ADs trying to stay upright in a muddy park

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Another thousand posts filled and we're ploughing on through another weekend of squelching through parks before we hit the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

The AD chat continues...

@DominaShantotto

We had a fully tiled 1980s avocado bathroom... ALL the plaster came off with the tiles when that can of worms was opened.

So did we avocado, when we took the tiles off slats and horse hair appeared. That was novel.

@AcornAutumn the bastard is making us wait until Monday for Wales details. He will not do the tier thing in N Wales low cases because it is conservative land. So stuff you lot he is saying.

Wales does seem to swing from one extreme to the next I noticed. Wonder what he will do. I think they got offered some mass testing in Merthyr but it didn't pick up that many cases. Scotland is doing the their things as well so it isn't just a Boris thing.

Ooh avocado suite! Vintage! Our bathroom is awful - not even old just awful but we can't afford to rip it out yet! I did put some nicer lino down though!

Why we chose to renovate a house I don't know!!

First house we did end up buying we were snootily informed looking round it wasn't an avocado bathroom it was spring green.

Turned out taps in bath were broken when we moved in - so spent over 5 years filling the bath with cheap shower attachment as house turned into a money pit and there was always something more urgent.

Wirdly we doing the same now - washers in bath taps need changing and we're on a meter and have managed to get them so they don't drip - but plumber had a look and no-way to get into tap unit without going bath which has been tiled in - so it's about £400 to sort - same tap tiling work etc. We have a downstairs shower which everyone prefers bar youngest so we've left it for now.

going bath - going under the bath - "under" went missing there.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Can I ask a hugely off topic question?

Anyone had any success stripping woodchip? Prev I've steamed it off but I fucked up the plaster and I'm wanting to avoid re skimming if I can. Thinking of trying the liquid wallpaper stripper if anyone's got any advice

Hi woodchip removal expert here! I lived in my old house for 10 years, removed it all then moved- to another house with woodchip all over it! Let me tell you first what DOESN'T work (urban myths if you're desperately googling it) Don't put vinegar on it, smells like a chip shop and doesn't work. Ditto fabric conditioner, smells better but makes no difference. The scraper thing is good but on dry paper it can leave gouge marks on the wall. Steamer is good but if you leave it on too long, as you know it can blow the plaster. Also, if the water drips down the wall into the plug socket or light switch, you can blow the electrics, been there done that.

What I've done (and it's bloody marvelous) is first of all don't wet it or score it. Rip the top layer off as much as possible so you're left with the backing. Get some eucalyptus oil, put 2 small capfuls and a squirt of washing up liquid in a spray bottle, add water and shake. Shake it every time as the oil separates.
Spray liberally on the backing paper until it's quite wet, then walk away. 5 minutes later run a wallpaper stripper/ palette knife up the wall and it literally falls off in strips. The wall underneath is also cleaned of the glue so it's not too sticky.
I have an Australian friend so she gets me the oil, i use it, minus the washing up liquid, as a general cleaner. As an aside, it gets mascara off of carpets when used neat, dirty marks off most things, fabulous stuff. Just don't breathe it in too much as in some people it makes them a bit breathless but I've been using it for years and I'm ok (well, I think I am!)

Ooh thanks @Curlygirl06 I'll have to find myself some of that and give it a go!

Oh and the wallpaper stripper liquid- my woodchip laughed in the face of that!

That sounds good curly girl

Tape plastic bags over sockets I have also blown fuses

Also cover radiators as the bits fall in there. I forgot it

The problem with "mingling" when not allowed is that it puts hospitality staff in the firing line, as it's the establishment that gets fined, so they're likely to get bollocked by their bosses if they let a suspect table in. I'm supposed to be having lunch with several people next week, and we're all women of about the same age, so don't in any way look as if we're from the same household. I suppose we could pretend to be a group of nuns, but then we wouldn't be able to swear and drink, which we usually do.

On the bright side, my pilates class is re-starting in real life. We now have to wear masks until we get to our mats and can't "socialise" before or after the class, even in the carpark.

We have to leave via a concrete fire escape in our sports centre now.

@littlbrowndog

That sounds good curly girl

Tape plastic bags over sockets I have also blown fuses

Also cover radiators as the bits fall in there. I forgot it

Wish I'd thought of that at the time!

@MaudesMum

The problem with "mingling" when not allowed is that it puts hospitality staff in the firing line, as it's the establishment that gets fined, so they're likely to get bollocked by their bosses if they let a suspect table in. I'm supposed to be having lunch with several people next week, and we're all women of about the same age, so don't in any way look as if we're from the same household. I suppose we could pretend to be a group of nuns, but then we wouldn't be able to swear and drink, which we usually do.

On the bright side, my pilates class is re-starting in real life. We now have to wear masks until we get to our mats and can't "socialise" before or after the class, even in the carpark.

Because I don’t go to pubs etc now, I don’t know

How could they ask anyone to prove they are a bubble? Surely a fine wouldnt stand because how would they know?

My sister has been to pubs and restaurants with her friend during Tier 2, in a bubble, no one asks anything she said. I hope that continues.

@Orangeblossom7777

We have to leave via a concrete fire escape in our sports centre now.

I think this individuals taking it too far - or does the legislation include things about separate entrances and exits?

Everytime people talk about mingling I think of those lovely mint chocolates they used to make called Mingles.

Me too @DominaShantotto I hated them though. Beanies Coffee have announced their new Christmas flavour for 2020. Peppermint Candy Cane. Disappointed. I HATE mint.

You lot are giving me a great laugh today!
Teams / Zoom like masturbation.
Bojo as Emperor palpatine.
DIY advice.

Perfect. I'm in the office today with my Friday friends (normally in different offices, but together as so few of us in). We were planning to go out for a Christmas lunch but no longer can as we're in tier 2. So are planning a buffet instead, even the rules are 'no sharing of food'. I think we will each have big lunches that day, I think I might bring a Stollen in for my lunch.

Ive never tried Stollen.

Stollen are horrible. Marzipanny

Ugh Marzipan again.

I felt really unwell yesterday afternoon, couldn’t get warm and felt anxious but could hardly keep my eyes open. I ended up going to bed and slept for three hours. I honestly think it was the announcement and realising that this is how it will be till spring or the vaccine programme makes significant progress, I was just overwhelmed by it. At least Chris Whitty was honest about that, “Your Tier is not your destiny” never thought it would come to being gaslighted by the PM.

Three of our five children are now in Tier 3, so we are unlikely to see them, and our local rates have gone down and we were Tier 1 before the lockdown, I don’t understand why we are now Tier 2

That’s weird @Evenstar. I keep getting really cold and can’t get warm.. wonder if it could be linked to anxiety about all this?

@WouldBeGood it could be, it definitely didn’t feel like just being cold

My DP’s still have wood chip walls! And a lovely mint coloured bathroom with that weird veiny tiles( chicken tiles 70’s classic).
Feel a little better today, went for another walk with my friend. And we moaned about lockdown and tier 3. Might not have always stayed 2 metres apart. But neither did anyone we saw walking either.
My local MP has stated he is voting against tier 3. He is not happy.