| lesley153
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| The girl with no money and no bed has turned down my offer of a single spare bed because she's holding out for a double. |
Reply #4181. Nov 27 11, 12:09 PM
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Professer 
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Well only one thing to say to her Stupid is as stupid does
Reply #4182. Nov 27 11, 2:19 PM
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| lesley153
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I was puzzled. If I'd been reduced to sleeping on wood, I'd grab anything that was offered, if it was softer than wood. I'm curious about her reasons - does she think I'm going to ask her for money for it? Does she think I (or someone, anyone) will miraculously discover a double bed? She might say. I'm not asking.
Back to the desk. Five drawers emptied, four to go. I've got all the interesting stuff out (photographs and a few little photography gadgets), and now there are masses of envelopes and piles of paper, more paper clips and cable clips than you can shake a stick at - and enough sticky labels to coat a battleship.
There is more stuff on the top. It's almost completely covered by books, a reel-to-reel tape recorder I think, and an extensive collection of keys. Aargh. |
Reply #4183. Nov 27 11, 2:43 PM
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bloodandsand
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I think keys are like wire coathangers; leave them alone in a dark place and they start to breed.
Reply #4184. Nov 27 11, 3:48 PM
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flopsymopsy
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A Z-bed is no bed at all as far as I'm concerned and I'd much rather sleep on the floor with a few cushions than on one of those things. Z-beds were made by the devil with the sharp pointy bits left over from wire coathangers and each lump in the mattress (I use the word loosely) is stuffed with imps using their toasting forks to prod the base of my spine. I wouldn't care how poor I was you couldn't foist an old Z-bed on to me!
Reply #4185. Nov 27 11, 5:03 PM
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MotherGoose
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"People don't like being told that they fell for hoaxes. Funny that"
Like you, Lesley, I too check out those emails (snopes.com is a great site to assess the danger, if any). In the past, I've sent what I thought was a reassuring email with a link to the sender and have also found them to be unappreciative. I guess they think that you think they are gullible, rather than thoughtful. On the plus side, I've found they stop sending you such emails.
Re the furniture, the desk sounds too useful to get rid of it (sounds like it stores a lot of stuff). I had to "google" an image of a z-bed as we don't use that terminology here. We call them fold-a-beds. They aren't the most comfortable bed in the world but as a temporary measure or a guest bed, they are certainly adequate.
Reply #4186. Nov 27 11, 5:34 PM
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| lesley153
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They do, they breed! along with plastic bags in kitchen drawers, chipped mugs, odd socks...
This is when I blush and confess that I've never seen a Z-bed, wouldn't know one if it fell on my head, and was using it as a generic name for folding beds - I could have shown my age and called it a Put-U-Up. Flopsy, I'm sorry I awoke bad memories. I had no idea it doubled as an instrument of torture.
If I said it looks like a J-bed, would that be any better? It's a three-foot standard single, with a headboard and a sprung mattress. If I ever tried it out, I can't remember, but we paid about £120 for it 18 or 19 years ago, which may mean that it was good but more likely means the shop owner saw us coming. Tomorrow I shall flatten it and see what it feels like to lie on.
I don't want to upset anyone by suggesting that they're gullible, but I don't want to get these scare emails even more than I don't want to upset the senders. Good news, though - they're getting rarer!
Mothergoose, my first thought was to say please don't tempt me to keep it... and my second thought was: you're absolutely right. It's an imposing piece, holds lots, and isn't even particularly tatty. We have, by contrast, a large collection of laminated MDF pieces, which hold little and look horrendous.
If I can spend a couple of hours throwing some of the tat away - paperclips lose their freshness and I suspect that even the best labels lose their sticky after twenty years - there will be enough space to store the contents of the MDF pieces, and they will free up a lot more space than the wooden desk. Just one apologetic call to the charity shop...
Thank you! :) |
Reply #4187. Nov 27 11, 8:49 PM
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MarchHare007
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I also had to look up Z-bed... which to me is just a fold up bed. :)
You'd think it would be a good fill-in especially as she didn't have money. Understand her 'holding out' for a double - which would be more comforatable, granted but she IS single.... *rolls eyes*
I have interesting memories of 'Z-beds' - sitting up too quickly and having it jump up behind me and sitting in the middle of the bed and having to wriggle back and carefully swing myself the required 45 degrees to lie dead in the middle - which was a sort of concave hammock type feeling but okay when it was bed for the night.
I do recall when a friend from England come out for a few weeks and while staying at my parents I had the 'spare bed' for a few nights before we headed off into the wilds of 'the bush.
I moved the mattress onto the floor - much more comfy with the floor as support........
