Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I noticed my front garden needs doing again ... looks like it'll be a monthly job until I get on top of it (kill it all off).


That's why I bought "almost new" ... as for the 2nd part, it never happened..... those with others, even half-time, or on tap, can't appreciate how awful it is when everything's always, entirely, up to you.



That'll be due to your extreme sports .... eye squirting skills ....

Tonight is a 'wish I'd bought a new build/ renovated place' night. Shouldn't complain though, I got what I set out for.

If there was a.n.other, there would probably just be two of us sat here up to our necks in mess, whinging. I might do some more tidying and take myself to bed.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

NPs with a science bent. Have you ever been to any Cafe Scientifique meetings? Sound like a great idea. I've come across one that's accessible to several NPs so thought I'd mention in case anyone is interested, or had been to their meets elsewhere, or would be interested in something near them. The one I'm aware of is in Herts.

http://www.cafescientifique.org/

Sounds like a visit to the pub after work! I miss those. Nearly always had some kind of interesting conversation about some idea or another.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

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Telly always oversimplifies it .... when you watch carefully, single people without family/friends in the trade, without big budgets etc don't go knocking houses about. There's always tales of people who helped, family/friends in the trade, somebody spending hours and hours with them, helping, deciding .... and/or just being around for them at the end of the day.

It's all a con.

You'll get there..... it'll just seem like you're swimming in treacle for awhile.

Also, you're young and have future choices where you can choose differently, if you wish. Get to my age and you've not the spare time to reconsider..... and wait it out.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I want "Perfect Fit" frames, encasing venetian blinds, on two patio doors. It's a brand name .... a "no drilling" solution too .... if you're capable of measuring/fitting them ... I'm just scared

They'll have to be 25mm as it's the patio door glass - and white as the doors are uPVC. I should just order them .... it's theoretically within my skillset to not c0ck it up.....the pictures on the website make it look easy/achievable..... but don't they always.

There are alternatives to "Perfect Fit" that have the blinds encased in glass(?), which means you don't have to ever clean them.

Here are my urls for these beasties, all retro-fit systems:
http://www.conceptblindsdirect.co.uk/blinds-88.htm £50
http://www.odl.com/blinds_addon.htm
http://www.uniblind.co.uk/

It's the first link I plan to use....

Very clever

Doozergirl

Nikkster wrote: »

Sounds like a visit to the pub after work! I miss those. Nearly always had some kind of interesting conversation about some idea or another.

I found a group of other local business owners. We meet in the pub on a Thursday at 6pm. It saves my sanity on a regular basis and makes me feel a lot less alone in my crusade. We all do different things but the challenges are the same.

Could be good for you .

vivatifosi

Nikkster wrote: »

Sounds like a visit to the pub after work! I miss those. Nearly always had some kind of interesting conversation about some idea or another.

It's just that, a visit to the pub! One that stimulates your brain in a different way to a) a pub quiz or b) alcohol. It's this one I'm thinking of (there's also one in Stevenage):

https://www.facebook.com/cafescientifiqueharpenden

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

The packed lunches and food provided of reckon are part of what has lead for decades to our reputation for food standards in UK and why despite really having excellent food some still seem dubious. Probably by trying to stick to this list.

We only have to do breakfast and dinner, they get their own lunch. We only offer them what we have for breakfast, toast, cereal, porridge sachets, juice ettc and they generally want chocolate milk and nutella on toast.

They get an exciting trip to the supermarket on the first or second day to say what they like. The most recent said she wasn't a vegetarian but would rather not have meat. We took her to Zizzi's the first night where she had a peperoni pizza and she then proceeded to eat meat at every meal even where we did things like spag bol and cooked a veggie alternative so I am not sure what the English meat she was worried about from her 2 previous homestays but it wasn't anything we cooked.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's just that, a visit to the pub! One that stimulates your brain in a different way to a) a pub quiz or b) alcohol. It's this one I'm thinking of (there's also one in Stevenage):

https://www.facebook.com/cafescientifiqueharpenden

Maybe in a few months? I'm also still available for pub quizzes... (well, in a few months)

vivatifosi

I think when you are available we definitely need to do both... as well as NP visits to Ikea and Bletchley Park.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

I found a group of other local business owners. We meet in the pub on a Thursday at 6pm. It saves my sanity on a regular basis and makes me feel a lot less alone in my crusade. We all do different things but the challenges are the same.

Could be good for you .

For a time I belonged to an investment club. Met monthly in the pub.

I have a regular dinner date with some longstanding friends.It is not especially cerbal though...suits me fine