Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

It hasn't actually sold on ebay, just put up for sale. That costs nothing.

GDB2222

I thought anywhere in the range £0-5 for the gout stool. The Amazon book costs £3 or so, because of the postage.

michaels

Could you completely turn your house around? Fence off the path at the front and call it the back, add a conservatory on the front side knocked through from the current kitchen and make that the sitting/dining room, continue the extension back as one room and make that the kitchen part of the kitchen/diner/family room and then put a porch on the current back and make that the front door.....

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just outside and I had a horrible huge thing land just 1' from me. A big black stag beetle. It was about 3-4" long.

Envy envy! they're really rare, you're so lucky to see one! Please put your sighting on the web site for that - there's a link to it in the website you give later in your post.

Seriously, they are rare, and people are trying to get numbers for them and track where they are across UK. I'd just love to see one. Though can understand your shock too, any HUGE insect is a bit of a surprise!

Pyxis

Ooh! A stag beetle! Lucky you! Yes, they are rare! I used to see one or two a year in my garden, but haven't seen any for a few years, despite having piles of wood etc that they can hide in and stuff.

They're totally harmless, and the pincers don't pince you!:D they're just for male showing off fights!

michaels wrote: »

Is dull cool and drizzly more disappointing when the weather forecast was (and still is) for warm sunshine? I wonder how far W I would have to go to find the promised sun?

It's been cool and drizzly here in Spain, too! :rotfl:
Actually, I'm glad it hasn't been sparingly hot. I don't do hot very well!
Went for another country walk yesterday, but I only did the downhill bit, which turned out to have quite a lot of uphill bits in it!
Saw a disconcerted donkey with the loudest bray in the world! Plus a dog guarding a herd of goats, and he warned us to leave his goats alone quite voraciously! :rotfl:

vivatifosi wrote: »

We're currently waiting in for the new lawnmower to be delivered. I have no doubt whatsoever this will occur once it starts raining.
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Hmmm. That happened to me. I ordered a window vac for the dreadful condensation on the windows, and by the time it came, there was absolutely no condensation!

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GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is true. Also, even if it did sell, that could be to somebody that knows them/has bought similar items from them before, so a new seller might not have the market reach even if theirs sells.





This hasn't quoted all the posts I attempted to quote. There was also the "2 pies and a pasty" suggestion, and SC's offering.

Well ... the answer is that somebody almost nailed it.

£2, but I didn't have to beat them down to that price. The man was selling everything on his stall for £2, even stuff he'd got priced at £6, £12 and £18, but there was nothing else that caught my eye.

I'd seen one of these before, at a similar sale, and was a bit "intrigued" by it, but walked on by. So this one had to be mine for £2.

I also got a little bowl/vase thing for £2 from him.

Are you going to ebay the gout stool and make loads of dosh?

The chap who died here in sheringham left loads of stuff in our garage. His family looked it over and don't want it, so I started taking the good stuff to the charity's shop. Unfortunately, there is a very large crucifix, about 3 feet high and on a stand that he made him self. I really don't know what to do with that? It's really beautifully made.

Jazee

GDB2222 - it is possible that the crucifix was made for a local church for display at Easter only. Maybe ask at the local church if they want it.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just outside and I had a horrible huge thing land just 1' from me. A big black stag beetle. It was about 3-4" long.

It was suddenly "there". On a drain cover though. I grabbed the camera and took a couple of shakey photos - but it puffed itself up and I was shaking.... and as I stepped back it took off into the air. It's almost the size of my (small) palm!!

I'll see if the photos came out.

Horrible thing.

Luckily it flew off over the neighbour's garden ..... and scared off a seagull the size of a small dog that was sitting on their conservatory roof.

EDIT: Can't really see it, or the size, but it was a biggun! In this photo he'd started to open up his body/wings to fly off, so his back end is "open"

http://s33.postimg.org/54lext0m7/IMG_20160529_211610620.jpg

Just looked it up to get its proper name: Stag Beetle. http://blogs.nationalinsectweek.co.uk/insect_surveys/the_great_stag_hunt.htm

Saw one on our decking some years back. It was holding a neighbour's cat at bay with a display of claws. The cat looked curious but uncomfortable, probably not used to seeing such a giant insect before.

Generali

There's definitely a market for religious folk art:

https://www.etsy.com/au/search?q=crucifix%20folk%20art

I'd be inclined to offer it around the local churches first just in case the Christians were right (although as Rowan Atkinson tells us that isn't so):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DSNL1BEeY

Generali

I just heard a very good MSE point that I don't think I'd considered before.

If a nice bottle of wine (whisky for HAMISH) was £20 in one shop and £30 in another a couple of minutes down the road we'd definitely go the extra couple of minutes. If someone charged us an extra tenner for a sandwich (fourteen bloody quid for a cheese and onion sandwich!?) we'd definitely have a word. However if we're spending twenty grand on a new car then we'd not consider arguing the toss over ten quid yet in the round it is all exactly the same ten squids regardless of whether you spend it on a car, a house or a bag of crisps.

Oh and a refreshingly commonsense reaction to a woman getting noshed after swimming in croc infested waters in Northern QLD:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/police-search-for-woman-missing-after-a-suspected-crock-attack-on-cape-tribulation-road/news-story/25409a6cee22d930e618a2cec5a965cd

“You can’t legislate against human stupidity,” he said this morning. “This is a tragedy but it was avoidable. There are warning signs everywhere up there.” Mr Entsch says Thornton Beach neighbours a creek where tourism operators run croc-spotting tours, and the women would have seen the plentiful warning signs throughout the Daintree region.

“You can only get there by ferry, and there are signs there saying watch out for the bloody crocodiles,” he said, “If you go in swimming at 10 o’clock at night, you’re going to get consumed.”

I feel sorry for the woman but if you go swimming with 20ft crocs then you are quite likely to come off second best. I guess it's like crossing the A1 late at night without looking; you might come off okay but if you get squished nobody is going to be that surprised.