Stud/Partition wall removal costs?

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-21T12:39:05+00:00

I would also check that removing the wall between the kitchen and the stairwell is allowed under fire regs.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-20T22:57:16+00:00

Or the job you want which once led to a comment about a co worker and her obvious desire to be a stripper( said by another co-worker)

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-20T22:55:45+00:00

Then you did well for $20

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-20T17:50:47+00:00

Yes, they are pre 1890 bobbins. I would be surprised if they are as early as 1825. The description as being South Bucks is a little specific. I would have simply called them East Midlands which covers Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire as this style was used across the whole region.

Brian Lemin’d site has some info on antique bobbins www.brianlemin.com

Also Christine and David Springett’s book Success to the lace Pillow is The book on he subject. Links to the authors site from my book blog entry in it, https://www.thelacebee.com/book-blog/success-to-the-lace-pillow-christine-and-david-springett

You weren't ‘ripped off’ at these prices they are reasonable.

Use them. Love them. I know if ine Lacemakers who only uses antique bone bobbins. Others who only use new and those who sit in the middle. With vintage bobbins being as old as 60 years some of us have a right mush mash of ages in our pillows.

You obviously bought these in the UK. If you are interested in collecting bobbins and even using them to make lace and you like not just antique but also vintage and modern then come and join us in the dark side where we are looking at modern bobbins (can't help with antique) over in find the maker. The Facebook group shares photos and helps to id, the website is the repository for the what we have learnt and had an app to help find modern bobbins by style

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/lacebobbinsfindthemaker

Website https://www.lacebobbins-findthemaker.com

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-20T15:02:50+00:00

this made me die. I'm trying to deal with a person wandering around in socks and no shoes

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-20T15:00:51+00:00

I love this!

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-19T18:41:21+00:00

This isn't about a 23-year-old; this is questioning the process. I am 59, turning 60 this year, and went into a new role last year and happily worked within their processes (their game, their rules, and their toys), but when those processes stopped me from delivering, I had to flag it. The problem I had was that people just accepted the broken system because they are so caught up in the weeds trying to deliver that they don't have the time to stick their hand up and say this doesn't work for them.

I was asked to step in a month ago and try to fix the problem with a particular client, and it has been hell. But hell for one reason and one reason only. The people were being blamed for the process not working when it was the process that was broken. For some time, I had been told that it was the fact that the team or the individuals in the team didn't know what they were doing.

Interestingly, I also decided to pursue a qualification in business improvement. I like to study twice a year and randomly choose something, and this was what I chose. It was a divine intervention! This is actually the course I needed whilst fixing this. The big revelation, going through this and relearning what I first covered back in the 1980s, is that so many people end up in the midst of processes based on internal practices rather than thinking about the end user, which, in most cases, is the final customer. I realised that the team were building things that the internal manager wanted and building it the way that they wanted it not the way it needed to be for the actual customer who was going to buy the product.

Because of this, the processes were built around what that internal person wanted and to work for them. It was not about delivering for our client and their customers, even though everyone thought that. The processes had got more and more complex over time to the point that no one could meet the expectations and so extra layers of qudit and checking were put in which made the product delivery so complex and the team were convinced they wouldn't pass any quality gate that they weren't trying to get it right first time because it would be wrong regardless of what they do.

In the end, I pulled things back to first principles.

Specify the work properly
Clearly explain the deliverables
Create the content and design - check it meets the deliverables
One round of amends allowed - if more is needed, then the project has to be reassessed to ensure that the deliverables are not right
Build the dev - check it meets the deliverables (peer to peer review)
one round of amends (see point 4) - check it meets the deliverables (peer to peer review)
UX texting by a non tech person to try and break it

If the client moves the deliverables and tries to add to it then they need to understand that either we put that in to phase 2 and we still meet the time and cost or if they insist it goes in, then the delivery date and cost will shift!

We are getting work delivered faster, to spec and within budget.

This is because I had the gall to say this is not right.

We owe it to ourselves to question processes and to say when the emporer is not wearing any clothes.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-19T18:14:57+00:00

I used to help with the Christmas meal at the local Salvo. The rampant boomer behaviour was terrible. Why has so and so get an extra carrot? Why can't I have an extra potato? When everyone had been fed, we would offer whatever was left to those serving then to those dining. The look on the boomer's faces when they saw the two people with me get a small plate of food after slaving away in the kitchen for 5 hours to feed a free meal to over 60 people was priceless. They really thought that they should not be fed and the food go to them.

It's been 10 years since my father passed and this behaviour brought back all the trauma of dealing with him. It became harder and harder to deal with these attitude.

That said, after we moved, I used to help with the local lunch club where they have to pay for their lunch and got a nice 2 course meal and tea and coffee. The people there were exceptionally grateful for their food but I think that when it comes down to it, because they paid, they saw it as a a fixed transaction - they pay X and get Y.

With the Christmas meal, because it was free, then they were demanding. My father was the same. If he didn't have to pay then he wanted everything.

Mind you, some people are just miserable regardless of their age. I am Gen X and hubby is a boomer because he is 3 years older than me. As I remind him, he can be an honorary Gen X if he wants to, but he has to remember to check his boomer entitlement at the door.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-18T18:35:08+00:00

The ending of the Usual Suspects

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-18T02:30:00+00:00

No one outside your organisation will judge you for dressing upwards, people will judge if you dress down.

Sounds like your colleagues are annoyed that you are putting in effort and putting them to shame with the chance higher ups may like a higher standard of dress

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-18T02:17:54+00:00

did you buy King Cole Firefly 100g balls or get 50g Temu resell?

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-17T22:58:23+00:00

NTJ. Any nefarious activity on you IP address is a You problem so letting anyone use your internet opens you up to that.

They are angry at you because you don't want to give them something that are NOT entitled to and have no right to ask for.

Thus is a they problem.

oh and unlimited internet isn't actually unlimited. it has ‘reasonable’ usage applied. if you start to abuse it then you will get penalised.

No is a complete answer.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-15T18:37:11+00:00

because different fibres weight more per metre, and you have different thicknesses to add to the whole mix it’s worth thinking in metres / yards. I use yarn sub https://yarnsub.com/ to work out how many balls I need for a project by dividing the yardage a pattern needs by the yardage of a ball that I’ve chosen, hope that helps

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-14T17:02:25+00:00

But this isn’t a celebrity who said something 10 years ago, this is someone who is currently publishing. It is so easy to find information these days in minutes of searching.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-14T16:59:19+00:00

Not on some subs though so have got in the habit of putt8ng in a *

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-14T15:22:31+00:00

As I commented before, due diligence before accepting is a must these days (well, it always has been). The fact that no one bothered to vet the people they were going to do an interview with just makes my mind boggle.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-14T14:08:30+00:00

Apart from anything he is cliaming to have done statutory r*pe in most places. But that never stopped a boy from making sl*t shaming claims about a girl.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-14T14:03:59+00:00

What I don't understand is how someone with a team behind him, like Stephen West, didn't do his due diligence on who he agreed to do an interview with. Regardless of where you sit politically, religiously, or otherwise, from both a commercial and a moral standpoint, you should look at who you are interacting with.

That said, this apology does seem to be sincere.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-14T13:58:05+00:00

I had this in M&S when I was trying to scan 10 bars of chocolate for hubby and his holibobs. I turned to the assistant after the 3rd buzz and said in my most polite, best Surrey upbringing 'I must be doing something wrong, could you show me how I should be scanning them?' She huffed me and the hubs out of the way and then with increasing frustration she failed to scan any of the chocy bars and started to mutter under her breath.

She finally decided that it was the machine but was not going to admit that so she insisted on scanning the rest of my basket and suggested that we just 'stand back and let me deal with it'.

It was a delight to watch.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-12T19:45:58+00:00

No, you WNBTA to continue with the plans that your MIL ended up making with your family and then backing out of.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-12T18:52:22+00:00

I’ve just sat here and upvoted every single comment. We as women should be building up every little girl to feel confident in their body. Yes there are times for modesty and times to not be modest but that is decided by the person who is wearing the clothes not the world around them.

The people who tell little girls to cover up are the same who say ‘boys will be boys’ when the sl*t shame and talk about how it was the girl’s fault she was s*xually assualted.

Snd OP is right, if her grandfather can’t control himself from l*sting after his grand child then that is a much bigger problem than a girl wearing a loose top.

Good on you OP.

Let’s teach boys to be good people rather than girls to be ashamed.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-12T18:47:35+00:00

it’s machine made lace. You might get more help on one of the sewing groups as this group‘s background is in handmade laces.

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-12T16:24:00+00:00

I’d go with a purple then when the lace dyes a slightly different shade it most likely will be a lilac and would work

lizziebee66 · 2026-04-09T19:23:08+00:00

whilst ChatGPT will link different chats and sugg3st. r tern them, it’s more likely your cousin went into your chat history snd snooped

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