Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

silvercar

I inherited a drill from my late grandfather. It has done everything I have attempted. It has the key attached by a piece of string that must be 50 years old. It is also wired rather than cordless. It has a switch that moves between "screw" and "hammer" symbols - whatever that does. I am now relieved that I could be blaming have the wrong tools rather than operator failure for things going wrong.

GDB2222

The clever bit about SDS is that the drill bit moves within the chuck. So, when the hammer action is on, it only has to move the drill, not drill plus chuck. On Nikki's drill, and mine, the whole chuck is hammered, which is much less effective. Still, for general use, this seems a good choice. It is just not as good as SdS when you want to make a large hole in concrete.

Nikkster

GDB2222 wrote: »

It is just not as good as SdS when you want to make a large hole in concrete.

Any large holes I make in the masonry are likely to be accidental rather than intentional!

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is there a hat spotters database?

There are lots of books on cap badges and insignia. There's probably stuff online too.

Nikkster wrote: »

Just back from B&Q. Yes, that involved setting an alarm.

Anyhow, I know have my hammer drill And some chain so my hanging baskets will be closer to eye level

In this month's Your Home magazine there is a very odd article about making things for your garden, one of which uses an old bicycle wheel (sans tyre), some chain and some jam jars to make a garden tea light holder. I couldn't decide whether it was !!!!!! or interesting. It may be of interest to anyone who has a steam-punk themed garden... Sorry, your reference to chain made me think of that.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Nigella on telly is using Cocoa Fusilli - a chocolate pasta. Never heard of it!

She's tipped them into boiling water ... she'll serve it with a butterscotch and pecan sauce.

It's a pudding pasta... didn't know there was such a thing.

I've watched that one. If you look at the next episode, I'm sure she pulls her next magic ingredient of a completely different variety (something like anchovies) from the same small shelf.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm sure

Happy to keep the outlay to under £50 until the novelty of diy has worn off and I either a) pay someone to do it instead or b) decide this is something I'm happy to spend more time and/ or money on.

It's good to have good tools though .... increases your chances in the future that if somebody COULD have done an oddjob for you that you've got the tools they'd have not been carrying with them... and it'll be done.

One day you'll be able to whip out that drill and hand it over to somebody to do something useful for you.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I've watched that one. If you look at the next episode, I'm sure she pulls her next magic ingredient of a completely different variety (something like anchovies) from the same small shelf.

It's all staged isn't it .... get the ingredients, place them to be in a "convincing" and visually appealing place where they can be reached and pulled out with grace and ease..... never a thought for how the rest of a packet, jar, pot will ever get used up .... never a thought for who will eat the other 5 portions as she slopes off scoffing from a bowl with a fork ... and never a thought for who is going to clear up all the mess she just made.

No wonder her husband slapped her .... coming home to that every night.... 5 portions of congealed muck still in the kitchen, her asleep on the sofa still wearing her dressing gown and with the bowl on the floor...

Spirit_2

We have the next two weeks off, and had not booked anything pending how I was feeling and on the basis OH has been away so much recently.

This afternoon we have hired a motor home, so midweek when the weather is due to pick up, we will go to Cornwall (we think) and take our dog. We have not been to Cornwall for almost 30 years so a trip is overdue.

We are resigned, indeed one of us is seemingly happy, to be sharing our sleeping quarters with a damp dog.

The motor home has a fixed bed with a TV/DVD player at the foot of it on a swivel...we do not even have a TV in our bedroom at home.

As we looked round the hire place, I was very tempted to buy a second hand caravan. For £5400 we could get something that was 10 years old and immaculate..of the one careful owner type. I even prefered the upholstery to the newer stuff.

I really like caravans, they are so cute and I can play house in them.

Doozergirl

Sounds lovely, Spirit.

I take it your husband is the one relishing the prospect of sleeping with a damp dog? Wash him tonight and he may not smell all that bad for a couple of days at least.

And the dog. Boom boom!

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's good to have good tools though .... increases your chances in the future that if somebody COULD have done an oddjob for you that you've got the tools they'd have not been carrying with them... and it'll be done.

One day you'll be able to whip out that drill and hand it over to somebody to do something useful for you.

Chance would be a fine thing