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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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DW has a meeting on Tuesday, so we will be driving back on Bank Holiday Monday. I suggested leaving at midnight and arriving home at 3AM. This has not been very enthusiastically received. My alternative is that DW goes home by train and I stay on a day or two and clean the house here. Also not enthusiastically received.
Leaving Cornwall on Bank Holiday Monday I'd recommend people going north to leave about 3pm..... reaching Exeter just before 5pm, then they should get a further clear run up to Bristol and beyond. Most traffic either leaves early (10am kicking out time on sites), or later (5-6pm). So there's a bit of a "deadspot" in the middle if you can hit it right.0 -
.. and back to curtains. They don't hang right ... (aka: I put them up wrong). You know how when you pull curtains together, there should be the two sides in the middle overlapping??? Well, they don't. I've put them on so that that edge part is pointing outwards, towards the window, and not inwards on the room side. I'll have to stare at this for some time, a few times,before I work out what I did wrong. I think I went wrong when I started by "pairing" the eyelets.... I think I should have started with 1 stray, then pairs.
Oh well. They're up and they're not coming down until I'm in the mood ... which could be weeks. It just means the top would need "pegging" together if it bothered me that there's a gap at the top.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: ».. and back to curtains. They don't hang right ... (aka: I put them up wrong). You know how when you pull curtains together, there should be the two sides in the middle overlapping??? Well, they don't. I've put them on so that that edge part is pointing outwards, towards the window, and not inwards on the room side. I'll have to stare at this for some time, a few times,before I work out what I did wrong. I think I went wrong when I started by "pairing" the eyelets.... I think I should have started with 1 stray, then pairs.
Oh well. They're up and they're not coming down until I'm in the mood ... which could be weeks. It just means the top would need "pegging" together if it bothered me that there's a gap at the top.
Googling pics of eyelet curtains suggests that they are supposed to be hung with the edges pointing towards the window.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Googling pics of eyelet curtains suggests that they are supposed to be hung with the edges pointing towards the window.
I was about to look. Thing is, pointing towards the window means the middle/top bracket is exposed and can't be obscured by overlaying the flap from one wide with the flap from the other side, which is how you usually close curtains.
Curtains ....they're difficult aren't they!
Just googled - and at first looks [1] most are marketing images [2] most poles aren't supported by a middle bracket (which is needed with such a huge span as I've got).0 -
I think the only way to have curtains meet really well in the middle is to have them not on a pole but on a pair of rails, with one rail wiggling slightly in the middle of the window to pass in front of the other rail at that point. Rails don't look as pretty as poles, though, so they're no longer much in use, and in years gone by they would have been hidden by a pelmet. A pair of curtains hung on a single pole with a bracket in the middle are never going to meet really nicely.
*Hasn't really decided what sort of curtains to get for own house*Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
Once I've taken them off and rethreaded .... they'll overlapin the middle OK. It's just a nuisance, but I'd never seen (or heard of) these curtains before.I think the only way to have curtains meet really well in the middle is to have them not on a pole but on a pair of rails, with one rail wiggling slightly in the middle of the window to pass in front of the other rail at that point. Rails don't look pretty, though, so they're no longer much in use, and in years gone by they would have been hidden by a pelmet. A pair of curtains hung on a single pole with a bracket in the middle are never going to meet really nicely.
*Hasn't really decided what sort of curtains to get for own house*
I'm "ahead" just by having got them and got them up
I'm full of win. I just need to make sure nobody else EVER tries to open/close or touch the curtains as they've got the potential to just fall off the brackets ..... some people have a nasty habit of touching your stuff - and, these types, are likely to just grab a curtain and yank it open/closed for a better look at something... and kerpow, it could come crashing down on their head if the expanding pole suddenly shortens, the tiny screw doesn't hold the curtains ... and it'll be them and the pole and the curtains on the floor 0 -
So, question for NP:
Do you have eyelet curtains?
Does your pole have a central bracket?
Which way round do your curtain edges point?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
YesSo, question for NP:
Do you have eyelet curtains?
Does your pole have a central bracket?
Which way round do your curtain edges point?
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The wrong bl00dy way
I'm probably super-trendy and ahead of the curve here...... probably the only idiot that's got them. We could check out fc's house photos!
Oooh, she's under offer!
She has
She has .... can't see yet (images 4/16, 5/16, 9/16, 12/16, 13/16, 15/16) - there's a middle bracket but it's affixed to the ceiling. Mine's not. Ah, images 12 and 13, you can see fc's done them the way mine are currently .... obviously doesn't experience the same problem as the bracket is on the ceiling.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »... if you'd chosen the teddies and lobbed them into the car, then grabbed the kids by the scruff of their neck and chucked them into the car too and said "There's no discussion, get in the car or we're not going"...... you'd have been eating ice cream hours ago .... and right now you'd be sitting on a bench, looking out to sea, munching on a bag of chips with a cheeky savaloy
For any long journey when I was a kid I was always picked up out of bed at 4am, chucked in the car, strapped in and would wake up a bit dazed and covered I dribble 10 miles from the destination. Seemed to work well for all involved!0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »For any long journey when I was a kid I was always picked up out of bed at 4am, chucked in the car, strapped in and would wake up a bit dazed and covered I dribble 10 miles from the destination. Seemed to work well for all involved!
My parents used to do that for Cornwall trips. No motorways back then and we had an old car... 1960s cars were dodderers and I think our car was from the mid 50s.. So we'd be put to bed, then, at about midnight, we'd be put in the car (once they'd packed it) .... and we'd sleep all the way there. No seatbelts back then either, so easy just to lay us down and say "shh, go back to sleep".0
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