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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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PasturesNew wrote: »Sore paw is probably either over-walking soreness.... or chewing it from being sad at her recent loss.
She's had this a long time, but it's flared up. The vet is wondering whether it's the mutt chewing on it, and that's why she has the lampshade on. The lampshade *really* upsets her, though.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
She's had this a long time, but it's flared up. The vet is wondering whether it's the mutt chewing on it, and that's why she has the lampshade on. The lampshade *really* upsets her, though.
I know for cats the traditional method is to spray their paws/the area you don't want chewed with bitter apple spray. Not sure about dogs...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »You'd be hard pushed to find any pension plan paying 80% in this country wouldn't you? I thought they worked out at about 50% of pay if you spent your lifetime, full-time, in a job that had a final pay pension.
The way I read Gen's post, he would only get 80% until he reached pension age, and then he'd drop down to whatever the pension level is - which is presumably less than 80%.PasturesNew wrote: »This house isn't hot ... nor sunny. (One of my reservations about the house I'm buying as it doesn't face the right way) .....
The one thing I regret about this house is that I don't get sun in my bedroom. When I was little I had a north facing bedroom, and my parents had a south facing one with a huge bay window. I always thought that one day when I was grown up I'd be the one with the south facing window letting in lots of sun, but it's never happened. In the flat & houses where I've lived since I've been grown up, bedroom window directions have been:
SE but with v small high up window so not much sun coming in - 2 years
E - 6 years
NW - 5 years
E - 9 months
N - 7 months
NE - 5.5 years
N - 3.5 years and counting, and this one I've bought and intend staying in for ageslemonjelly wrote: »Pedants point, I think they're called rawl plugs? Might be wrong.
The answer is, it depends on how big/heavy the picture is.
I'm currently having all sorts of debates about where pictures are going too!
Agree with rawl plugs.
I still haven't got round to hanging pictures apart from one or two where there happened to be a convenient hook/nail. It's one of the several things that makes me feel that I haven't yet succeeded in making this house into a proper home.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Ah, to be honest, all this money stuff they're talking about completely loses meThe way I read Gen's post, he would only get 80% until he reached pension age, and then he'd drop down to whatever the pension level is - which is presumably less than 80%.The one thing I regret about this house is that I don't get sun in my bedroom.
I've always wanted an East facing bedroom, for that early morning wakeup light0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »Tonight, I'm off to homebase.
I need compost, & a wardrobe rail.
It begins...
Enjoy the feeling of walking round the place and realising that you are now somebody who owns a home in which to use the things they sell.lostinrates wrote: »Sorry, don't want to worry anyone. Don't worry.
Thanks. Although I would find this more convincing if you said you were actually OK and not just that you didn't want us to worry....Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've always wanted an East facing bedroom, for that early morning wakeup light - house has got that .... patio doors are East facing, and the side garden's south .... kitchen's west. I've no exterior wall or windows to the North, so house will be very protected against the cold ... although not sure if that's where the cold comes from down here.
Ooh, south facing garden. Lovely. Especially when you've got it all how you want it with your beach theme. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
....I would find this more convincing if you said you were actually OK and not just that you didn't want us to worry....
I did wonder if it was a code that we were supposed to spot .... e.g. they're under siege from the Animal Liberation Front for imprisoning chickens or something ..... or aliens that landed by the cake .....0 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »Not quite.... it's the side, so therefore ... it's not the main garden -and- I suspect it's in shade permanently from trees/next door's fence etc.
I will have to see where the shadows all fall/at what time.
To sit on the sunny side affords privacy, so have to see if it feels "odd" to sit on a couple of paving slabs (pavement), rather than the full blown and proper patio by the patio doors.... bit like creeping round the side to "hide". The "beach theme" stuff will be by the patio doors.
There is a small window (toilet room sized window) on the south side into the living room though ... again, no idea how much light that really attracts until I experience it.
Will look forward to hearing how you get on with it, then.
Perhaps one day you'll have enough money to get that small window enlarged to let more sun in. Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
5 down, 10 to go.
It's really starting to ache now but I'm seeing the specialist tomorrow so I'll have a chat with him about it.
Good luck tomorrow.lostinrates wrote: »Sorry, don't want to worry anyone. Don't worry.
Nice to hear from you but as Lydia says, hope things are actually OK rather than you feeling as though you just want to tell us they're OK.
Going back to the sick leave thing, one thing that matters to some employers here is not necessarily the overall number of days, but the pattern of them. There's a formula (Bradford Score?) which produces a score based on frequency as well as total days, and so 2 people with the same number of days off can have a very different approach taken to their sick leave.0
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