Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

That phone is meant to have a 1km range, and it can't manage inside your house? See what you mean about liars. Sorry I should have realised you'd have spotted something like that.

Yes, exactly.

Same with the extra range wifi. We manage now, with the booster that I think it was all the sss's explained to me? I'm sorry I cannot remember who . I feel bad I might have got that wrong. :o
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PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

....also what's it really like? OH has a Master Plan to fill our new top floor with them (as there are tons down in Thanet) to fund the refurb......forgetting that it will be me who has to clean their rooms, feed them and do all the looking after.

I had a 2nd job finding families about 8 years ago. There are rules/limits to how many you can have. Each school will be different, but the one I operated for would only let one sex in one house and a limit of 3/house.

These were teens/under 18s.

I had a list of families, how many they could take, which sex they'd accept (M/F/Either) - and then I received a list of who was coming. They'd "picked" who they were sharing with, so were in groups of 2s and 3s. I then had to match them (along with pets/no pets, veggies/not veggies) to the families. Somebody might say they could take 3, but if I could only offer a group of 2 it was that or nothing. Moving one set, with all the other constraints, was nigh on impossible as it'd take me about 2 hours to do all the matching/checking.... and often they'd "only just fit" and work out right.

For groups arriving by bus, there's also the placement of the driver and the accompanying organisers/teachers. Again, more rules. Where I placed them needed to be close to where the bus was parked - and, I tried to keep all adults on the bus as long as possible and as soon as possible in the mornings....

For the school I organised, the driver couldn't be placed with the organiser or the teachers. The organiser could be placed with the teachers. Adults must have their own room (no sharing), but there wasn't the limit by sex, so I could place a male teacher and female teacher at the same address so long as they had separate rooms.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

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

Or buy something. Then if anyone asks why you didn't make it yourself, tell then that is because you're still getting back up to full speed whilst coping with work + family.

Spirit_2

Soaked a gammon joint and put it on to boil about an hour ago. Dinner planned for about 7pm.

Except I didn't turn the cooker on.

I realise from the earlier posts that I may be committing murder by ham..so If there is a news story about a 26 year old woman and her 57 year old father being found done in, it was me. I cooked them meat.

The runner beans will be accessories to the crime.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

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.....) but I did get an amazing toaster with glass so you can watch the bread become toast. I felt extremely shiny when I brought it home. Now, it's just a toaster.....

I did give in and buy a Wesco bin from Amazon though as JL didn't have the choice. It's on a wheely rack think and we whoosh it around the kitchen.
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I like your toaster. We use the grill.

I secretly kind of want , but would never really want, the kind of toaster they had at school, a big circular thing with a conveyor belt. All the toast went round at the same rate, but some was over done, some underdone and some just right. I suspect this was because little bits had Burnt out and not been fixed or whatever, but the toaster cranked up higher. Its surprising how many girls get the taste for carbonated toast and go for that over the other stuff. I never did.

lostinrates

I was properly awake all yesterday and this morning then the 'weariness' of fatigue settled this afternoon. I swear to goodness I feel it change the very muscles in my face, its like it descends and pulls everything down, off the bones a bit. Yuck.


Anyway, I was I. The process of sending an email to some nice women and have now being mysteriously enable to put email addresses other than Lydia's in and email 'to' bit.

This is very annoying.

I might try again. If not, I was going to amial a couple of you today. The heart was willing, but every thing else was weak.

Doozergirl

Oh dear. We had a NP meet fail. The boys were making dust and racket with hammers and sanders so I've sat drowing in tea in the corner of the pub a few doors away, pretending to work but mainly talking about curtains.

Sat all day wondering when lemonjelly was coming to just be told that he came and no one told him where I was . I'm still there!

Wanna meet for coffee, lj?

fc123

michaels wrote: »

Interesting times are all.very well.for the adrenalin junkies but I'd rather not. This morning DD2 fainted in the shower, she has never done anything like it before. Luckily DW was there and grabbed her when she dropped the handset so she didn't fall and hit her head.

...ooh, hope she's OK.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pleased to hear it went will Lydia. Sounds as though you will be handled sensitively and that the case is in the best hands.

...sending good thoughts to you all and Happy Birthday to you lalala

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

...well, I missed all the curtain chat in the end


I made some of ours with eyelets, never again, putting in the rings did my fingers in. Then I found Dunhelm Mills. Very uninspiring online but the quality for the money was really good. Heavy and full black out. They have quite a lot of superstores dotted about.


We juggled around the lengths and if you have a window where you want to put a piece of furniture under, you could just have a shorter drop.


