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ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well - and therein lies another story, which I've withheld from you lot as it's another example of how I am DIY Fail.

It was mentioned earlier on this thread that there are expanding netrods that affix at the sides using a pin. The poster (can't recall who, and it's not worth ploughing through just to find it) .... said that they'd used some with sticky pins that you fix to the wall, to support the netrod.

Well - imagine my excitement when I randomly discovered a net rod of that type, that had an expanding length of 1.8m to 3.3m. I knew this was long enough, so bought it immediately, put it in the car and it came inside. Then I undid it to expand it into the gap to see how it looked and to think about the issues I need to consider. . . and then I realised. I've bought the one where the pins need to be screwed into the wall, so I'm stuck at that point how to do that.

I'm sure it involves making a small hole, then screwing the pin in - but I need to think about things such as: how do you screw it in straight? how do you ensure the one on the opposite side's at the same height? What are the chances of me getting this wrong?

So, for now, I have the special net rod and am thinking about it Actually, the rod I've got "sags" a little without any weight on it, so it'll probably need supporting with some other Heath Robinson device at some future point too

That was me What a shame you've found yourself with the wrong sort of rod. Could you take it back and exchange it for one of the right sort, perhaps? (Or rather, two rods, one to stick to the frame of each door/window)

PasturesNew

ivyleaf wrote: »

That was me What a shame you've found yourself with the wrong sort of rod. Could you take it back and exchange it for one of the right sort, perhaps? (Or rather, two rods, one to stick to the frame of each door/window)

I bought it 170 miles away
It cost £3.50.
So ... no.
Only one rod will do. One continuous expanse of windows - no frames round them.

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought it 170 miles away
It cost £3.50.
So ... no.
Only one rod will do. One continuous expanse of windows - no frames round them.

Drat! (re the 170 miles.)

Sorry, I had misunderstood and thought you were talking about a net curtain for a pair of patio doors

Maggie - have sent buying vibes for your old home

Spirit I feel a bit rude saying this as you don't know me from Adam, but it's lovely to read your posts because you sound like your usual self even though you don't feel it (yet). PN is quite right about your falling, bound to happen sometimes.

Sue and Lydia - Your houses sound like mine, which makes me feel a bit better about it My OH lost a credit card earlier this week and he's sure it's in the living room, but he hasn't been able to find it as he has so much carp, and has had to ring and ask for a replacement.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

That sounds like a lovely thing.

Sometimes I wonder that the NHS tell 'one' not to do excercise just because they can't afford to fix the problem. I'm not sure how people ending up rotund helps anything.

I don't mean necessarily you as your still gorgeous rotundbess is not from sitting down too much!

My not bending over is because my head is swollen and so bending over means gravity doesn't help this situation. When I weed I often lay on my side. If my heart rate goes up too much his can also aggravate stuff apparently.

A very early symptom was that my trainer's assistant came out ( my trainer was away ) and we were running my normal basic route which included two hills and I ran every single day I was at that place as my minimum run ( other routes for other places , but I just could not get up the second hill.....my legs felt all wooly and weak and I was out of puff and my head was thumping, thumping thumping and I was tripping.......like I'd run miles and miles, not three miles. Some days I get like that crossing the Cheese room now:rotfl: I laught to think how upset I was at not being able to get up that hill.

PasturesNew

ivyleaf wrote: »

Sorry, I had misunderstood and thought you were talking about a net curtain for a pair of patio doors

It's patio doors, flanked on either side by another window.
So Short Window │ Patio Doors │ Short Window

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm not ungrateful - far from it. I'm very fortunate that there are a lot of people trying to help and support me. It surprises me how many people care. I just have to block it out to some extent as I don't need to add any more people to my list of people I'm letting down by not making much progress...

I am really struggling to motivate myself to reanalyse data. It reminds me of how poorly my stuff was organised at the end (as life was grinding me down), and how unhappy I was. I also feel that my data is crap and that I should have done a lot more. I also dislike literature searching as I have a lot of years to fill in. Which doesn't leave a lot!

I have decided to leave the data analysis and pooling I've been procrastinating on. I will do everything else in that chapter then move on to others.

I have just had a (well-needed) shower. And changed my necklace (which usually seems to help me change my mindset). After finding it - I last changed it when I was away in August and couldn't find my little pouch of jewellery that lives in my washbag. Turns out I'd put it in my handbag before checking in my suitcase and then turfed it out of my handbag at some point so I wasn't carrying it around and it had become buried under a pile of stuff.

Big girl pants on.
Game face on.

No giving up. Even if I don't get to submit, I will have done as much as I was able to this bl00dy thesis.

Whether you successfully complete it or not, you will not in any way be letting down me or any other NP. We only want you to get it for YOU. We want YOU not to have to live with the "what if?" if you don't do the best that you can. When it is over, I will happily and genuinely celebrate your freedom with you, regardless of whether you have been successful.

It's just that I know you are a better scientist than me and deserve this more than I did. Remember, I only finished mine after 5.5 years, and that was with a supportive husband taking the entire domestic burden from me so I could concentrate on writing up, and a job that was only part time. What you are trying to do is huge, and totally deserving of everyone's support and encouragement.

Oh, and my data was pretty useless too. In fact, I lost most of it - literally lost 3 of the 4 notebooks that told me which sample was which. So I had to write up with just the ones in the 4th book, plus the few that I'd started summarising on a computer. They passed me anyway.

ivyleaf wrote: »

Sue and Lydia - Your houses sound like mine, which makes me feel a bit better about it My OH lost a credit card earlier this week and he's sure it's in the living room, but he hasn't been able to find it as he has so much carp, and has had to ring and ask for a replacement.

Thank you ivyleaf. That helps.

PasturesNew

I just looked up and spotted a "screw in the wall", as in, somewhere to hang something from. "That's handy, but that's odd I hadn't noticed it before" I thought..... and I looked and I was sure it was a spare thing to hang things from .... but I couldn't remember it existing, so I got up to look - and discovered a ladybird on the wall. So I scooped it up and lobbed it outside

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thank you ivyleaf. That helps.

Remember, along with clutter on the house I have a BaRN full of junk.

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

It's just that I know you are a better scientist than me and deserve this more than I did.

I don't believe this bit for a second, but thank you Lydia.

I genuinely believe I made peace with the whole PhD thing last year by writing *a* draft. I would clearly really really like to actually get the bit of paper, but I think I learnt the lessons a PhD is supposed to teach you (and then some!), which is really the main thing.

Of course it helps that my job isn't dependent on the title. Though I appreciate I might not have this job forever and it would be better to have the title for future job hunts.

I think the root of the problem is that I never believed I was worthy of studying for a PhD (not helped by the fact I started one in a subject I knew just about nothing about), and it's kind of become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

lostinrates

Sigh, its just as well I'm going to be doing yoga soon.

KICK to Lydia who clearly earned and deserves her phd and is a hugely valuable scientist in her role where her gender is sadly hugely relevant.

And KICK to nikkster. If anyone new everything about it there would be little point in writing. Thesis on it. If you hadn't known enough or been able to someone would have steered you away at the beginning. You CAN complete it, the only question is how much you want to.
Now can everyone be a little more respectful to them selves? I'm kicking with bad leg so that good leg can tKe the weight, but bad leg has had enough for tonight thank you.