Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

michaels

Put a mirror up the DW asks, I normally don't like drilling into walls but the last mirror I which I thought was identical had only two holes and given this was to go on a stud wall I said 'sure'. Then the stud detector told me nothing sensible about the stud wall and as there is a shower on the other side I suspect there really may well be a very odd layout of studs plus the danger of pipes....then I got the mirror out of the box and rather than having 2 fixings it had 6 so the jobs now sees to require drilling holes for 6 rawlplugs into a different brick used to be exterior wall. I wisely decided that it was no longer a neighbour friendly job on a Sunday evening.

Light bulb moment is that I may take down the identical in every way except only 2 fixings from the inside of the cupboard door in the DDs room and put this one there as 6 very small screws into furniture board sounds much more doable leaving only two holes to be drilled into the hard wall....next weekend

Did cut the grass today, it is that time of year where you feverishly hope that each cut will be the last of the year. Our 'lawn' which is already mostly not grass now seems to be being taken over by mushrooms/toadstools.

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Even if it does play play station games which seems unlikely to me (perhaps old ones?) it isn't going to have online capability and most gaming these days seems to be about shooting things controlled by a 12 year old American kid rather than the game's AI.

Knowing what to search the web for has helped.

This is the DVD player.

Not what I thought at all. Interesting article here. Basically its a subscription service allowing you to play older games against other people without buying a console.

GDB2222

If you decided to set up a self employed business now, what would it be?

I ask this because I am utterly bored with what I have been doing for the last forty years, but I am not ready to retire.

michaels

Great, Ikea will deliver 2x£8 shelves to me for only £35

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you decided to set up a self employed business now, what would it be?

I ask this because I am utterly bored with what I have been doing for the last forty years, but I am not ready to retire.

Can you list your skills, interests and capital you are prepared to put at risk? I bet I can come up with something.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

Put a mirror up the DW asks, I normally don't like drilling into walls but the last mirror I which I thought was identical had only two holes and given this was to go on a stud wall I said 'sure'. Then the stud detector told me nothing sensible about the stud wall and as there is a shower on the other side I suspect there really may well be a very odd layout of studs plus the danger of pipes....then I got the mirror out of the box and rather than having 2 fixings it had 6 so the jobs now sees to require drilling holes for 6 rawlplugs into a different brick used to be exterior wall. I wisely decided that it was no longer a neighbour friendly job on a Sunday evening.

Light bulb moment is that I may take down the identical in every way except only 2 fixings from the inside of the cupboard door in the DDs room and put this one there as 6 very small screws into furniture board sounds much more doable leaving only two holes to be drilled into the hard wall....next weekend

Did cut the grass today, it is that time of year where you feverishly hope that each cut will be the last of the year. Our 'lawn' which is already mostly not grass now seems to be being taken over by mushrooms/toadstools.

We have recently subscribed to the Green Thumb scheme to weedkill our lawn. However we were Mse and did not buy their scarifying annual treatment. This week we had our usual contractor in to do the scarifying. the garden looks a total mess, as it had rained heavily beforehand. The moss is slowly going black and it will get worse before it gets better. Contractor due back this week to rake moss out.

Had a lovely afternoon in the garden. Oh planting bulbs, me filling pots, chimney pots and baskets with violas.. Dismantled the runner bean poles .

No sloes this year so DD went foraging whilst dog walking, going to try Aldi gin to make sloe gin. NDG sent some last year , whilst I was incapacitated so we have a supply for this year but I need to prepare for 2016.

First roast dinner in months. Very proper rib of beef and well risen (!) yorkie puds, lots of roasties and veg including runner beans. very Autumnal.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you decided to set up a self employed business now, what would it be?

I ask this because I am utterly bored with what I have been doing for the last forty years, but I am not ready to retire.

A colleague suggested to me there would be scope to offer a bespoke local pa/diary management service to busy families who earn ok but not nearly enough to have a pa. Offering to do things like organise kids activities, arrange vetted babysitters, schedule boiler service and repairs and other household works, car servicing and mots and perhaps deal hunting for things like insurance renewals and big purchases. You would obviously need to build up a strong local contacts list and possibly employ homeworkers/students to provide the contact point and some of the grunt work. Word of mouth marketing would probably be the way to go plus possibly through eastate agents for people moving into the area. Hopefully you could make money from both ends of the deal, a small fee from the customer plus a cut from each supplier.

Once you have proved the concept in your bit of outer herts you can then franchise for national coverage.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

If you decided to set up a self employed business now, what would it be?

I ask this because I am utterly bored with what I have been doing for the last forty years, but I am not ready to retire.

In a similar position, need something new but don't know what.

Obvious answer is BTL.

Seems to be a growth in de-cluttering experts, but not my scene.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

We have recently subscribed to the Green Thumb scheme to weedkill our lawn. However we were Mse and did not buy their scarifying annual treatment. This week we had our usual contractor in to do the scarifying. the garden looks a total mess, as it had rained heavily beforehand. The moss is slowly going black and it will get worse before it gets better. Contractor due back this week to rake moss out.

Had a lovely afternoon in the garden. Oh planting bulbs, me filling pots, chimney pots and baskets with violas.. Dismantled the runner bean poles .

No sloes this year so DD went foraging whilst dog walking, going to try Aldi gin to make sloe gin. NDG sent some last year , whilst I was incapacitated so we have a supply for this year but I need to prepare for 2016.

First roast dinner in months. Very proper rib of beef and well risen (!) yorkie puds, lots of roasties and veg including runner beans. very Autumnal.

We have sloes and don't use them. Really when your DH goes shooting you should get dropped off here, have some lunch with me, and we can potter, I'll pick sloes, you can hold container with good arm.

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

Can you list your skills, interests and capital you are prepared to put at risk? I bet I can come up with something.

Let me see. I like maths and science. I understand finance. I'm quite handy at DIY. Good with computers, including programming. I'm slightly autistic, but not too far on the spectrum.

Capital is more difficult to pin down. If the risk profile is right, I would try to find the capital.