Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Re. the upcycled stuff, I did think that making a lamp out of the old mower blades was very clever, and produced an item that would look great in a loft/warehouse apartment.


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PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

produced an item that would look great in a loft/warehouse apartment.

But, of the six people who actually live in one, who'd want it?

Pyxis wrote: »

http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag314/ohforgoodnesssake/8a5b2ef7a60c4271e88d6d753cb91d4e_zpsuen3tsdi.jpg

How much?

ivyleaf

Oh Maggie, I'm so sorry about your car I hope you are going to appeal? I have particular empathy with you too atm because I've been having very similar-sounding issues with my tummy this past few days as you've had, or are still having. I'm currently taking medication for vertigo, which is also meant to help with the nausea that often accompanies it, but although it's certainly helping the vertigo it's not doing much for the nausea, so I know it's partly due to something else, especially as I also have pain and bloating. It couldn't have happened at a worse time, as I'm in hospital for an investigative procedure (to do with something else) on Friday as well.

I'm seeing a GP this morning and i expect will be referred for a gastroscopy - it'll be the first time I'll be sort of glad to have one, IYSWIM, but I hope they can give me something to make me feel better in the meantime _pale_

bugslet

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

OH took my Motability car back to the dealership today.

Yesterday we did a last day out in it, to Pickerings Pasture, a nature reserve/park on the banks of the Mersey. It was a truly glorious afternoon, I took lots of photos.

Pickerings Pasture

Know it well, in fact if it was bit less hazy, you could pretty much see my house across the river.

Sorry to hear about your car, I hope it goes to appeal and you get it back.

Good luck at the docs Ivyleaf.

Any time, both spare and unspare, seems to be spent saying, 'Lola, no' or 'Lola, stop chewing my trainers/chair/other dog':D

Pyxis

It's Ivy at the docs, not me! :cool:

ukmaggie45

ivyleaf wrote: »

Oh Maggie, I'm so sorry about your car I hope you are going to appeal? I have particular empathy with you too atm because I've been having very similar-sounding issues with my tummy this past few days as you've had, or are still having. I'm currently taking medication for vertigo, which is also meant to help with the nausea that often accompanies it, but although it's certainly helping the vertigo it's not doing much for the nausea, so I know it's partly due to something else, especially as I also have pain and bloating. It couldn't have happened at a worse time, as I'm in hospital for an investigative procedure (to do with something else) on Friday as well.

I'm seeing a GP this morning and i expect will be referred for a gastroscopy - it'll be the first time I'll be sort of glad to have one, IYSWIM, but I hope they can give me something to make me feel better in the meantime _pale_

Oh dear, sorry you're having gut problems too. Yours are more upper while mine are lower down! Hope the GP visit goes OK and they can offer you some help.

We cancelled my colonography which was supposed to be on Friday as it was ridiculously early - 8.50am! And seeing as the shuttle bus from the car park to the hospital doesn't start till 8.45 it was just too difficult. Plus we've been trying to contact the Nurse Practitioner since Monday, OH got a call back yesterday afternoon but he was just getting off the bus on way back from car drop off, so it was too noisy for him to hear! We still have some questions that we need to ask before I feel safe to take the medicine they sent in the post with the appointment.

bugslet wrote: »

Know it well, in fact if it was bit less hazy, you could pretty much see my house across the river.

Sorry to hear about your car, I hope it goes to appeal and you get it back.

Good luck at the docs Pyxis.

Any time, both spare and unspare, seems to be spent saying, 'Lola, no' or 'Lola, stop chewing my trainers/chair/other dog':D

Thanks bugslet, my Mandatory Reconsideration letter has gone in, and yesterday OH got phone call from my Counsellor to say Atos have been in touch with her and want her to write a report on me! Not sure whether to be cautiously hopeful or really worried! :rotfl:

It's years since we last went to Pickerings Pasture, I think mainly because a lot of the time I just don't feel well enough to be bothered. But really wanted to mark saying goodbye to my car with something memorable. It's a great place for butterflies in the summer - went with my daughter about 10 years ago and a chap told us all about a number of the species he'd seen there - connected to Lpool University. I wish I'd made notes at the time as he was really interesting.

bugslet

Pyxis wrote: »

It's Ivy at the docs, not me! :cool:

Ooops, I have edited.

But if ever you go to the docs, consider some good wishes have been banked!

ivyleaf

Thanks, bugslet I waited 2 hours to see a locum - it was his first day there and he was young, I suspect pretty newly-qualified as a GP. This meant he was being very careful and kept checking to make sure he was doing/saying the right thing, so every patient was in there for about half an hour. He thinks I may have helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes ulcers), so I have to come off my usual acid-suppressant medicine and use a different one for two weeks, then provide a stool sample.
I've been tested twice for this in the past, once with a positive result, and I'm sure it was done by a blood test both times. Perhaps they've found stool samples are more accurate, or perhaps they're just cheaper!

He was surprised that the medicine I've been prescribed for the vertigo I've currently got wasn't also helping with the nausea, but gave me a different one to try. I took one and promptly fell asleep, but ate 2 biscuits when I woke up. I wouldn't say i actually feel hungry, but less un-hungry IYKWIM

ETA Just Googled and discovered that doing a blood test for this bug can give a false positive result after the infection's actually cleared, that's interesting.

Pyxis

bugslet wrote: »

Ooops, I have edited.

But if ever you go to the docs, consider some good wishes have been banked!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thankee kindly, missus! (I nearly said 'sir', hahahahahahahahahah! )

PasturesNew

She's off again. Binbag lady

Some old/rusty iron railings.
A pile of broken wood that used to be a cupboard and some hooks on a strip of wood.
Two common kitchen stools.

She's doing the stools. She's asking a chap to cut them in half for her and she's bought two slices of ash wood. She's now sanding down. Then she's rubbing it with furniture polish from a tin. Two side tables: stools cut in two to provide the end supports, new wooden beam the width of the tables.
Materials £30. Carpenter bill to come.
Allie & Nicky from Such & Such, online retailers. They bought them "Just what we look for - individual pieces with a story behind them". Now she's back with the profits.
Materials/labour £70. Sold them for £190. £120 profit - previous owner said "that's ridiculous!"

Rusty old iron railings: Daniel Heath, maker/designer, with a creepy hipster beard. He's turning the railings into a table (allegedly). He will make a bracket to hold it together from Jesmonite (which is apparently so expensive he has to make a wooden prototype).
Wrought iron + Jesmonite top. He made a console table. Railings have kept their rusty appearance. "Simple, cool looking top". They both thought it was elegant. I think it looks like the sort of thing that needs to buried in the shed, under clutter. It should hold lamps .... more than that in weight is pushing it a bit.
Materials/labour £600. She put it on the internet, still for sale, not sold yet.
Profit £0 yet.

Norman and the broken cupboard - he put it back together and removed the door fronts and put chicken wire in. He's left it quite shabby looking ... er "rustic" and they call it a kitchen cupboard.
Materials/labour £175. "I think that's going to be an easy sale" she said to him. The Old Cinema, vintage/retro store in London bought it.
Sold for £275. Profit £100

EDIT:
Stools, she sold them for £190. One is still for sale on the website of the company that bought them. £130. http://shop.suchandsuch.co/collections/furniture/products/reclaimed-wood-side-table
The other one was priced at £160 and is marked as sold. http://shop.suchandsuch.co/collections/furniture/products/reclaimed-wood-side-table-oak

But let's face it, price is immaterial - it's the value of the "free advertising" on the BBC that means they can write off the cost they paid.