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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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PasturesNew wrote: »One of the others I bought is an inconsequential vase, but the final one is quite tall/large, so I'll have a go at googling that in a bit, once I've measured its height.
Just measured the entirely different purple one, it's 40cm, and tapers. I'll google it. It's got a "shop sticker" on the bottom, so that won't be worth more than any other random nice looking vase.
Is "inconsequential" posher or less posh than "random"?
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She seems to be a quick learner. Having apparently not had the faintest idea what "sit" meant when we got her, she is now getting quite good at it.
Of course, since she was found straying in the Brecons, it's always possible that she knew it in Welsh but not in English. I've just looked it up on Google translate and tried saying it to her in Welsh, but she sat almost before I said anything, so it didn't really tell me much. I think she has learnt "When the human calls me and has a treat in her hand, it's a good idea to sit because she usually doesn't give me the treat until I do, and lying down after the first treat gives me a good chance of getting a second one." She didn't know that when we first got her, though.
They aren't daft are they, especially when food/treats are around
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When I've had to do it I've measured the drop I want, laid the curtain out so that at least a vertical edge (more if I have space) is flat and measured to identify which height strip I think I require, inserted a hook in that row and remeasured to double-check before bunging the rest of the hooks in.
s'all a faff though.
With "to floor" curtains, there's little lee-way ... and my pole isn't entirely level either.
Maybe, on the basis that I'll be "pooling" the curtains to hide the pole's wonkiness... I just need to shove them on the top row and be done with it
I'll go with that idea.... get one up then stare at it.... then wait 2 days and do the other one 0 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »Awww
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Yes. No wonder she doesn't like being left.
Imagine having to wander about the cold mountains all on your own. :eek: (I just lurve spiders!)
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None a day. I haven't actually smoked for 30 years, but I'm still "a smoker".
It'd only take a couple to get me going again! :eek:
Interesting. Aged P thinks of himself as definitely an ex-smoker. Here's what happened to him:
He started smoking when he joined the Navy in 1944 at the age of 18. Cigarettes were part of the ration. Then some time in the 1950s, he read some of the early studies that shocked everyone by showing a link between cigarettes and lung cancer, which nobody had suspected before. The papers he read were only looking at lung cancer, not any of the other things, so they didn't show any danger in smoking a pipe or cigars and not inhaling. He switched to a pipe and cigars.
In the 1970s he had protracted trouble with a wisdom tooth. He decided the smoke probably wasn't helping, and decided to abstain until his tooth problem was all sorted - which took several months. After it was over, he was happy to be allowed to smoke again, lit up his pipe... and discovered that it tasted foul. He knew that if he persevered with it then he would return to liking it, but that seemed a pointless thing to do, so he hasn't smoked since.
He turned into the sort of person who didn't like being around other people smoking and thought it smelt vile. But he always remembered finding that incomprehensible when he had been a smoker himself, and never blamed smokers for not understanding why non-smokers found their smoke objectionable.PasturesNew wrote: »AwwwYes. No wonder she doesn't like being left.
Imagine having to wander about the cold mountains all on your own. :eek:
Indeed. Her previous owners (whoever they were) hadn't microchipped her, and apparently hadn't been supplying her with the recommended "once every three months" worming treatments. She should now be feeling better now that her insides are all her own, so to speak.
Also, she has a callus on the tip of her tail. The vet says it probably comes from repeatedly injuring it, which happens to dogs who are kept in confined spaces, so the tail gets bashed whenever they wag it vigorously. I think it says volumes about her temperament that she went on wagging it under such circumstances.
She is already getting less stressed about being left downstairs, for example when I go up to have a shower. She should get much more confident about being left as she learns that we consistently come back again.They aren't daft are they, especially when food/treats are around
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Sounds quite logical to me.
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Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
One of those "The Dog or Me" programmes made a couple sit down, then stand up, put their coats on, leave the house, loiter and come back in again - repeatedly - so their dog would learn they DO come back....confident about being left as she learns that we consistently come back again.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Not really ... but 8-15 miles to the West of where I am now is where I'll be looking.
Hopefully, no children within a couple of miles.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
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PasturesNew wrote: »I've been looking for the picture I bought for £1... and I think I've found the artist and identical pictures.... selling at £55-70, including at John Lewis.
So, happy to have spent £1 on that
The vases I bought, £2.50 for three, appear to be listed on ebay at £20 each.
I have two orange and one dark/sage green.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142711741525
Another/similar, pair of orange, £30
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-Of-Retro-Bubble-Base-Amber-Glass-Torpedo-Vases-/232888277878?oid=232850078825
The ebay sellers will be well chuffed by the number of people viewing their stuff. No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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