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

PasturesNew

There's all sorts of things you can bin if you're leaving... while you're staying in a house you keep things "in case", like the empty egg shells I've been saving for the last month "in case I want some of those to use in the garden at some future point", or folding/re-using old plastic bags and wrappers that "might come in handy" (I have a whole bag of old bags "just in case")....

Not done much today, but that's par for my course.... but I have dibble dabbled around a bit here and there, plucking out individual items and small areas that needed clearing/sorting or shuffling.

Biggest "win" of the day was to simply see the top of a coffee table by hole-punching all the stray letters on top and opening the unopened envelopes and putting everything into a ring binder + empty the shredder (which had been full for 4 months) in order to shred more letters etc. Now just need to decide if that coffee table's going to the auction, or if I'll just unscrew the legs and shove it out of sight somewhere and keep it. It's "of no particular note or value", just a stray item bought 2nd hand for about £2.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

From sawing silver, I learnt that you don't saw, you let the saw do that. I keep a loose grip on it and concentrate on long/light strikes and the saw cuts through the wood.... as opposed to getting a firm grip and thinking "push down to cut this". Tickle the top and it finds its own way.

Funnily enough, when I did silversmithing (coincidence, Pastures!:D), I could use the fretsaw ok for cutting the metal, and then I did a clock-making course, and all the men were pinging the fretsaw wires left, right and centre, while mine went on for ages! They were being a bit too heavy-handed, you see.
I didn't feel so bad about being scared of the lathe after that!

I'd forgotten about that!

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

Funnily enough, when I did silversmithing (coincidence, Pastures!:D), I could use the fretsaw ok for cutting the metal, and then I did a clock-making course, and all the men were pinging the fretsaw wires left, right and centre, while mine went on for ages! They were being a bit too heavy-handed, you see.
I didn't feel so bad about being scared of the lathe after that!

I'd forgotten about that!

I wondered how you'd got on with the clock making. . .
Although metal is easier to saw in some ways than wood, as it's a more stable material.
And it's a piercing saw for metal. . .:p
(At least for fine work. Coping saws and fret saws are generally seen as woodwork tools)

GDB2222

Yay! Quidco have emailed me to tell me about 2p cashback.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Yay! Quidco have emailed me to tell me about 2p cashback.

Wow! :T
Don't spend it all at once!

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

In the past I have tried to saw things. Either it all goes wonky, or the saw gets stuck.

So after that happening a few times, I get very annoyed and frustrated and give up feeling totally useless and go and play the piano instead until I've calmed down.

I imagine you starting with something like "Flight of the Bumble Bee" to relieve your feelings, and then gradually working your way down to something like "Sleepy Lagoon"

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

I imagine you starting with something like "Flight of the Bumble Bee" to relieve your feelings, and then gradually working your way down to something like "Sleepy Lagoon"

Hahahahahahahha!

If it were Flight of the BumbleBee it'd probably be a very cold and sleepy bumblebee with arthritic wings! :rotfl:

More likely to be "Peanut Vendor"!

GDB2222

You have to feel sorry for poor Mr and Mrs Owen, who are due in court yet again next week.

She wants a divorce, and to get one inside 5 years, she has to prove her husband's unreasonable behaviour. Only, so far, several lower courts have decided that he hasn't been all that unreasonable. There's no doubt the marriage is over for all practical purposes - the couple live in separate houses, for example.

Normally, in these cases, the husband would take the blame and agree he'd been unreasonable, and the court would rubber-stamp the divorce. Only, in this case, the husband doesn't want to. (In my view that indicates unreasonable behaviour on his part, but it doesn't count for divorce purposes.) And the only other ground for divorce that fits the facts is 5 years separation, which the wife doesn't want to wait for. So, the ruinously expensive case is moving on to the Supreme Court.

Pyxis

Just read this description of someone on another forum............. "he has the emotional range of a watercress sandwich".
:rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl:






:think:


Maybe Mrs. Owen should use that as a description of her husband.......it might win her the case?

Pyxis

Some of the NPs might be interested in doing this next week..........

Do you remember. Housewife 49?

Well on Saturday, May 12th, it is Mass Observation Day, where each year people are invited to submit a one-day diary to be a social snapshot and kept in Archives as a historical record.


The first one was done in 1937 and has been done every year since, with each year being compared to the 1937 ones to see how our lives have changed.


I thought I'd have a go! Never realised it was done each year.

I thought I'd post this in advance of the Saturday, to give people a chance to read up on it if they want to have a go.

All the mundane things should be noted down. It's the mundane things that are interesting to future generations, after all!

Have a read about it here.......

http://www.massobs.org.uk/write-for-us/12th-may


(Ps. This is a duplicate post of one I have posted on another thread as well).



(NB...They are also looking for more regular observers, for quarterly submissions I believe, to write their thoughts on specific themes, but at the moment are only looking for males aged 16-44 who live in any part of the UK except the south-east.
Anyone can do the Mass Observation Day one-day diary, though, even school-children).