The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

My dead fridge at 13 years old is rated A, 520 KWh per year. Net capacity is 532l.

New model I am looking at is rated A+, 433 Wh per year. capacity 511l. The slightly larger capacity at 611l is A+, 450KWh. or an A++ at 389 kWh.

Ours is 620l and a rated, no info on annual consumption.

GDB2222

vivatifosi wrote: »

How funny. My dad's family came from Burnham Market. I'll have to recheck my tree for links to poisoners.

Talking of poisoners, when my children were at primary school, it was customary to invite the whole class to birthday parties. One lot of parents decided to make home-made ice cream, and duly poisoned two entire classes - they did two birthday parties on the same day.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Talking of poisoners, when my children were at primary school, it was customary to invite the whole class to birthday parties. One lot of parents decided to make home-made ice cream, and duly poisoned two entire classes - they did two birthday parties on the same day.

In my degree course we were taught about an outbreak of food poisoning in a seaside town, where all the victims had eaten ice cream (and a few had only eaten ice cream0.

Investigators inspected the hygiene of the ice cream man's factory, its staff and the van and everything on it and they were spotless, clean as a whistle. Everybody was baffled.

Until one person tried to check the guy's route to see if there was an unknown source of contamination. They spotted the ice cream man stopping outside his house and his wife ran out with a huge spoon and scooped out some ice cream for their dessert in the evening. She was the Typhoid Mary of the incident and the scoop was throbbing with germs.:eek:

vivatifosi

Re the Norfolk Poisoners. I've gone back through my family tree. No links to any of the poisoners or their victims. However some ancestors were definitely living in the village at the time, so they would undoubtedly have had an opinion about it. Thanks for the link PN.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

... they would undoubtedly have had an opinion about it. Thanks for the link PN.

They could've been their best mate

I like newspaper court appearances as you find out who their mates were: ABC, DEF & XYZ were up to no good when they stole a horse.

Further back, tithe maps can show who lived near who, but harder to get hold of without a physical attendance at a local records office, during their short hours of opening.

GDB2222

Berkshire garage door supplier ....

A certain amount of desperation involved in this, even if it's a bot. Do people really pay for this sort of random spamming, as it cannot possibly be very effective?

PasturesNew

Still no news.

One that came onto the market on 27 July has just dropped £325k down to £310k.

Would need a full cosmetic makeover as it's got gran's carpets and curtains from 1968-1985, lots of ancient pine cladding and some bizarre features .... I could live with that so long as it's water tight and safe.

I'll phone to view that in the morning. It'll probably sell quickly though, lots of "makeover/splash a bit of paint" merchants around will snaffle it up.

I know it's too pricey, too large for me, too much work, too dated... but it'll get me out of the house for a couple of hours

Only other one would be something modern, but 4 beds, 1 en-suite and 1 bathroom, over 3 storeys. S-facing garden, right area, has a good garage.... but I don't really want two storeys, never mind three. £305k and it's sitting there...

PasturesNew

You see some strange stuff, looking at houses. Just looked at one that's dropped £10k overnight.

May 2017: For sale, full length garden down to adjoining road, asking £290k. Completed in September at £285k. Perfectly decent/livable.

April 2019, house with a quick makeover and garden barely existing as most has gone for a new plot - and it went back on at £330k, now £320k !



So that's a "free plot" right there, snatched.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Only other one would be something modern, but 4 beds, 1 en-suite and 1 bathroom, over 3 storeys. S-facing garden, right area, has a good garage.... but I don't really want two storeys, never mind three. £305k and it's sitting there...

Are you going to take a look at it?

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Are you going to take a look at it?

I've been wondering that for over 2 months. I think not.

If it were a 2 storey house I'd have wanted it. Although it's a perfectly good little house, it's too much.... and so it's best I leave it I think.

I've looked at it time and time and time again.... I just can't see me being comfortable in a house with so many rooms, so far up in the sky, to be responsible for

I'd "live" in the living room and kitchen and use the loo on the ground floor.... two whole storeys would sit, unused, above me... except for peeking/noseying out of the windows and one for "all my stuff".