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

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Couldn't see what it was. There's a square of space behind 6' high wooden fences, the square is about 6' ... and whatever it was, it was in that space...but I could only see the top of her head, not what she was doing.

I just heard a fire extinguisher fired off, twice... good job they had one of those then!

No idea what happened ... I just heard the noise - and you can't mistake the noise of those....

Panic over

I really do appear to be ..... surrounded by idiots.

Close/modern living isn't for me is it.....

Welcome to my world!

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Arf! Arf!

(And no jokes about seals/sea lions, if you please! Arf! Arf!)

You know me now don't you!

Pyxis

Brrrrr! The thought of my seven-year-old being out on the street God knows where at gone 8.30pm gives me the heeby-jeebies! :eek:

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

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I watched her run across the road in front of a car not half an hour ago - right in front of about 6-7 other kids and two adults.... she hesitated and then the car braked .... then she continued running across! If the adults hadn't shouted she'd have been history. The adults were a rabble from the trampoline house... loud rabble.

I was only looking as I heard a "hullaballoo" and wondered who was doing what and where!

GDB2222

When I was a child "Cough up the Phlegm and Spit it Out, Then Look At It" was pretty commonplace. The reason was that so many people smoked, and a very high proportion developed bronchitis.

PasturesNew

Right... peace. Looks like they farqued off at last.

3pm to 9pm today. Can't moan though, it's been a LOT better this past month ... and better than last year too with the lot that were here then (they all moved out Oct).

GDB2222

Pastures, have you worked out where you'll move to?

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

I need to go shopping. Not a huge shop, just bits and pieces for cooking with. DD is away until Thursday. DS is alarmed by New Dog and doesn't want to be responsible for her. It's too soon to start leaving her - she needs longer to settle in to our family and start getting over the shock of having been abandoned by her previous family. I could walk her to the shop and tie her up outside - I'll only be in there a few minutes - but when I tied her to the bannisters to persuade her to stay downstairs overnight, she chewed through the lead, so that doesn't sound like a good idea. I think I will have to drive - she seems very happy to go in the car - and leave her in the car for the few minutes it will take me to nip in and get the stuff, and hope she's OK. At least it's late enough in the day that the car won't be too hot for her. It does seem a bit of a waste, though - it's an ideal distance for a dog walk at her current stage of healing from being spayed, but I don't see any alternative to driving it and then walking her later.

I am still stuck on a screen name for her.

In related news, her visit to the vet this morning went well, the dressing is off her wound and it's healing nicely. The vet was as nice as the reviews said he would be.

Would DS be able to walk to the shop with you and the dog? I suspect not and of course it is too late now but perhaps the bonding time would have been good and might have relaxed him with New Dog a bit?

silvercar wrote: »

Are you around michaels?

Either I've found the sort of loophole you would be impressed by, or the regulars on the insurance board hope my thread will disappear if they don't answer. Either way the answers I've had already don't address my question.

Have replied, sorry, working early then went to Mr T and purchased some ill-fitting headphones that happened to qualify me for a petrol voucher. I am not very good at buying petrol as we only do it about 3x a year but it seemed that 10p off Mr T was cheaper than £5 of 50 Amex at BP prices.

SingleSue wrote: »

I've used Ocado and I am def not posh, some bargains to be had and when combining with my parents getting bits and special offers, no more expensive than anywhere else.

Re hill starts, I was a master at them. Having an electronic handbrake is not about being posh or having a nice gadget for me, it's about allowing me to continue driving without dislocating my shoulder every time I have to put the handbrake on.

Map on my phone - I use boring Google maps, I am rather anti downloading apps and will avoid it as much as I can (I hate the loss of functionality over the full websites), so utilise what comes with the phone already downloaded.

Having a down and stroppy day today so apologies if my answers are a little snappy.

So are last 3 cars all have foot operated hand brakes. 2 of them had a foot on - hand release mechanism so not ideal, the other one has a foot on, foot off again mechanism. But of course all are automatic so no hill start required.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

As the little man's left..... I finally got a bit of my act together this morning and painted lots of bits and bobs.

