Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Yorkie1

zagubov wrote: »

Happy New Year to all Jewish NPs/their spouses!

And, belatedly, from me too

Nikkster wrote: »

Trying not to give up

Sending you energy vibes

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

Nice sofa ... brain thought "blue/beach theme" .... but I've no taste/style so it might just look bonkers.

http://www.dfs.co.uk/vine/3-seater-sofa-smudge-100500037p--1 (blue, teal). £299+£55 delivery.

I've been thinking about cream 'leather' though recently ... I hate decisions where spending a fortune's involved..... I wasn't that good at spending £30 on that PIR/solar light!!

Is it low quality, low class, poor choice? Other?

It looks nice. I haven't got to the end of the thread yet - do you need anyone to go and try one out for you if you don't have one locally? I'm free this weekend and could go for you if you'd like.

As for faux leather, I'm not convinced it would be that comfortable in hot weather; I always think it will be 'sweaty'. But as I don't know anyone with such fabric so don't know if my assumption is accurate at all.

Masomnia wrote: »

Knock out some Beethoven. It'll come running out

I did laugh at this suggestion (sorry, hamster) :rotfl:

Yorkie1

Nikkster wrote: »

Currently sat at the Garage. Word of the day... Ouch

Oh dear

Doozergirl wrote: »

My product of the decade is Autoglym Intensive tar remover. I've just used it to clean the inside of my oven door in a minute flat. It also removes the sticky residue left behind by stickers. I don't think I've actually used it to clean the car.

Now I can't work out how to take the oven door apart to get in the gap bwetween the two panes. Cousin won't pick up phone. This is Important!

At the risk of saying something far too obvious, my oven door has plastic clips at the top corners, holding the glass pane rigidly in place. I'm sure you've investigated all the obvious things, but at the risk of being unhelpful I thought I'd mention it anyway.

LydiaJ wrote: »

As a scientist I know I ought not to believe that it somehow knew what I was planning to do to it and has been terrified into knuckling under and submitting to my wishes, but it's awfully tempting.

There's a scientific law about this phenomenon, I'm sure. Happens far too frequently to be coincidence :cool: :beer:

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

For months and months I have been being driven to distraction by an overzealous seatbelt locking mechanism. On a good day it would "only" lock 5 or 6 times while I was trying to put it on; on a bad day it would be more like 50. Well meaning friends hearing of this problem would advise me to pull it more gently, and I would invite them to try it themselves, whereupon they would realise things about grandmothers and sucking eggs.

Last time it was serviced I asked the man at the (small independent) garage to sort it out for me, and he said he couldn't - it would involve taking the side of the car completely apart to get at the troublesome part, he said. So last month I decided enough was enough. I phoned the main dealer to discuss the problem and ask how much it was likely to cost etc. I didn't manage to pin them down on cost - they said they'd have to examine it first, which is silly, because there's nothing to see beyond what I've described, unless you take it apart to get at the place where the mechanism is, so why couldn't they tell me how much labour it was likely to take to do that? Anyway, I had a preliminary chat with them and decided to take it in to be looked at next time I had a day off.

The next time I got into the car I put the seatbelt on without it locking at all, for the first time in well over a year. Since then it has been fine - sometimes it locks a few times while I'm putting it on, but never more than half a dozen or so, and often it doesn't lock at all.

As a scientist I know I ought not to believe that it somehow knew what I was planning to do to it and has been terrified into knuckling under and submitting to my wishes, but it's awfully tempting.

I had a hire car which I had to reject having loaded it all up because the rear seat belts didn't work, they were locked and would not pull out. So decanted all the luggage into a different car and found...that once the luggage was no longer jammed against the back of the rear seats the seatbelts worked fine. I was wondering whether when you park it might be on a hill or angle and that might cause the problem?

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Nice sofa ... brain thought "blue/beach theme" .... but I've no taste/style so it might just look bonkers.

http://www.dfs.co.uk/vine/3-seater-sofa-smudge-100500037p--1 (blue, teal). £299+£55 delivery.

I've been thinking about cream 'leather' though recently ... I hate decisions where spending a fortune's involved..... I wasn't that good at spending £30 on that PIR/solar light!!

Is it low quality, low class, poor choice? Other?

We have very similar sofas (x2) from DFS, but in leather. Have never had a problem with them. The only issue I have is that I wish I had bought the slightly bigger one as I can't lay out, but I'm a bit taller than you, wish I'd bought the 2m rather than 1.8m. Having said that, they wouldn't fit.

Although it isn't fashionable to be happy with DFS, they've been fine.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

My product of the decade is Autoglym Intensive tar remover. I've just used it to clean the inside of my oven door in a minute flat. It also removes the sticky residue left behind by stickers.

Another of my fears .... is that if I use the wrong product, it might cause a chemical reaction or something. In the case of ovens, I'd be scared to do that in case, upon reaching 150 degrees or more, it'd cause the entire oven to self combust

PasturesNew

Masomnia wrote: »

Wouldn't have done anything brake related though, even though changing pads is pretty straightforward I wouldn't want to risk it.

I'd not do anything nowadays, but in my past I've done two brake jobs:

- changed the master cylinder on an MG Midget. That'd been leaking fluid over the shoes, so needed replacing as the rubber'd perished.

- changed the shoes on some random car - but lost the washer that holds the small springs in place, so I drilled a hole in a penny and that fitted.

Didn't die ... nothing bad happened.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

So last month I decided enough was enough. I phoned the main dealer to discuss the problem and ask how much it was likely to cost etc.

Top tip if you ever resort to that in the future and they give you a horrific number ... some newspaper a few years back phoned loads of main dealers to get quotes for work ... and they found that with the difference in the quotes they could drive 200-300 miles to have the work done and turn it into a mini break, with the difference in quotes paying for the mini break.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

We have very similar sofas (x2) from DFS, but in leather. Have never had a problem with them. The only issue I have is that I wish I had bought the slightly bigger one as I can't lay out, but I'm a bit taller than you, wish I'd bought the 2m rather than 1.8m. Having said that, they wouldn't fit.

Although it isn't fashionable to be happy with DFS, they've been fine.

Woo ... it gets a posh vote

I'm after a 3-seater, not 2, so I can stretch... but midgets don't need much space for a good stretch

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

vivatifosi wrote: »

sofas

Pretty happy with the ones we bought a few years ago.

Went to some posh sofa place, looked at really nice cream Italian leather 3 way reclining sofa and twin armchair sets that Mrs McT liked, walked out again when we saw the 7 grand price tag.

In true grumpy Scotsman style, then went and looked on gumtree every day for weeks to find something that would look similar for a hell of a lot less.

Until, like the jammy dodger I am, we found the exact same posh store sofa set 3 weeks later, barely used, from some rich oily moving house.

Bought it for £300. Plus £50 for a white van man to move it.

Score.

In my book, furniture (except mattresses of course) ranks right up there with cars as something you should never, ever, ever buy new.