Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I hope everyone has a fab time V. jealous I can't join

You've time... if you bunk off....


Middle aged women, buying drawers and saucepans in a shop ... not really THAT exciting when you break it down

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Feeling Ruff as R Soles. As usual, if I am going somewhere/doing something, I don't sleep the night before ...

I know that feeling.......

Not been able to sleep properly the last 2 nights, and need to be awake tomorrow morning at stupid o'clock to get to the airport.

4 hours of faffing around in Istanbul, plus the fact we can't smoke in the airport now (it's still legal in Tbilisi) is going to make this fun, but at least the return is shorter than the outgoing trip

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Feeling Ruff as R Soles. As usual, if I am going somewhere/doing something, I don't sleep the night before ...

Edon't worry you feel bad, I feel and look rough.


I've just coated every part of me I can reach with pain relieving gel :rotfl:

Had a rosacea flare yesterday so am patching up skin and fell asleep after washing hair so trying to work up how to put it up.

We're meeting friends, not casting agents or health and fitness panels.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

We're meeting friends, not casting agents or health and fitness panels.

True. If this were a job interview day they'd not be ticking the "Looks Alert, Intelligent, Fit and Able" box

I just inspected the route ... next to write down a quick list of what I want. I also want to pick up a couple of brochures while I'm there. Looking online's OK, but you can't beat a good brochure

Online/search only works when you know what they've got and what you want. Flicking through a brochure shows you stuff you'd have missed. Also, for me, the website is slow loading, so it's not possible to idly paw through. I did try looking through their kitchens, but that was unfathomable online due to the way they've chosen to present their kitchen cabinets.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think it's yellowing, but maybe it's just Builders' Shade... a bizarre version of an off white known only to builders. Who knows


It's not fag yellow.

It won't be off white. Pure brilliant white is the cheapest paint known to mankind. They won't use a funky shade when they can use trade white I'm afraid.

I come from a family of tradies. All of the houses I grew up were glossed in pure brilliant white and the walls were always beigenolia (a shade made up of the left-over paint from houses that they had done and had bits of can remaining). With a bit of luck, you will have escaped the perils of beigenolia.

vivatifosi

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I know that feeling.......

Not been able to sleep properly the last 2 nights, and need to be awake tomorrow morning at stupid o'clock to get to the airport.

4 hours of faffing around in Istanbul, plus the fact we can't smoke in the airport now (it's still legal in Tbilisi) is going to make this fun, but at least the return is shorter than the outgoing trip

Glad you're nearly back CK. While you've been away, Sky News ran a piece on the bit of Georgia that has been nicked and put into South Ossetia that may be worth picking up on catch up when you are back.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Middle aged women, buying drawers

I think Michaels and lemonjelly would find that very interesting

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

I hope everyone has a fab time V. jealous I can't join

Me too. Wish we could bunk off and join them. Fancy a meet up in MK at some point Nikks?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think it's yellowing, but maybe it's just Builders' Shade... a bizarre version of an off white known only to builders. Who knows


It's not fag yellow.

It will be low VOC stuff, the laws on paint changed in 2010, I think it was. The stuff produced immediately afterwards goes yellow. We're having to do all of our woodwork after less than three years.

Apparantly Dulux have sorted it, but you don't know until a year down the line.

Nikkster, I like the Little Green. Not too glossy, not too matt.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

With a bit of luck, you will have escaped the perils of beigenolia.

They are a small/local developer, that just builds one small estate at a time, all very similar in style, probably 10 houses/year on average.

Walls look like a cream/white rather than a magnolia ... wall colour's fine, the white just doesn't look like brilliant white, it's a creamy white. Skirtings look 2/1000ths of a shade different to door surrounds/doors.