Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

New subject to investigate/explore and try ... Laminate floors scratch ... and I moved something last night and just saw it's produced a V shape scratch 8" long. V shaped as I moved the thing out .... then back. Also another couple of smaller scratches.

So I'll get some felt/glue to glue under things.... which just leaves me with the existing scratches to deal with.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

New subject to investigate/explore and try ... Laminate floors scratch ... and I moved something last night and just saw it's produced a V shape scratch 8" long. V shaped as I moved the thing out .... then back. Also another couple of smaller scratches.

So I'll get some felt/glue to glue under things.... which just leaves me with the existing scratches to deal with.

You'll get specially made sticky felt patches on your Ikea trip

Or Dunelm.

Nikkster

If anyone is looking for gardening bits and bobs, there are some excellent reductions in Wilkos at the moment. Things like pots mainly (rather than tools), but I got a vegetable storage sack for 10p (being optimistic), a 'super giant pumpkin' growing kit for next year (:D) at 10p again, a load of plant pots at 5p each (I'll need to re-pot my surviving lavender plants at some point).

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Bergamot


I have courgettes but its too hot to troop over there ATM.

That all looks stunning LiR

silvercar

PN wrote:

New subject to investigate/explore and try ... Laminate floors scratch ... and I moved something last night and just saw it's produced a V shape scratch 8" long. V shaped as I moved the thing out .... then back. Also another couple of smaller scratches.

So I'll get some felt/glue to glue under things.... which just leaves me with the existing scratches to deal with.

DG wrote:

You'll get specially made sticky felt patches on your Ikea trip

Or Dunelm.

Poundland - only £1, I saw them there only last week.


You can clean out the scratches with the right products. You can aslo protect your laminate with products like "mop & shine" or "Manual Forbo floor care". Known as the soap film method. You are basically covering with a thin layer of cleaner that you don't wash off. Think of it like leave in conditioner.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Shall we organise an Ikea trip? Ikea Southampton...?
Mid-week, any day, any time.

Anybody? Or am I now the only one fit to travel/bother?

I would love to come.

This week coming I can do Mon, Thurs, Fri.

Following week Thurs or Fri

silvercar

Doozergirl wrote: »

Aaargh. Target markets. I need to dig out my notes from when we started marketing Doozer.

My target market in this area will probably be 30-50 somethings, time poor professionals who want something to impress the neighbours but need someone with a design eye to listen and interpret their needs, and someone trustworthy to manage it, either because they are out of the house or have children there. They'll be a bit MSE and open minded as they'll be prepared to sacrifice the retail frontage for a what should be a better or similar price to the usual kitchen suspects but a much better service. Around here they'll probably live in a 4 bed lego box.

Initially I plan to purchase CAD software to design kitchens, save me telling Howdens/Magnet/Benchmarx how to do their job and offer immediately from their ranges (because we already do). I'm going to investigate my own supplier and retail space iminently, but I need to gear up the marketing and create the environment first and see if I can keepyself afloat without.

JFDI as my friends say.

The word I'm thinking of is (will delete)
simpatico
adj.
1. Of like mind or temperament; compatible.
2. Having attractive qualities; pleasing.

I can use phrases around it like 'bread & butter' (nods to Gen) 'cup & saucer' and something like 'you & us' to reflect how important I feel the relationship is in a successful pairing. Soppy like that. Work is sh£te if you don't like people or they're general troublemakers.

I was playing around with Generali's dancing angels, but the problem is with kitchen related stuff is that the danger is of sounding like a reataurant or a cookshop.

So I am your target market

I like the name simpatico.

Its all word of mouth. All these facebook groups where someone says, "anyone know a kitchen fitter?" or seeing someone else's kitchen and going from there. Its you that you need to market, the name isn't that important. As your friends say JFDI.

GDB2222

Poggenpohl is a daft name, yet they've done quite well. Maybe names are less important than we think?

Who makes the decision on these large purchases, men or women? I ask because I think men may go for something more specific, eg kitchen guru or kitchen perfectionist. Women may indeed like the sound of someone who listens and is sympathetic.

GDB2222

We had a dinner party here on Friday night, for 8 people, which we hosted around our kitchen table. We've just had a delightful thank you email, thanking us for the homely dinner. The trouble is that it's such a mess in our dining room that I could not face clearing it.

Yorkie1

Another one who got France (and didn't tick Art for any of my answers!).

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just looked .... expecting nothing.... there are 10 sprouts.

Now I need to read the rest of the pot as I think I have to repot them.... I'm hoping a plastic egg box will do for that.... or I have just bought 6 chocolate mousses from lidl and so can use those pots.

How exciting....

:j Mousse pots are deeper than egg boxes so use them - poke a hole in them for drainage and they'll do for a little while but will need potting on into a bigger pot then.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't really know what I'm talking about but .... (that never stopped me before) .... there are french beans, dwarf french beans (?) and runner beans. The first two are small/lovely and taste nice. the latter taste nice when newly grown, but if you don't eat them up fast from the plant they grow bigger and tougher and become stringy and nasty.

I like the small/thin ones, hated the stringy ones. The horrid, stringy, ones were the ones mum invariably froze.....

Completely agree - I like climbing and dwarf French beans but really don't like runners as they get too stringy. I've got one of those kitchen contraptions that you can remove the stringy side bits with but the outer skin is, as you say, too tough still. I've never been very good at harvesting things young.

Today I picked 3 climbing beans (that's probably all I'll get this year ) and a lot of gone-over starchy peas. I'm just not getting down to the plot when I need to. Forgot to check the courgettes but I was given 2 surplus ones yesterday by a fellow plot holder :T

lostinrates wrote: »

My bathroom tap, chosen by us, gets the wall out side bathroom if you don't know it and have left the door open. We're going to some kind of restrictor fitted.

This is developing into a whole different type of 'who can spray the furthest' bathroom game