Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

Silly ringlets are my look.

My silly ringlets are more of a birds nest, they once looked nice but my hair is in desperate need of a proper cut (I will get round to it one day), so the look isn't so great now.

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

My silly ringlets are more of a birds nest, they once looked nice but my hair is in desperate need of a proper cut (I will get round to it one day), so the look isn't so great now.

How long is it? Could you do it your self? I cut mine myself for years. Might be worth googling the curly girl hair cutting method, which is a method for cutting your own curly hair.



I now let someone else do it ( my joints are too rigid :rotfl:opposite problem) and chop off random bits I don't like afterwards.

Result is still birds nest, but that's what I like.

SingleSue

Goodness no, I would make a right mess of it, me and straight lines tend not to go hand in hand :rotfl:

I also have the problem of rigid joints in some of my joints now, my shoulders are still quite flexible but unfortunately, they are too flexible and pop out if I try to raise my arms up, I'd end up with a whacking great bit chopped out if I tried to cut and the shoulder popped at the same time

Mine can look nice if I take care with the drying, so not quite a birds mess on hair wash day.

lostinrates

http://www.astonbarclay.net/search/detail/?location=66&sale=1199&page=10&perpage=25&sortby=lot_asc&vehicle=117621

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Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

http://www.astonbarclay.net/search/detail/?location=66&sale=1199&page=10&perpage=25&sortby=lot_asc&vehicle=117621

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Are you buying again? Those are in the 'indestructable' camp aren't they? With the Hi-Lux.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Have a bad feeling, having checked car, that this is NOT a battery issue.

EGADS, and 'sheart. Wish we'd bloody chosen the next vehicle. I think this might get nasty.

Not even a click when I turn the key.

I know you're not going to rush out and pop the hood .... but if there's no click then my first thought would be whether the battery terminals were tight enough .... then if the earthing strap was still connected .... then (if possible) check the water/acid levels inside the battery. After that it'd be the alternator I'd be heading for: is it connected, are the wires loose/look OK, or had it died.

SingleSue

Nice looking car but I would be worried about fuel economy.....but then, I don't have lots of land or animals that requires such a vehicle.

PasturesNew

For hair, I learnt very early on that I am useless with a hairdrier - and it takes a lot of effort to end up with really cr4ppy hair and another bad day. So, I just pin mine up, while wet - which tames its "explosion in a mattress factory" look. Some hours later it'll still be a bit damp, but if I let it down and let it do its own thing it's infinitely better than what I could have achieved with a drier!

Later on in the day, if it starts to frizz again, I pin it up for 1-2 hours again and that calms it down.

PasturesNew

Well, armed with all my loppers and choppers, I decided that the spiders in the shed were there because next door's fern and ivy were coming over the fence, touching the shed and filling up the gap between them.... so it was Operation Spider Phase II: chop back all that stuff.

Those loppers ..... couldn't work out how to use them. All I had to do was flick a bit of metal, but I only worked that out after I'd removed/replaced two nuts (after tracking down spanners that fitted). So, no spanners were required at all, just had to flick a bit of metal.

So .... off to the shed. Extending choppers were a bit of a nightmare - heavy and don't work in a confined space. You have to open the arms too far apart to get the cutting hook part over the branch before you can close the handles together.

So, loppers - good job. Had a few minor cack-handed moments, but overall, easy to use, worked a treat.

Small shears - were used here and there, indiscriminately and in a cack-handed/useless manner.

I've now got a pretty much clear line of sight round most of the shed - and a heap of ferns, ivy and some brambles (blackberries) to chop up smaller and get to the tip.

Volume-wise there's not a great deal of green stuff, probably a sack full .... time to achieve it was 10x what a competent person would have managed. It was 1.5 hours' effort to get that trug full ...... and hopefully it'll persuade the spiders in the shed that they should move on....

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know you're not going to rush out and pop the hood .... but if there's no click then my first thought would be whether the battery terminals were tight enough .... then if the earthing strap was still connected .... then (if possible) check the water/acid levels inside the battery. After that it'd be the alternator I'd be heading for: is it connected, are the wires loose/look OK, or had it died.

Wow!

Woosh.