Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

Ideally would like two DVD players. I have two TVs - one in the living room and one in the, er, family room - kids getting a bit old to call it a playroom any more. I have about 4 DVD players, none of which actually plays DVDs any more, so I really ought to take them to the tip for recycling.

Picked up a basic DVD player for £34 in Tesco today without bothering to do any research first. It will do for now, and can be easily moved from one room to the other if necessary. Eventually it will end up in the family room. I'll probably put more thought into whether I want to get a more expensive one for the living room in due course. I think I haven't really adjusted to this century and cottoned onto the idea that DVD players aren't necessarily major purchases any more.

Popped to asda today, & all their dvd players were below £40.
The only thing I didn't like, is the ones they had only had play, stop & eject buttons. No forward/fast forward etc. These type of buttons are essential, especially for kids dvd's, and/or boxsets with multiple chapters imo.

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

Look on eBay. There used to be a trend for signed football shirts and the like, framed in super sized frames.

Excellent idea.

I'll have a look now.
Not overly happy with ebay at the mo. Tried accessing their live chat yesterday to get my password changed. When I logged on, said estimated wait 7 mins. 30 mins later it still said 7 mins. Person "chatting" was of no help whatsoever.
Absolutely useless facility, & I hate systems like that which lie to you. There were over 130 people in front of me !!!!!!, the system would/should have known it'd take longer than 7 mins :mad:

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Popped to asda today, & all their dvd players were below £40.
The only thing I didn't like, is the ones they had only had play, stop & eject buttons. No forward/fast forward etc. These type of buttons are essential, especially for kids dvd's, and/or boxsets with multiple chapters imo.

Not even on the remotes?

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

Look on eBay. There used to be a trend for signed football shirts and the like, framed in super sized frames.

Cracking suggestion silvercar. Can see some options there.
But am locked out of my damned ebay account :mad::mad::mad:

Added onto list for later in the week.
Will consider opening a seperate account if problems persist.:mad:

zagubov

I'd like to suggest that all NPs who are parents might find this interesting.
Not least because it links to my fave Professor Hertfordshire's top brainbox Richard Wiseman.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Popped to asda today, & all their dvd players were below £40.
The only thing I didn't like, is the ones they had only had play, stop & eject buttons. No forward/fast forward etc. These type of buttons are essential, especially for kids dvd's, and/or boxsets with multiple chapters imo.

Wonder how many NPs remember 8-track cartridges, a kind of tape used in cars that only had one button, for changing between four sections of the tape. And an eject button of course. NO play/FF or RW buttons.

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

Not even on the remotes?

It'll be on the remote. But what happens when that breaks/gets lost etc?
Perhaps I'm just overly picky. In my last appraisal, I was criticised for having high standards!

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

It'll be on the remote. But what happens when that breaks/gets lost etc?
Perhaps I'm just overly picky. In my last appraisal, I was criticised for having high standards!

lemonjelly wrote: »

Cracking suggestion silvercar. Can see some options there.
But am locked out of my damned ebay account :mad::mad::mad:

Added onto list for later in the week.
Will consider opening a seperate account if problems persist.:mad:

I got really worried as I'm finding
more and more services need a password
more and more leaks are happening requiring new passwords
Different sites and services accept different levels of passwords
I can't keep up with it - I fear soon I'm going to get locked out of something really important.

One of the big uses of the internet involves the sites for replacing lost remote controls. They are brilliant. No matter how obscure the TV they tell you where to find the info to specify which model you need etc.

ukmaggie45

silvercar wrote: »

I have a little diary in my handbag, 1 week-per-view that I sync manually to my calendar in the kitchen draw. I use a device known as a pen.

Oh, I use that device too. It's a very useful device, as you can also draw with it should you so wish, make sketch maps, plan your kitchen or any other room, as well as sync your calender and even write shopping lists and use it to write postcards to your friends and family when you are on holiday! :j :rotfl:

lemonjelly wrote: »

Speaking of which, the first signs of lettuce sprouts are appearing. Will plant much more lettuce next weekend.:)

Oh we just got first signs too - chucked a whole packet of "mixed salad leaves" on a freshly weeded big pot outside front door (will have to move it to back garden as it will be too hot for lettuce there - I think it bolts if it gets too hot). If the big pigeon that keeps landing on the corner of my car (grr) eats the green shoots we may have pigeon pie here! Though maybe not as wouldn't fancy thinking where it might have been....

Nikkster wrote: »

I should probably do more (some) composting. There is at last one composter here. My parents have never made their own compost so it feeds like a bit of a voyage into the unknown. I'd have to get past the weeds to rescue the composter anyway. Maybe next year...

Just check out the RHS link I sent a few pages back, or google making compost. Don't put tomatoes in, or spud peelings, or meat of any description. But it's easy. Chuck in some cardboad (toilet roll and kitchen roll middles as example) and maybe some shredded paper. You want about 50/50 green (kitchen waste, non perennial weeds, maybe grass clippings) and "brown" (the paper and cardboard). We tend to just make a heap of grass clippings, and then dig them in under where we're going to plant the beans. We dig in some of our home made compost too, and then add a scatter of chicken s*it granules. Beans at the lottie went bananas last year! Though we didn't get to harvest any as green beans as were away on holiday, but we picked them, podded them, blanched and frozen, and over the winter we've had loads of beany stews with pork or other additions.

Do make the effort to fight your way through to the composter and rescue it! The great thing about compost is that even if it does go to a slimy mess it's rescueable using paper and cardboard. Go for it!

ukmaggie45

Spirit wrote: »

I like it.

I have big book of Anthony Gormley sculpture and installations. It has made me think of it and I want to go and look at the book now. His work is so powerful and seems to have real meaning (well to me it has, but what do I know)

Should you wish to visit his installation at Crosby Beach (OH thinks it's around 7 miles from here) you are most welcome to visit so long as you don't mind our guest room having a travel cot in it! Oh, and the house being full of boxes too as we're still trying to clear old home. A posh hotel we're not, but you'd have a friendly welcome!

ukmaggie45

lemonjelly wrote: »

My weeds all go into the composter.

Aaarrrggghhhh! Don't put in dandelions, couch grass, bindweed, or any perennial weeds! :eek: We always have 2 trugs for weeding - one for good stuff to go in composter, one for bad stuff to go in green bin for corpy to collect. You need a very big compost heap or a very hot compost bin (sunniest place in your garden, which is why most folks don't do it) in order to compost perennial weeds and their seeds. Please also note that dandelions will form seed even if you pick them as buds. And they are very beautiful, but their roots go deep and will keep growing back unless you get the whole thing out. So never compost their seeds and flowers!