Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Can't spy any weeds in the patio either! (shame the same can't be said about my patio)

Bit of a worry that ... there weren't weeds when I came... and I've been ripping up tiny little bits of grass/weed as they appear, but I fear over the winter it'll get inundated with them and there was something the last people did that I've not done (e.g. they might have powerwashed it ready for sale or something) .... hoping it stays weed free.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bit of a worry that ... there weren't weeds when I came... and I've been ripping up tiny little bits of grass/weed as they appear, but I fear over the winter it'll get inundated with them and there was something the last people did that I've not done (e.g. they might have powerwashed it ready for sale or something) .... hoping it stays weed free.

Are you prepared to use chemicals?

The commercial ones are rather effective.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Are you prepared to use chemicals?

The commercial ones are rather effective.

I'll use what it needs... no messing. I'm no green, eco-friendly, planet-caring, tree hugging, sandal-wearing type.

lostinrates

No need for any worry then. One of the ' effective in four hours ' jobs on a sunny day ( I know its windy, one of the least windy days, wear a mask, get the spray as close to the surface as possible to minimise spray spread)

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll use what it needs... no messing. I'm no green, eco-friendly, planet-caring, tree hugging, sandal-wearing type.

Fill the gaps. No little man needed. You can DIY this stuff.

http://www.geo-fix.co.uk/productfeatures.html

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

The stick is out of the hole.

Plan didn't go too well as my string wasn't slippy enough .... so I had another genius plan..... which worked.

Stick was extracted using: an expanding curtain pole, a length of string - and a hagstone (secret, witch, magic stone).

So I should sell hagstones on ebay as Magical Stick Extracting Stones.....

I knew the approximate diameter of the stick... and decided that the endstop of an expanding rail was "just a bit bigger, hopefully" - and I figured if I made a loop at the end of the string, using a small stone to weight it down .... then if I could poke the rail down to meet with the end of the stick, so they were effectively "joined", then I could move the stick away from the side - and the weight of the stone would make the string drop from being (loosely) around the curtain pole to being round the stick .... then I pulled it tight and, keeping the pressure on the rail-to-stick I pulled it all out together.

Available for stick extraction duties within a 25 mile radius - Rates £15/hour + travel at £1/mile.

Well done! Good bit of lateral thinking there! I was going to suggest sticking a hollow metal pipe down, dropping down some flammable liquid and then a match. And not looking down the pipe as you drop the match.

Probably in direct opposition to good sense and all local byelaws.:eek:

silvercar

Garden looks good PN and low maintenance which is always a plus.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I was familiar up with puddled curtains in some houses as a kid but not in kitchens or my bedroom. I guess the dogs and I just were taught not to jump on theM? Dunno. I think I'd feel differently if I had kids, I don't .

The biggest problem is puddled curtains that are over doors rather than windows. Did you have those when you were a kid? In the house where we had the problem, the long curtains were in front of a glass door that went out from the living room to the garden, and therefore got a lot of foot traffic through it.

lostinrates wrote: »

Oh, I DO have puddling summer curtains in the cheese room, and the dogs do occasionally lie on the bottom of them. I have cleaned them once since they went up, that's true. But then, I put their beds right by the curtains!

If the dogs lying on the curtains doesn't pull the curtains down, then they've been put up in a much more structurally sound way than mine were! Although I do have to admit that the dog bed was right by my aforementioned curtains. There just wasn't anywhere else in the house that was a suitable place to put it.

Nikkster wrote: »

2nd draft of intro sent off...

Yay! Well done. :T:T:T:T

Let us know when you get a response to your "is there any point?" email.

lostinrates wrote: »

Progress so far on garden

( I now have I tiny bit of terrace, see? Left hand corner? Not allowed to walk on it yet though. Taking a very long time)

Looking amazing. Is this more of Doozer's work? Or yours and fir's?

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Somewhere, in the city there is a man wearing swimming trunks ( which he pretends are gym shorts because they are ' more jolly' and a shirt, possibly with cufflinks. Prey to god he left his bag of cheese somewhere.

:rotfl:

Nikkster wrote: »

And he didn't say - thanks for the chapter, but don't bother with the rest (I didn't ask btw!)

I think you should ask him. When I was in a bit of a state last summer and told the occupational health nurse that I thought I was letting the department down and being a waste of space professionally, she made me go and ask my HoD if he really thought that. It was scary asking him, but such a relief when he told me not to be daft.

GDB2222 wrote: »

I was thinking that, for PN, it would make more sense to try to conquer her fears and just get on with some of the easier jobs herself. I wasn't suggesting that she should go into the little man business, but the £20-25 per hour she is saving will enable her to buy some tools, so she can do more of her own repairs in future. She seems to have the time, and it may bolster her confidence if she finds that she can actually do some of these jobs she's afraid of.

Sorry. I misunderstood your post, then. I thought you were encouraging her to exploit a gap in the little man market and set up in business doing it.

lostinrates

Lydia, its another persons.....a landscaper's. We're doing stuff like shovelling muck, and he made adjustments to a design we came up with but that others ( including maggie) contributed to.

The puddling curtains in cheese room are both by doors, and just remembers one by the other back door, and that that one Has cause a couple of issues with people closing it in the door and stuff. That curtain is vintage but I'll be replacing it one day. Its from a home I shared with another lover, it looks tatty rather than vintage here, and I'm ready for change there.



My puddling cheese room curtains are white. How brave is that!)