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  • Tevot
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1011

    Hello there

    Stormy outside at the moment - what with most of Nanjing exploding Chinese New Year's Fireworks

    Best Wishes,

    Tevot

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    • Anna

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      I feel sure it will!. What colours are you looking at to brighten your indoor life?
      Well, I have the colour in my mind, difficult to describe. It's like the shallows on a Caribbean beach, where the water is a little bit blue, a little bit green as you look down at the white sand - can you picture what I'm thinking? Light, delicate, sophisticated. (It's for the dining area)

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      • Flay
        Full Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 5795

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Well, I have the colour in my mind, difficult to describe. It's like the shallows on a Caribbean beach, where the water is a little bit blue, a little bit green as you look down at the white sand - can you picture what I'm thinking?
        This isn't quite right. Darker I think?

        Originally posted by Anna View Post
        Light, delicate, sophisticated.
        <sigh> I'm sure you are
        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          No, this is about right if you can find it. Good luck!
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Anna

            Originally posted by Flay View Post
            No, this is about right if you can find it. Good luck!
            That's more on the right lines, your first was far too dark, I'm looking at the shallows where the colour is very, very, subtle. (lovely beach though <sigh emoticon>)

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            • Flay
              Full Member
              • Mar 2007
              • 5795

              If this works, how about this colour?

              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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              • Anna

                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                If this works, how about this colour?
                https://www.dropbox.com/sc/1o9jboicyff2kdu/4-0Ioj1PV1
                Flay, you are being very sweet in helping but again, far too much depth of colour (at the moment I have quite a strong colour, I want it totally different) I want it very light, subtle but not nondescript. But there's the ceiling and coving to do first - dislike doing ceilings!

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37636

                  Originally posted by Flay View Post
                  If this works, how about this colour?

                  https://www.dropbox.com/sc/1o9jboicyff2kdu/4-0Ioj1PV1
                  It would make one's room look small, I'd think.

                  Still raining here, at a windless 6 degrees C - almost cold enough for gloves on the bike as I came back with the week's groceries. Last night the temperature had dropped to a very sleety 3 C by midnight. Thank heavens I got all the shopping done, if tomorrow's forecast is to be believed!

                  Snowdrops out here, as is our honey-scented Viburnum; I even caught sight of some toadflax in flower!

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                  • Flay
                    Full Member
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 5795

                    Originally posted by Anna View Post


                    Perhaps Dulux Lagoon falls would be better?
                    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                    • Anna

                      Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
                      It would make one's room look small, I'd think.

                      Still raining here, at a windless 6 degrees C - almost cold enough for gloves on the bike as I came back with the week's groceries. Last night the temperature had dropped to a very sleety 3 C by midnight. Thank heavens I got all the shopping done, if tomorrow's forecast is to be believed!
                      Snowdrops out here, as is our honey-scented Viburnum; I even caught sight of some toadflax in flower!
                      Well, you are loads warmer than here! We've been flatlining at 3.4° since 11am - it was warmer at midnight at over 4°, still windless, dull, misty. Haven't seen an updated forecast, but they promised dire things last Friday and Sunday which just didn't happen - so we shall see. Noticed lovely Winter Jasmine this morning but fewer snowdrops than previous winters, probably not been cold enought for them (not sure I'd recognise a toadflax)
                      Originally posted by Flay View Post
                      :Perhaps Dulux Lagoon falls would be better?
                      No Flay, that's far too green and chalky! But correct on lightness. Now, enough of colour swatches, I'll know it when I see it.
                      Last edited by Guest; 30-01-14, 15:18.

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                      • Flay
                        Full Member
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 5795

                        Initially I was thinking about a "feature wall" which would be darker. Still, I've discovered how to get a specific colour off a picture using Microsoft Paint and then copy it to Dropbox so the time was not wasted.

                        Gloomy in S. Yorks with drizzle, no wind, 3 degrees.
                        Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          South looks as though it will get another battering this weekend! :(

                          The government is all too quick in sending relief to other counties, but have they not taken their time to see to their own!?!!??
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37636

                            Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                            South looks as though it will get another battering this weekend! :(
                            I agree with that, BBM - as, even, does Brummie Simon, who for a change is not slagging people off for speaking of records being broken, as he doubtless strips down to the buff and breaks the ice to join his mutt for a soak in the bird bath... It looks like Aberystwyth is in for another hit along its prom tonight, and us getting our strongest winds tomorrow afternoon. No let-up anywhere, really, until the second half of February at earliest.

                            The government is all too quick in sending relief to other counties, but have they not taken their time to see to their own!?!!??
                            I don't think even ("even" ) the government can do much about the accumulated after-effects of 200 years of industrialised pollution; and, beholden as they are to this international system of bankers etc they're so privileged to live by, they have to help other countries, part of the equation, to keep 'em all sympathetic-like and on board.

                            Frankly, I'd hope that we'd help our fellow beings in need, whatever system we lived under, but so much suffering is down to the impoverishment our turning the gaze the other way has brought about, encouraged by having to buy obsolescent goods made by impoverished unregistered labour elsewhere, that our consciousnesses are pricked whenever corruption and starvation are brought to our attentions. It would be better if we had supported peoples trying to alleviate their lot in the facetiously-named "developing world", because the consequences of not having done so are now coming home to roots in the karmic guises of nationalism and religious extremism.

                            After watching her on Questiontime, I say, Kate Smurthwaite for Prime Minister!

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                            • BBMmk2
                              Late Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20908

                              :) SA!!

                              Certainly turned wild wet and windy! :(
                              Don’t cry for me
                              I go where music was born

                              J S Bach 1685-1750

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26524

                                Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                                :) SA!!

                                Certainly turned wild wet and windy! :(
                                Bloody 'orrible tonight isn't it?!? Chucking it down here!
                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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