Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

Would she like a job? PN needs some help and I have a house that needs rendering. It's not doing itself, for some reason.

She can use her finely honed rendering skills over here too! Can definitely confirm it doesn't do itself.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm always up for a Bletchley Park trip Nikks, and its not exactly a million miles away for either of us. It's a perfect place to visit on a nice day and I haven't been since they've done the renovations.

Never thought of visiting there. I take it there is a museum worth visiting.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Who'd be a Brazilian football fan?

At least they made it to the semis and won their group. I wonder how England would have fared if they were playing a surgical looking Germany tonight. I'd like to think defeat would not have been so heavy, but we'd have had a snowballs chance in he'll of winning.

How they needed their two missing players. Makes you realise how good Neymar is.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I have a house that needs rendering.

Is that smeared on like plaster? Or sprayed on?
Sounds a lot of fun either way.

I've never wanted a rendered house ... too much ongoing maintenance/cost.... luckily I didn't buy one.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Never thought of visiting there. I take it there is a museum worth visiting.

It's a strange place, sort of like a stately home for nerds. You can have a good look round then have afternoon tea. It's about a ten minute walk from Bletchley Station. It's more like visiting The Cabinet War Rooms than the V&A, a place where important historical stuff happened, rather than a repository for important historical things.

Nikkster

I went to the cabinet war rooms once, undercover ironically enough . Had never occurred to me to visit before them (prefer art and sciency museums really), but it was fascinating. A real sense of history. The little cafe was very nice too

PasturesNew

In putting away the strawberry/chocolate mini bars I bought earlier (that were disappearing at a rate of knots) ..... I opened the cupboard ... to discover the crisps ....

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

At least they made it to the semis and won their group. I wonder how England would have fared if they were playing a surgical looking Germany tonight. I'd like to think defeat would not have been so heavy, but we'd have had a snowballs chance in he'll of winning.

How they needed their two missing players. Makes you realise how good Neymar is.

Neymar wouldn't have done them any good tonight but they might have stood a bit more of a chance with Thiago Silva at the back. They were completely disorganised to the point of farce. I reckon Greece would have put 5 past them the way they played tonight.

neverdespairgirl

Kermie had his 6 week check today, and it was an incredibly good NHS experience - a really long, chilled, calm appointment, chatting about him, things to be aware of, etc. Really impressed (a 50 minute app for the 2 of us).

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!

You've made me feel guilty about how rubbish I've been recently about doing anything around the flat. So I've spent the last couple of evenings cleaning the kitchen, which needed serious de-junking, while Kermie snoozes on OH's chest.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Daft question coming up from the backwaters where I live ....


I've bought three, from Lidl. They have a white side and a coloured side. Is there any difference, or are both sides the same? I started using them and then thought "Hang on, maybe there's a right side and a wrong side"

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?

Don't know about the different coloured sides - mine are the same colour on both sides.

The reason they save loads of time is that they just grab dirt, grease, stains, etc and get rid. You rarely need to use cleaning stuff (very MSE, as well as reducing chemicals at home) and even hot water and cloth will clean a hob, for example.

zagubov

Nikkster wrote: »

I went to the cabinet war rooms once, undercover ironically enough . Had never occurred to me to visit before them (prefer art and sciency museums really), but it was fascinating. A real sense of history. The little cafe was very nice too

Took some students there years ago- fascinating place. Would have loved to have visited Burlington, the underground city bugslet went to years ago.

PN, doing a degree is a brilliant idea. But do your research first and decide what you want from it. Employability? Interest?

I took a humanities degree when DS arrived. Learned about all sorts of interesting stuff, but not as useful in an employment capacity as the science I'd studied before. I'm a fan of degrees that mix sciences and humanities, as my first degree went that way.

Good luck with your search!