Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Hmm my Happy Birthday Lydia post seems to not have appeared so

Happy Birthday Lydia

Meanwhile I can report that life as a superhero gets very samey. Today's fainting damsel in distress was caught on the 9.02.

They say things happen in threes, better be prepared for the next one!

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Let's hope we get our frost-free August beach holiday.

Generally speaking, it's warmer down there. You notice it once you're past Bodmin Moor, when the temperature rises by a few degrees instantly..... not that you're going that far down though!

Frost is VERY rare at any time of year in the county.

Of course.... being warmer, it means "wetter" - and being a peninsula, it's bl00dy windy every day

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

Good morning NPs. Today I am 45.

Have a great day :beer:

bugslet

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

June 17th and May 9th (my sisters' birthdays, and Isaac's too) sound good, but you can end up having an A level or GCSE exam on your birthday, which is a barrel of laughs.

Let's hope we get our frost-free August beach holiday.

!

I remember having English Lit A level on my 18th, I suspect O Levels clashed previously.

You'll end up in a micro climate that is bordering on semi-tropical and NDB will be converted to the joys of an English beach. Maybe.

lostinrates wrote: »

Dogs and I went to look at the blackberries here this morning. They are staring to ripen now, but not the best ones yet. The dogs were pleased though. Dog dog had her little head in the brambles delicately picking away, but it was obviously hurting big dogs neck, as she was asking me to pick them for her. I have ordered another month's supply of pills but I think October might be the month, she is lovely and bouncy and this is her very favourite time of year....apple, berry and plum time of year.

I trust you to make the right decision and like you I don't like to see dogs drag on for too long. Still sad though.

PasturesNew

I'm still confused about curtain measurements.... just decided to go to the Range and buy curtains, so measured the window. The total window span is 265cm. Curtains I've been looking at have been 229cm .... so a pair would be 458cm. But, I don't like/want/need double the width .... I don't think..... so scared of getting it wrong.... but I think I can look at curtains less wide if a narrower width is nicer/cheaper.

So long as the total width exceeds the gap .... it'll mean they fit. So each curtain, absolute/stupid minimum would need to be 133cm. Meaning that anything, say, 180cm or over "would do".

Why is life so hard?

And now, I guess, I need to measure the drop (yet again).... I really hate being responsible for measuring things accurately in case I "lose" a metre by accident or something.


Edit: Looks like the drop (from top of rail) is 220cm... curtains I'd got in mind are 229cm...... so they'd drag on the floor. Curtains are too hard......

I'll measure it again.... definitely 225cm/86" drop.

lostinrates

You do want double the width. Or as close to it as you can get.

If you go much under they look mean and stretched. Like a size 16 woman in a size 12 skirt. Your windows with look like they ate all the pies. We have curtains that only just meet ATM in the dining room ( they are beautiful curtains from a previous hme and nt decorated in there) and they look awful, both closed AND open. Mean, and insufficient. Even though the silk is very beautiful it looks mean and nasty. Its better, IMO, to go for cheaper fabric abundantly than expensive fabric meanly. ( but I have these, one day they'll probably go in an attic bedroom here, but look before that I'll have decorated that room! )

Generali

I don't recall frosts in SE England during August in the 1970s or 80s and I've always been an outdoorsy type. We'd get the odd one in September but they'd only really get going in October.

The weather here has been horrible, cold and rainy and windy. Yuck. We do need the rain though.

It's my turn to cook for all my colleagues on Friday: we do a fortnight each. Quite frankly I don't really want to but I'll look like a complete idiot if I don't. I was thinking about chocolate eclairs and tarte tatin. Both relatively simple.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Dogs and I went to look at the blackberries here this morning.)

Just in case anyone is worrying whether the blackberry sauce stained my pinnie and white linen top.

Ta da (drrrrummmm roll)

They came up ...spotless.

So the recipe is ..apply neat washing soda liquid directly to the stain. Leave about in abowl (no water) for 24 hours. Then wash with biological washing stuff in machine at 60 degrees.

I am feeling like a domestic goddess. Although PN is probably right I should give up wearing white clothes.

NDG was pleased the Nice baby did not spit all over my work clothes...she has no idea how lucky he was that I did not spill something over him given my current track record.

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

They say things happen in threes, better be prepared for the next one!

That is three isn't it.

DD
micheals himself
Damsel


Personally if he his knocking himself and other out, I suggest he gets a new aftershave.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

You do want double the width. Or as close to it as you can get.

If you go much under they look mean and stretched. Like a size 16 woman in a size 12 skirt. Your windows with look like they ate all the pies. We have curtains that only just meet ATM in the dining room ( they are beautiful curtains from a previous hme and nt decorated in there) and they look awful, both closed AND open. Mean, and insufficient. Even though the silk is very beautiful it looks mean and nasty. Its better, IMO, to go for cheaper fabric abundantly than expensive fabric meanly. ( but I have these, one day they'll probably go in an attic bedroom here, but look before that I'll have decorated that room! )

I'm constrained by budget ....and available sizes. While there are ready made curtains, they do vary in size a lot - and on some sites it can be impossible to easily find/filter by size. It is annoying when I see one that could make the list but it's only available for short windows!

It looks, therefore, like I will probably be getting some 90"x90" ones from The Range, at £35.... I'll put them up, then at some future point turn them up by hand.

I did see some that "I probably actually like", but not so much as to spend the £100+ or so they'd cost - they're not THAT much nicer and at the end of the day they're "just all curtains" aren't they. I just have a requirement to have something pleasant/passable at the windows..... that kind of fit the "theme" without being suckered into overspending. The Nikkster curtains would then go upstairs in my bedroom, which currently sports an expanding pole 3" down from the top of the window, that holds a net curtain that doesn't quite reach the window sill