Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Wheezy_2

Pyxis wrote: »

There was a daft quiz on t'internet somewhere about how posh are you, and some of the questions were weird. One was "Do you have a mantlepiece".

Generali wrote: »

I think we had that on this thread.

Yeah, PN posted a poshness quiz some time ago.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3030119/How-posh-15-household-items-upper-middle-classes-revealed-quiz-10-things-never-buy.html
I scored 5.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

... And carpet in the kitchen too

Must have made mopping interesting....

WE put down cheap laminate in a rental that DWs sister was living in - the house started to get terrible damp rising up the walls in the GF, we investigated the drains, the plumbing etc etc including tearing open pipe boxing etc - in the end we realised it was because she was liberally mopping the floor every day in a good Caribbean style.

Pyxis

Generali wrote: »

We had a small jungle at the back of the garden that used to get stick insects in (that was awesome for a Pom; stick insects are posh pets or something not pests in the back yard).

:eek: I had stick insects once, years ago! I didn't know they were posh pets! They were free, 'cos they're self-perpetuating, (hermaphrodite?) or whatever the technical term for it in insects is, so it was a bit like that live yeast chain letter thing; when you had loads of babies, you just passed a few onto another [STRIKE]mug[/STRIKE]person interested in stick insects, and so they got passed on and on!
They were great! Their tank always had a nice composty smell. Once, when I had some foreign students staying as paying guests, the lid was left off, and some escaped, and we were all rounding them up, including off the dinner table. One baby had got itself into the butter dish! :rotfl:

Wheezy_2

In Belgium we call them 'wandelende tak', translated - walking twig

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Must have made mopping interesting....

WE put down cheap laminate in a rental that DWs sister was living in - the house started to get terrible damp rising up the walls in the GF, we investigated the drains, the plumbing etc etc including tearing open pipe boxing etc - in the end we realised it was because she was liberally mopping the floor every day in a good Caribbean style.

If the average temperature is 80F and the windows are open, you can get away with that. It's absolutely fine. Do exactly the same in the UK, with the windows tightly shut, and it's a problem.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

If the average temperature is 80F and the windows are open, you can get away with that. It's absolutely fine. Do exactly the same in the UK, with the windows tightly shut, and it's a problem.

I suspect Homebase £5psqm beech effect laminate would not last terribly long in the heat and humidity of the Caribbean even without mopping. In New Cross with the temperature kept in the 80s with all the windows shut and water liberally applied daily it was a recipe for disaster.

PasturesNew

No NP's got one of these:
http://www.follies.org.uk/follymaps.htm

Proper Posh!

michaels

Don't have personally...but my parents have folly tendencies

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

You need to sue her now, tell her she wasn't behaving in a "tenant-like manner" that we see on these boards so often. All tenants MUST be fully au fait with every building material, inside and outside, that is used in a building's construction and to understand the actions/reactions of water within any building structure.

It's just simple "tenant like behaviour" surely

I do hate that phrase, it does often imply that tenants do need to be fully skilled DIYers/builders and all round experts in 1001 little things just so a LL can be all pompous when they "fail" at something the LL decides is "simple/obvious"

You are right - just cos I know cheap laminate is made of cardboard with a photocopy of wood stuck on top doesn't mean everyone knows that

Pyxis

Some old follies are quite interesting!

However, one of my local garden centres sells ready-to-wear folly-type things, ranging from a bit of 'old' wall, to a little neo-gothic houselet. You would not believe the prices! :eek:






£1565 :eek:

This just an arch. Not sure if all the other bits are included. Probably not.

Edit. No it doesn't include them. It measures c. 2m wide by 2.75m at the highest point.