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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    You smug, smug ... smug ... b*****

    Signed
    Ye Olde Spinster.
    :)

    :D
    lostinrates wrote: »
    like a Hamish says.....

    For some reason that appeared in my head with a comedy Italian accent when read. :rotfl:
    Who knew hamish was so zen on loss? :) ( the gooey side on your wife has always shown;) )

    Zen and gooey..... Like the Kung Foo Panda of the NP board.:D
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Hamish must be over 300 years old, so he's probably a bit wrinkly by now.

    True, but as it turns out, alcohol is a pretty good preservative.... :)
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Dog dog isn't well. Something is wrong.

    I've managed to get a vet appointment this afternoon but I'm very worried. :(. She was skipping around this morning.
  • PasturesNew
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Dog dog isn't well. Something is wrong.

    I've managed to get a vet appointment this afternoon but I'm very worried. :(. She was skipping around this morning.

    Awww :(
    Hope it just turns out to be she's eaten something you didn't know about and has got her just desserts without damage.
  • Joanthebone
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    Oh I get it now PN, I am renovating at the moment, and living with DUST ... :(




    At the moment I am preparing my 'utility cupboard' I've sugar soaped, done some filling and getting ready to paint it with some left-over paint, (it doesn't need to be posh!). Its just a cupboard made by the previous owners altering the kitchen/lounge layout and it measures 65cm x 130cm and doesn't have a fire door, I didn't know it needed one!
  • GDB2222
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    edited 10 January 2015 at 3:42PM
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Yes.



    The loo isn't 8'x9'. The space it is in is that large. It is then surrounded by a hallway. The space itself it about 4'x5'. It has hallway on two sides which is wide (wheelchair accessible wide).

    I'm also guessing these sizes. I didn't measure it.

    I also read on one of the other boards this morning, somebody's new build house hasn't been signed off due to the washing machine being located in their loo and it needed a fire door.

    Makes me wonder if my kitchen door's a fire door for the same reason, or not, or what, or if that poster's got it wrong. So many niggling details you have to be thinking of. It's building regs that's plonked an oversized loo slap bang in the wrong place (well, a builder who hasn't really bothered to optimise space as it'd cost them profit margin to do a tweak to each property.


    DD said on her uni application that she had dyspraxia, which affects her handwriting. She was promptly labelled disabled, and she was given a ground floor room with wheelchair access, with an enormous loo and correspondingly smaller bedroom.

    Depending on the layout, you could possibly fit the washing machine into the 4x5 space. Even if you had to change the plumbing a bit, you are looking at low hundreds, rather than the quite a few thousands of pounds an extension would cost.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • LydiaJ
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    Sorry to hear that Hamish. Sounds like a nice evening though.

    Pleased to hear you're all safely back Gen, hope the things that have been lost in transit turn up again soon x

    What Nikkster said.
    Generali wrote: »
    Yes please LydiaJ

    Done :)
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    I can't help feeling that, if there is love, there is a way through. Am I an incurable romantic? Anyway, I wish you all the best, and I hope that you get the help you need to sort things out between you.

    I'm more pragmatic/realistic/cynical. I think there is almost always a way through, if both people are willing. Whether or not they find it depends on lots of things - how they try looking for it, what advice they get, to what extent they're willing to do what it takes etc.

    To say that the determining factor is "whether there is love" risks the contrasting dangers of complacency "we love each other so it will work out somehow and therefore I don't need to do anything to fix it now" and fatalism "I am not feeling loving, so clearly there isn't love and I might as well give up".
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • Joanthebone
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    That's the trouble with amateurs :P

    Building regs are there to attempt to save them from themselves :)



    I will be having a word with my chippy ..:)


    But, wherever I have lived, the room with the washing machine, or dishwasher, anything... has not had a fire door! I can't be the only one :p
  • Doozergirl
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    Joanthebone wrote: »
    Oh I get it now PN, I am renovating at the moment, and living with DUST ... :(




    At the moment I am preparing my 'utility cupboard' I've sugar soaped, done some filling and getting ready to paint it with some left-over paint, (it doesn't need to be posh!). Its just a cupboard made by the previous owners altering the kitchen/lounge layout and it measures 65cm x 130cm and doesn't have a fire door, I didn't know it needed one!

    I have never heard of a washing machine needing a fire door??

    (For the record, It's fair to say I'm semi-clued up in this department)

    PN, did you say this was a thread? Where?
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • LydiaJ
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    It was more than just about the orange. They're £1-£2 depending where you buy them - and she'd re-gifted it.

    She was going on about how she's saved for 7 years and they've bought a house and they're doing this, that and the other to it (big spends) ... and it was her husband's brother's 30th birthday - and they're not estranged. And she regifted him this orange.

    He did only buy her Maltesers for her birthday.... but that wasn't her 30th and he only works 4 hours/day or something.

    For me, it was that she'd put no thought into it at all.... not just an orange, but a regifted one ... and his 30th (significant for a lot of people).

    I'd regift a chocolate orange, for Christmas, for somebody I didn't really know that well .... not for somebody I was in close contact with, on a daily basis, on their 30th when I wasn't terminally financially strapped.

    Ah now it makes sense. Thanks for explaining, PN.
    lostinrates wrote: »
    Dog dog isn't well. Something is wrong.

    I've managed to get a vet appointment this afternoon but I'm very worried. :(. She was skipping around this morning.

    :(
    Sending hugs and thoughts and prayers - and a special cuddle for Dog dog.
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    DD said on her uni application that she had dyspraxia, which affects her handwriting. She was promptly labelled disabled, and she was given a ground floor room with wheelchair access, with an enormous loo and correspondingly smaller bedroom.

    :doh:
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
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