Nice People 13: Nice Save

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Whohoo

Visit to your house on the cards.

So long as you PROMISE not to so much as strighten a cushion, push a more of dust with a finger nor fret about a dog hair. Nor flick a kettle switch. I can do that if you'll let me and tell me where mugs etc are.

I'd probably rather go there than the Xmas market..... to be honest.

Yeah, we need to check for things that've been poised, perched, flicked and preened..... and the kitchen bin should be full.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Pastures you are not making yourself sound like an attractive proposition never mind my underlying concern that you would find a previously untested fear of wheel chairs and I would be abandoned as you sought refuge . I am picturing being featured on the front page of the Salisbury local rag, headline "dumped at Christmas" I would look forlorn and be occupying the place usually given to appeals for a home for homeless kittens

I'm sure I'd be fine, except where there are: kerbs, cobbles, doorways, slopes, steep hills, narrow doorways, ramps, steps, uneven surfaces, grates/drains .... apart from that lot... fine

LOL/dumped at Christmas.

I wonder if I could get a chair through a revolving door ... using just an eye for a gap, good timing and a hard push ...... could be interesting to find out.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd probably rather go there than the Xmas market..... to be honest.

Yeah, we need to check for things that've been poised, perched, flicked and preened..... and the kitchen bill should be full.

Let's do that then.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wonder if I could get a chair through a revolving door ... using just an eye for a gap, good timing and a hard push ...... could be interesting to find out.

:eek: OH does that to me sometimes - it's scary! :eek: There's usually a disabled entrance next to revolving doors that you have to press a button for it to open automatically... Thinking IKEA particularly just now, but I'm pretty sure we've come across similar arrangement elsewhere too. Not that I'm an expert - hardly ever go shopping as OH gets in the food, and everything else I order online. :rotfl:

PasturesNew

I should imagine going out in public can cause problems if you need to go for a wee .... as you're a bit short on choice of cubicle in a chair. Walking you can check them all out and choose, or choose to walk away and suss out others. With a chair there's less choice and it's harder to reject one and attempt to find a better one.

Some things need to be all nice and shiny and perfect and "right" .....

silvercar

:wave: Hi Mewbie, I have been most amused by your stick people.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

I should imagine going out in public can cause problems if you need to go for a wee .... as you're a bit short on choice of cubicle in a chair. Walking you can check them all out and choose, or choose to walk away and suss out others. With a chair there's less choice and it's harder to reject one and attempt to find a better one.

I can personally recommend the disabled toilets in the National Portrait Gallery, very tastefully decorated as well as everything done properly. And (surprising to me) the one on Trafalgar Square was very clean, though less beautifully decorated.

Sometimes I use the disabled loos, other days OH wheels me to just outside the "normal" Ladies and guards the wheelchair while I stagger in with walking stick. Depends a lot on how long I've been out, how many miles we've driven, that kind of stuff. After bus trip in wheelchair to National Portrait Gallery and then trundling round the fab William Morris Exhibition I was past even staggering! Other than from chair to loo and back again.

What I really hate is how on motorways the toilets are always right at the back so you have to walk past all the shops to get to them. Marketing opportunity. But means OH has to unpack wheelchair as it's too far for me to walk.

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

Randomly - I'm somewhere fc used to know very well indeed. And I saw my secondary school blazer in the window of a 2nd hand ('vintage') shop?! It is very distinctive (multicoloured + school emblem) so I'm pretty sure it wasn't just something similar looking. Bizarre.

Don't forget to wave to MsKool

PasturesNew wrote: »

Foil covered danglies... answer to everything

<michaels gos off in search of the silver foil for PN's benefit>

ukmaggie45

PN, you should be taking a crash course in Posh People on BBC2 till 10pm. Or possibly do catch up on it... There's one hilarious photo shoot shown with an incontinent tortoise! Storyline Tortoise and Hare with a snail thrown in too, all about Posh (ridiculously expensive) Watches (so much so each watch had it's own security guard!).

Reminder - Interior Design Challenge it's the last one tomorrow 7pm BBC2. The Final! The 3 finalists all have to design 3 rooms in a stately home.

fc123

Generali wrote: »

I don't know what to do about my future really. I'm stuck.

I am going to have a think about what to reply with....then I read about Mrs Gens job too.....aaaagh...always comes in 3's.


Been there.....got the T Shirt...and the mug and the album Agree with Dooz on that acronym (I liked that) JFDI.


I am thinking..... just do the food market asap, you don't need a fabulous all bells website / fancy branding just yet. Just make some product, print off a flyer with a number and meal price list, maybe set up a FB page until a website is built....and book a pitch and go out + try a day. See if the meals sell.


Absolute worst case is you sell 0 and you have enough ready meals to feed the family for a few weeks. You just lost a days rent and your time. Best case is it starts....


Wiz.com is £4 pcm and so easy to set up. DD can do it for you in an afternoon when you come over if you like.

LydiaJ wrote: »

Me again - sorry to be hogging the thread a bit this afternoon.

I've been browsing taps. I've now got some specific questions:
Does anybody have one of those kitchen taps where there's a bit you can pull out that turns into a hose and means you can squirt in different places? Does it work? Is it worth having? How often do you find yourself using it? Are they prone to go wrong?

Thanks.

PS Any other tap choosing tips appreciated as well.

We got one of those and I absolutely love it.....I had no idea it would be so useful......I only chose it cos it looked quite flash and wizzy The spray attachment is the most useful tap ever, for rinsing stuff before dishwasher, for rinsing salad / veg, for spraying OH when he's annoying. There is a normal mixer tap as well. We bought it at one of those home shows @ Excel 2 years ago, before we had even started work on the extension + kitchen....was about £65.
Never goes 'wrong' as such.
I will try and find a pic of something similar.






.....OH just came and read over shoulder and said 'tell her it's Amayzing'