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I decided to move all random/spare boxes upstairs .... got as far as three and then started getting "picky" about the 4th box. I started to wonder if, ultimately, it'd belong upstairs or downstairs..... I think I should just get them all upstairs, just to get the house into a state where it doesn't look like a storage depot. And if stuff ultimately comes downstairs again then I just have to get over it
This is stuff that mentally belonged in the "large utility room, with good sized sink" .... that this house hasn't got My hobby/craft stuff. 0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »I saw Butler-Sloss has turned down the enquiry job after all - good move. Not because there's anything wrong with her in herself, but the workload and stress for an 80 year old would have been huge. And the risks of her becoming ill or unable to continue were pretty high too, I'd have thought!
She is a very impressive lady, and I am sure she would have done a fantastic job. I don't think she was too old for it, necessarily. DW and I went for a nine mile walk with the Ramblers on Sunday that was guided by a sprightly 82 year old. So, a lot depends on how fit you are, in our guide's case physically and in Lady BS's case mentally. She is very clever and very well organised, so she might not have found it too stressful. Some people thrive on these challenges.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
It starts like that, but I'm afraid it doesn't stay like that. Long-sightedness can only really get worse with time while short-sightedness can improve.
I remember an optician on a radio show pointing out that the off-the shelf reading glasses can damage your eyes because people often find they quickly need stronger lenses.
He explained most people see their visual problems as a sign orf aging so they go into denial and put up with it and put up with it until finally they give in and buy the weakest lenses. After a while reality sets in that they're too weak and they go and buy a pair the right strength.
It wasn't the eyes deteriorating it's just that the person underestimated how bad they were, and for vanity chose the weakest lenses, which would be totally unsuitable.
Dark glasses or better a blindfold would be ideal for some of the curtains I've seen today! :eek:
I am not making mistakes like that. I had a proper sight test, and the optician told me I could buy +1.0 over the counter ones, and would probably be all right with those for another year or two, so that's what I did.I wear glasses, initially for short sight and astigmitism, now for a bouncy optic nerve in my right eye (the EDS has made the nerve tighten and loosen all the time which makes it very difficult to get the right reading), astigmitism, short sighted in one eye and slightly long sighted in the other!
I've varifocals now to deal with all the issues (coloured lense for the Irlens, I've stopped tripping down stairs on a regular basis and my headaches have reduced! Yay) and apart from the initial eekness and ickiness of wearing them, I get on with them just fine.
Cost me an arm and a leg though despite the vouchers received for being on benefits...blooming worth it for the reduction in headaches and the stopping of words swimming and jumping about which was making the already bad headaches worse. I can enjoy reading again, I am tripping up fewer times and I can also see again to thread a needle.
DS has coloured ones for being dyslexic. They are very green. Fortunately he reports that the kids at school think they are cool rather than weird.PasturesNew wrote: »I've never been keen on armchairs, I think the arms take up too much space and you can't curl up and be comfy in them. I'd prefer a 2-seater and a 3-seater to a 3-piece suite.
I think here the best option might be two 2-seaters..... I really don't know. It'll come to me at some point
Of course, all I need is one sofa for me 99.99% of the time.
I have a 3-seater and a 2-seater, inherited from LNE. They are black, which I wouldn't have chosen. Each half of the 2-seater reclines, and so does each end of the 3-seater, but not the middle bit. In order to be able to recline them, they have to stand out from the wall so there's space to tip backwards, and not be too close to each other. This means that the 2-seater has to be rather too close to the piano, so that playing the piano involves a tight squeeze to get oneself onto the piano stool without pulling it backwards first.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 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »chaise lounge (I think that's the right word anyway)
It's "chaise longue" - it's French for "long chair"At one time, we had two Henry vacuum cleaners, to avoid carrying them up and down so much. One stored on the top floor, and one on the ground. Unfortunately, one died, so now we have one.
My cleaner reports that she tried using the Dyson last week and it mysteriously seems to have recovered despite nobody having done anything to it since the time it was found to be completely dead. I am wondering if it is now going to go back to being OK, or have another go at its trick of always sucking fine when vertical and using the hose, but only sometimes sucking adequately when pushed along by the handle with the hose put away.She is a very impressive lady, and I am sure she would have done a fantastic job. I don't think she was too old for it, necessarily. DW and I went for a nine mile walk with the Ramblers on Sunday that was guided by a sprightly 82 year old. So, a lot depends on how fit you are, in our guide's case physically and in Lady BS's case mentally. She is very clever and very well organised, so she might not have found it too stressful. Some people thrive on these challenges.
