Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Next you will be suggesting I take my annual bath a month early...

Not if you don't need it

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I would be tempted to buy something, take it home, remove the packaging and rewrap in cling film and claim it as my own.....

It's rare to find something that looks homemade though ..... and it has to look homemade or they'll suspect you did this.

I'd certainly find/make something that can be "thrown together in 10 minutes flat" though

GDB2222

This new Dell Inspiron 15 is proving okay for light work. Everything is rather slow, but it does work. Recommended if you want a laptop for £170-odd.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Is Big Dog really in such pain? It seems such a shame.

Not yet, that's the point really.

I don't want to have to wait till a now 68 kilo big dog cannot stand up.

Hers is not really progressing, which has been a good sign for keeping her about, but means the end is likely to be harsh, and hard.

Just very small things like not picking her own berries and tripping is not 'progression'.

So what is likely to happen is she will Trip and be in extreme agony as something goes, unable to move without pain and I'll not be able to lift her, because it will hurt her, and I am not strong or big enough to lift her, certainly not keeping her spine stable.

My vets have said they will come here for me, but that would still mean her lying here for some time in a lot of pain and then some how lifting her into my car to drive her over there to await collection. She's big. While they'd never , ever complain or say anything to me about it I under stand the logistic issue of having a dog like big dog go in to await collection the day after collection day. I asked earlier in the year, their collection day is Tuesday.

Sometimes, you just have to be organised and preemptive.

She is our last big dog ever.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

This new Dell Inspiron 15 is proving okay for light work. Everything is rather slow, but it does work. Recommended if you want a laptop for £170-odd.

Is there a thread about going to 8.1 removing bloat ware and choosing the least intrusive av to speed things up? You could also add a 20 quid ssd from ebuyer if you don't need much storage on the laptop.

Doozergirl

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! )

LIR is right, PN. If you want something to stretch over the winow, buy a blind. The very minimum for curtains would be 1.5x window width, so you *need* at least 198cm for them to look like you didn't just hang a sheet over the window on a temporary basis. To be fair, the 229cm one sound perfect. If they were in budget, then buy those.

Lightweight curtains aren't too hard to take up. My trick when we move with pur good curtains is to hang the curtain pole higher than the windows at the perfect point for the curtains to skim the floor.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

New dilemma... having never heard of eyelet curtains until the other week, I decided pretty quickly that's what I wanted.... so restricted my searching to eyelet curtains.

Now I've discovered there are several sizes of eyelets - and they don't tend to mention them in the adverts.

Found some more curtains at Asda for £40. http://direct.asda.com/George-Home-Woven-Natural-Stripe-Eyelet-Curtains---Various-Sizes/WovenNaturalStripeEyeletCurtainsMASTER,default,pd.html

Choice is now those, or these: http://www.therange.co.uk/swansea-lined-stripe-eyelet-curtains-duck-egg//the-range/fcp-product/76580 at the Range.

I think I prefer the Asda ones, but worry that the Range ones might look better at the windows and more homely/cheery/warm.

Edit: I think Asda's winning .......

I definitely prefer Asda ones.

90 x 90 inches. Add to basket. Purchase.

They will fit perfectly. You want the curtains to touch the floor just a touch or they look like ankle swinging trousers. The eyelet will also raise the curtain above the rail slightly.

lostinrates

Why take up the curtains? They look so much more luxurious puddling, and you have no kids or pets? Just pull them back, I'll buy you a big vase or something and it will look like you meant them to be that luxurious length!

Actually, better still, make some tie backs yourself, shell ones? Sea glass ones? Then pull them back gently and let them pour into puddles if they are too long

I fully intend ALL my curtains made to measure to puddle. So there.


Just clicked links, I like the asda ones best out of those two.

bugslet

PasturesNew wrote: »

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".
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As siad another 50% for the width, just looks so much better. I prefer the Asda ones as well.

lir beat me to it, buy them long enough to puddle and then you can think posh alert everyt time you look at them;)

Generali wrote: »

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.

Will Lady Gen step up to the plate and do something for you that you can claim is yours. Perfectly acceptable approach given your current woes.

michaels wrote: »

Next you will be suggesting I take my annual bath a month early...

Don't ferget to tek coal out o' bath first and be quick so rest o'family can tek theer turn afore water gets reet cold.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

LIR is right, PN. If you want something to stretch over the winow, buy a blind. The very minimum for curtains would be 1.5x window width, so you *need* at least 198cm for them to look like you didn't just hang a sheet over the window on a temporary basis. To be fair, the 229cm one sound perfect. If they were in budget, then buy those.

Lightweight curtains aren't too hard to take up. My trick when we move with pur good curtains is to hang the curtain pole higher than the windows at the perfect point for the curtains to skim the floor.

Looking at sizes available, 229x229 seems to be the only ready-made size that's available to me, so I'll have to get that size.

Pole was already up .... I don't do pole shifting.... it's where it is, it's what it is. Job done. I don't have/won't ever have the skills to put poles up etc. It's not just a question of buying a drill and some rawl plugs.... it's an issue of cack-handedness, inability to function when holding more than 1-2 items, not being able to visualise the end result until it's done and wrong, high potential for falling off the ladder (forgetting I'm on it), or forgetting a pole's end is many feet away and taking a window out ... and dropping the drill and breaking/damaging something or the floor ..... I'm a complete Frank Spencer