Where all the filling/sanding had occurred needed painting - 2 coats; half a small wall (white's so easy to match in) .... and two cupboard doors. Plus there was a bit of wandering round with a paintbrush and painting small bits and bobs.

I think that's it for that bit of the job. Gobsmacked at how I can't see where the filling/sanding was done - and staggered that my brilliant white really did get applied seamlessly! I expected it to look like a dog's dinner, but, 99% of it you really can't tell, even if you know and are staring!

Should be finished by the end of this week really ... everything... but will I actually get cracking on .... or not.

I'll phone an estate agent or too, see how much "notice" they want to give me a price/guesstimate....

EDIT: Made an appointment for the man to come and do a valuation next week... having a date to work to will make me less idle.

Well impressed with the filling - always seems to show when I do it.


If your housing market is anything like ours then you are likely to have estate agents falling over themselves to list your home as they don't get many listings and even fewer sales.

Pyxis wrote: »

Ditto, ditto, ditto, with knobs on!:(

Perhaps we should all just put our houses on the market; that should galvanise us into action! :rotfl:


I thought you had got a lot of your house sorted, though, Lydia, painting the living-room and changing the carpet and all?

Or am I mixing you up with Viva again? :D:D

(By the way, I do that with people in RL, too. )

We have a paying guest coming in September so there has been some pressure to do up the guest room that has been needing new flooring etc for a while - we have even had the wood sitting in the entrance hall for either 8 months or 20 months. Anyway that has had furniture out, shirtings off and binned, manky carpet binned, underlay, wood floor, new skirting (I am rubbish at the mitre corners, not sure if it is only because I don't have a mitre saw and have to use a jigsaw angle cut, fill and paint, doors cut down, gloss etc. IN the last week of so using weekends and days off. That just leaves 3 rooms that need 'doing' and every room needing decluttering including the 'hoarding room' where I am sitting now.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bit of a daft dilemma.... I had a paint roller tray and a roller brush ... so I thought I'd wash them out/keep them "in case" (sign of a proper hoarder).

Before I've used "small versions", so managed to faff about in the loo sink with those, but these are the standard sized tray and roller.

But I didn't want to do it in the kitchen sink, so I went outside and washed the tray out in a plastic flexi tub, the one that's outside for gardening/weeding jobs. Next, I put the roller brush in .... and started swooshing it about ... and then realised "what the heck am I going to do with this water?" it needs to be poured/emptied somewhere - and I'll need to repeat that to clean this roller.

It's water based emulsion ..... and white-ish.

Not sure how to go about it all really....

Maybe I should've just binned them both from the start.

We prefer to use the smaller rollers even for big walls, doesn't rally take longer and is much easier to make a good job, avoid spraying paint/drips everywhere etc. I think sleeves cost between 50p-£1 so they may get wrapped in cling overnight if the job is not finished but they get binned when it is.

michaels

Android:
1) Waze will use a small amount of data to get live traffic info if you switch this on but much less data than google maps as with waze you download the maps onto your phone first when you are at home on wifi whereas google will only download them as you travel.


2) If you can find the icon for Waze you can hold your finger down on it and a bin icon will appear on the screen which you can drag it into but this will only delete the 'shortcut' not the app. If you don't see an icon for an app there may not be one or it may be on another of your home screens which are accessed by swiping left or right from your main homescreen



3) To get to settings to remove apps you either need to get into the 'app drawer' which is normally accessed via an icon that looks like a couple of rows of square dots, possibly in a circle. Here you can see all your installed apps and should be able to uninstall them by the method SC described, hold your finger down on the ap icon until a dustbin appears and then drag the app into the bin. From here you should also be able to access your settings menu from an icon that looks lie a grey cogwheel. Once in the settings menu there is an option call apps.


You can also get to your settings menu by swiping your finger down from the top of the screen, probably twice which will then show the same grey cog wheel (or a smaller white version looks a bit like a fat snowflake) at the top on the screen, press on this and you are again into the settings menu.


Did any of that make sense? I frequently have to talk DW through this sort of thing, if I don't do it quickly and patiently enough she has a tendency to throw away her 'broken' phone in what is a bit of a self-fulling prophecy. Give me a call if you need me to talk you through it.