Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Next year .... I might paint my shed in "beach hut stripes/colours".

It does make a big difference IMO.

Cheers one up. Though we are just doing a solid colour seeing the difference of the scrawny little young trees in front of that colour instead of infront of the generic fence colour is really exciting. The different greens really stand out, and the silvery leaves shine. Even the similar blue greens of the gum trees shimmer and where the light hits them and they glow they glow green like stained glass against the flat fence.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tables with detachable legs = I can move them about and they can be taken apart if impractical for any amount of time.

Ikea tables have detachable legs because they are flat pack. The thing with wood ones though is you probably wouldn't want to screw/unscrew them many times as they will go wobbly. Screwing a metal table leg in on the other hand, that can be done many times.

So have a look at the underside when you are in store. If you are screwing into metal fittings in a wooden table, you'll be able to take it apart more times than if you screw directly into the wood.

tomterm8

Today I have been mostly cutting the hedge... lots and lots of hedge. The kind of "Hack and slash" gardening I excel at. It was hot out there and I also did an hour of scything.

Also, after several recent experiences with them I'm going to make a comment about the youth of today... at least around here they're awfully polite and really quite nice. I keep on just being very impressed by them. They're much better behaved than I was at that age.

Nikkster

As well as moving and planting up that sink, I mowed the grass. There was a bit of space in the bin ago I started pulling weeds from the 'flower beds'. I'm definitely not short of weeds! As well as farming potatoes, my garden seems to have the perfect conditions for bindweed. I hate bindweed.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Warehouse where FC123 might hold stock's gone up in flames.
ASOS.
Hope she either had no stocks held there, or they'd run them down, or it turns out to be a fortuitous insurance claim.
About 20 of her lines were sold via the website I think.

Coincidentally, I was thinking of FC today. It hadn't occurred to me that she would be at risk on stock she had already delivered. I hope she's okay.

tomterm8

Nikkster wrote: »

bindweed..

Poison it.

That's about the only thing that will work, really, due to the roots amazing regenerative ability... weed out one bindweed, get ten new plants for free.

michaels

tomterm8 wrote: »

Also, after several recent experiences with them I'm going to make a comment about the youth of today... at least around here they're awfully polite and really quite nice. I keep on just being very impressed by them. They're much better behaved than I was at that age.

The BBC had a piece which I can't find last week about how kids were now more right wing than their parents putting a lie to the quote about beign a socialist when young unless without a heart and a Tory when older unless no money. I'm sure when I was younger we spent more time rebelling, being anti-social and anti-establsihment. Nowadays being anti-establishment as a youth seems more like a fashion choice than being about convictions.

Then again we also have those choosing to take up arms in Syria, villified by the establishment but I suspect more like the 'international brigades' of the Spanish civil war (which were no doubt seen at the time as a huge threat to the status quo in Blighty) than a real threat to British democracy.

Edit: This is the piece - no luck finding it on the BBC search but first hit on google http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27865991

Masomnia

It's interesting, the BBC piece, because I would say I'm part of that trend :eek:

Having said that I think I'm unusual. I'd say most of my friends who are politically involved or spend much time thinking about these things are left wing.

michaels

Masomnia wrote: »

It's interesting, the BBC piece, because I would say I'm part of that trend :eek:

Having said that I think I'm unusual. I'd say most of my friends who are politically involved or spend much time thinking about these things are left wing.

Hows things with you Mas - felling any more motivated?

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

The BBC had a piece which I can't find last week about how kids were now more right wing than their parents putting a lie to the quote about beign a socialist when young unless without a heart and a Tory when older unless no money. I'm sure when I was younger we spent more time rebelling, being anti-social and anti-establsihment. Nowadays being anti-establishment as a youth seems more like a fashion choice than being about convictions.

Then again we also have those choosing to take up arms in Syria, villified by the establishment but I suspect more like the 'international brigades' of the Spanish civil war (which were no doubt seen at the time as a huge threat to the status quo in Blighty) than a real threat to British democracy.

Edit: This is the piece - no luck finding it on the BBC search but first hit on google http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27865991

I must have gone against the trend.

DS1 takes a heavy interest in politics, but wouldn't describe himself as right or left wing. DS2 is more left wing than either of us.