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

michaels

I guess the answer is she is currently paying 1 bed money for a 2 bed and so downsizing would make her no better off. Problem is a cheap 2 bed (especially one that can not be afforded to be heated properly) is likely to be much less nice than the average.

Pyxis wrote: »

Using the passive tense there makes the procedure sound very dodgy! :rotfl:
(All sorts of sci-fi scenarii are presenting themselves! )

It is the probing that worries me....

PN couldn't you just take the wood out if you go out?

vivatifosi

I watched the landlord programme too. I don't think they came out of it badly; largely because they took people who saw themselves as good landlords to start with. Can you imagine Fergus doing this?

What would have been terrible would be if the older woman had her house refurbished and then she got evicted. What actually happened was the best possible outcome. And the son landlord came out of it particularly well.

In the HMO I don't think they addressed all of the issues but were trying. I agree that "Princess P" should have stayed too. Personally if I lived in an HMO I would be much more comfortable knowing who I lived with, especially as the rooms were not en suite. At least he listened and addressed safety issues such as the lighting and made the kitchen area more communal.

bugslet

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Congrats Bugs!

If the rules are working for you, that's great. I've gone down an alternative strategy, but it's a case of finding what's right for all of us rather than sticking to a 'one size fits all' strategy.

You posted a pic of a Portuguese custard tart, that's cruel:p.

silvercar wrote: »

Me.

It's been a long haul. I don't know how these foreign dental services operate, doing everything in a few days. here they wait until the implant has successfully bed itself into the jaw bone before working on the actual tooth part.

I've never understood that either. One of our drivers was going to have implants, took forever and then they decided his jaw didn't have enough 'bone' or some such. Lot of palaver.

PasturesNew wrote: »

As an OAP she'd get the LHA for a 1-bed, council tax paid and ~£159/week to live on.

I am not familiar with the area, so can't work out which rate it is... but I think LHA/1-bed is £675. CT let's guess at £120. So that's £795. Pension is £690/month.

So she'd get £1485/month working it out that way.

If she stayed in with the lights out she could continue where she is ... if the rent didn't go up to £1200.

£1485/month is what you'd take home if you were earning just over £21,000/year.

It is a different world and one I really cannot get my head around. It's very sad the way in which some people live.

I used to have a couple of houses, my old house when I moved in with Mr Bugs and a small terrace. My old house had OKish tenants, but they re-painted the living room and where they'd painted the windowsill the bit behind the curtains they hadn't done, so I had the old white gloss at either end with the centre painted a peculair shade of baby blue. Then they painted round a bookcase...bizarre! The terrace I rented to an older lady, who then left without telling me and with a flipping big leak in the back bedroom....great. Tenants, grrrr.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

So ... how do you make a sign?

You get an old envelope .....

Why make a sign - surely a note through the letterbox would be better?

If you're not sure if you will have actually got the gull out and retrieved the plank or not, just word the note accordingly, eg. "If there's a plank in your garden, this is why. If there isn't, then this is why but I was able to retrieve it. Either way, it was me, not burglars."

silvercar

Slightly worried that the bird's attempt to fly would be like us jumping off a tall building, knowing that the parachute cord was broken but hoping it would have mended itself. Are bird's brainless?

PN- no good turn goes unpunished.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Slightly worried that the bird's attempt to fly would be like us jumping off a tall building, knowing that the parachute cord was broken but hoping it would have mended itself. Are bird's brainless?

It could be that it does have the strength to fly, but not to take off almost vertically yet. I had a Great Tit fledgling stuck in my sideway a few weeks ago, it could "sort of" fly but not enough to clear the fence or gate and both it and a parent bird were getting more and more distressed. I picked it up and put it on the top rail of the gate, once it had got its bearing off it went happy as Larry.

Some seabirds, some of the albatrosses IIRC, can't take off from water but need an elevated point from which to launch - whilst swans don't exactly have it easy, usually needing to make quite a long run-up before getting airborne.

Pyxis

That tart...... I thought it was a Maids of Honour Tart, as invented in Tudor times and resurrected many years ago by the Maids of Honour cafe-patisserie at Kew.

I tried making some once, all the ingredients from scratch, made the curds myself, the pastry etc. It took ages and ages.

I just bought them after that!

Pyxis

Re. birdie....... I was going to say that the recent rain would give it some moisture, but looking at that garden, there's not much there to catch raindrops.

Also gulls eat more or less anything, which is why they are so prevalent in coastal towns...... they eat discarded takeaways and the like.
You could soak the bread in water....that'd give it moisture.

As it is 'public' at the back, you wouldn't need to be there for the RSPCA....... they'd be able to see for themselves by peering over the back fence, and could decide what to do then.

Cakeguts

It needs someone with a net on a long pole. RSPCA would have something like that.

ivyleaf

silvercar wrote: »

Me.

It's been a long haul. I don't know how these foreign dental services operate, doing everything in a few days. here they wait until the implant has successfully bed itself into the jaw bone before working on the actual tooth part.

My OH had four done about 18 months ago and is so glad he did, even though the cost was frightening :eek: