Forum home The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

🐧🐧CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XXI🐧🐧

1803804806808809958

Posts

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I can't have the glasses I like best because my nose is too petite!?!?Mine??? Too petite!? 
    Are they looking at my  nose or someone else's???! I've had to choose another pair😭 

    It's not the size of my nose which creates problems as much as the shape of it.  I redesigned mine when I was at school.  Cycling in to school in the pouring rain I was looking more down than forward and rode full tilt into the back of a parked Austin A35 - they built them solid in those days.  The only crumple zone was my nose.  I can't wear glasses with the one piece 'comfort bridge' as they sit far too high.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited September 2023
    Dovefromabove said:
    I can't have the glasses I like best because my nose is too petite!?!?Mine??? Too petite!? 
    Are they looking at my  nose or someone else's???! I've had to choose another pair😭 

    I always have trouble finding glasses frames that aren't too big for my face and too wide for my nose (which is by no means small but apparently the bridge is narrow). I have to have metal frames with adjustable nose pieces. The plastic/acrylic ones that seem to be the thing now are always too big/wide. I've been putting off booking an eye test because the process of getting new glasses is so tedious and frustrating.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Our window cleaner keeps trying to put the price up from £10 to £12 . He squirts water at the front windows for about 3 minutes. We tell him we'll cancel and he agrees to £10. This happens every time. If he climbed up a ladder and used a shammy, I might consider it. Are we being unreasonable?  I think £10 ( £200 an hour) is more than generous.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @B3 Window cleaner does 20 houses per hour?  I wouldn't have him at all on that basis.  Also, 3 minutes on your windows extrapolated as 20 houses per hour doesn't allow any time to get from house to house.  Maybe you should get a job with the BBC when you can distort the facts so quickly. :D
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    @B3 Window cleaner does 20 houses per hour?  I wouldn't have him at all on that basis.  Also, 3 minutes on your windows extrapolated as 20 houses per hour doesn't allow any time to get from house to house.  Maybe you should get a job with the BBC when you can distort the facts so quickly. :D
    or tory party press office
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited September 2023
    My point is, ten pounds for a 3 minute squirt is £200 per hour. Same as unit pricing in the supermarket. My unit is an hour.
    PS maybe I'm naive, but it seems to me that the BBC goes to a bit of trouble to ensure the facts aren't distorted.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited September 2023
    B3 said:

    PS maybe I'm naive, but it seems to me that the BBC goes to a bit of trouble to ensure the facts aren't distorted.
    I concur. 
    Who do you trust to give 100% , fact checked, impartial information  @KT53 ?
    Devon.
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    @B3, we pay £10 for our window cleaner. He uses some " special" water that doesn't leave drip /dry marks afterwards and the windows are always sparkling. I think that's reasonable really, it would take me hours to do it so don't mind that he spends about ten -fifteen minutes doing them plus all the window sills and the front door too.🙂
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2023
    We pay £10 … the same as @Songbird-2 for the same service on a 3 bed detached house with large (done very large) windows.  It will be going up to £11 next clean. In 2011 it was £9:50. 
    Given the increase in most business costs, especially fuel, it seems to us to be a reasonable rate of increase. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The thing is, it used to be £8.50. Then it went up to a tenner. That's it for us. He used magic water too but doesn't do the sills separately - but they look ok. I must keep a record of when he comes. He says it's once a month but it seems more frequently.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
Sign In or Register to comment.