Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

silvercar

LydiaJ wrote: »

So, question for NP:

Do you have eyelet curtains?
Does your pole have a central bracket?
Which way round do your curtain edges point?

Our windows are a pain. There is an extra small pane above the opening patio doors. So the curtain pole has to be positioned really high up, meaning there is nowhere to attach the middle bracket to the wall. So we have to have light weight curtains that won't pull the pole downwards in the middle.

To add to the complications, the lounge curtains are tabs not eyelets, encouraging them to draw across is painful.

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

This afternoon I brought someone home that I've only just met :eek:

He seems very nice. Now I've just got to remember to close the bathroom door (and preferably lock it) and not walk around in a state of undress.

Bringing him home :eek:

Now I have come over all mumsy and apprehensive. But your a sensible [STRIKE]girl[/STRIKE] woman. Hope you have agood evening. No picture required.

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

Bringing him home :eek:

Now I have come over all mumsy and apprehensive. But your a sensible [STRIKE]girl[/STRIKE] woman. Hope you have agood evening. No picture required.

Didn't Nikki mention a visiting colleague coming to stay? So, possibly no hanky-panky at all, unfortunately.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Didn't Nikki mention a visiting colleague coming to stay? So, possibly no hanky-panky at all, unfortunately.

That was her cover story ... she's really making extra money people-trafficking and running a gay brothel.

Don't be fooled by her coquettish style and air of innocence.....

Spirit_2

Nikkster wrote: »

It's mostly curtain rails here. With wooden pelmets - something I'd never even imagined to exist before.

I love proper wooden pelmets *sigh*

That I like them probably means they are seriously uncool.

Doozergirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

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.

Life is too short for traffic jams.

If you left late on Monday, say 8 or 9pm, you'll be okay.

I always leave at contrary times/days and rarely hit traffic as a result. Living near the motorway and using it most days helps know it's peaks and troughs, however. Even on busy days like today and Monday, it's quiet of a late evening. It's dead right now.

Yorkie1

GDB2222 wrote: »

So, IT efforts to stop mayhem in the system are also creating mayhem elsewhere - people leaving or being unable to do their work.

At work there's a list of which of the computer-based bits gets top priority. Front-line applications obviously can't go down, and I can understand that sites you browse at lunchtime are low priority, but the rest of the sites which are core business for my team are not on that high priority list. So at times we just can't work.

Hardly effective. Yet when we complain and ask to be added to that top list, we just get told that there's no more capacity to be had for at least another year, when the contract renewal process starts ... :mad:

PasturesNew wrote: »

So, I need to either put the eyelet inside the bracket area ... or put up with it ... or find an end thingy that fits.... or invent a Heath Robinson method to prevent the ends dropping off.

I've resorted to a piece of wire wound tightly round the pole before.

lostinrates wrote: »

http://tiwibzone.tiwib.netdna-cdn.com/images/glow-in-the-dark-elvish-dog-collar-300x250.jpg

While this makes me giggle its expensive and I doubt the visibility over distance is very good. Its surprisingly hard to choose glow in the dark dog collars.

I had a mental image of Rev Richard Coles in a glowing dog collar, before clicking on the link and realising I had the wrong type of mammal there ... :rotfl:

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

I love proper wooden pelmets *sigh*

That I like them probably means they are seriously uncool.

I'm not sure whether mine count as 'proper', in fact I doubt it. I quite like them though. Not keen on fabric pelmets (they often look fussy), but these look like they are preserving the modesty of the curtains.

I am planning on keeping them. They might get embellished in some way though...

Yorkie1

LydiaJ wrote: »

So, question for NP:

Do you have eyelet curtains?
Does your pole have a central bracket?
Which way round do your curtain edges point?

No.

Yes, a big sphere.

As it's a curtain rail they don't point in or out like they will with eyelets, but they don't meet in the middle and I too have resorted to a clothes peg in the past!

michaels wrote: »

M5 wasn't too bad...but unfortunately first hill out of Exeter was too much for the car so we are now waiting for recovery

Nikkster wrote: »

I hope you get to start your holiday soon. You'll definitely have earnt it by the time you get there.

So sorry to hear this michaels. Hope you're sorted out now and +1 for Nikkster's post.

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I've resorted to a piece of wire wound tightly round the pole before.

I've used an elastic band at the end of curtain rails before.... these eyelets are quite large though, I could, for now, fold a loo roll in half, then again .... then cut the end 1/2" and splay it out - and shove that inside the pole

And, consider, using one of the removed rings to sellotape to the splayed bits to give them rigidity.... I'll find something that works.