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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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I caught a nice programme quite by accident yesterday evening.....never noticed it before.
Curious Creatures.
It's a sort of quiz., with two teams of two......one of each is an animal specialist (e.g. Chris Packham) and the other is somebody vaguely well-known, though not by me!, with an animal connection, eg, one of them kept pigs.
Anyway, they are asked questions about different types of wildlife, and it was extremely interesting..... I learned a lot.
One question was identifying a specific animal from a sample of its poo!
They were pretty much spot on, and gave all the technical reasons......e.g., from the scent and texture you can tell what it eats; whether there's any fur in it and what colour and length the fur is; the shape of it etc. Who knew that poo could be so interesting?
Another question was putting three animals in order of stomach acidity. Again, by working out what the creature ate, and its lifestyle, they were spot on!
Really, really interesting. Basic enough for a complete layperson, but with enough 'scientific' interest to keep others engrossed.
(No prizes, just points!)
I do recommend it, for adults and children of all ages.
Have set my box to record it in future.(I just lurve spiders!)
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Well, this is going as well as "usual".
Did the first/easy bits OK.... then I had to take one piece and join it to another at right angles, but the two pieces didn't sit flat on the floor ... so I wedged something under it ... and started to affix the screws, only to discover I don't have the "oomph" to achieve that and the screws are "stuck" just a little way in. I was "holding" the piece by wedging two ends against my knees, using my left hand to hold the second piece at right angles and using my right hand to turn the screwdriver - which, upon inspection, was at an angle so the screws weren't going in straight, but at an angle.
So out came the cordless screwdriver... which, of course, needs recharging.
While that's going on, I double-checked the destructions/leaflet as I don't really believe it - then found I was trying to fit two wrong pieces together.... so now I've a wrong piece, 1/4 joined to a wrong piece, where I can't disassemble those until the screwdriver's charged up.
31 minutes (active building time) into the build. 1 hour the destructions said, I think my active building time will be closer to 3 hours at this rate... it looks easy, then you realise ... it's not as there are so many similar looking "mirror pieces" that you have to check/double check are the right way up, adjoining to the correct piece, which is the right way up and right way round ....
*sighs* ... furniture's over-rated.0 -
Anything under 6 hours is a win!
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Lovely part of the country round there.
To be frank, I don't remember it ever being this crowded.
I've had a couple of recent holidays in that area.
Wells-next-the-sea is a lovely town. Like towns used to be 50 years ago.
I can recommend the trips from Blakeney to see the seals.
If I lived somewhere that people were a nuisance, then if at all possible I'd move.
We have brought forward a move in the past because of neighbours with kids/dogs who were being a nuisance.
To be fair they did tone it down after I confronted them about it.
Although there was still the "They've done nothing wrong" attitude.
It was actually getting out of control!0 -
...still the "They've done nothing wrong" attitude.
It was actually getting out of control!
That's the trouble, they live in their own bubble... and can't see the full picture.
I always "grrr" on places like online forums where I'm reading something about, say, a holiday park and people are posting to say "Oh I DO want a really quiet site... it'll be nice for the boys to be able to play football outside" ... and I think "!!!!!! are you thinking? The reason places are quiet is because NOBODY's playing football".
Or, on a recent house finding programme. Couple showed a house and they didn't even get onto the drive before they were eyeing up the cul-de-sac turning circle and saying "ah, it's lovely and quiet - the kids can all play out here (in the street)" - !!!!!!'s wrong with the garden of the house you're going to buy??
So often people want to take something, then destroy it!
Screwdriver update: 1½ hours of charging and the light's still red!0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »That's the trouble, they live in their own bubble... and can't see the full picture.
I always "grrr" on places like online forums where I'm reading something about, say, a holiday park and people are posting to say "Oh I DO want a really quiet site... it'll be nice for the boys to be able to play football outside" ... and I think "!!!!!! are you thinking? The reason places are quiet is because NOBODY's playing football".
Or, on a recent house finding programme. Couple showed a house and they didn't even get onto the drive before they were eyeing up the cul-de-sac turning circle and saying "ah, it's lovely and quiet - the kids can all play out here (in the street)" - !!!!!!'s wrong with the garden of the house you're going to buy??
So often people want to take something, then destroy it!
Screwdriver update: 1½ hours of charging and the light's still red!
And that's the exact problem. They don't see anything they do as being "wrong"
I try to think about what I'm doing to p other people off (within reason). I try to be fair. If they say they don't like something I'm doing I try to sort it out properly with them.
We all sometimes do stuff that others don't like.
It's a matter of degree.
Some people don't do "reasonable" though.0 -
2½ hours for the screwdriver to show the green light ... but now I've lost my Mojo ...so I think that's it for the big build today.
I claim my rights to "worker tea break" .... and "going home early because nobody's watching"
Just thought I'd remove the screws.... but the screw head's not the right size - and it's jammed in, I can't get it out. So now having to read the screwdriver instructions to see if I was supposed to put it in there like that... and how to get it out.
Oh that was easy, it was a push/pull action, I was twisting
Screw head now popped out of the handset.
Having some problems here... the screws don't drill into the chipboard... big screws... destructions said you need a screwdriver and I've using a cordless one for extra "oomph" but they simply don't have the power to get in there!
I thought I'd give it a go just with the one piece and one screw - not at an angle while trying to hold two pieces together at right angles and "hope" the screw and hole were lined up ...and I can clearly see that the screw simply makes no headway.
Ah, I see why ... hadn't spotted that bit - it's not a screw at all, it needs a hex key, which they provide. Doh.
Ah ... except... where did I put that? It should be with all the other bags/bits/bobs.... I know I've seen it ... it's with the tie you're supposed to fix the unit to the wall with ... which I "discarded" by putting it down away from the rest of the bits/bobs.... it won't be far.
Found it: I'd used two plastic dishes ... and then popped one on top of the other when "tidying"...
I'm on a roll now .... I appear to have, miraculously, joined together three parts all correctly. It was tricky trying to fathom out the orientations/pieces/fitments .... but 3 pieces down .... but these first three set in my mind what the heck I'm doing and where the design's going, so I'm started to get it sussed.
Time for a coffee break!
1 hour of "actual building time" .... for the first three pieces .... destructions said I should be finished by now.
And.... we're really on a roll now. Got most of it built and it's standing up - because you stand it upright to slide the backs in before you do the top/bottom and 2nd side... got one door on, two more to go.
75 minutes and counting.
93 minutes .... and it's nearly there, so time for a little break. Just need to put the final door in, top on ... little feet, then lift it up!0 -
Well done, you did say Tuesday
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Well done, you did say Tuesday
Yes - and, just in case, I didn't state WHICH Tuesday
It's beginning to look like "a normal person's house" round here now!
I removed the (too big) coffee table that this new unit was to replace... and took it apart, so that's out of my line of sight now.0
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