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About joyphil

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    Heeley
  • Interests
    Rock climbing, surfing, reading, food and music
  • Occupation
    Painter, decorator, interior designer
  1. Where be the Dove and Rainbow? Thanks for the tip though. Shall investigate.
  2. A client of mine is starting a catering business, doing mainly event catering of various types. We are working on how to keep overheads reasonable, and the option of sharing a kitchen with another catering concern seems quite attractive. Is there anyone out there who has a catering business that could buddy up and share overheads? If so, drop me a PM and I'll put you in touch with my client.
  3. Ah, it's the fine distinctions. The term required here is Worcester sauce. Worcestershire sauce is a generic term and could apply to any old spicy relish in the style. The Worcester sauce of distinction and fame is Lea and Perrins, a grand company with a grand factory up on the west side of the city centre. It emits a spicy aroma that pervades the local area. Said part of town is very heavily populated by people of asian sub-continental origin drawn, tis said only partly in jest, by the heady musk of molasses, vinegar, spices which announce L&P's fabled 'secret recipe'. Ah, the mystique of relish...
  4. Giving rise to the popular expression 'vinegar strokes', no doubt... You could be onto something there however, as both Henderson's and Lea and Perrins' fine sauces (I sit on the fence, as I grew up in Worcester and now live in Sheffield, and so have both in my cupboard) go well with cheese.
  5. We have a near neighbour who moans constantly should anyone park anywhere near his place. He believes in his inalienable right to park on a particular spot near to his back gate, over and above the equal needs his back yard-sharing neighbours may have. Or indeed the people who use the little industrial shed behind. Which will be myself and Mrs J. I realised this was more than the usual pathetic parochial swillbin when he demanded the other day that my wife train our dog not to mark the back yard gatepost, as the emissions may harm his small children. Being a more upward-thinking bod I'd personally have gone for training the little tards not to lick dog piddle from gateposts, but hey... Now I can and do deal with this irritant by employing the disdain he deserves. However, what is objectionable is that he has bullied his next door neighbours so badly that they have put their house up for sale. That is really very out of order, and will only cause the people he irritates to do their utmost to annoy him. Hurrah!
  6. Are you sure? We've got a really nice oval Saarinen-style white tulip-base shagadelic Sixties one at the moment...
  7. Much less expensive, mostly. We tend to sell things like sideboards and dining tables for 100-150 quid. These are solid wood, beautifully crafted pieces that remain undamaged after over 40 years' use. Lovely things. What's fun about working with them is that these pieces have been loved for decades, and tend to go to homes where they will be appreciated anew. Most satisfying. I can't see us punting Billy bookcases in 2048 to happy new owners, somehow. The 60s and 70s stuff often has nice clean lines too, which sit well in old or new builds and can be accessorised with all sorts of stuff, ancient and modern.
  8. Well, we deal in mid 20th Century furnishings. Most people expect our home to look rather like Austin Powers' pad. But in reality we mix and match, an Eames armchair sitting by an Ercol table with 18-century country dining chairs around it. It seems to work...
  9. Oh deary dear... Funnily enough, I spent a few weeks in a flat within the old police station on Langsett Road. Turned out the ghostly whisperings of "now then, now then, what's going on 'ere then?" were the utterances of the long-departed Chief Inspectre. Spooky.
  10. Kind of eeh bah gum versus eager bum? Alternatively, there may be mileage in South Yorkshire Pie-eyed. To be held down Ecclesall Road on a Friday night near you. For people who can't remember anything at all about life, modern or ancient, straight or otherwise. Hmm..
  11. Many thanks. Have sent a PM regarding this. And much joy with the impending arrival...
  12. Well to be honest, no. It's not a particularly impressive edifice. It is however where I keep my office, and I'd like to be able to work there after normal hours without feeling unwelcome and terrified, and watching my dog cringe himself as tiny as possible under a table while I try to answer emails as if nothing is happening. Trust me, there's nothing significant about the building and I'm sure it doesn't need a 'reputation'. This could, as some feisty rationalist will at some point be unable to resist pointing out, all be in my febrile imagination.
  13. Righto. Rationalists please pass by, there's nothing to see or sneer at here. I have a simple problem and I seek a simple answer. My place of work is, I suspect strongly, a tad haunted. Certainly enough to prevent me working there alone. This is causing me productivity problems. Is there anybody out there, as it were, who is slightly more discerning in paranormal matters than myself, who might be prepared to check out a building in the Meersbrook area one evening, and advise me upon what best to do. I know a bit about clearing, exorcism and things between. But until somebody better qualified than myself has had a shuftie I know not how best to proceed. I need a spook surveyor, I guess. If not a fee, then several restorative jars at the Sheaf View are on offer as payment!
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