I like the Asda ones you chose.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

No idea who Morris is .... and didn't know he made curtains

I think he started with wallpaper. It was a revolution in Victorian times when it became possible to make paper long enough for wallpaper, so it became available to the middle classes - before it was in tiny pieces and so horrendously expensive only the upper classes could aspire to it at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris

http://www.william-morris.co.uk/

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=william+morris+fabric&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=c4XzU861CsWK7AaG_IBI&ved=0CHAQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=947

I still like Morris' stuff, but it doesn't really suit our Deco style (built in 50s, though designed in 30s) house. Would have been perfect for our old home, which I think was built 1905 or thereabouts.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Do I notice or do I care?

Yes, I might notice, but no I don't care. We all have different taste and priority.

Unless their curtains depicted something like praise for bigoted actions or vile behaviours or something I found distasteful it probably wouldn't impact on what I thought of THEM.

I actively like it when people have taste that's not mine. I enjoy being in different surroundings. I love that FC has done so etching totally amazing and totally different to anything I would do. Its so exciting. If I could get to margate I'd be setting off there ASAP. And London!

I do think if we are going to spend money on stuff it should be stuff that makes us happy.

I am HAPPY you have put time into this! like with sofa and bed. And that you are choosing WHAT you want. We all have to make compromises, whatever the budget and options, but choice is a wonderful thing, and making those choices is part of nesting I think. Making the place yours. Knowing they are YOUR curtains! that your np chums chose with you, . Is I think better than choosing just the cheapest, because hopefully you can smile when you open them on a grim day and remember ' tee hee' about conversations about pjs v duvets and feel warm and happy about having nested. And created a PASTURES new space.

Ditto.


You don't have to rush but I would still recommend Ebay as I found some really interesting stuff (from new suppliers) including some 1.2m wide silver antlers....which were bought after we decided to sell as I they are quite 'the thing' now and then they didn't show in the pic (only in the virtual tour which nobody looks at).
All of it was better quality and more interesting than I could have bought from a regular high st type store. Most deliver free (well, it's loaded into the RP).


Doing our house, I just took the references from a 1968 perspective. The extended rooms ended up with piers and a bit of shape as all our house was just square box really. That helped.
Period furniture can work but I decided to remove the odd bits we had and go simple. The problem with that style of house is they can end up looking like an ad for B+Q.


If we hadn't sold, I would have done the hole in wall fireplace in the lounge (or an uber modern stove) at some point.


TK Maxx has some great stuff if you can pop into one regularly. They had a load of velvet sofas and chairs recently that were gorgeous. Now they have all sold out . I think they were a special from somewhere like www.swoon.co.uk

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh dearest , darling FC, its so good to have you back here.

I know you always were about but, .....still.

I am I am...except we need to ration postings so NPT doesn't exceed a certain amount of pages a day as if I miss a day, I can't get through all the news.:cool:


Are you feeling a bit better?

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a 2nd job finding families about 8 years ago. There are rules/limits to how many you can have. Each school will be different, but the one I operated for would only let one sex in one house and a limit of 3/house.

These were teens/under 18s.

I had a list of families, how many they could take, which sex they'd accept (M/F/Either) - and then I received a list of who was coming. They'd "picked" who they were sharing with, so were in groups of 2s and 3s. I then had to match them (along with pets/no pets, veggies/not veggies) to the families. Somebody might say they could take 3, but if I could only offer a group of 2 it was that or nothing. Moving one set, with all the other constraints, was nigh on impossible as it'd take me about 2 hours to do all the matching/checking.... and often they'd "only just fit" and work out right.

For groups arriving by bus, there's also the placement of the driver and the accompanying organisers/teachers. Again, more rules. Where I placed them needed to be close to where the bus was parked - and, I tried to keep all adults on the bus as long as possible and as soon as possible in the mornings....

For the school I organised, the driver couldn't be placed with the organiser or the teachers. The organiser could be placed with the teachers. Adults must have their own room (no sharing), but there wasn't the limit by sex, so I could place a male teacher and female teacher at the same address so long as they had separate rooms.

See, thing is, OH just looks at the cheque.


I have to use my time in the most profitable way and he doesn't see that having, say, 3 teens upstairs is going to impact my 'proper job'. He see's it as extra.


Except, I know it will impact my time as you can't just do a salad/goats cheese on toast type of dinner when you have to provide students a 'proper' meal.


As it is, we have the dilemma of packing up the studio and moving it so we will miss a season (a season being 3 months) .


We are now deciding that we may go mortgage free afterall and delay serious refurbing. In fact, I think that is what we have decided......and then he says....but the students will more than pay for the mortgage.