Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somebody once told me .... no man ever said "no" to sex because the housework wasn't done

I can feel not in the mood if the house feels grimy though. Its probably why I feel inspired to get the house clean!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I can feel not in the mood if the house feels grimy though. Its probably why I feel inspired to get the house clean!

Just pop out to the stables... plenty of hay out there

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Awww/pit of doom.

No consolation, but "at least" it's summer, so you're able to think about it, look at it, paw it about a bit during more daylight hours and with less rain coming down.

I really wish I didn't leave washing in there, in piles waiting for full loads. I cannot tell now what wash is what from the ceiling dust :eek:

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somebody once told me .... no man ever said "no" to sex because the housework wasn't done

lostinrates wrote: »

I can feel not in the mood if the house feels grimy though. Its probably why I feel inspired to get the house clean!

I can assure everyone that neither the cleanliness nor lack of it are causing any issues with that here. Chance would be a fine thing!

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I Lj them both.


Today I slept a fair bit, but also started to tackle the dumping pit of doom, ( now heavily dust coated from the ceiling) which is the room pn thinks of as the kitchen as it was the kitchen for that summer!

I can't lj either of them - it's lemonjelly and Lydia for me.

Pit of doom - my parent's kindly brought over rather a lot of bags of my [STRIKE]junk [/STRIKE]treasured posessions on Friday.

They are now cluttering up the dining room
I think I might have to look into doing a car boot sale :eek:

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm pacing and twitchy again... plenty I could be doing ..... but am not. It doesn't look much ..... I know actually doing it takes a lot longer than it looks though.

But .... I think I'm going to now make a run in the car to a supermarket and look for something nice in the cold desserts chiller..... maybe a small cheesecake.... back in a bit

Good plan PN.

It'll get done. You'll be fine. I generally find it takes about as much time as you give it

neverdespairgirl

Spirit wrote: »

When K moved to Holland we had a fulltime nanny, lived out, we provided a car, all legit for NI etc and also paid school fees as DD started school p/t. As I also had an 80 miles round trip to work my net financial gain was about £10 per month.

Worked out very well for us and it was important to me that when it was our money we stuck to good employer principles and did not adopt a meaner approach.

We've had the same nanny since September 2005, initially part-time, and full-time since January 2006. Sam's never lived with us, she has her own house in Esher, and comes in every day. She's absolutely lovely. We've never seen penny-pinching on childcare as a Good Thing. The killer with her pay is the fact that it's out of taxed income. I need to earn £2 in fees for each £1 that she is paid, roughly speaking.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Some report published this week said that research has shown that children respond better to a written list of things, than to the spoken word. You should have passed him to list so he could read it for himself


As somebody who has seen the word microfibre, but never seen/used one ... I'm staggered that you all seem to [a] use them colour code them

HE's very backwards in the literacy stakes, it's most irritating.

Microfibre cloths are absolutely, fantastically brilliant. Saves loads of time cleaning, they do a brilliant job. But you wouldn't want to confuse the loo one with the kitchen one, would you?

michaels wrote: »

You and NDB should probably pay yourself via a company and have 'grandfathered' childcare vouchers which your nanny could then have registered to accept.

We currently live on an income it seems most would struggle with in order to qualify for child benefit with and pay rises, bonuses etc all going into pension which makes fiscal sense but means our income is gradually squeezed by inflation, the answer has got to be for DW to find a school hours only job....

We aren't allowed to be employed via a company, though, and be in a Chambers. You can't do both. So we can't use the childcare vouchers scheme / salary sacrifice at all.

silvercar wrote: »

michaels beat me to it, suggesting buying childcare vouchers. It is meant to be tax efficient...

The only help we received for the children was child benefit. The rules changed (that would have made us ineligible) a few months after DS2 left school.

It is tax efficient - if you can do it. The new scheme from next year will be open to us, though.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you do visit Chez Moi this weekend (your choice, no imminent disasters at my end preventing it) .... then maybe we could slide out to some local Inne, where salty fishermen drink ales......



Or if you prefer somebody a bit posher, then I know where the posh gaff is and I could probably scrub up OK if you pick the items from my random piles of clothes that I should wear to look like I belong there.

I like drinking ale

I'm sure you scrub up just fine PN. I expect you scrub up a lot better than I do!

GDB2222

Surely, you only need to leave the place clean and respectable, not renovated? It does not have to sparkle.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've used two, got one damp one and one dry one .... but I didn't buy the Viakal everybody suggested as I read some MSE before I went out and found loads of people saying the Lidl/similar was brilliant, so I picked that up as I was in Lidl..... unfortunately, while it's good (as good as the other/old style methods), it's still not 100% solved the problem. So, plan B will end up being to get Viakal.... maybe I'm OCDing it..... who knows.

Also: You say "Saves loads of time cleaning" - how? What's different about them to regular cloths etc? How do they work/what do they do better/why is it better?

Microfibre cloths - in my experience they have a fluffier side and one that is less so. The fluffiness doesn't shed as much as other cloths and is really really absorbent so you don't get streaks etc. The fluffiness/ more surface area decreases the elbow grease required.

Viakal - I have some, can bring if I'm having a road trip this weekend...