Nice People 13: Nice Save

michaels

I would love to cuddle up somewhere warm with a good book and watch the wind and rain outside the window

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm giving up, but I've been trying for ages now to link to a google image search of hazel hurdle fencing for pn to see what I mean.


The easiest way to do what you want pn, is a hedge, but I just guessing you will not want to be maintaining one. ( prickly hedges are excellent for home security though! ) there are reed fences the same. As you have no pets to keep in you could look at the type of hedge that isn't dog/ necessarily person proof but is a good privacy and windscreen, like proper clump forming hedging bamboo ( varities do exist). They also screen out a lot of outside sound, and make a sort of rustling sound. One could almost imagine it were sort of beachy wind noise.

we still have some hurdles. they do look good but do not last forever. Ithink our current ones are about 6 years old. at least one of them id now a basket of kindling in the shed.I think hedging/shrubs may be a better LT solution for PN

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

we still have some hurdles. they do look good but do not last forever. Ithink our current ones are about 6 years old. at least one of them id now a basket of kindling in the shed.I think hedging/shrubs may be a better LT solution for PN

Gosh, that's not long for a not cheap solution is it? I too would go with plants, but will pn? .

lostinrates

Neither for nor I have ever wall papered.

I think we've chosen a paper for our upstairs corridor, which we can go ahead with when we have found a door .....( I'm trying to find a beautiful cupboard door the right width so it looks like a cupboard at the end of the corridor not a door to a room)

I'm suggesting we buy a roll or two from b and q and wall paper the dressing room for a practise run. Its level walls to learn on, and it seems sensible to practise with less expensive paper......right?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

Neither for nor I have ever wall papered.

I stripped all the old wallpaper out of a large house once, and repapered a couple of rooms..... Total nightmare, bad enough to put me off ever papering anything again, not so much the papering part, as the PITA of getting it off in the future.

Papering is finicky work, but once you get the hang of it it's not that hard. Practicing with cheap paper in a cupboard or something sounds like a good idea.

I've still got some paper to come off in this house that was here when we bought it, I'll be hiring someone to do the job and reskim the walls so I can get a good paint finish on the first time, then I'll repaint myself as needed.

vivatifosi

My nan's birth certificate gives her place of birth as a field. It's quite a surprise when you see something like that in recent history. My mum (other side of the family) says that when she was a kid and they were poor, they had their coats on the bed instead of blankets. We've come a long way in a short period of time in terms of creature comforts.

vivatifosi

I don't know if any of the NPs have a Kindle Fire, but the free app of the day is a really nice little set of puzzles. Beautifully illustrated, varying degrees of difficulty and lots of different types. Very high production values for a free app.

foundinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

3 miles to school, on an unlit, pitch black, winding country road, without any pavements .... glad I didn't live there! .

I always think , wish I were more than three miles down unlit road with no pavements from ..............



It's the real compromise we made here. Real rural it's is so hard to find here and I do find it negatively impacts my sense of well being.


Edit...oh, sorry it's me, not him. I'm using macpewster not macputer. That's confused everyone, sorry. L

vivatifosi

foundinrates wrote: »

I always think , wish I were more than three miles down unlit road with no pavements from ..............

Tonight I'd trade you to live there. I am so fed up with fireworks. Every night for the last week. I don't know why. Nobody round here had any last year, this year its as though everybody has their own display.

Every other week though - I think being a townie is easier.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Tonight I'd trade you to live there. I am so fed up with fireworks. Every night for the last week. I don't know why. Nobody round here had any last year, this year its as though everybody has their own display.

Every other week though - I think being a townie is easier.

Tonight we watched fireworks in the village to south west. Last night we watched them in village to the north. This month is also heavy month MOD training. Tbh, you get surprisingly used to that, in the way I never did staying near airport or flight paths.

All the animals are totally chilled about it.




Today however we went through a car wash. Girls , no problem....used to it. Kiwi was so horrified he went under my seat. Poor him. I felt so stupid. I cannot believe I hadn't taken him through a wash til now.