Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Chewie...I am lost for words. Not often I am overcome with a wave of compassion for you...but the curtains have done it.

Hugs.

Shows the state of things... not far shy of a £1million house .... and 40 year old, 2nd hand curtains, that look like that.



My curtains are more tasteful.... by miles.

zagubov

I was short-sighted when younger but it improved. However it's now gone the other way and I'm long-sighted so need to wear glasses for reading.

Sometimes forget I'm wearing them and try to walk about wearing them. Big mistake- they restrict your field of view something rotten.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

My curtains are more tasteful.... by miles.

Hilarious

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Keep them, then, when you leave, sell the house with "curtains at windows are unlikely to be the ones you saw at the viewing and are being left purely so you've something at the windows until you fit/buy ones you like"

Yeah, good idea. Even more likely - they will still be the ones at the windows... And I'll be taking them with me!

I think the curtain rails may be original so I'll be generous and leave them.

chewmylegoff

Seems to be a lot of jealousy going on re: my lovely curtains, but I can't say I'm surprised.

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of jealousy going on re: my lovely curtains, but I can't say I'm surprised.

Yup, that'll be it. Jealousy. :walking away shaking head and smiling smilie:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

If I ever meet the farker that invented "work".....:mad:

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, a little.

There is a crescendo that builds when you get a house .... and then so much unusual activity .... and it's overwhelming and disorientating. Most odd. You'd think it was just a question of: pack, unpack, sleep in a different room ... get on with life as usual

It's strangely tiring.

I think it's similar to starting at a new school, or a new job. Everything in your new house / flat takes more brain power. It takes a while for you to automatically get out of bed and turn right for the loo, reach over to the left for the toothpaste, raise your right arm 6 inches above your head and to the right for a mug - it all becomes automatic after a while, but takes a lot of effort until it beds down in your brain.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

In our bedroom we have some monstrous 70s curtains with a lot of orange and black in them. I think my parents may have had them in the lounge about 35 years ago! I'll post a picture of them when I get home if I remember.

At the moment out most expensive purchase is a mattress. We are arguing about whether we need a new sofa - I don't want to buy one cos we spent £1,500 on the current one about 4 years ago. She says it doesn't match the living room. I think I will lose.

I've seen the pic - and I'm almost lost for words. I might well open one eye in the morning and shoot out of bed, gibbering in panic!

Probably cheaper to keep the sofa and re-paint the living room?

OH and I bought a sofa together, our first significant joint purchase, 11 years ago. It's a huge, very deep, proper sofa bed - "proper" in that it's actually possible to get some kip lying on it without having to pass out drunk, first. It's very deep, so you can curl up or sit cross-legged on it, and long enough (when in sofa form) for 4 people to sit on if they don't mind being a bit cozy. It's looking a tiny bit shabby now, but we like it.

hjd wrote: »

The Chancellor (Gavin Esler) asked DS during the obligatory handshake "What do you intend to do next" to which the boy blithely replied "Pick up my certificate from the table on the way out". I think he may have slightly misinterpreted the question..

Interesting to compare his graduation with that of DD 2 years ago from UCL. A marquee in a private garden in a London square vs Canterbury Cathedral...
Seats were better for UCL, and less waiting around. UCL took months to produce a degree certificate, Kent handed them out on the day.
Still, both of the dear (not so little) children have now graduated. DD is just finishing her Masters degree and hopefully they won't need the same (if any) level of financial support!

Mine and OH's graduation at UCL was inside, then a party outdoors in a garden square afterwards. The ceremony wasn't until Sept / Oct, though, not at this time of year.

What did DS take his degree in? Is he going to do further degrees now?

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

I wonder how many NP are glasses wearers?

I have cheapy reading glasses for reading small print in dim light. Otherwise I don't need glasses. Not sure how long this will last, though.

lostinrates wrote: »

I got my badge from the Mse badger ( you get a pm too).

Oooh exciting. I want mine too. However, can't pay off mortgage until I get my money. The deadline agreed in court was today, but no money has materialised. My solicitor says these deadlines are frequently missed and has sent letters to all concerned chasing things up for me.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I finally got to "overpay" today.

:j
Well done chewy!

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you like sofa? Can you recover more cheaply than replace?

We've never bought a new sofa, one day we will though. The day bed needs some tlc in the form of springs and reupholstering and we have a little chair under a window, a mini sofa, that is in a fright ful state that also needs it, and a big sofa that needs new cushions AND , I hate the cover on the sofa currently in the kitchen one day to be in the room that's to me the music room/ reading room but is ATM dining room.

Can you get sofas mended if the springs have gone (really badly)? DD would be distraught if I got rid of the sofa I inherited from LNE but it would be nice if the end nearest the door was actually bearable to sit on. I think it's been bounced on too many times.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Probably cheaper to keep the sofa and re-paint the living room?

What NDG said.