Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Our new bathroom has a towel rail AND a radiator.

Positively reckless use of heat. .

After all your frozen suffering of the last few winters, I LOVE the idea of you and fir being reckless with heat.

silvercar wrote: »

Our bathroom is like that. Very sensible. Towel rails don't give out much heat, we had the one in the family bathroom replaced with a radiator.

In the old house the bathroom radiators were connected to the hot water rather than the heating. It meant that in Spring/ Autumn when the heating wasn't switched on we had warm bathrooms early in the morning.

We have:
1) Family bathroom: normal radiator with unheated towel rail sticking out just above it so that the towel hangs down in front of it.
2) My en-suite: weird object the like of which I have not previously seen that operates as a radiator with integral heated sticking out rail at the top of it.
3) Downstairs loo: small radiator that we hang the hand towel over, stupid (unheated) rail on the front of the (tiny) sink that you are clearly supposed to hang the hand towel on, but you would regret doing so because it frequently falls off.

lostinrates wrote: »

I learnt fro the radiator people that chrome is a really bad colour for radiators. Lydia would know why. Some science reason, but its about the least good colour for goodness. But our towel rail is chrome. Our radiator is dark dirty grey. Its nice, IMO.

Shiny silver surfaces keep heat where it is - so hot things stay hot and cold things stay cold. This is why thermoses have silvery insides, and why marathon runners get wrapped up in silver foil when they finish running and might cool down too quickly. But you don't want a radiator to keep its heat inside and stay hot; you want it to give its heat to the room.

Shiny silver surfaces on "radiators" means they can't actually radiate much at all, and can only heat the room by convection of air that's actually been in contact with the surface. Fortunately "radiators" do quite a lot of their heating by convection rather than radiation anyway, so it will probably still be fine.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Shiny silver surfaces keep heat where it is - so hot things stay hot and cold things stay cold.

So how does foil round a joint of meat/chicken work then?

I've always wondered if you're supposed to have the shiny side on the inside or outside.... and some don't seem to have the sides very different at all.

lostinrates

I found a little pouch of cheap shiny things today to put away.

In it are these market stall chillis , which have cheap 'white metal'



But wouldn't those chillis sing heat against a warm metal? Wish I could have found then on cheap 'gold'. Or copper.

And no, I'm not sure why I have four bracelets. I think I was planning something with them. I ended up wearing them all layered up I think. I'm glad I found them, even if they are 'silver'.

Found some cheap blue earrings too. Every rule is made to be broken.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

The rooms are used so little, often very fast .... might as well just leave the door open 15 minutes before you want to go in there if it's a bit nippy. Then you open the window to let the steam out. Waste of heat really.... heating a room you're hardly ever in, before opening the window

But when you're in bathrooms, you often take clothes off and want to be warm. Besides, keeping bathrooms warm helps them not to be damp and prevents mould (warm as well as ventilated, obviously).

lostinrates wrote: »

We might do this in our bathroom. I want a rad in there for the cats to sleep on and on which to dry knickers.

You dry knickers on sleeping cats? Oh, sorry, there's an "and" in that sentence.

Generali wrote: »

I applied for 3 internal vacancies today, 2 of them are grade promotions and all three are probably actually promotions.

Good luck.

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

I found my defenders reliable. Thirsty, slow, clunky, noisy, basic, but reliable. I had some fun with them. They aren't good for short runs. My series three had a wiring issue twice ( one took a while to get to the bottom of, it kept sparking light lightening on to my lap, which is found a little concerning, both were due to home wiring by previous owner).

We've personally found Peugeots to be really reliable (The 206 I posted last night, despite having nearly 250000 miles on a 1.4 petrol, has soldiered on with a family member with no issues)

I got 274000 in little over 4 years from the S-Max that replaced the 406, and that's still a taxi in another part of the county, and the 406 died at around 700000, which I've only personally seen beaten by a Skoda Octavia.

Edit: I'd also say in current landy defence, while its had a few issues, it always stars and its nearing end of life and its limping on stoicly. Its been a tow vehicle which is really what's done ours in I guess. The defenders just cope better with stuff like that.

Don't talk to OH about JLR reliability, especially when it comes to the 2nd Evoque she had (after the first one was so reliable, we sent it back). I do agree with the opinion that the older LR cars were tough as anything, though.

OH's Yeti (2.0 TDi with the DSG gearbox) does virtually the same thing, and hasn't yet been a problem (currently on 32000 miles)

PasturesNew

I cannot adequately explain the whirlwind wind tunnel that is my house/garden ..... and I need to understand the air flows, so I can make adjustments to restrict it ....

My new draincovers, I'd put one on the front pipe, for no other reason than it'd at least prevent new stuff piling on top .... 3' from the pipe is the side gate. I'd been out a few times and checked the cover, it hadn't moved.... however, one single gust has, at some point in the past hour, whipped it up and lobbed it clean over the sidegate (6' high) ... and 10' up the side garden!

I've lived in a lot of very windy places before ... but this whipping whirlwind is crazy! Earlier I heard next door shut their bedroom window as leaves were being tossed/swirled 15' into the air out the back in one gust... and going into their bedroom window.

lostinrates

Wind. One of the things I do not miss about coastal or near coastal living.

Still, its reasonably windy here. But at least its not salty, And not sharks or fish blow up in the bad weather. No coconuts to get off trees.

But its fresh, and fresh is better than stagnant pastures, We had a house at the bottom of a dip once at it felt dead. Horrid, protected from breeze to the point of suffocation. Wind is better.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Angela merkel , women's hour tells me, is being criticised for wearing an outfit she wore 18 years ago.

Surely it should be celebrated that she fits in it, is not stupid enough to throw things away, and recognises style cycles. I haven't seen the outfit, it might be awful, but.....why shouldn't she?

Exactly.

silvercar wrote: »

Just imagine the newsworthiness of an article saying a gentleman was wearing the suit he wore 18 years ago.

Just what I was thinking.

Spirit wrote: »

Undies just get washed in the machine here and dried on the line or in the tumble drier. Usually special ironed on top of the cooker, although in recent hot weather they have been ironed:o .

This part time working is starting to effect me in strange ways.

Life is too short for ironing undies, even if you do only work part time.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

If that's what you brought here in the week .... all I could tell was: it's a white car.



All cars look the same to me these days.

It is Silver

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

Genero, there was a mulberry tree in Norwood Grove. We used to take marg boxes and clip them onto our bikes and pick them. Lovely. I've not had since, but I still remember the flavour - awesome. The tree was climable(sp?) for a not very adventurous me. I'd get in trouble if my socks got dirty.

I get round that by not really wearing socks anymore.

There was a mulberry bush in the college garden that was fruiting when we got married in the college chapel and had our photos in the garden. My white satin shoes got mulberry stains on them. :eek:

lostinrates wrote: »

https://img1.etsystatic.com/029/0/5771280/il_340x270.619489009_q1r5.jpg

I think this dress looks like its got caught in the wearer's knickers.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:
How could anyone feel OK about wearing that in public?????

lostinrates wrote: »

Already feel like suggesting DH goes alone

Please remember that
a) You are beautiful.
b) You have a wonderful personal sense of style.
c) You are going to the gaudy to have a fun evening with fir and his friends, not to model on a catwalk. By the time they have spent an evening in your company, his friends will have a mental "picture" of you as a person who makes interesting conversation and is making fir happy, and whose clothes are merely one aspect of the totality of who she is.