Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

She's off again. Binbag lady

Some old/rusty iron railings.
A pile of broken wood that used to be something.
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, 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).

... to be continued... or not, I'm losing the will to live to be honest.

Surprised to hear you describe the show that way, I would have thought you would more see it as:

BBC 1 - Money for Nothing is about to start. A great inspiration for ideas about ways to make money that fits round your other commitments. Sarah Moore takes old items, upcycles them and sells them from her business, based in the handy barn at her home/farm. Altrincham, Manchester today

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Surprised to hear you describe the show that way, I would have thought you would more see it as:

Oh shush...

I'm caught between:
What I really think

.... what makes people want to click through ...

Unfortunately I never reach the 2nd one as my heart's with the 1st one

Warning: The next two months I'm going to be shoving stuff on that feed like there's no tomorrow as I need to get it worth more than 50p/day ... so you might like to unfollow/unlike whatever if you don't want to be bombarded between now and the end of the year.

What I really want to say is: Whoever buys this crap??

Pyxis

Well, the laws of economics say that a thing is worth whatever someone will pay for it, and that's true in most cases.

However, I think the price it goes for is a red herring, and the real gem of this prog is that it encourages upcycling and using worthless old tatt to turn it into something useful again.

If someone does the work themselves, it costs next to nothing, and so could give people ideas, or encourage them to have a go and that's the good thing about the programme.

The sale prices could just make people think twice about what they are throwing away.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh shush...

I'm caught between:
What I really think

.... what makes people want to click through ...

Unfortunately I never reach the 2nd one as my heart's with the 1st one

Warning: The next two months I'm going to be shoving stuff on that feed like there's no tomorrow as I need to get it worth more than 50p/day ... so you might like to unfollow/unlike whatever if you don't want to be bombarded between now and the end of the year.

What I really want to say is: Whoever buys this crap??

[STRIKE]Where is "that feed"? I googled the whole sentence and got the BBC site.[/STRIKE] :think:

Found you now!

GDB2222

I picked up DW's mobile phone to hand it to her and promptly dropped it in a jug of water.

I have no tools handy for the next 24 hours, so all I have done is remove the battery and shake out as much water as possible.

Should I simply leave it somewhere to dry out, or is that going to encourage salt deposits? Will drying it out work okay nearly all the time?

Once I get it home, I can dismantle it, rinse with demineralised water and dry it out. But is that actually overkill? There's a chance that I'll break it by dismantling it, so I wouldn't want to do that unless it's necessary.

Any advice gratefully received.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I picked up DW's mobile phone to hand it to her and promptly dropped it in a jug of water.

I have no tools handy for the next 24 hours, so all I have done is remove the battery and shake out as much water as possible.

Should I simply leave it somewhere to dry out, or is that going to encourage salt deposits? Will drying it out work okay nearly all the time?

Once I get it home, I can dismantle it, rinse with demineralised water and dry it out. But is that actually overkill? There's a chance that I'll break it by dismantling it, so I wouldn't want to do that unless it's necessary.

Any advice gratefully received.

I understand that burying it in raw rice for 24hrs dries it all out nicely.

ukmaggie45

ivyleaf wrote: »

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.

At least if it's helicobacter it's just antibiotics? The locum doc sounds delightful, so nice he cared enough to be extra careful, though I bet a lot of the patients were cheesed off at being kept waiting!

Fingers crossed the new med sorts out your feeling sick as well as the vertigo.

Hugs from Liverpool, Maggie

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

I understand that burying it in raw rice for 24hrs dries it all out nicely.

I've done that with memory sticks and it worked for me.:beer:

LydiaJ

Hugs to ivyleaf, maggie and any other NP with health difficulties ATM.

ivyleaf

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

At least if it's helicobacter it's just antibiotics? The locum doc sounds delightful, so nice he cared enough to be extra careful, though I bet a lot of the patients were cheesed off at being kept waiting!

Fingers crossed the new med sorts out your feeling sick as well as the vertigo.

Hugs from Liverpool, Maggie

Yes, several people gave up and left! I did think of leaving and going to Urgent Care at the hospital instead, but that would have meant starting waiting all over again and I was desperate to see a doc today.

Yes, helicobacter would mean antibiotics; I had it before, in 1999 (I know which year it was, because it was the year I got M.E., though that was a few months later! I wonder if there was a connection in my case? I'll never know.). The antibiotics were quite unpleasant - I ended up taking a week off work just to recover from the treatment! I remember my stomach hurt a lot and I had bizarre and unpleasant dreams. Oh well, at least they worked. Goodness knows how i've got it again, if indeed I have!

Thanks for the hugs, sending some to you too