Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

They are pretty ... had no idea such things existed. I'd found some regular bulbs in Ikea. http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/40266111/

House access is: park at the back, park in allocated space, cross an 18' gap, go through garden gate, tip-toe between badly spaced stepping stones (was thinking of putting shells down and maybe some glow in the dark stones) .... probably about 12'-14' until you reach the patio/path that doesn't have gaps. All completely in the dark.

I am really not sure what to look for in string lights.

We THINK, we want something we can definitely turn off and on ( wouldn't want them on all the time, we like the dark too) and something that can charge in a way other than solar at times of year,......like Christmas season.


Not sure what else to look for. Even down to number of lights and coverage on trees as opposed to things like straight runs of house. We know we want different sizes on the key features, so layering on the same things.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

We're looking for warm white garden lights.


But are now torn.

These are SO pretty

http://www.thesolarcentre.co.uk/products/Solar_Bubble_Lights_10_LED_Bulbs-720-60.html

But ten is nothing like enough. What terms would one google for for such a colour finish string lights for gardens do you think?

The problem is the size of the solar panel vs the amount of lights running off it. If you want the lights to do very much more than glow you need small lights or not many of them for a small solar panel. If you want to light up the garden you will need a solar panel big enough to put on your roof.

Most solar panels have an on/off switch.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I am really not sure what to look for in string lights.

We THINK, we want something we can definitely turn off and on ( wouldn't want them on all the time, we like the dark too) and something that can charge in a way other than solar at times of year,......like Christmas season.


Not sure what else to look for. Even down to number of lights and coverage on trees as opposed to things like straight runs of house. We know we want different sizes on the key features, so layering on the same things.

It is tricky - you start by thinking "few solar lights".... then you start to see the vast ranges available ..... and suddenly you can't buy ANY in case the next search yields a new design that's to die for!

There's everything from the practical, to the super-cheesy and downright mad...... http://www.ukwaterfeatures.com/Shop/p-6706-Meerkat-with-Baby-Solar-Garden-Light.html

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

The problem is the size of the solar panel vs the amount of lights running off it. If you want the lights to do very much more than glow you need small lights or not many of them for a small solar panel. If you want to light up the garden you will need a solar panel big enough to put on your roof.

Most solar panels have an on/off switch.

We don't want to light the garden, just the things we are stringing. In fact, we were worried we might be light polluting ourselves and neighbours, so this seems good, no?

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I've done quite a lot of cleaning this weekend... in preparation for next weekend's visitors

I also avoid ironing as much as possible. I don't particularly dislike it, it's more that I just CBA. I need to try and be more arsed (and with less !!!! ) in general.

Anything I do at the moment that seems vaguely productive is just a distraction technique. Bad Nikkster

How is the, err, you know, thingy?

lostinrates wrote: »

Thank you.

I feel like I can say now things have been very very bleak and I have been feeling very very depressed and when we last saw GP I said 'I cannot stay living like this and I feel as if I will soon make a choice not to':o. Its all been a lot of strain over the last few months frankly. Which is very unfair as a lot of people have it a lot, very much, worse I just have felt as if MY limits have been stretched for too long.

Anyway. I couldn't feel less like that now. :j:j

lir, it is not a competition. And even if it was, you do in fact have a lot to contend with, objectively speaking, and you cope a lot better than I would, or most of the rest of the NP, I imagine. So stop apologising for finding it tough.

Please don't feel you can't tell the NP when you are depressed. We are here for each other, as you would know perfectly well if it was any of the rest of us going through the mill, in the bad times as well as the good ones, or the "hooray I am now feeling better" times.

