Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Still cannot get smug twit teddy bears though.

I'm more with your younger self than your parents. I think it's funny...

Though I admit the button's thing is a bit Fraiser, but I can understand it, too.Maybe anxiety and stress comeing out to play.

PasturesNew

Tahlullah wrote: »

I think my parents way was more faffy. Measure wall. Measure paper. Cut paper. Glue bit of wall to hang paper. Re- roll cut paper and emerse in trough. Lift out, unroll against wall, slick down and dry mess. .

Now you've said that, I remember some special wallpaper in the 1970s being brought out where (I think) you didn't glue anything - the glue was part of the paper, so you dunked it in a trough and hung it .... and (I think) they even advertised that you could take it down and to your next house if you wanted....

Tahlullah

PasturesNew wrote: »

Now you've said that, I remember some special wallpaper in the 1970s being brought out where (I think) you didn't glue anything - the glue was part of the paper, so you dunked it in a trough and hung it .... and (I think) they even advertised that you could take it down and to your next house if you wanted....

They definitely glued the wall though. I remember having to mix vats of gloopy paste. Always got lumps in it. Perhaps the glue wasn't that good so it needed reinforcement.

Spirit_2

tomterm8 wrote: »

It's easy. My steps for cleaning an oven:

My steps for oil fired cooker oven cleaning:

If you must, sweep cool oven out with wire brush to get rid of any loose carbon. Do this at about seven year intervals if you are fanatically clean otherwise only do it a few weeks after letting a blackberry and apple pie overflow in the oven.

For no good reason put the oven racks in the dishwasher now and then.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I was growing up my mum "did all the wallpapering" ... which actually amounted to doing two houses once each, max.

I remember aged about 5 walking into a room and mum was up a ladder fitting the wallpaper.

Mum used to do it "the regular way":

- put up pasting table
- roll out paper upside down on pasting table
- slap lots of wallpaper paste to the rear of the paper
- carefully lift it up and hold it while going up a ladder to hang it and match it to the last piece.

Repeat, trying not to get one upside down, wonky, too short, torn, full of bubbles, standing on it, getting it stuck to itself ... or falling off the ladder ..... and hopefully also have enough rolls to finish.

I've always wallpapered; OH takes the pasting department, I take hanging (she says the benefit of being 1ft smaller is that she's not up/down ladders as I can do it from the floor)

I don't like painted walls, as they're cold to the touch

Here's our current wallpaper (for approx the last 7 years). Sorry about the mess!

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm almost tempted to do it for £25 an hour. It's certainly a lot more that I get paid for doing my own gardening

At the same time, she could do yours for £25 an hour, and you'd both be better off.

silvercar

I thought lawns have stripes because you mow down one strip, turn around and mow up. I didn't realise there was an art to it.

silvercar

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

Square frame with a circular mount inside.

silvercar

Generali wrote: »

About 15 minutes of getting strapped in. It's hard to say how long the actual zapping takes. I was told 15-20 minutes but it doesn't seem to be anything like that.

In fact I think I'll bring that up at tomorrow's zapping sesh. I don't want to have to go through all this rubbish again. Ever.

Practice your mental mathematics, start with multiplication tables like 17 or 23. See how far you get.

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, or was doing it ( or the hob) . Just with total ineptitude and telling me it was disugusting I hadn't cleaned it all week.


( I haven't cooked since Sunday, RP is nor cooking for self four days a week when here......or buying in food) . This week RP has had hob food.

Oh, I did put an aubergine in the oven, but that's still fetid.


Rp got bored and has left hob half done, hob cleaner on half of it whinging and gone out.

Shrug, I'm not hungry.

This is a silly game I will lose. RP will buy take away for self tonight, I will snap and need hob for supper tomorrow.

( note , I am meant to be taking it easy , I feel no shame about my cooker, any one of us could clean it.....I do clean the properly...on Fridays usually, before I cook for DH coming home having not bothered much ATM, and spit clean it when needed while cooking more.)


Ovens however are horrid. No denying it.

I don't do passive aggressive, so today is KILLING me. I want to clean the hob but DH says if I do he'll be disappoint and that RP can either finish it tomorrow or we'll talk about it tomorrw.

As predicted, because hob is unusable now its been 'half cleaned ' ( because I should have finished it) RP has gone to eat out.

On the plus side, frustration saw me get some other stuff done, but really I should just do the bloody cooker and get over it, otherwise festering worse for me I reckon.