Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

Downstairs we have 16 dining chairs, 4 barstools, 2x 4 seater and 2 x 3 seater sofas...and an office chair and a piano stool - still couldn't seat 44 unless we got the garden furniture and put it in the garage.....

Downstairs I have 4 dining chairs (2 of which are broken), a 3 seater sofa and an armchair.

vivatifosi

Sorry to hear about your year Mas. Could you come back to Inner Herts for a bit to rebuild things and see where it goes, or is that not the right way forward? Sorry if that's an intrusive question, ignore or pm if you prefer.

I hope 2017 is much better.

michaels

Masomnia wrote: »

Thanks! A new job is essential for my well being, financially and mentally, relationship not so much. So as long as I can sort the job out... Not desperate for a relationship really! If I meet the right person then yes.

I don't think you have ever said how numerate your background is but if the answer is that it is then you should think about PMing me re the possibility of contract work - might not be the most exciting or career enhancing but money is money......

Masomnia

Thanks both I'll reply properly tomorrow!

PasturesNew

I've seen it all now!

Bloke on the telly trying to sell ice to top hotels in London. He's got a sample. The hotels can charge £100 for the ice, in a measure of whisky - often costing more than the drink itself.

The ice hasn't been hand-picked by virgins in a forest ... no, this is glacial ice picked by hand by only four men who can only get to the site using a helicopter.

Who ... on earth .... requires THIS level of utter b0ll0x in their lives????

EDIT: Update, with more nonsense... ice sculptors had made four ice wheels to fit a car, for a filming session. Slow motion, car driving towards/past a fixed camera. One wheel rolled off... and they said "At £10,000 for each wheel ... they'd not be making another and filming would have to continue from one side only where you couldn't see the missing wheel. "

How much? It's a bit of ice, in the shape of a wheel. It can't possibly cost £10k to make that?

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

... unless we got the garden furniture and put it in the garage.....

Prior to here, that's how I was living.... a converted garage and two folding garden chairs

Right now I've got:
A 3-seater settee
A 1-seater chair

There's a folding garden lounger and a folding garden chair.

After that ... I've got a couple of old sofa cushions that could go on the floor.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I don't think you have ever said how numerate your background is but if the answer is that it is then you should think about PMing me re the possibility of contract work - might not be the most exciting or career enhancing but money is money......

I've got an O Level in Maths.

Gis a job

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

That's surely got to be a posh alert

Only if they can all go around the same table!

Otherwise they could just be random old dining chairs picked up from car boots/secondhand shops and spread around different rooms.

Like wot mine are!

Just done a recce......4 matching vintage dining chairs, all in need of repair, 2 swivel office chairs, 3 random old dining chairs from junk shops, now in the loft, 4 old church chairs, also in loft, in need of restoration (with broken rush seats and those prayer-book holder things on the back), a duet piano stool, and a single piano stool. Four metal stools from IKEA; a bit small for ample bottoms, though.

Three wooden garden chairs that have been in the garden for several years. Sit on them at your peril.

An Edwardian 2-seater sofa, lumpy, but it was the very first sofa I was ever able to buy; a 20-year old reclining armchair from IKEA that I thought would only last 5 years; a leather reclining armchair bought to replace the IKEA one, but isn't as comfortable; a 1930s deco armchair given to me years ago and eventually re-upholstered; a Victorian wing armchair which was my special chair, (because it has the contoured lumbar support), until the bottom started to drop out of it and I still haven't got round to having it re-upholstered as it will be so expensive but I don't want to get rid of it - however I wouldn't sit on it if I were you as it's so lumpy and anyway it's got stuff piled on it, as have all but one of the other chairs.

My house isn't very welcoming.





Edit...Oh....and a dressing-table stool. I forgot about that as I use it as a bedside table for my dictionaries and crosswords!

chris_m

SingleSue wrote: »

Downstairs I have 4 dining chairs (2 of which are broken), a 3 seater sofa and an armchair.

Snap (except for the broken ones)
I do have an armchair in my den as well - but it's staying there, I'm not removing the banisters again to drag it downstairs.
IF I should find myself short of chairs, I've got six plastic ones out in the garden.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've seen it all now!
Bloke on the telly trying to sell ice to top hotels in London. He's got a sample. The hotels can charge £100 for the ice, in a measure of whisky - often costing more than the drink itself.
The ice hasn't been hand-picked by virgins in a forest ... no, this is glacial ice picked by hand by only four men who can only get to the site using a helicopter.
Who ... on earth .... requires THIS level of utter b0ll0x in their lives????

Good heavens, that is ridiculous.

It's as bad as camera extension tubes - just tubes which go between the lens and the camera body for close-up work, there's no optics in them or anything. Canon make two different length tubes, each of which costs more than a third-party set of three lengths.
We usually joke that the Canon ones are filled with air harvested by geishas on one specific day a year from a specific height up Mount Fuji, whilst the cheaper (but perfectly servicable ones) got the air from just downwind of Tokyo sewage works