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

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I have a vision of someone spending too long in there, the heat from the light melting the bucket and the plastic slowly dripping onto the person sat below.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Big curtains... and they "drag" on the floor... they're massivo ... it'd take aages... I might try a little corner, see if that works...

No iron, no ironing board.




I really need one of those magical "ironing wands" you see advertised through the night on the telly...

I could buy a £5-10 iron - and iron them insitu by holding a folded hand towel on the other side

Something'll occur to me/I'll do something ... could just open them very wide so you can't see

Don't bother..... I bought one, thinking it might be an easier way for me to iron stuff, (I don't do ironing - I loathe and detest it, it is the devil's work), but it was absolutely dreadful. Dripped hot water onto the thing being ironed, took ages, the results were awful, and was just an absolute pain. Tried it once, packed it up again, and will probably give it to a,charity shop for them to use. Total waste of £99 or whatever it cost. (Approx 2 years ago, and it's still sitting there).

One of only two major-ish purchases I've made that really were a total waste and very regretful.


Edit...

Re. The curtain creases....... they probably will (mostly) drop out...but will take a few days. Give it some time.

GDB2222

" the huge disappointment factor I expect to encounter. "

If you expect it, how can you be disappointed?

GDB2222

We decided to swap our new Ikea mattress under their 90 day comfort guarantee. This entails two 'deliveries', one to pick up the used mattress and one to bring the replacement. (Does that make any sense to anyone?)

Anyway, Jon is going to be the first to arrive. Between 7 and 11AM. He has two deliveries (or pick-ups) before ours and I can see from the map that currently he's in Scratby. (Who would live in a place with a name like that?)

Don't worry! I know how excited you are about this, so I'll keep you posted.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

... Scratby....

I've been there. It wasn't memorable, but I'm familiar with the name as the East coast is where we had some holidays and day-trips when I was growing up.

I've not yet encountered the joy of being informed where the driver/delivery is for anything I've ordered.... I'd be glued to it

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

I always wondered where West Anglia was. . .;)

GDB2222 wrote: »

It's called Wales, and they get all East Anglia's surplus rain.

You could be right - if you meant the village just south of Rotherham

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45086764

GDB2222

Weather permitting, we will be at the West Runton station tea party this afternoon. Happy to meet any NPs who want to make the journey. (Take the rail bus from Norwich, and step off the train straight into the tea party.)

"It will include a cake stall, book stall, and locally grown produce and honey for sale, as well as a raffle, in aid of the East Anglian Air Ambulance."

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/west-runton-station-fundraising-event-1-5662669



So exciting here in N Norfolk!

Update on the mattress: Jon came with the replacement mattress. The old one is downstairs, waiting to be collected by "Your driver DXMKsub03". Maybe a robot? But he/it is currently parked up at Downham Market having breakfast/a fast charge.

GDB2222

Ikea are very good about this replacement mattress thing. It turns out, on unwrapping the new one, that we had the old one the wrong way up. They use hard foam on the base and softer foam on the top. If you have it the wrong way up, it's going to be really, really uncomfortable, which is of course why we swapped it for a different one.

Considering that they sell to people who don't buy mattresses very often, and may be utter fools, you'd think it would be in Ikea's interests to label the things in a fool-proof manner? It's not obvious, because the base side is a nice smooth grey fabric, whilst the top is covered in seams. Hey ho!

There ought to be a really, really embarrassed smiley somewhere... but several of the ordinary ones will have to do. :o:o

ivyleaf

chris_m wrote: »

It's also amazing what was considered acceptable subject matter for the picture side - I have one which depicts the wreckage from a train crash at Salisbury in 1906, which killed 28 people. The Edwardians certainly didn't just stick to "chocolate box" pictures.

The first card my Nan sent to her fiance depicted "The Field of Waterloo", with all the wounded and dying, and a big Cross in the sky. He was a soldier, but still...!

A couple of Easters ago, there was a piece on the BBC website about Victorian Easter cards. They were peculiar to say the least! Think, for example (the one that comes to mind) naked small children (like cherubs without wings) using hammers to break open a huge egg, which contained rabbits.... or possibly just one large rabbit, I can't remember. Shudder.

But then, when a family member died, they'd sometimes have a family photo taken, including the dead person (it was often a child) _pale_ as a memorial.

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

... speaking as somebody who has to do everything for themselves... all of the time, every time, every thing, every day ... I am struggling to find any sympathy for your plight

Ah, but it was raining at the time, and i don't drive or I'd have gone and got them

And none of the local chippies deliver.