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

SingleSue

No storms here, overnight last night or during the day today (well yesterday now).

I heard one rumble of thunder at around 2am and that was it.

vivatifosi

Same here. I heard some thunder in the distance yesterday, which is when I stopped gardening, as was heavy duty stuff using power tools. Since then... nothing.

Quite warm overnight though. Have chucked the duvet off and back to just a cotton sheet for bedding.

SingleSue

Joe went into panic stations on Friday as one of his last assignment results hadn't come back. It was originally due back on Thursday but had been put back a day which had already upset his internal clock.

After worrying all day Saturday, he finally emailed his supervisor not expecting to get an answer until Tuesday but he responded yesterday (yes a Sunday, surprised Joe too). Apparently there had been a system glitch and Joe's work had gone walkabout in the ether but they had since found it..he was relieved to be marked at a 2.1 for it as for that module, the one assignment was worth 100% of the module mark mainly due to the size and scope of the project, for Joe it was months of planning, work and self doubt.

He had wondered why it had been more muted than usual on the group chat for his year regarding results for the assignment, turns out that some in the group had not been quite so careful in the reading of the brief or had assumed they could do it in a couple of weeks (or less) to the standard required and had failed not only the assignment but the module too.

That was very sobering for him and tempered his celebrations and I now expect him to be even more OCD about details than he was!

Jazee

SingleSue, well done to Joe.


No storms here either. We had some rain on Friday morning and since then just wall to wall sunshine. I could get used to these bank holidays.

ivyleaf

Oh Sue, thank goodness his work turned up in the end! He's done so well in his first year :T Is Josh okay?

SingleSue

Yep Josh is ok although contact initiated by him is fairly rare....he tends to only contact when he wants money or to have a moan!

He's waiting on a fair few results to come back but so far, this year is a huge improvement on last year thank goodness. He also has his accommodation sorted for his last year, he will be back in halls again as that has made a massive difference to his mental health and subsequently, his grades.

GDB2222

We have just got back from Brussels, where DS was running the Brussels 20km. 25,000 participants, and he ran right past us without him seeing us or us seeing him!

Return on Eurostar, took under two hours, but then we found out that our Underground line was shut for engineering works, and the last 4 miles took over an hour.

Lovely city, Brussels, with some beautiful parks and amazing buildings.

Jazee

Oh gosh Pastures! I do feel for you as DH has banned me from measuring anything in the house now. And I just don't do flat pack, no patience so hats off to you.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Back ... that nearly didn't go well. Manager wasn't really keen to do a returns at all as I'd built it and taken it apart again. He said "return it in the same condition", I said "And I have done, I built it very carefully and it's immaculate ..." and he gave in and sent a guy to get it from the car and check it all...and I got my refund.

My body language must've been screaming "Don't muck madam around or your b4lls will be for sale in the knobs and handles dept before you can say Computer Says No"

He really, really, didn't want to give me a returns on that, or to take it into his building to return it to where I bought it from .... not my problem ... "Ms Firm"



Well - it never occurred to me to check the depth ...first time and all that.

As for building it, I knew it wasn't "a critical piece" that needed to be relied upon with structural integrity - it was simply "put that together and push it in and it'll be a handy shelf for a couple of things I want to get off the worktop" - AND - crucially, it uses the metal fixings where you push in a round thing, then you slot a metal rod into the adjoining piece, push them together, twist the round thing with the screwdriver a half turn and it does up. No nasty screwdrivers driving screws into chipboard or anything "impossible".

So, now I'll continue to look for "a cupboard that'll fit there", but at £27 that seemed the cheapest/best solution... actual "furniture" is so expensive! I might have to think laterally again.

I reckon you were lucky to get a refund there. Well done!
Gawd help the person who comes along to rebuild that unit. Those type of fittings only seem to work properly once!

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

I reckon you were lucky to get a refund there. Well done!
Gawd help the person who comes along to rebuild that unit. Those type of fittings only seem to work properly once!

I had an Ikea table, bought in 1990, that used that system - and over the next 17 years I took it apart and rebuilt it several times as I moved. Only got rid of it in the end due to the enormous weight of it!