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

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

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 - with fences and/or walls all around their gardens.

You missed one bit out :rotfl:

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Oooh, the extravagance

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.

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???

Remind me to never ask you to fix a camera for me.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

Glue's not much use for this sort of thing outside. Screws are the answer.

Or, if she still can't find the screwdriver (the vanishing screwdriver is a longstanding thing on here) but needs to buy a hammer anyway, nails would do as good a job for this purpose as screws. As you say, better than just glue.

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

You missed one bit out :rotfl:

:rotfl:
Yes usually walls in that "warm" brick, that matches the walls of the manor house. . .

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Or, if she still can't find the screwdriver (the vanishing screwdriver is a longstanding thing on here) but needs to buy a hammer anyway, nails would do as good a job for this purpose as screws. As you say, better than just glue.

Never, ever use a screw where a something nail will do. . .
Or is that the other way around??

Only snag about using nails (as you know) is that you need something solid to knock them into.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

:rotfl:
Yes usually walls in that "warm" brick, that matches the walls of the manor house. . .

Or completely contrasts the walls around the other posh gaff next door (*) :rotfl:


(*) where "next door" actually means half a mile away, of course

Jackmydad

chris_m wrote: »

Or completely contrasts the walls around the other posh gaff next door (*) :rotfl:


(*) where "next door" actually means half a mile away, of course

I used to be good friends with the son of a successful local architect, so I used to go to their house sometimes.
Big modern house as you might expect. In a quiet spot on the edge of the countryside. No neighbours. Walls around a large garden.
I haven't been back there for 40 years or so, but I'll bet there are no housing estates near there.

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

Wow! Good voice! :T

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

I see he plays drums as well!

He got his place at uni on the strength of his drumming rather than his voice. He's always been known as a drummer despite the very first thing he did musically was win a singing competition (and a free holiday for us at the same time) when he was 9 or 10.

Unfortunately being known as the drummer meant he was only given drumming opportunities at school and in his initial years at uni although he did break out a little in his last year of 6th form by disobeying his music teacher and entering a chamber concert under a pseudonym- by the time they worked it out it was too late.

Link to that performance is https://youtu.be/FvLZyOUIDVw

After that he did a music tour in Spain with the school doing a combination of singing and drumming.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

He got his place at uni on the strength of his drumming rather than his voice. He's always been known as a drummer despite the very first thing he did musically was win a singing competition (and a free holiday for us at the same time) when he was 9 or 10.

Unfortunately being known as the drummer meant he was only given drumming opportunities at school and in his initial years at uni although he did break out a little in his last year of 6th form by disobeying his music teacher and entering a chamber concert under a pseudonym- by the time they worked it out it was too late.

Link to that performance is https://youtu.be/FvLZyOUIDVw

After that he did a music tour in Spain with the school doing a combination of singing and drumming.

Why on earth would they object to him playing in a chamber concert?

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

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 ....

Several years ago, on a long journey in the car, I listened to a fascinating programme on radio 4 by a woman who was a psychologist or sociologist or something, who'd done research into the way people carve out niches for themselves in shared spaces and personalise them. She'd done a lot about what people do with their desks at work (the things in the desks and on top of them and on the walls around them, if any) to make them their own space, and some other work on the way that theoretically "shared spaces" usually end up with "everybody knowing" that this bit belongs to those people, while these other people always sit over there etc.

I think open plan is also very far from ideal on the inside of the house once the children get beyond the "need to have an eye on them every minute they're awake" stage, but I know other people feel differently.