There's also the question of impartiality. It's not sufficient for the person doing the enquiry to be impartial - they have to command everyone's confidence in their impartiality, and because of her brother, there are people who would doubt her impartiality whether or not it would actually make any difference to the way she did the job. Caesar's wife, and all that.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 -
Aus has a pretty rubbish train service although it's better than it used to be.
Originally, each state decided what rail gauge they wanted. Victoria and New South Wales decided on different gauges so you had to get off the NSW train in the night and walk to the VIC one or vice versa.
The US one is surprisingly basic. There are plans for high speed trains there but there are about ten plans all in different areas and no plans to link them up up. Absurd.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I am not making mistakes like that. I had a proper sight test, and the optician told me I could buy +1.0 over the counter ones, and would probably be all right with those for another year or two, so that's what I did.
DS has coloured ones for being dyslexic. They are very green. Fortunately he reports that the kids at school think they are cool rather than weird.
I have a 3-seater and a 2-seater, inherited from LNE. They are black, which I wouldn't have chosen. Each half of the 2-seater reclines, and so does each end of the 3-seater, but not the middle bit. In order to be able to recline them, they have to stand out from the wall so there's space to tip backwards, and not be too close to each other. This means that the 2-seater has to be rather too close to the piano, so that playing the piano involves a tight squeeze to get oneself onto the piano stool without pulling it backwards first.
Aaargh! A bit got deleted from my post and totally changed its meaning!
The optician on the radio said the idea that off- the-shelf reading glasses damage your eyes is wrong, it's just that people's vanity make them buy the wrong lenses first and then when they find better ones, assume the first ones had damaged their sight.
You're right to get an eye test though. There's things only an optician can detect that can damage your eyesight.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
The US one is surprisingly basic. There are plans for high speed trains there but there are about ten plans all in different areas and no plans to link them up up. Absurd.
TBH, I think the problem is that the cities in Aus and (most of) the US simply don't suit trains.
For trains to work you need a NY/London/European-style city with large numbers of people working in one central place and people living in apartment buildings (or the London version: the terraced house). That way you can easily get to a station as it's worth making them walking distance away and you can get to the centre with perhaps one change at most.
The trouble with Aus is that you will almost certainly need to drive to the station and then people work all over the place. Sydney alone has about 4 large CBDs plus countless smaller ones.
Buses make more sense in a place like Aus with planes to get you between cities. Planes seem to run fuller and so cheaper.0 -
Just got "surprised" in the garden when a random man walked right through my garden
Luckily - it was only the postman, he uses my garden as a "short cut". I told him that, in time, there'd be bolts. He said the other postmen said "you can't do that, what if you catch somebody having it in their living room....?" He said he's the only one that cuts through ... and that the house at the far, far end of my row is one of the postmen.
So that settles it, bolts have gone up the priority order, not for the postman, but because any Tom, !!!!!! or Harry who is door knocking these houses might also start randomly availing themselves of my back garden as a short cut.0 -
I've got 1x for reading the back of food packets for instructions. I've got 3x for close up work, when I did my evening class (fine metalwork/detailed). Eye test showed eyes aren't significantly different from each other and 1x would "do". I can't read with the 3x, I might at some point get a 1.5x from a £1 shop..... off- the-shelf reading glasses ....0 -
I was thinking more along the lines of:
http://www.made.com/sofas-and-armchairs/armchairs/garston-love-seat-regal-blueWe had a house once with a built in vacuum, you just plugged the hoses into the wall.
It was absolutely useless !!!
My parents have one of those. It's ok, but IMO it's even more of a pain lugging a very long hose around the house as it is moving a normal vacuum cleaner.My cleaner reports that she tried using the Dyson last week and it mysteriously seems to have recovered despite nobody having done anything to it since the time it was found to be completely dead. I am wondering if it is now going to go back to being OK, or have another go at its trick of always sucking fine when vertical and using the hose, but only sometimes sucking adequately when pushed along by the handle with the hose put away.
When my (working) Dyson broke, the brush bar just suddenly stopped working. The machine itself was fine, so I ended up doing the vacuuming using the hose. It's still under guarantee, so I called up Dyson and they gave me a new brush bar unit - problem solved.0
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