Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Neighbours are out because of timing of end.

Blow up mattresses in different reception rooms are a great idea though!


Because of location anything else really will be out. They want to be here and relaxed on time, its just how to do that best.:)

Feed em enough alcohol til they pass out/don't care where they sleep

tomterm8 wrote: »

I never bother with stripes, and I have a big lawn where it would show up. Too much effort.

Folks bought me a mower as a housewarming gift. It put stripes in the lawn. I was amazed. It'll look great til I get bored doing it...:D

lemonjelly

This made me think a bit:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100274724/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-theresa-mays-row-with-michael-gove/

lemonjelly

On my poster framing issue, I appear to have found an option for 2 of the big posters (the map & 40 inch x 60 inch poster).
I'll happily pay for custom framing my Lemon Jelly day/night poster, as it is a lovely item.

Still stuck for what to do about my 70 inch circular poster though...

lostinrates

I got the back finished. Haven't done front yet. Might, might not.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

Also - "terminal" - it came out on that programme last night; they don't use the word. The word "incurable" is used, giving false hope and expectations of longevity.

It's a hard one. There's quite a bit of evidence that giving a patient a terminal diagnosis or saying how long they'll live shortens their life.

Sort of a reverse placebo...

On the other hand, if patients ask for their prognosis they should probably get it.

lostinrates

There is a lot that's incur able that's not terminal though.

And some stuff that's meant to kill ya that doesn't.


Fwiw, I'm not the only stubborn person in my family. My mother had an injury when I was quite young and was told she wouldn't walk, so she decided to show 'em. I'm like her in many ways.

tomterm8

lemonjelly wrote: »

Feed em enough alcohol til they pass out/don't care where they sleep


Folks bought me a mower as a housewarming gift. It put stripes in the lawn. I was amazed. It'll look great til I get bored doing it...:D

The thing is, to make it look even you need to cut it using a specific overlap... and cut straight... so, yeah, the mower makes it have a stripe but unless you use the right technique on a large lawn you get a weird wavey effect.

Plus, the thing that makes the stripes is basically a heavy weight that presses the grass down.

First thing I do when I get a new lawn mower is get rid of the weight...

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

The thing is, to make it look even you need to cut it using a specific overlap... and cut straight... so, yeah, the mower makes it have a stripe but unless you use the right technique on a large lawn you get a weird wavey effect.

Plus, the thing that makes the stripes is basically a heavy weight that presses the grass down.

First thing I do when I get a new lawn mower is get rid of the weight...

I sometimes cut subtle patterns in to the lawn, ( no roller just my tracks and blade direction) and then excited ly show fir who smiles holds my hand and looks into my eys and says its super.



Then, I recognise the face I make with small children's drawings as he tries to work out what I am showing him without damping enthusiam. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


When I was a kid I had a fiend whose father cut things like hearts and teddy bears in to the lawn. At the time I thought this was brilliant. Now I realise why my parents thought he was a bit of a ....smug twit. ( my other great memory is him having a tantrum about having the wrong number of buttons on his sleeve for Lloyds and his wife not sewing the spare ones on correctly ( same jacket seemed to have buttons removed and replaced often). It wasn't the desire to be to correct form , it was the fear of not being so that stuck as a way not to live. Fwiw, I have no idea how many buttons a man should wear on his sleeve to Lloyds of London lunches.

PasturesNew

Quick random question: I was watching a housey programme the other night and they had wallpaper where you paste the wall, then wet the paper down (lying it on a pasting table) ... then you hang the paper and because it's wet it makes it easier to smooth it down and get any bubbles out.

Is that special paper? Or can you do that with all wallpaper?

Note: I've no intention/desire to ever wallpaper a single wall ever .... but I was intrigued.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you can affix half a scaffold pole to the middle of the lawn - then get very strong rope and tie it to the lawnmower and round the pole... you can probably sit at the side watching it while it cuts a spiral.

Its easier, you just pick a spot and make sure your wheel stays right in the inside track of the bit before. You need to start it off differently on a mobilit lawn mower, because the circles we do don't get very tight.



Still cannot get smug twit teddy bears though.