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...

They aren’t chicken tiles, they’re penguin tiles! Our house had mint green ones in the bathroom and olivey green in the shower.

@AcornAutumn Fantastic! I will have that going round in my head all night.....

[quote NeedWineNow]@AcornAutumn Fantastic! I will have that going round in my head all night.....[/quote]
Thanks

I now realise I should have said “sigh” instead of “fly” though! Or “lie”.

@Doobigetta

They aren’t chicken tiles, they’re penguin tiles! Our house had mint green ones in the bathroom and olivey green in the shower.

I can see a penguin falling over now!

Yep we had chicken tiles - and those delightful ones with pictures of a fruitbowl embossed in them on the kitchen wall in here. And three different variations of 1980s beige melamine kitchen.

Email gone off to school - I think it's the wrong place for DD2, I think she needs a full ed psych assessment to be honest - there's more than just dyspraxia there - there's something with language processing, something with working memory and I'm increasingly wondering about ASD too - but all at a level no one would believe me for. No other school options really for a bright kid who is just a ditz who can't write with disordered and immature sounding speech though - and won't ever get a statement because she just wants to do the right thing and make people happy - to the point she'll smile until she comes home and falls apart sobbing... so of course school don't believe me on that one either.

Stop with the Christmas treats chat ! Im trying to deal with lockdown weight gain, fucking again. I really need to stop eating everything when I can do nothing. Busy keeps me slim in normal times.

On Christmas treats chat, had a message tonight from the place we'd booked to go see Father Christmas. Seems we get a socially distanced meet up with santa with a click and collect style gift. No chat about the lists or if they've been good or anything.

I know its not a big deal, but I'm just sick of everything being a bit more shit than normal. Nothing is as good as normal. Everything is just that little bit more rubbish. Yet costing the same for the lower standard.

Right, whinge over with.

I know a large house, which until recently modernised, had a beetroot/maroon coloured bathroom suite. They also had a baby blue one in another bathroom. My parents bought a house years ago with a dark blue suite, and when I was a kid we had one bathroom with pink fittings and one with yellow. The dark colours were buggers to clean, especially if you lived in a hard water area - they showed every mark. Do you think they'll ever make a comeback?

When I was growing up we had a house the previous owner had cobbled together from bits he'd nicked from the shipyard he worked at. It had half an avocado suite and half a maroon coloured one as he'd not managed to blag a full matching suite.

I got married in 1976.
First house had a pale yellow suite with the enamel worn off in the bath.

Bottom of bath felt horrible and gritty, we were short of cash, so replace the bath only - with a chocolate brown plastic one (yeuuuuuuuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk). It was softer on the babies' bums though.

In the mid 90s, long after splitting up, I moved, the house had been lived in by a dad and 3 teenage males. The toilet was disgusting, with the floorboards, in front of the loo, rotting. I replaced the bathroom and absolutely loved it. White suite, white tiles (with border pattern at picture rail height) and then proceeded to carpet it, including up the side of the bath. I loved it - and it worked for the 5 years I was there.

@Reedwarbler
I know a large house, which until recently modernised, had a beetroot/maroon coloured bathroom suite.

It was, at the time, called aubergine. I know, I know but most of us had never even seen one

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I can’t wait to tell my DDad that they are called chicken tiles. I lived in that house nearly all my life until I left home, and I never noticed the chicken!
I will never unsee now.
They have a different in colour in kitchen. My DDad must have got a bargain, because he is very tight.
My DM wanted a aubergine bathroom suite but the mint colour was cheaper. I can remember her saying she was relieved because the mint colour isn’t that bad. They also still have the nylon carpets that gave you carpet burns if you slid across. You can tell I’m a 70’s child as we had to make our own fun.
Beamish might want some of it when they start the 70’s

Who had a hygena kitchen, I remember building at least two with OH. Oh boy were they a bitch to build. Mine was in an olive green leather look. My friend had bright orange.By the time we got to third house could afford a kitchen fitter for a schreiber kitchen.

I grew up with a pale green/turquoise bathroom suite. My grandparents had the avocado one.

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Thinking back, first house bathroom was sunking a glorious colour full of cheer. Second house, avocado suite very dreary really. Bedroom had a sink which was chocolate well that was used for a bit then banned kids got white toothpaste all over it every day. Third house, peach suite again cheery had fun making a roman blind out of a Marilyn Monroe duvet fabric. Fourth house, again with the avocado. This house white but with beige tiles on the floor and wall to ceiling I hate it so drab with all the built in cupboards in mock oak. Would like to rip it out but it was practically brand new when we bought the house.

I believe colour is making a limited comeback and to be honest it was a lot easier to keep looking clean.

@justasking111

Who had a hygena kitchen, I remember building at least two with OH. Oh boy were they a bitch to build. Mine was in an olive green leather look. My friend had bright orange.By the time we got to third house could afford a kitchen fitter for a schreiber kitchen.

I remember doing A-level home economics in the late 70s and we had to design a bespoke kitchen as a project. I did a hygena one.

I'd forgotten that until I read your post justasking111

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Is there even such a thing as an exception card? And disabled people surely don't have to prove they are disabled?

I'd be shocked if this was otherwise.

I've seen a lot of pink and blue bathrooms recently and I'd love one. I'd accept mint. Avacado is a definite no from me as is chocolate brown!!

DM still has an early 80s avocado suite!

I think I've tiled 4 kitchens and 3 bathrooms? That does include in DM's and a friend's house as well as the two houses we've had.

Because walls have moved in this house, the artex doesn't always match up and I've had to try and patch up the differences. Evil stuff. Stinks like vomit for a week as it dries. As long as it's one pattern across the whole room, I can't bring myself to be offended by its general existence.

Bathrooms have become very clinical with the uniform white, I remember fondly my previous bathrooms with pictures, rag rolled walls, the one we have now is just so boring and impossible to accessorise with three shades of beige in it. I bought a shocking pink bath mat and some accessories but it does not look right at all. As for the blind that is some geometric beige and orange thing which is never pulled down and has mildew spots on it I suspect.

I had pink flamingo wallpaper in my last bathroom. I miss it dearly. Now we have like you say clinical white tiles floor to ceiling, with a black mosaic border at just above waist height, and a white suite. Boring, boring boring. Hate it.

I also have a pink bath mat and pink towels to try and add some life to the place.

The only way I can prove exemption is to go through all the hurdles to blag my way to a GP appointment face to face, turn up and hyperventilate. Not exactly ethical. Although a couple of years ago I had an appointment to query asthma, not for the first time and said that I found humid conditions difficult. There's various layers of other stuff intertwined with it too.
No neat condition on my files though.
A lot of the legal "severe distress" reasons won't be neatly on file to officially prove.

When we were choosing our most recent tiles we could have anything we wanted as long as it was somewhere between grey or beige. The ones we got are pleasant and a stone type look, but I'd rather have a free choice. There was a lot more variety 15 odd years ago when we had a sage green in the bathrooms.

I think we're working on a theme for the next thread: ADs want a night on the tiles... happy grouting