Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

vivatifosi

Thanks lir, I would love to know about the lawns, that's precisely why I asked... thank you! I would love a camomile lawn, DH saw it and only thinks of grass. Plus about 3/4 of my garden is sunny (it is south facing) but about 1/4 is very shady as there are a couple of tall trees in neighbouring gardens.

I don't personally care much for astroturf. That's more DH's idea. He also has a moth/butterfly phobia whereas I think they are lovely. It's finding a middle ground that's reasonable. The song birds though are the line that cannot be crossed. I want to keep them and they make me happy and in love with waking up in the morning.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tell us your housey tales lemon.....

Did you do groin thrusts on the front driveway - to show the neighbours who is King of the Castle?

I'll remove if you want lj, but this made me giggle as you're the King of Weoley Castle

lostinrates

Try this one, ( not sure its the one I am thinking of but cannot see other one.,,,

Covering ground by Barbara w. Ellis

Ah, flipped over its a us book, can you get us books in uk library easily?? Isbn reads

Isbn-13: 978-1-58017-665-1

Can send you mine to read of course

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Phew!:D

lemonjelly wrote: »

One side is empty/for sale, the other is a business. No one to show the groin too...:o

I'd probably best not comment on this. It'll only be taken out of context

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

they make me happy and in love with waking up in the morning.

I tend to need as much assistance with that as possible!

Doozergirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is yossie a cat?

Give Daniel my love.

I am not on antibiotics, as I was not quite ill enough. DW qualified by having very low blood pressure, a racing pulse, and high temperature. She was treated for acute septicaemia and was given around 15 litres of IV fluids, mostly saline. The annoying thing is that she now feels better than I do. So, the treatment worked.

Gen, my thoughts are with you.

Goodness, GBD, have you told your friends that he nearly bumped the two off you off?!

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

The annoying thing is that she now feels better than I do. So, the treatment worked.

Did they tell you to seek further assistance if you weren't back to normal after x days?

Glad that Lady GDB is feeling better, hope you do too asap.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

1. Replace the main turf area with astroturf and add flower beds round the side to be planted with low maintenance plants.
2. Similar to 1, but using a gravel or slate base instead.
3. Have a non-grassed garden, but with a series of flower beds and paths. This will require more maintenance than 1 or 2, but planting will be carefully selected.

I thought I wanted Astroturf (you have to do maintenance and hose it down, so poo could be hosed off) .... and I was passing a market stall and a man was there selling it. He said it's an awful faff as you've the cost of digging up and removing existing turf, then flattening it and preparing it for the turf to go down. It's an expensive solution ... probably best suited to small(er) gardens starting afresh.

Slate's nice - there are other aggregates available too, e.g. shells.

Non-grassed is nice, but pretty permanent. eg. if you wanted to sell in 5 years you'd be wondering if it'd put people off ... if you'd used slate etc it'd be a simple solution to shove down turf.

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

My thoughts too. I'd be selling Rizlas too.

Interesting fact. 'Rizlas' are actually called Riz La Croix. Riz because they were made from rice paper (rice = riz in French) and the La Croix (The Cross) is the name of the family that made them hence the picture of a cross on the packet.

That's a great bit of pub quiz knowledge

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Goodness, GBD, have you told your friends that he nearly bumped the two off you off?!

I guess the problem is "proving it".... it might not be received well and who is to say that it wasn't something they had earlier and forgot about ..... tricky one, best to stay quiet.