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

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, I

Yes, thanks, I think I replied to you ... it was the 50/50 message in my box, so I deleted something to be able to send you a reply, but when I replied it said I had to free up space... so I thought "pfft, I just did!"...

I wasn't sure if it was saying it'd not sent and I needed to delete stuff.... or if it sent it and was just advising me that my box was full and so that's it now until I delete stuff.

I haven't received it.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I haven't received it.

Oh well.... the short reply was similar to: Thanks, but I've got rid of most of it now ... and any bits/bobs to go from now on are inconsequential cheap things nobody'd want (not to mention the fact it's a 16 mile round trip and they'd expect them to be dropped off!)

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh well.... the short reply was similar to: Thanks, but I've got rid of most of it now ... and any bits/bobs to go from now on are inconsequential cheap things nobody'd want (not to mention the fact it's a 16 mile round trip and they'd expect them to be dropped off!)

No, no! If they want it for free, they come and get it!

I've never had to deliver anything I've been giving away, (and neither would I, unless it were an exceptional circumstance).

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm perpetually moving things from A to B, then to C, then back to A.... just when you think it's "OK for now" along comes another little task that has you moving things again

Have you lost the screwdriver again yet?
:p:p

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Have you lost the screwdriver again yet?
:p:p

No, since I took apart some shelves and re-used them to organise under the stairs....the screwdriver and drill and bit sets have a place to live and they're all there, together, stacked on a shelf

Tidiness is simply having enough of the right sort of places to put everything.

Every time I pass my stepladder, which is in the hallway at the bottom of the stairs, I think "I've no idea where you're going"... I guess the shed would be a proper place, but I dislike things being in the shed due to .... SPIDERS! Although it's on the list to empty the shed, sweep it all out (including webs) ... and tidy it.

I've just carried all that fabric wardrobe out to the car.... so it can be part of the next tip run. It's half an Ikea blue bag in size. I've two long screws leftover from that... so they'll go in the "toolbox" bought for £1 from £land ... which is also under the stairs with the screwdriver and drill etc.

PasturesNew

S0ddin' grass needs cutting..... last did it 12 days ago.... it could go longer, but I've other things to do that would coincide with that, so it's Tue-Thu this week or Tue-Thu next week (weather and CBA dependent).

Grass cutting also means, of course, a trip to the tip....

I'll leave it for now ... bet it rains once I fancy doing it though.

EDIT 11.13: Finally got the bed done/stable.... 3 boxes of one sort, 1 box of another sort, 2 empty boxes on their side to create the "extra width" ... duvet over, job's a good 'un.

PasturesNew

It's muggy here, sweating like a pig

Just decided that the "fake headboard" I'd got, where I'd slid an unwanted coffee table top behind the pillow end "looked rubbish/ridiculous" so it was time for the tip for that.... so I took it and its legs out to the car.... It was old/cost me about £2 and was never "a good fit" for whatever I used it for (although it was better than what it replaced).... so, for £2, it's done its job for 4 years. One of the legs is a bit split too.

So that's one more item decluttered!

Getting there.... give me a call in 2021 to see how I'm getting on

Too muggy to think about cutting the lawn, so I'll just pop to the tip now to offload what I've got in the car already.....

EDIT 12.10: Back from the tip, so that's more clutter that's not lurking round the house.

All those things I've kept hold of "in case they come in handy" .... small/bedside drawers I've had thinking "I could put things in there" only to discover that nothing worthwhile could ever fit in them....

Big items gone are: four sofa seat/back cushions, a heavy 60cm square side table, 4 bedside tables/drawers, 1 coffee table, a cr4ppy footstool and a miniature footstool (both bought for £2 apiece as they looked handy), a fabric wardrobe that "never worked" .... they were space hoggers.

There's also been almost a recycling bin amount of "empty cardboard boxes" grabbed in supermarkets to carry my few items of shopping to the car, then kept as "that might come in handy", which meant they ended up all over the house holding all manner of assorted bits and bobs of cr4p and shoving random paperwork into on a whim when "tidying" before shoving it in Bed2. All removed from the house, torn up and recycled.

With a recent acquisition and the new unit I bought a week ago and the tablecloth and flowers/vases, it's beginning to look a lot like a "normal person's house" at last.

All these little fiddle faddle tasks are ideal for putting off the elephant in the room .... painting and "little man".

LydiaJ

Phew. Glad I had that conversation with my new neighbours today.
They haven't moved in yet. At present, there are builders next door putting a utility room extension on the back of their garage, which adjoins both their house and mine, although the houses are not otherwise connected. For some weird reason, noises in their garage are unnoticeable straight through the wall into our living room, but clearly heard in my bedroom above. This hasn't mattered while it was a garage. If I happened to be in my bedroom while the previous neighbour was mending his bike, for example, I would hear every clang of the spanner, but it was so infrequent that it didn't matter. I don't want to hear every whoosh of the new neighbours' washing machine, though.

I'm home from work today. I've got a cold. If I had lessons to teach I would have gone into work so as not to let my classes down, but all I had was an hour of invigilation and a meeting where they could manage perfectly well without me, so I'm staying in bed, concentrating on giving my immune system a chance to do its thing before there are things at work that I actually need to be there for, and lessening the probability of infecting the rest of my department. One of them's doing my invigilation as a swap, and I'll do one of his on Friday afternoon so he can get off early - win-win.

Anyway, I can hear every stroke of the saw and bash of the hammer going on in next door's extension. So I texted the new neighbour, who called me back, and we had a little chat about it. The two of them have both seemed very nice when I've met them so far, and he was very nice again today. He says the builders are doing the structural stuff now, and he's coming here on Saturday to see how things are going, and start talking about finishes, and he can talk to them about sound proofing then. He was even offering to reconfigure what goes where in the extension, but I told him I didn't think that was necessary - really good sound proofing is perfectly possible, but hard to do retrospectively, if all those "house programmes" I've watched with DD are anything to go by.

Anyway, if the transition from structural work to finishing is happening soon, it looks as though my phone call today was perfectly timed.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Time for some sticky vaseline I think....

Napalm would be a good alternative

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