I was wondering what you were going to do with that space🤔
My wife wanted to know if there was room for our dining room cabinet. The answer was "no". I could have told her just by looking, but she preferred confirmation.
I have no problem with that. It settles things in her mind, and that settles me.
The idea of downsizing worries me. It was easy to upsize, as all we did was buy more furniture, but downsizing requires difficult decisions.
The biggest problem I have with Jaffa Cakes is working out which pack option is the best value. Our Co-op will have single packs with 12, double packs with 20, and triple packs with 27, and/or variations on those numbers. I've seen offers of 2 x single packs for £2, double packs for £1.80 and triple packs for £2.50, all at the same time. Next time in the pricing will have changed, and they no longer seem to have the price per 100 grammes or similar on the price tag on the shelf. Fortunately I'm good at mental arithmetic, or i'd simply go mental trying to work things out.
Ahh, school maths lessons. If it takes three men two days to dig a trench 4’ deep, 5’ wide and 12’ long, how much would a white loaf cost? Or something like that.
what are these strange " ' " measurements? Metres surely?
The ex used to order “7 metres of inch by four” … ‘cos that’s how it was sold back in the day …
So true @Dovefromabove I was training as a quantity surveyor when the move from imperial to metric measurements came in. Timber sizes continued to be imperial but the lengths were metric. It was that way for much of the building trade for many years. Window and door sizes also remained imperial.
I grew up in England before it went metric then moved to France in my 30s. I still cook using pounds and ounces, I measure rooms in feet and inches, which was a bit complicated when house hunting in France. I think of distances in km, miles seem very long, and I measure in cms when making curtains.
I know what you mean about downsizing @rowlandscastle444. I moved from a big old French farmhouse 2 years ago to a cottage, also in France. My 4 children each hired transit vans to take furniture that wouldn't fit in the cottage and I filled a skip. I still have boxes in the loft to sort.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I find it frustrating that all my work is carried out in mm and we were taught metric for everything in school and beyond yet we still have to deal with imperial measurements because people still won't update their mindsets 60 years after the change over. We've got people like Boris telling us we have an "ancient liberty" to hang on to imperial relics rather than continue to phase it out. I secretly suspect that some people prefer to use inches because they don't like numbers they can't count without taking their shoes and socks off. 8buh2 is so much easier than 195x47 even if they're not the same thing. I've had disagreements with builders who want to use a 6" concrete block when I've specified 140mm. "Isn't it the same thing?"
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
You could store an awful lot of narrow things in a cupboard to fit an 80m x 3ft space but you might find access and opening the doors problematic . 80cm option would be more practical.
When we moved from our first house to here, @Busy-Lizzie 21 years ago, some stuff went from loft to loft. Daftly, we are planning to move some of the same boxes, to the loft in the next place. Ironically, although we are downsizing, the new place will still cost more than this one.
I still measure in miles, metres, feet, inches and centimetres. Weights are in tons, tonnes, stone, pounds, ounces and grammes.
My GP often requires my weight. Our bathroom scales no longer give stone and pounds - kilograms only. So I take the kg weight and convert it to stone and pounds (which I understand more). My GP then recalculates it back to kg, for his records.
Imperial measurements were still in use for my 'formative years' so I naturally still think in feet & inches, pints, miles etc. I can convert from mm etc into imperial, and vice versa, but imperial is and will always be more 'natural' to me.
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I have no problem with that. It settles things in her mind, and that settles me.
The idea of downsizing worries me. It was easy to upsize, as all we did was buy more furniture, but downsizing requires difficult decisions.
So true @Dovefromabove I was training as a quantity surveyor when the move from imperial to metric measurements came in. Timber sizes continued to be imperial but the lengths were metric. It was that way for much of the building trade for many years. Window and door sizes also remained imperial.
I know what you mean about downsizing @rowlandscastle444. I moved from a big old French farmhouse 2 years ago to a cottage, also in France. My 4 children each hired transit vans to take furniture that wouldn't fit in the cottage and I filled a skip. I still have boxes in the loft to sort.
Ironically, although we are downsizing, the new place will still cost more than this one.
I still measure in miles, metres, feet, inches and centimetres.
Weights are in tons, tonnes, stone, pounds, ounces and grammes.
My GP often requires my weight. Our bathroom scales no longer give stone and pounds - kilograms only. So I take the kg weight and convert it to stone and pounds (which I understand more). My GP then recalculates it back to kg, for his records.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.