Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

If you have not dredged it, planted it with lily pads and got dragon flies skimming across it then I'm not coming.;)

I'd expect a swan pedalo to have been steam cleaned down too...

lemonjelly

Doozergirl wrote: »

It's a blockwork wall (those big grey ugly bricks) so it needs to look bold enough to like it's by design, not just that I cba to render it, which is what a sensible colour would acheive. Otherwise it would be rendered and painted cream.

I hate this house anyway. Everything I've already done looks awful. What happens when you renovate the inside of a house in a matter of weeks and in a dreadful depression. Totally uninspired.

I need plants now. Cheap ones big enough to make some kind of impact.

When I visited, I didn't get to see much inside. The little bits I did see (mainly the doozergirl & boy montages on the wall) looked lovely & homely to me!:)

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Ours aren't four feet thick .

1oo m. Would n't cover work zone / all buildings which would of course be ideal.

The other phone, even if it does half of what it says, should.

Bit hard to test the range here as the bits of ground more than 100m away are up or down hill. Could you not buy one from a shop that accepts returns and try it while keeping it pristine enough to return as unused if it doesn't work?

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

If you have not dredged it, planted it with lily pads and got dragon flies skimming across it then I'm not coming.;)

My eyes will be on your pleached trees and dogs I expect.

It has dragon flies

Dogs spend a while down by the cake today helping with the plum picking. Dog dogs legs are very scratched becAuse she couldn't wait for us to give them to her and crawled through bramble o get the ones that were dropping despite not having a tough coat like the others. She prefers Victorias. Her skin is like tissue paper and so fragile, she should be more careful.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Bit hard to test the range here as the bits of ground more than 100m away are up or down hill. Could you not buy one from a shop that accepts returns and try it while keeping it pristine enough to return as unused if it doesn't work?

I really doubt it. Its buy and keep here. Returns are a bit tough. Postage requires organisation, physical returns a big deal in petrol usually.

Luckily our ground, as you know, is pretty level

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd expect a swan pedalo to have been steam cleaned down too...

There is a kayak or a caNoe wrapped in a tarp. Hasn't been used this year I think.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Some research a few years back said if you painted cells/prisons in light pink it made the inmates better behaved. Decorating in "Murderous Red Blood" doesn't seem very switched on.

In a pub I worked in once, we had some huge foam pink handbags.
Whenever people were about to kick off, we'd tell them they were allowed to fight, but only outside with the weapons they'd be given.

They'd get taken outside (still fuming) & given these huge pink handbags & be told to batter the hell out of each other.
They'd usually be falling about laughing after 30 seconds.:D

Doozergirl wrote: »

Sure. That would be nice

Don't go to the pub that day!!!:D

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Silvercar might need that .... I think right now she's probably unpacking her suitcase .... the volcano's blowing.

All unpacked. Flight was only slightly delayed, due to volume of planes departing Heathrow. landing was on a different flight path to normal apparently, down the coast line rather than over the sea. Whatever, we are now in our apartment, hopefully beyond rocket and ash range!

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was just going through old posts.... and realised, after all that, I'd missed your story!!

You clicked thanks, because I checked before I removed. I could write it all again, but not I'm on a tablet at the moment.

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm cold.

Cold enough to consider lighting the fire later.

I'm hot. 11pm and 33 degrees here.

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

DH had some chips. Unfortunately I'm allergic to potatoes. I was more fed up at not being able to try the Indian street food cart because I'd already had lunch.

How do you cope?
Potato is my default I think.:o

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

How do you cope?
Potato is my default I think.:o

We go months with out potatoes then have a little flurry. Chips yesterday, mash tomorrow.