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michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's common. We had that. And ice on the inside of the windows and heating just a coal fire in one room (living room). We were "well off", there were plenty I knew without inside loos, or bathrooms, or carpets on the floors. One girl at school lived in a caravan with about 12 kids. They used to walk 3 miles to school, on an unlit, pitch black, winding country road, without any pavements .... glad I didn't live there! Especially as you had to pass the Green's farm - and they had goats tethered at the roadside; I never fancied walking past a couple of random goats in the dark.

Actually, the coats thing - I still do that now.

When I was growing up not that long after PN if you lived more than 2 miles from school the county had to provide free transport.

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

my daughter flies to Hong Kong tomorrow then on to Cairns later in the week. she is looking forward to getting off the plne into a wall of heat.

Going to be 30C all week up there, just like every week. Hot & humid.

It's mango season up there. Nom.

zagubov

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.

I'm sitting at my Malm table next to my Billy bookcases. Fireworks blight my life as a dog-owner. I've no idea what my dog hears but bet it ain't fun.

I'm a townie to the core. Last house we were at the edge of London, miles form shops or transport. Lovely big house but not worth the lack of amenities. Now I'm living in an area that thinks its a village but has umpteen shops, restaurants, ATMs, buses to bigger towns with cinemas, trains to central London. Wouldn't give that up for anything.

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

I'm sitting at my Malm table next to my Billy bookcases. Fireworks blight my life as a dog-owner. I've no idea what my dog hears but bet it ain't fun.

I'm a townie to the core. Last house we were at the edge of London, miles form shops or transport. Lovely big house but not worth the lack of amenities. Now I'm living in an area that thinks its a village but has umpteen shops, restaurants, ATMs, buses to bigger towns with cinemas, trains to central London. Wouldn't give that up for anything.

This morning I had a 5 min walk into a bustling city centre, and this evening it was another 5 minute walk to an area with a feelingly infinite number ofreally nice bars (not posh ones, but lots of cocktails ). I miss living near civilisation.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

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?

(Spits) B&Q wallpaper in your house.

I went for it. I think more expensive paper is easier to hang.

My first attempt at papering was Matthew Williamson, the second was Dog Show at over £100 a roll, in a friend's house!

It's a matter of patience and perfectionist tendencies.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

When I was growing up not that long after PN if you lived more than 2 miles from school the county had to provide free transport.

Still was the rule when mine went to school. 2 miles for under 8s, 3 miles for over 8s. But it has to be your nearest suitable school, so if you choose to go to a school that is not your nearest then you have to pay.

chewmylegoff

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

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.

Yeah, stripping wall paper not much fun... I had to do every room of a 4 bed house. The previous occupants had simply papered over the existing wall paper every time they redecorated so it was an archaeological exercise. I think one of the rooms had five layers...

The only room that wasn't papered was the kitchen - but that was even worse as it was entirely tiled. At least I didn't find another layer underneath when I had painstakingly chiseled the first off!

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

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.

At the risk of repeating myself, it's amazing how rich even poor British people are compared to other places and times.

The vast majority of Britons never go hungry or cold. Sickness is treated on demand including the most minor ailments. That is something that would have been unthinkable even 50 years ago.

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

(Spits) B&Q wallpaper in your house.

I went for it. I think more expensive paper is easier to hang.

My first attempt at papering was Matthew Williamson, the second was Dog Show at over £100 a roll, in a friend's house!

It's a matter of patience and perfectionist tendencies.

There's a quite high end wallpaper mfr based nearby. If you time it right, they donate their ends of lines to a local charity shop. Not enough to do a whole room, but a feature wall is fine. Last lot I bought about two years ago, was about £2-3 per roll.

Just checked. Normal retail approx £60-70 per roll.

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

I'm sitting at my Malm table next to my Billy bookcases. Fireworks blight my life as a dog-owner. I've no idea what my dog hears but bet it ain't fun.

I'm a townie to the core. Last house we were at the edge of London, miles form shops or transport. Lovely big house but not worth the lack of amenities. Now I'm living in an area that thinks its a village but has umpteen shops, restaurants, ATMs, buses to bigger towns with cinemas, trains to central London. Wouldn't give that up for anything.

I wouldn't trade where I live either. Everything is on my doorstep and easy to get to. London is about half an hour by train, I can easily get to concerts, theatre, museums. If I want to go to Brighton for the day I can just jump on a single train and play on my tablet till I get off. I have the main motorways easily accessible to get to the rest of the country. The Chilterns are beautiful and right where I am, I can get to both Oxford and Cambridge in under an hour, and if I fancy a trip to the Cotswolds it's only a little further.

There's only two things missing.. the sea and decent weather.