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Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Hey spirit, this means no more getting tickets for fun ...you'll be allowed to park where it was you used to get tickets.

I am likely to be a passenger with dd or oh as it willl be some time until i can drive. they are law abiding types

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

I am likely to be a passenger with dd or oh as it willl be some time until i can drive. they are law abiding types

In which case they get to keep within the law and you get to park where you want

Nikkster

So... I've snuck away from my familial unit to do some work. The view out of the window is slightly distracting...

Will delete:

Yorkie1

Nice view

ivyleaf wrote: »

Wheezy I'm sorry to say moules frites don't appeal to me at all - the smell of the hot shells makes me _pale_ ,

Me too.

Oh, NDG and Maggie, you mentioned Saplings the other day. My DD1 appeared on my doorstep one day last year and said "I've just finished reading this book, and you MUST read it before it has to go back to the library!"

It was Saplings, and I loved it, sad though it was. I was really surprised, as I hadn't realised Noel Streatfeild had written any books for adults.

Being reminded of it made me think I'd love to read it again, so I went to the library yesterday and was able to borrow it again (which is the only reason I've managed to spell "Streatfeild" correctly).

I didn't realise there were any adult books by Noel Streatfeild either. I loved the childhood books, had most of them, and still remember Dad reading "White boots" to me when I was in hospital with a burst appendix, waiting to go into surgery aged 8. Happy days

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I am likely to be a passenger with dd or oh as it willl be some time until i can drive. they are law abiding types

Nikkster wrote: »

In which case they get to keep within the law and you get to park where you want

Exactly, you'll have more choice now with the badge. .

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Re kitchens.... mine is still doing my head in as I struggle to think what to do with it.

With an open cheque book, the answer is clear: get it redesigned, get it all taken out, take the floor up, start from scratch. New flooring, new units, different colour, different type of units.

But I've no money .... but a lot of its functionality is missing or curbed. Too much to really write here.

I bet to rip out a whole kitchen and replace everything, even at a "low budget" is £3k .... plus 1-2 weeks of mayhem? I'm so annoyed.... bought this house as it's fairly new and hadn't anticipated any of this annoyance. House looks like developer started with good intentions ... and probably ended quickly, stuck as they couldn't sell them .... so something went wrong in the final flinging it together stage.... to be bought by a clueless buyer who skimped on some things and had a generally careless attitude towards "keeping things nice and doing things right"

Picture of the kitchen, PN, please. Perhaps in the other place? Let's see if the kitchen is available. I'm sure it would be and therefore better rejigged. Along with pics, who were the developers?

vivatifosi

Nice pic Nikks. The Ouse has never looked so good.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Nice pic Nikks. The Ouse has never looked so good.

Very true! Imagine waking up to that every day...

GDB2222

Spirit wrote: »

gdb I hope your diagnosis is for something easily treatable.

It's sweet of you to think of me, thanks. It's one of those long term things they are keeping an eye on. Last time, they found I had low iron levels in my body, and they treated that, which did the trick nicely. That was around three or four years ago. I haven't had the latest results for my iron levels, so looking forward to that.

neverdespairgirl

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I didn't realise there were any adult books by Noel Streatfeild either. I loved the childhood books, had most of them, and still remember Dad reading "White boots" to me when I was in hospital with a burst appendix, waiting to go into surgery aged 8. Happy days

She wrote some others, under one or more pen names, which are light and frothy. Saplings is different; under her own name, and much more serious. AIUI there is at least one more serious adult one, based on similar premises to her famous Ballet Shoes, but I've not read that. Saplings is very good, definitely worth a read.

ivyleaf wrote: »

Oh, NDG and Maggie, you mentioned Saplings the other day. My DD1 appeared on my doorstep one day last year and said "I've just finished reading this book, and you MUST read it before it has to go back to the library!"

It was Saplings, and I loved it, sad though it was. I was really surprised, as I hadn't realised Noel Streatfeild had written any books for adults.

Being reminded of it made me think I'd love to read it again, so I went to the library yesterday and was able to borrow it again (which is the only reason I've managed to spell "Streatfeild" correctly).

I've not even tried to spell it, you are several steps ahead of me!

Glad you've also read and enjoyed it - although you are right, it's pretty melancholy.