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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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I've just got back from a couple of days away. Survived presenting. That and something else made it a not exactly relaxing trip. Very nice to be home again.
First thing I did was head outside to check my plants :eek: Everything looks ok. Very pleased that everything hadn't wilted!
Glad you survived and even more pleased to see that you had your priorities right when you got home
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PasturesNew wrote: »So, I signed the papers ... and will get 10% across to solicitor early next week ... and I've a pre-exchange viewing booked over the weekend.
Well done, PN. One big step closer!I've just got back from a couple of days away. Survived presenting. That and something else made it a not exactly relaxing trip. Very nice to be home again.
First thing I did was head outside to check my plants :eek: Everything looks ok. Very pleased that everything hadn't wilted!
And well done NIkkster. you get used to presenting, bit by bit.
I am lobster coloured. Went to a valley inside London, looks idyllic, no buildings visible from inside it. Like an oasis in what's meant to be an overcrowded city. Never noticed it was there. What a find!There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
My favourites are the second and third in, at the same level as the light switch.
But mainly, very impressed that you're already onto picking paint colours!
Had this week off and have got next week off as well so had to try to achieve something. So far I've planted a few herbs, taken the radiator off the dining room wall and half heartedly chased out a few cracks in the wall and sanded the window frame, door frames and skirting board a bit. Will probably run out of steam around Monday afternoon and leave it in a worse state than when I started.0 -
Well, generally (and ask experts before implementing recommendations) after radiotherapy has healed sun cream in the affected area is highly recommended. Radiotherapy leaves the skin more prone to burning both during and after treatment, sometimes on a more or less permanent basis.
But, AFAIK, it's not recommended during radiotherapy treatment.
Certainly not in the UK at any rate:
It's highly recommended for us Aussies to use sunscreen when venturing outside during treatment but is verboten on the table.
Having said that, given the skin cancer rates in Australia you'd be an idiot not to use sunscreen if going outside for more than 20 minutes.0 -
We registered the baby today - he now officially exists.
I'm very glad it's sorted - the last couple of days, after seeing him in a bright green babygrow, OH has been calling him "Kermit" sometimes, and "Kermie" the rest of the time. I was getting very worried indeed.....
We have a few baby clothes that are obviously from the 1970s - the bright green one, the one he's wearing now (orange, yellow and pink stripes) and the red and black one that looks like an angry hornet.We had a fire in the airing cupboard that spread. It didn't completely burn down the house, but the smoke damaged everything. Obviously, some things, like stainless steel sinks, survive better than others. Top tip is to close internal doors, as it stops the smoke spreading.
That should be a second top tip. First top tip is not having a fire in the first place!Note I am thanking football posts without understanding any of it, nor do I have any wish to do so.
<raises hand>
me too. I've never watched a football match, I don't think.42 litre bowl which is a little over 9 gallons. We use the sink to chuck cleaning cloths, facecloths, tea towels, rags etc in to wash every week or two. It's also great for handwashing clothes and for putting pukey kids clothes and bed sheets in at 3am ready for dealing with at a more civilised hour. When the kids were younger it could also be pressed into service as a baby bath when staying with non-child owners.
That sounds very handy - our utility room (a VERY grand name for the cupboard under the stairs which houses on washing machine, one dryer and a few clothes) could benefit from one of those.Our Miele washing machine is older than my youngest son, and he's just started to learn to drive !!!
Have you added him to your car insurance?
Did you have to rob a bank, or just part with a limb?...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »£68 .... I couldn't believe it. I only went out for a £15 "dry cut" .... ended up having highlights done and a cut ... and no blow dry/finish. £68 .... staggered..... that was a "cheap place" as I'd done my research before I booked the cheap cut!!
Got the "newly qualified/junior" and the "colours at 10% off".... £68.... I won't be recovering this week..... or next.
That doesn't sound too bad for cut and colour combined - the hairdresser I looked in at the window of last week near us had a normal cut for £75, which seems rather a lot, to me. Not sure what colouring / highlights costs, never had it done.
Are you pleased with the results? That's important.Umm, that seems quite a bit. I go to Mohamed locally, and he cuts mine for £11. Mind you, I probably have a good deal less hair than you, and I don't have mine coloured.
I think there's a gender difference here.
I also think women are charged far too much - cutting my hair's easy, just a straight line along the bottom. Men's hair looks harder work, to me!I ended up with Emla's little brother. It's weaker but also contains an antiseptic.
Did it help? How are you feeling now?Boil them, but lots of items won't stand that treatment and it is difficult to get in all the joints beforehand to clean them completely. So, a metal teaspoon is easy to do, but a knife with a wooden handle is very difficult. A food processor might not survive immersion in boiling water for a prolonged period, for example. It obviously depends how punctilious you are.
Are you very punctilious? Or is Mrs GDB? Are you Glatt Kosher, for example?vivatifosi wrote: »Morning all.awake following another cat vs fox showdown in the local gardens. Second morning in a row.
Who won, then?PasturesNew wrote: »Only click if you're generally a bit nosey and love data that's been updated and are into all that family history stuff ...
I found a website where a vicar in a tiny village in 1843 set out to visit every villager and document which house they lived in, how they lived their lives and what was going on in their household.
That's an absolutely fascinating site!
There are a few other villages with random information like that which I've come across - there are a couple, for example, where vicars added extra comments to the baptisms, marriages and burials registers, far beyond the information which was necessary. They are great, too....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
ukmaggie45 wrote: »I like the one above it more, but depends on how much light will be coming in.
We just had the whole house painted white before we moved in post renovation, mainly cos we couldn't work out colours before we were in. We actually like it, as the wall colours appear very different from front to back, and across the day. At least if we decide to go with colour later we're starting from a blank canvas! :j
My preference is always for pale colours anyway, I like to maximise light!
I'm big on white..... if nothing else it means you only ever need one can of (cheap) paint in the shed for touch ups .... and white doesn't go off, and it just needs one brush, and there's no worries about what it matches. And, it's easy to just wander round the house once a year with one can and one brush doing "touch ups" here and there to keep on top of it.
Glad to meet a fellow "whitey"
We're rare.0 -
Apparently hidden cash Twitter accounts have attracted very large numbers of followers. How much would a following of say 70,000 be worth? Say it costs a couple of thousand pounds to create that many followers plus a few hours of time spent hiding the money and leaving clues, would that be a paying business proposition?
Never under-estimate the amount of time/effort it takes to keep such an account active and to get it going in the first place. You'd need some charisma/location/personality/constant presence to be able to get it up to speed.0 -
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