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

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  • PasturesNew
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Hot flushes?

    I doubt it! I was just over hot from having on a big cardigan and a fleece :)

    No matter what the media will have you think, not everybody has flushes.
  • SingleSue
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    edited 16 March 2018 at 10:16AM
    Josh has been uploading vocal/acoustic guitar covers recently, initially on Facebook but now also on his YouTube channel.

    If you want to take a look here are some handy links.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-vG-AXL9l4 Linkin Park - One more light
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6wBjvlVqYo Jason Mraz - I won't give up
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THsQ3lZqTNs Post Malone - I fall apart
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVQCRvX3OsU Rag n' Bone Man - Human
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Pyxis
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    Wow! Good voice! :T

    Never heard of those songs/singers, so that was interesting! :D

    I see he plays drums as well!
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).

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  • PasturesNew
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    edited 16 March 2018 at 4:16PM
    You know sometimes you'll do a bad job as you don't have the time/motivation/tools to do "a proper job", and you're not 100% sure how it should be done .... so you do it anyway, expecting it to fail shortly - and in the meantime you can gather tools, motivation etc to go and do it "a bit more properly" next time.

    Just tried to fit two of these, although mine aren't as big/high as those, mine are about 30cm high and 1.2m long.
    https://ukgardenproducts.co.uk/picket-fencing

    Dug out holes, put them in, backfilled, trod down.... but I think I should've dug 2" further down. I did it with a tiny little hand hoe, more akin to container faffing than trying to dig actual holes.

    I bet the first big wind they'll be over :)

    I eventually need to measure a gap, cut a chunk out of the middle of another of those, then rejoin the two ends and fit that where the gap is. There was only 1.2m lengths and my length to fill on one side was 1.2m (handy!) and the other side is 1.75m... so I've just butted them up to the path for now....

    I could additionally do with a big hammer and lump of wood to hammer them down....
  • chris_m
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    I eventually need to measure a gap, cut a chunk out of the middle of another of those, then rejoin the two ends and fit that where the gap is.

    I take it that your screwdriver materialised then?
    I could additionally do with a big hammer and lump of wood to hammer them down....
    TBH, that's what I'd have used in the first place, rather than digging holes for them. They'd be more steady that way.
    However, since you need to pull them up again to do the extending they should be easier to get up again when you need.

    Can you alter the position when you refit them? If so, then I'd recommend the hammer and lump of wood for the permanent fitting.

    You can't beat a good whack with a Brummagem Screwdriver :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • PasturesNew
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    edited 16 March 2018 at 5:29PM
    chris_m wrote: »
    I take it that your screwdriver materialised then?
    No, I bought a tube of wood glue to do the screwdriver job .... as I'll be joining two ends of wood I expect to use that again as the original purpose I used the wood glue for has really held up well :)

    I need to get the first fence fixed to my satisfaction, then measure the gap, then work out how much to saw out of the middle of the panel (as the stakes are at either end, you have to cut out the middle and rejoin the two ends. So I will do that once I'm happy I have the exact gap measurement and I'm in the mood for a bit of sawing/gluing.
    chris_m wrote: »
    TBH, that's what I'd have used in the first place, rather than digging holes for them. They'd be more steady that way.
    However, since you need to pull them up again to do the extending they should be easier to get up again when you need.

    Can you alter the position when you refit them? If so, then I'd recommend the hammer and lump of wood for the permanent fitting.

    You can't beat a good whack with a Brummagem Screwdriver :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    I dug holes as that's how I saw the fencing men fit posts. They used a flat narrow spade.... So I thought "ah, dig a much bigger hole than you need, drop the stake into it, backfill and tread hard.... they used concrete of course, which I did consider, but it's tricky to source it locally/cheaply in a tiny quantity ... that'd be Plan C.

    As it is at the moment they'd just pull out with a tug. The only thing really holding them in is compacted earth where I trod my little feet.... odd thing with holes... you remove earth, you fill some of the hole with something, you put the earth back in ... and you don't seem to have as much as you started with.

    I watched a neighbour last year fail to affix a similar fence, but he wasn't doing it as well as me - and he didn't actually have earth... but some concrete bits. He was fitting it for the same reason I am, to try to prevent kids from thinking they can run all over the place - they keep running over his garden just because he doesn't have a fence... mind you, when he put his up they just jumped over it ... running past his living room window just 6" from his glass.
  • PasturesNew
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    Another story ... in the shop there was a woman who was taking these panels off the hooks in the shop so I waited behind her and said "I'm after some of those" .... and it turned out she's also about 1/4 mile from here and has an open plan garden with kids running over it trampling her plants.

    It's a growing problem with open plan!! If they can't see boundaries, they just think they can go where they like/do what they like, steal what they like, trash what they like.

    Open plan "looks nice" in the plush offices on the pretty diagrams, but living with it's a different matter! Everybody likes to know what's theirs and what's not ....
  • chris_m
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    No, I bought a tube of wood glue to do the screwdriver job

    Oooh, the extravagance :p
    I dug holes as that's how I saw the fencing men fit posts. They used a flat narrow spade.
    True - but they aren't putting in something that's only about 18" high with 6" spikes on the bottom. Trust me, these'll be far more secure hammered into undisturbed ground than they'll ever be in dug and refilled holes, no matter how hard you try and tamp down the infill.
    odd thing with holes... you remove earth, you fill some of the hole with something, you put the earth back in ... and you don't seem to have as much as you started with.
    That's because the soil wasn't compressed as much before you took it out as it is after you've put it back.

    It's the complete opposite to when I've stripped down old cameras or similar to fix them. One I did worked, as far as I could tell, perfectly - but I had two screws and a spring left over???
  • Jackmydad
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    Another story ... in the shop there was a woman who was taking these panels off the hooks in the shop so I waited behind her and said "I'm after some of those" .... and it turned out she's also about 1/4 mile from here and has an open plan garden with kids running over it trampling her plants.

    It's a growing problem with open plan!! If they can't see boundaries, they just think they can go where they like/do what they like, steal what they like, trash what they like.

    Open plan "looks nice" in the plush offices on the pretty diagrams, but living with it's a different matter! Everybody likes to know what's theirs and what's not ....

    That goes for a lot of the stuff that gets built that's "award winning" "statement" et al

    The people who design 'em and own the companies that build 'em live in nice homes in the country somewhere.

    Like Chris-m I'd have just knocked those fence units in with a block of wood and a hammer.
    Glue's not much use for this sort of thing outside. Screws are the answer.
  • chris_m
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    It's a growing problem with open plan!! If they can't see boundaries, they just think they can go where they like/do what they like, steal what they like, trash what they like.

    Open plan "looks nice" in the plush offices on the pretty diagrams, but living with it's a different matter! Everybody likes to know what's theirs and what's not ....

    Only problem with fencing it off is that you have to watch out for restrictive covenants that the developers [STRIKE]sneak[/STRIKE] put in to ensure that it stays open plan :(

    Of course, they only really require it to remain open plan until they've sold all the properties. After that it's really no skin off their nose, but they usually don't bother to put a time limit on the covenants.
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