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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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I wouldn't buy that style. Imagine how heavy that is with the mattress on top. To access the storage you would need to lift the whole thing up with one hand whilst you rummage away with the other.
Above your price point, but with a mattress:
http://www.dreams.co.uk/beds/divan-beds/ashton-divan-set
Ah, some are "gas lift". I guess I specifically have to find one that says that.
Last bed I bought was in about 1988 .... I walked in a cheap shop and pointed to one. Back in the days when a bed was a bed
The trouble I had with drawers was that the bottom drops out of them and sometimes they stop fitting back on the rails. I've only ever bought one bed though, that had drawers... which were mostly fine, only one bottom bowed....0 -
Feeling relieved. One last thing to cook for today. ( serving that hot) and salads. ( compile fresh) and some cream to chuck on a cake.
Then will start on breakfast cook aheads.......
Never thought I'd finish. Never ever, thought I'd finish.
There is no decent parking to night so I am going to be exceedingly grouchy as I am going to have to take my stick and look like a sick person.
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PasturesNew wrote: »Ah, some are "gas lift". I guess I specifically have to find one that says that.
Last bed I bought was in about 1988 .... I walked in a cheap shop and pointed to one. Back in the days when a bed was a bed
The trouble I had with drawers was that the bottom drops out of them and sometimes they stop fitting back on the rails. I've only ever bought one bed though, that had drawers... which were mostly fine, only one bottom bowed....
I think your experience with drawers is that poor quality drawers are annoying. What does work rather well is a wooden bedstead with drawers underneath on castors. No messing around with rails, etc.
Annoyingly, it looks like MIL's high quality bed (with drawers!) will go to the dump. She smoked rather a lot, so most people won't want her stuff.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I...She smoked rather a lot, so most people won't want her stuff.
Not even smokers like it
I smoke, but never ever indoors. Always outside - and a bit mindful of where the smoke's going. I smoke in the car, too, then drop my butts into a can with flat cola in it .... which eventually gets tipped upside down to drain, then lobbed in a random bin at a random supermarket.... or lobbed into the "for landfill" bin. I also tend to keep a can outside in the garden for home use. Looks like a proper council house 0 -
Off to the bank...
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 -
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I am aware that all I am doing is rearranging the deckchairs .... but all the "tiny jobs" I am ticking off will result in some form of an outcome that's different to the starting point.
I've been a paper-hoarder for some time; with moving so many times I've got lots of bits of paperwork and I'd bought a shredder the other week. Well, I tried to put the shredder together and got confused, so had set it aside. This morning I got it out and decided I'd go through some of the random plastic bags that are everywhere containing random bits of paper ... and start shredding. Shredder went together first time (not sure why I didn't spot what the destructions meant the first time).
And I've got a lever arch file and wiped it down .... and will now sit and shred stuff.
A typical random plastic bag might contain some free mags from supermarket checkouts, random inconsequential receipts, important receipts, random leaflets/adverts/menus picked up along the way, random letters and information etc. Some is important/to be kept, some needs to be filed, some needs to be shredded/binned.
This is a great way to fill 2-3 hours performing a task that wasn't actually important
I really "need" a filing cabinet in the fullness of time. It's on the list, but low priority.0 -
Welcome to the NP thread!ukmaggie45 wrote: »This is Maggie's 'OH' - nice to see your response. Kids aren't all bad news. We dragged ours when little to see the likes of Eric Clapton and Tom Petty at big venues like NEC, but later we attended sort of together (them standing downstairs, us sitting upstairs) Pulp (elder daughter's choice) supported by Eels {younger daughter's choice) at the Royal Court (bit smaller than NEC).
When the kids were young, I disconnected a bit from music - it happens. Then when I changed job I met a guy who was in a band (Flamingo Fifty), I started to follow them, I saw how much fun it was, I started writing my own songs, and now I go to open mikes and scare myself witless performing to strangers. Parenthood is not a terminal condition.
I went to see Eric Clapton - a brilliant act! I find my musical taste keeps changing though.
One of my fave Liverpool bands were Deaf School - saw them in Glasgow in the 70s and Camden in the 80s. I've hardly made it to any gigs at all but we did wonder about attending one of these open-air festivals sometimes. Went to see Jools Holland in Feb and there a were a good few bands there.
My DD and I share a lot of taste in music. My students mostly seem to like rap, but I'm not into poetry that much.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Opinions please....
Ex hubby has asked for me to send copies of the boy's birth certificates but without a clear explanation as to why he wants them (gave one reason to me but a completely different one to eldest)....what would you do?
Agree with the other posts. Would add though, I'd want to know exactly why he wanted/needed them Perhaps the knowing why would allay the concerns of the kids?Thanks Silvercar....I can't give him James' one anyway as that is now his property and it is his permission which is needed (plus the fact it is sitting in storage 140 miles away).
Josh is also reticent about his being copied and sent and as he is 18 in just a few months and almost an adult, I don't really want to ride roughshod over his opinion.
Youngest doesn't care either way....It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Feeling old part 1:
Eye of the Tiger went to number one 32 (Thirty Two) years ago.0
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