable cushions? Would the plastic base go into the garden and the cushion under your bed or something? The cushion for mine is down the side of a bookcase.

I am just waiting for a cake to cook. We are having a 'bake-off' at work tomorrow and I had planned to do a rhubarb crumble cake. However, I decided to do a chocolate cake instead from a recipe by my Mum - less faff.

Got out the ingredients and made a hurried trip to the local Sainsburys to buy fresh eggs (mine had gone off), golden syrup (crystallised and best before 2008) and some milk. It will be interesting to see how it comes out in this oven ... :eek:

I also bought some choc chip cookie mixture which you just added water to, as a fall-back. They came out OK, just as well.

Spirit_2

Phew. Sigh. Breathe. Drop tongue from roof of mouth. I have read the NP posts which I had not seen.

What other instant destressers are there?

Watched the TV programme that I wanted to see. It was an hour long I think I managed about 15 minutes, just kept popping in to keep along with the plot. Emptied washing machine, put tumbling on, put more washing on. Sorted out my laptop and bag for work for tomorrow. Had a bath immediately before prog to stop me worrying about it beforehand.:o

I am now however a wreck. Symptoms of anxiety. It will take ages to settle so all NP help gratefully received to diffuse it.