Glad you are feeling better right now. Enjoy it, but don't overdo it. Please?

lostinrates wrote: »

I was saying to new consultant one, if we roughly grouped thing s into

1. Hurts

2. Fatigues and stops doing stuff

3. Makes ugly/weight loss impossible

Deal with one and three. Because one is something I can cope with, almost had ideal training for tbh ( to think I hated that violin because it would twist my body up :rotfl:). But the not doing the stuff because of things like fatigue or extreme nausea and not WANTING to do stuff because I feel ashamed of how I look and feel is too much. If I can DO stuff I have quality of life! and that's really what counts. I don't really mind so much if it hurts if I can do it IYSWIM? ( that's sound ds rather touch guy, which isn't really how it feels, buit I'd rather hurt and do stuff than not hurt and sit here)

I'm not going to tell you not to feel ashamed of your weight, because I know that none of us can change our feelings by an effort of will. But do please remember that the NP still love you, value you and want you around, regardless of how much you weigh. Although of course we will celebrate with you if you do lose weight, because we know that's what you want. Oh, and remember that lots of us have met you, and however much you may prefer how you look without the extra weight that your health troubles have given you, the weight has never succeeded in making you anything even beginning to approach ugly.

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

How is the, err, you know, thingy?

The thesis is still there.

The friend who I helped with the job app last weekend has been trying to repay the favour with regular encouragement. Unfortunately it seems to be having the opposite effect and feels like another voice reminding me about that which I haven't done. I did warn her that I was unlikely to be as gracious as she was about the nudging.

I've got a serious case of Sunday-night-blues this evening.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

I feel desperately sad for my Eastern European colleagues at the moment. There's no such thing I'm sure as a typical Bulgarian, let along a typical Eastern European. Then they get called Polish (they aren't) and spoken to in loud voices as though they are deaf, when they speak perfectly good English. I think also that customers give me an easier time because I'm English, though I'd never be able to prove that.

And as for taking jobs that should have gone to other people, it is a relatively low paid job in an area where unemployment is very low and we're lucky to have such well qualified and motivated colleagues.

Interesting. When I meet people with concerns about immigration (and it isn't actually a frequent topic of conversation, but when it does happen to crop up) they mostly have nothing against Eastern Europeans, and are quite capable of behaving normally towards any that they meet; they just don't want the population of this country to go up any more - they have concerns about overstretching the infrastructure and the NHS and so on.

Working in boarding schools does tend to give people a familiarity with people from all over the world, though, so that they are perceived as "people" rather than "foreigners", and most of the people I meet who aren't connected with boarding schools are people I meet through church who are imbued with a "God loves everybody equally so we should too" kind of concept.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

r succeeded in making you anything even beginning to approach ugly.

Thanks.

I know I'm not Quasimodo. . ( although I have developed a hump now' )

I have great basic proportions and have been in positions where I was lucky enough to rely on my looks and know that a lot of my early opportunities and stuff where not soley based on the talent they should have been based upon :rotfl:

But things are very different. My legs are no longer a pair, even a chubby pair. The occular roacasea leaves me looking like something vampiric often, and my irises have started to change colour, which is ok not ugly but disconcerting. I have ...well, lots of other things, not just the excess flab.


I am lucky because I have LIKED the way I looked. Something a lot of women struggle with ever. And this person isn't me, I look into the eyes I put mascara on and they aren't mine. If the eyes are the window to the soul......who's soul have I got now, huh?! :rotfl:

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I am lucky because I have LIKED the way I looked. Something a lot of women struggle with ever. And this person isn't me, I look into the eyes I put mascara on and they aren't one. If the eyes are the window to the soul......who's should have I got now, huh?! :rotfl:

I'm not sure what one very weepy eye says about my soul at the moment!

In some ways yes, you're definitely lucky to have liked the way you looked. In other ways I'm sure this must make things more difficult now you are less keen (you underlined because as I've said before I think you're beautiful).

PasturesNew

Expensive, unnecessary ..... but I am sure LIR will enjoy the fact these lights exist:
http://www.jazzitupinteriors.co.uk/acatalog/BLOWN_GLASS_OUTDOOR_SOLAR_LIGHTS.html