Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Tomorrow, at 11.29am it'll be exactly 1 year since I got the call to pick up the keys...

Time flies!
Good luck for the interview

vivatifosi

Jelly, good luck with the 2nd job and happy anniversary for tomorrow.

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

I have a pile of shoes by the front door. It really is a pile rather than anything neatly arranged. These are the shoes I wear most regularly - one pair of trainers, one pair of ankle boots, one pair of flip flops, and multiple pairs of flat semi smart (well, not trainers or flip flops) shoes that I wear for work.
I've been trying to think what to do with them.
The shoes I wear less regularly live in my wardrobe. I'm never going to keep all my shoes there through laziness , and I take them off as I enter the house so they need a home near to the front door. Don't really want a shoe rack in the dining or living rooms either.
I've been thinking of building either something into the bottom steps of the staircase, or some kind of shelving in a (very) little corner by the stairs.

Might post a pic at some point and see what you guys suggest.

Shoe rack! I have 2 stacked on top of each other. They're wooden. Quite old. No idea where they came from.

I tend to wear 1 pair of shoes constantly, for about 3 months, then change. Unless I'm on a night out.:o

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

This, as I have been taught it, is the method for moving ground grown trees. It does not guarantee success, but gives a shot. I'm positive some trees have better success than others, I just do not know which.


First know that the 'tap roots' of a tree are not important to its survival 'only' its stability. The 'important' roots are the little 'drinky 'roots around the tree.

This understood dig a large trench around the tree, so the tree becomes isolated, a castle with its own moat. Give it some time to recover. Here I have read different things. My guess is it depend on the soil and care taking.


The aim is to allow the sides of the tree root ball to develop a new reinvigorated network of 'drinky' roots, so when placed in new home they are ready to seek sources of water and nutrition and work HARD.

Say a year.

The next year, get a digger / mini digger to complete extraction of root ball at place tree on van and high tail it to new home ( dormant if possible!) and replant, supporting tree because its lost its stabilising roots.


We are toying with doing this with lilacs here. They are not such great lilacs, as in their form, but we both adore lilacs, and they lived here first, and they have good height.

I dug up a cherry blossom a few months ago. It had been plante 6-7 years previous. Decent size. Took a pick axe. hacked away around it like you say. Cut the supporting roots with an axe. Wheelbarrowed it up the road, & dropped it into a pre-du hole.

It survived fine. Has blossomed already, & is all full of leaves now.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Shoe rack! I have 2 stacked on top of each other. They're wooden. Quite old. No idea where they came from.

I tend to wear 1 pair of shoes constantly, for about 3 months, then change. Unless I'm on a night out.:o

This is not healthy. Tut tut.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I dug up a cherry blossom a few months ago. It had been plante 6-7 years previous. Decent size. Took a pick axe. hacked away around it like you say. Cut the supporting roots with an axe. Wheelbarrowed it up the road, & dropped it into a pre-du hole.

It survived fine. Has blossomed already, & is all full of leaves now.

Fancy coming and doing our lilacs? . They are.....quite a bit older.

lemonjelly

Pastures - get a hedge trimmer as per Viva. Makes real light work of it.
Old owner here left an extendable tree lopper. It's magic!

I eat when hungry. Usually late. Frequently it's 8 or even later. Occasionally earlier. I don't tend to lunch til 2pm though.

I doss about in the garden all the time. I read. I sit near the patio doors so I can her my music, and I potter with the various things I'm attempting to grow!

I purchased this for outside seating:

michaels

Nikkster wrote: »

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You ar the landlord, not in a relationship, you are not to nice to be able to solve this one.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Settled on a paddling pool...

Good idea, they will love it.

lostinrates wrote: »

This is not healthy. Tut tut.

Isn't it? Why?

michaels

When we have our foreign students (Spanish and Italian) in the summer they find it weird that we eat about 6.30 and not 9.30/10 which they seem to do even from a young age...I wonder if they also still have a siesta tho....

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

This is not healthy. Tut tut.

Am I right in thinking you're not supposed to wear the same pair of shoes 2 days running?
I do have work shoes left at work I change into on arrival if this helps?

lostinrates wrote: »

Fancy coming and doing our lilacs? . They are.....quite a bit older.

I thought it would take me all day. I was amazed that within 2.5 hours it was a finished job!

A pick axe is an amazing tool!:D