Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

We were thinking if we stick to warm white we can mix styles ok probably.


We particularly want different size lights on the same things in places.

A bit like this
http://0.tqn.com/d/poolandpatio/1/0/f/9/0/-/tree-lights-resized.jpg

Or this
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_UWL9avDDvdE/S6_QZTQ8fRI/AAAAAAAABR0/ahFADKreqnY/s1600/twilight+gazebo+moment.png

But a little less much than both maybe.

My late lovely friend was very fond of lights.

In her garden in the far east she had palm trees the trunks of which had spirals of led lights, each tree having it's own colour.

soft white lights were indoors - Her spiral staircase in the middle east was wrapped in soft white lights.

Wherever she lived there was always a large flat basket filled with soft white lights and a wall that had a huge net of lights stretched across it.

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

soft white lights were indoors - Her spiral staircase in the middle east was wrapped in soft white lights.

When I get an electrician in to make some changes here, I think I'm going to see if I can get a socket put in next to the stairs for some lights on the handrail. I know you can get battery operated ones, but I'd be more likely to use them if they ran off the mains.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's a whole other world isn't it ......


And to think ... you get us

How lucky am I.:T

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

This, many times over. If you were a man you would shrug and say the drugs are making you look a bit bigger. end of. no big deal.

If you really want to change your iris colour you can get coloured contact lenses. I don't know why you feel you need to, but if it is that important to you...

No, I'm not THAT fussed over eyes. I mean I am and I'm not. Eyes of all colours are beautiful. I just was happy with mine. For all their lack of supposed aryan blue perfection, they were mine and me. They aren't HUGELY different. A bit muddy, a bit paler. But they aren't the eyes I've looked at for so many years. Its not that unusual I don't think. I think some of the eyelash extension stuff turns eyes brown for example

I couldn't take contacts with my eyes I doubt, and if I could I probably wouldn't but its still odd, unfamiliar....a sort of further alienation of the 'person' me from the physical me.

Anyway, I'm feeling MUCH happier and hoping it will last. . . If it doesn't I'll just have to cross that bridge when I come to it.

Moping about eyes, which really aren't that important in the scheme of things, probably isn't going to help me so I'm going to push it to the back of my mind.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

My late lovely friend was very fond of lights.

In her garden in the far east she had palm trees the trunks of which had spirals of led lights, each tree having it's own colour.

soft white lights were indoors - Her spiral staircase in the middle east was wrapped in soft white lights.

Wherever she lived there was always a large flat basket filled with soft white lights and a wall that had a huge net of lights stretched across it.

Gosh, I remember you saying that now. Inside we have the sparkly corner lights and some other bedroom lights. In the sitting room we have very meager string of lights on fireplace. A little plaintive really.

I'd like more twinkly lights. At uni I used fairy lights bluetacked to wall behind me for a bedside lamp.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

When I get an electrician in to make some changes here, I think I'm going to see if I can get a socket put in next to the stairs for some lights on the handrail. I know you can get battery operated ones, but I'd be more likely to use them if they ran off the mains.

My fire olace ones are battery, I find this encourages me to use them as I don't feel I'm using up monitored electric. :rotfl:

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Gosh, I remember you saying that now. Inside we have the sparkly corner lights and some other bedroom lights. In the sitting room we have very meager string of lights on fireplace. A little plaintive really.

I'd like more twinkly lights. At uni I used fairy lights bluetacked to wall behind me for a bedside lamp.

I tried to blutack some lights up in my corner of doom (the little desk area I created). Well, I did blutack them but they didn't stay up for long. So the corner remains gloomy as well as doomy

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Then we look in amazement when UKIP gets local council seats, what is their policy on pot holes? Who knows, because they certainly don't.

I don't know their policy silver, but I'm pretty sure that round here those in power don't either. Wasn't it the head of the RAC who broke his suspension on a pothole in St Albans?

There's a road near here that is the most logical way to work, but I never take it as turning right onto the main right I feel that the pothole I'm trying to avoid is going to pull my wheel off. If I try to pull out slowly, then I'll get hit by a car coming round the corner. Madness... It's been like that for months even though it has been reported several times.

When I drove down to lir's I kept thinking how much better maintained the roads were in her county.

PasturesNew

It's amazing how cheap/common solar lights are now.

vivatifosi

What you just said about the lights in the 70s... do you remember - I think it was on something like Tomorrow's World - people showing you could pedal a bike to power a 60w bulb?

Imagine how easy it would be to generate that output for the few watts you need for an equivalent bulb now.