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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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lemonjelly wrote: »Yes Lydia, the strawberries are in amongst a rockery (& a LOT of weeds).
There's small fruits already on the plant.
I haven't had a proper detailed look. Cleared around it a bit. Will do so more this evening or tomorrow evening.
There's still boxes here mate! & is a home ever "finished"? I doubt it. Remember I don't have the responsibilities you have either. Indeed, I'm a good for nothing who needs to fill the vast amount of free time available.
Perhaps the domesticated god might drop by one day to give you a hand/encouragement
My parents had wild strawberries (ie edible but much smaller than normal ones) in a rockery when I was little. They are nice, but you have to pick a lot to get enough to be worth eating. They are the size of blueberries or smaller.
Thanks for the encouraging comments. You would be very welcome to drop by.
I am feeling very grown up and settled today - I am waiting for the piano tuner to arrive. (Yes PN, I know, that's a posh alert.)PasturesNew wrote: »I am increasingly frustrated by the new google maps. e.g. I just typed a postcode into it, wanting a marker to show up on the map where that is ... and it doesn't. The postcode exists.... if I then choose "directions" to force it to put a marker in, with a 2nd marker and showing me the route.... it doesn't. It shows me the distance, I can preview the route between the two places, but the map still shows me the whole of the UK, no markers.....
It's annoying.
How odd. It's behaving normally for me. I wonder if you've got some kind of setting that you could change????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 -
We had loads of fat strawberries. 2-3 rows of them... all grown on the ex-fields of jam producers... strawberries ...
They were perfect strawberries, grown in perfect strawberry-growing land, in a strawberry-growing village. Used to pop out and just pick loads/eat them immediately - there was no shortage of them....
TisI am waiting for the piano tuner to arrive. (Yes PN, I know, that's a posh alert.)
We had a piano (£5 from a neighbour), but never had it tuned.How odd. It's behaving normally for me. I wonder if you've got some kind of setting that you could change????
It usually/often works for me too ... but then randomly doesn't. The new version also causes my CPU to go nuts and it's all a lot resource hungry/slower than the older version.
All that stuff you get on the screen isn't needed either. Just give me a soddin' map.....0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »That's the trouble with the Internet.... we're not geographically "just around the corner" to see
It's heart-wrenching taking stuff to the tip/charity shops ... but there's so much stuff.
One thing I would say is that you should contact the local archives/family history lot at the County Council if you find any old newspapers/papers/documents. There's stuff I binned that somebody might have found useful ... we'd belonged to a sporting club during the 70s and dad'd kept every list of events/competitors and their times written down for every one. I binned the lot.
My sibling's MIL had a Huuuuuuge collection of that wedgewood stuff.... the little pots/plates etc, in blue but mostly green .... auctioneer type chap came round and offered peanuts for it, seems mad but it's pricey to buy (new) but worth nothing as there's so much of it and nobody's collecting it these days.
I've never been overly fond of Wedgwood. It's a nice powder blue, but all that stuck on decoration is not my thing.
Mil's kitchen is full of the usual stuff, but she did not keep kosher, so we can't use it. Somebody setting up home could save hundreds of pounds.....No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Mil's kitchen is full of the usual stuff, but she did not keep kosher, so we can't use it. Somebody setting up home could save hundreds of pounds.....
I'm too far or I'd say "yes please".... although I don't actually know where you are, so I'd have to guess "Herts" as that's where most NPs are.0 -
Worrying about LIR. Unnecessarily, I very much hope!No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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chewmylegoff wrote: »The first thing I did when we had moved in was to go to Homebase, buy a drill bit and some picture hooks and stick up our only piece of "art" on the wall, just because we could! We got given it at Christmas. Not something I would ever have thought about buying but it is growing on me!
Congrats on both the drill bit purchase and the making of holes in the wall
Aspirin and caffeine - I'm sure that if the headache is caffeine-withdrawal then it will help that somewhat. But I think it's included in those kind of tablets mainly as it helps the uptake/ action of the aspirin. I'm sure I knew more about it at one point, but can't remember/ don't have time to look up atm.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »It's heart-wrenching taking stuff to the tip/charity shops ...
I find taking stuff to the tip a lot more heart wrenching than the charity shops, although of course finding somebody we know who can make use of the stuff is least heart-wrenching.Mil's kitchen is full of the usual stuff, but she did not keep kosher, so we can't use it. Somebody setting up home could save hundreds of pounds.....
Hope you can find somebody who can make use of it. If you can't find anybody personally, are there charities locally that supply people who need furniture with it, rather than just selling it to raise money?PasturesNew wrote: »I'm too far or I'd say "yes please".... although I don't actually know where you are, so I'd have to guess "Herts" as that's where most NPs are.
I think he's somewhere in London, but I could be wrong.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 -
In my head I had a dream.... that went with the "ideal house".... the "ideal house" had a shed/outbuilding with electricity, where I could do "mucky work". Or, at least, a large utility room ....
.... and I had dreams of buying a drill with a stand (dremel) and doing some specific precision drilling (mucky work).....
I see Aldi are selling some ideal drill bits for the job, but the wrong sizes, their pack (at £4.99) makes holes of 3-10mm, and I want 1-2mm.
But without the drill and stand it'll remain a dream......
Of course, I could just wait for a nice day and have the drill/stand outside on an extension lead on a nice day .... once I've bought a suitable table, the drill, the stand, the special bits ... and had a nice day and remembered 0 -
I find taking stuff to the tip a lot more heart wrenching than the charity shops, although of course finding somebody we know who can make use of the stuff is least heart-wrenching.
Hope you can find somebody who can make use of it. If you can't find anybody personally, are there charities locally that supply people who need furniture with it, rather than just selling it to raise money?
I think he's somewhere in London, but I could be wrong.
I am in London and the local Sue Ryder shop will come and take it all away, to sell.
I'll enquire about charities that use the stuff rather than sell it. I'm not entirely sure that in a money-based economy that ought to be more valuable, but I know what you mean. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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