Reply #4188. Nov 27 11, 8:57 PM
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| lesley153
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I thought it would be a good fill in too, but she may have all sorts of bad associations, and may have decided it's safer to say no than see it and think what on earth is THAT?
Yes, she's single. Perhaps she's living in hope. Hope that the next one will be more use than the last one. |
Reply #4189. Nov 27 11, 9:04 PM
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MarchHare007
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I wouldn't call it hope with the previous history Lesley but I do hope I'm wrong.
It's always nice to have 'real' pieces of furniture around you. Nice that you've been able to recycle its usefullness and give it a new purpose. :)
Reply #4190. Nov 27 11, 10:57 PM
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MotherGoose
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"there will be enough space to store the contents of the MDF pieces, and they will free up a lot more space than the wooden desk"
Sounds like the perfect solution.
Reply #4191. Nov 28 11, 4:34 AM
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| lesley153
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" It's always nice to have 'real' pieces of furniture around you. "
" Sounds like the perfect solution. "
Thank you both. I've cancelled the pick-up and said there may be two MDF pieces instead. Feels good. I'm sure I'd have regretted giving a good piece away and keeping junk!
(((((( MotherGoose )))))) for making me stop and think.
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Reply #4192. Nov 28 11, 5:32 AM
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MotherGoose
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"(((((( MotherGoose )))))) for making me stop and think. "
My pleasure!
And may I take this opportunity to let you know I am going AWOL for a while. I'll be on holiday for a couple of weeks, then when I get back I am going into hospital for tests (don't worry, I'm fine), so I'll probably be scarce around here.
Reply #4193. Nov 29 11, 4:52 PM
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| lesley153
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Tell all about the holiday please, and have a lovely fortnight.
Good luck with the tests and may you continue to be fine. :) |
Reply #4194. Nov 29 11, 6:34 PM
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| lesley153
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Lunch out yesterday, at a pub we haven't tried before. Salmon looked promising. No, we could smell it coming. If you can smell the fish, it's overcooked. Seems that people who know how to cook fish are doing it at home, or quietly and successfully in their restaurants, or pontificating about it on the telly, and people who don't know how to cook fish are working in pubs, cooking it to perfection, and then giving it another ten minutes for luck.
To pud or not to pud? The waitress grinned and told us we were thin enough to have puddings. Best sales pitch I've heard for a long time. How could we resist?
We ordered mixed fruit crumble with hot custard, and a baked cheesecake with fruit compote. The crumble topping was twice the thickness of the fruit, which didn't contain anything recognisable as fruit: more like a thin layer of red jam. The cheesecake was half-way between a proper baked stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth cheesecake, and Angel Delight, and the "compote" didn't look anything like a mixture of berries: more like a thin layer of red jam. Most impressive of all, the cheesecake was salty.
Ah well. The conversation was good - and there are plenty of other pubs in Bedford.
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There were a lot of sticky labels, for CDs and floppy disks, in the wooden desk I'm keeping, enough to cover a battleship. Jonathan suggested I keep them as makeshift bandages, for use in the event of a natural disaster. So I put them in the medicine cupboard. ;)
There was also a non-slip rubber inside the bath, new but I didn't realise how thin and nasty it was till it was in place. I've bought a new one, which feels better and looks better. What can I do with the old rubber mat? "Keep it to use in the event of a natural disaster, as it will help conserve injured people's body heat." So I put it in the medicine cupboard, next to the sticky labels.
Going to take my medication now. |
Reply #4195. Nov 30 11, 8:08 AM
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| lesley153
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| ^^^ Please insert the word "mat" as appropriate. |
Reply #4196. Nov 30 11, 8:10 AM
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Professer
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Well i must admit i do not like poor food at resturaunts or pubs, sounds like i would been in my element complaining about the food. Would have suggested rather loudly that they ask Gordon Ramsey to come in and show them how to do good food.
Reply #4197. Nov 30 11, 8:51 AM
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bloodandsand
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Blooming heck, Lesley, how big is your medicine cupboard!
Reply #4198. Nov 30 11, 10:38 AM
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| lesley153
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Nor do I, Gary, but we didn't want to grumble to the waitresses, who were pleasant and adequate: and it wasn't bad enough to make a scene, just bad enough for an email explaining why we won't be making a second visit.
Bev, it's huge - at least as big as the fish that got away! |
Reply #4199. Nov 30 11, 11:10 AM
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Jazmee27
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Just how big *was the fish that got away (no, wait, I probably don't want to know)
Warped sense of humor here :)
Reply #4200. Nov 30 11, 11:51 AM
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