Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've not checked, but as I understand it, it's not the whole houses that were ever done. Developers just did 2-3 fittings, so they could tick some "green/eco" box.

!!!!!!... that's just ridiculous! And especially when they put them in the most difficult to reach places.

I got rid of some light fittings here that I didn't like and my dad just put in some bog standard pendants so I could hang nice lampshades instead. Piece of cake. He also tried to show my husband how to do it until he politely reminded him that he is colour blind:eek:.

Doozergirl

My electrician is coming tomorrow to change light fittings for me.

I'm having some island lights too. Yet to work out where the electricity is coming from for those

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

!!!!!!... that's just ridiculous! And especially when they put them in the most difficult to reach places.

I got rid of some light fittings here that I didn't like and my dad just put in some bog standard pendants so I could hang nice lampshades instead. Piece of cake. He also tried to show my husband how to do it until he politely reminded him that he is colour blind:eek:.

If you just change the pendant fitting, you don't need to be able to see colours. There are just two wires, and they can go either way around. Just saying ...

michaels

DG or anyone, have you ever installed electronic door locks? DD1 seems to have trouble holding on to her key and I quite fancy the idea of a fingerprint/keycode/mobile activated unlock system.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I'm pleased you enjoyed the zip line. The video scared me.

I'm on a gliding course at the moment - in between the rain showers. I find that not at all scary, despite normally absolutely hating heights. Anything more than five steps up a ladder bothers me quite a bit. Can anyone explain?

Yes, as has been suggested before, it is all a question of your perspective. When you are on the edge of something, you are vulnerable. The structure/building you are in is attached to the ground, and so your perspective is of being in a vulnerable position up high off the ground.

In a plane, even a small one, your perspective is that if being in a small room with a panoramic view. The plane isn't attached to the ground, so you don't feel vulnerable in the sense of being up high.

Unless the sides are open, as Hamish found, in which case the vulnerability returns, because with an open side, you are once again on an edge.



Had a lovely sing with the local group, which was a Klapa group, a traditional singing style here and in Croatia too. It was beautiful. Their first song moved me quite literally to tears. Then we taught them a song which we all sang together. We had our photo taken together outside in the square, and then spontaneously started to sing our 4-part song again, which got rapturous applause from all the people in the outdoor cafès around the square!

We went to a restaurant on the coast for dinner, and did some more singing with the guitarists who were entertaining us! Once again bemusing the other diners!

zagubov

I had a strange moment in the summer when we went to visit friends who'd moved out into the countryside that I presumed was unfamiliar to me. We stopped at an eatery that had a view of some water and some steep cliff-like hills and it gave me a very powerful sense of deja vu but I couldn't figure out why.

Eventually I saw a glider in the sky and the penny dropped that I knew the landscape from a totally different angle, as when I was a student about 30 years ago, I'd been gliding over the area and using thermals from the buildings to gain height as well as updraughts at the cliffs. I only knew the landscape from above back then and now I was seeing it from below. A really bizarre feeling!

vivatifosi

I've been gliding once... at Dunstable Downs. It was a great day for thermals and we stayed up much longer than anticipated. It was serene and beautiful. This from someone scared of heights, or more specifically fear of falling from height.

PasturesNew

I've never been gliding .... tried to stay quiet as you all know it's a Posh Alert!

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never been gliding .... tried to stay quiet as you all know it's a Posh Alert!

Not all that posh, they couldn't afford an engine :rotfl:

ivyleaf

Pyxis I'm glad you're having such a brilliant time :T