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

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

You weren't patronising

I'd have lived without washing .... wet wipes FTW - and I've never any visitors so nobody'd know if I was smelly

First world.... eh.

It was annoying ... but "my own fault really" and it wasn't critical, just annoying.

It's difficult to know how much detail to give someone, without teaching granny to suck eggs, iyswim.

........ :eek: Not that I'm insinuating you're a granny, heaven forfend! :eek:





"In space, no-one can hear you scream"........... or smell you, either! :rotfl:

Sometimes I think we're a bit too obsessed with constant washing.
I know it's been said before, but growing up, we only had one bath a week. The rest of the time, as teens, it was a top and tail at the basin, often in cold water. I don't remember hordes of smelly people everywhere!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I knew what to do ... even the neighbour, fully able, struggled in his efforts to "work out how to turn the knobs without them breaking off in his hand"... and said as much himself.... so I didn't feel rubbish then

He had to fiddle around with it and inspect them and have another go 3-4-5x before it worked for him. So it's not me


If I'm not doing anything, I'll have about 3-4 a week or so ... but a bit more frequently lately as I've been doing grubby work outside and around the house... and the difference has been visible as there's never usually any dirt in the bath after it's drained, but I was getting a fine grit tideline where the last of the water had been at the tail end of the water draining... not much, but I noticed... it was probably caught in my hair rather than dried on crud scraped from my body though

:think: :think: :eek: Perhaps there is something in this washing lark after all, then.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

:think: :think: :eek: Perhaps there is something in this washing lark after all, then.

It's towel washing you have to be wary of - you might think "i just use the towel to dry myself after a bath, so it doesn't need washing" ... but they're apparently stuffed full of dead skin cells and probably a bit of soapiness if you use bubble bath like I do

michaels

Pyxis wrote: »

I must admit you had me worried there!
Bit puzzled by the fact that you weren't sure if you had been burgled or not! Or so it seemed!

However, people don't seem to realise that they do have things of value to the thief. TVs, recorders/Freeview/satellite boxes, computers, play stations.......any tech stuff can get them a few quid for a fix or a bottle.
Things like car keys, too, especially if your car is on the drive.

I suspect if you had seen the state of the place you would probably have assumed the worst!

Our tech is a bit like PNs - the TV might get £100 but it is pretty big and awkward to carry, everything else I suspect you would have to pay someone to take it away....

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Let's put it down to "I was bored".

I decided to measure my bathroom, which I always describe as "tiny" - but people's opinions are subjective.... for the record, my bathroom is 1.75m x 2m (old money: 5'8" x 6'6").

I think that qualifies as tiny doesn't it

Yep, that's pretty pokey - but look at it this way. How much time (proportion) do you spend in there and would you rather that were bigger but another room or rooms be smaller to accommodate it?

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Let's put it down to "I was bored".

I decided to measure my bathroom, which I always describe as "tiny" - but people's opinions are subjective.... for the record, my bathroom is 1.75m x 2m (old money: 5'8" x 6'6").

I think that qualifies as tiny doesn't it

My previous bathroom was smaller than that!
But to be fair, it didn't have a loo in it.....that was separate.
I had a small extension built, and a new all-in-one bathroom was part of that.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just did a "dirty tip run".... assorted bits and bobs that'd been lurking round in the garden for 2-3 years in an assortment of buckets/similar, such as the empty bags from garden bark, a couple of coffee jar lids, a broken £land extending window washer that broke first time, a couple of plastic bags, a couple of old small plastic plant pots, a broken leaf gatherer/scraper I'd needed in the first year as there was a huge oak dropping leaves everywhere. So that's one more job done. Also, two empty/used 5litre fence coating tubs.

Also took the clippings to the tip.

That new bag was handy - got all that lot in it and into the car in one trip. Without the new bag I'd have taken 3 trips to the car with those bits and bobs.

So it's paid for itself in saved petrol! :T :T

zagubov

Pyxis wrote: »

My previous bathroom was smaller than that!
But to be fair, it didn't have a loo in it.....that was separate.
I had a small extension built, and a new all-in-one bathroom was part of that.

First house we bought had a bedroom turned into a bathroom; however it was also a utility room with laundry machines. Having a utility upstairs is pretty sensible IMHO. Not sure how easily that would work nowadays as you have to be careful about water and electrical sockets never coming in contact.

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

First house we bought had a bedroom turned into a bathroom; however it was also a utility room with laundry machines. Having a utility upstairs is pretty sensible IMHO. Not sure how easily that would work nowadays as you have to be careful about water and electrical sockets never coming in contact.

It might depend how long ago it was.

When I had said extension built, I'm sure the electrician said that it was no longer mandatory to have pull-switches in bathrooms, so maybe the insulation etc. was a lot more efficient or something. Like in shaver sockets?

I had pull-switches put in anyway, as I was still nervous about it!

However, I might be getting my timelines confused, so don't take that as gospel!




Edit...... just had a very quick google, and a reply to that question in 2015 suggests I'm wrong....... if an ordinary switch, it had to be outside the bathroom, and no power sockets other than shaver ones were allowed.

I wish I could remember why I was told ordinary switches were allowed in the bathroom, though.

PasturesNew

My bathroom light switch is outside on the landing .... bit daft really because many houses will have a "joker" who thinks it funny to turn off the light when they know somebody's in there.