Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

All but two hve hatched. The two are trying. I'm resisting the urge to help the (definitely) male one out...all though he is beautiful.

IveSeenTheLight

wageslave wrote: »

Oh I soooo miss Mewbie. I regard this as his forum.

The rest of us are mere satellites circling around his star.

You can circle his star as much as you want.
I'll stay well clear of that area.

Mewbie for me degraded so much discussion with a lot of tired old jokes.
He often posted not to take him seriously

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

All but two hve hatched. The two are trying. I'm resisting the urge to help the (definitely) male one out...all though he is beautiful.

So, when the time comes, will you be able to eat him?:eek:;)

SingleSue, have you looked into attendance allowance? All these trips to the hospital cost money, and the attendance allowance can help. Anyway, I hope your father gets better soon.

carolt

Hope it's going OK Sue.

Longer term, if your parents (both of them) need extra help, financial and/or practical, there is much available, but it does take several months of hard slog to find out and access everything required; my brother has been doing it for a relative on their own.

Age Concern, and related charities as well as social services have all been marvellous, but is a palava to get it all in place. I'm sure you need some help/support to be able to help out your parents. Any chance of your ex or parents-in-law helping you out with the kids, so you're in a position to help your parents?

Try not to worry about your course - if it's OU, they're v flexible.

Don't forget to take care of yourself, and best of luck.

Keep us posted on how it's all going.

carolt

tomterm8 wrote: »

I think so. We are keeping her in a pen so we can check her quite regularly. With hebrideans, they are a primative breed which tends to hide any discomfort, so we need to keep quite a close eye on her.

So far the lambs seem healthy and fine (cross fingers).



Thanks

They are a bundle of cute, and in a way its a nice skill to have. Traditionally hebs were a milk bred, so often they were taken away from mum after the first day anyway.




Another thing I've never done (raised chicks... we get our chickens at point of lay, because we're a bit lazy ). I'm betting they are really cute right now:)

Could you please please please cheer us all up with some pics of baby lambkins?

I love them - keep driving past them at the moment, and they are so adorable; I just want to pick them all up and cuddle them.

Exocet

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Mewbie for me degraded so much discussion with a lot of tired old jokes.
He often posted not to take him seriously

I am pleased to see that here at least is one forum where joking is frowned upon. So often are discussions turned into a "look at me" contest, when we should be looking at the bigger picture instead.

I prefer to read the copious output of fellow users, which can often be more coherent and intelligent than the widely despised Murdoch owned press. Indeed as I write here from my bunkerette under the Downs I am thankful to those who predicted Armageddon, and have not left my shelter since those early days (2004).

I look forward to reading from a fellow poster that it is safe to come out - I believe it is a lovely day outside.

btw ISTL - I suspect that despite your run ins and exasperation with the aforementioned, he or she probably felt kindly towards you.

StevieJ

Exocet wrote: »

btw ISTL - I suspect that despite your run ins and exasperation with the aforementioned, he or she probably felt kindly towards you.

SingleSue

carolt wrote: »

Hope it's going OK Sue.

Longer term, if your parents (both of them) need extra help, financial and/or practical, there is much available, but it does take several months of hard slog to find out and access everything required; my brother has been doing it for a relative on their own.

Age Concern, and related charities as well as social services have all been marvellous, but is a palava to get it all in place. I'm sure you need some help/support to be able to help out your parents. Any chance of your ex or parents-in-law helping you out with the kids, so you're in a position to help your parents?

Try not to worry about your course - if it's OU, they're v flexible.

Don't forget to take care of yourself, and best of luck.

Keep us posted on how it's all going.

Thanks....

My ex is no help because of distance away really apart from emotional support (strange that eh, he was not a stranger to verbal and mental abuse) and he was one of the first apart from my sister and brother I called when dad had the 1st stroke and again when dad had the 2nd stroke. We may be divorced but he still has fond feelings for my parents.

My ex mum in law has been having the boys for some of the time this past week alongside an old family friend and neighbour of my parents...she used to look after us kids when we were young, she has to be mid to late 80's by now but she doesn't look or act it! The boys have had such a lot of fun with her (the old family friend and neigbour), one afternoon she got all these old wooden shields and swords out of her garage that me and my brother had used on a carnival float about 30 years ago and the boys had great fun playing with them. She has taken them on walks to the park, on the beach playing pretend food with the stones and even walked all the way to MacDonalds and treated them to a happy meal.

Me and ex mum in law may not always see eye to eye on things (and never have to be honest) but she does come into her own when there is a family crisis, she was an absolute godsend when youngest was in hospital last time, picking middle son up and looking after him, coming up to the hospital so I could get home and get changes of clothing and a break away for an hour or two. The boys don't have as much fun with her as they do with the neighbour (they don't like the soaps and she does) but it is still very much appreciated.

With regards everything else (including attendance allowance), we are waiting to see how things pan out and what sort of recovery he makes in the short term. My parents are very proud people and will get by without the financial assistance if they can and they are not particularly keen on social services although there was talk when dad was in the hospital of adapting their bath to a walk in shower thing which they appeared open to the idea of. Also a stair lift (which we have been suggesting to them for some time, even if it was just for us to mess about on :rotfl:) as dad's mobility was not the best before and mum's mobility is getting worse as time goes on....they are now thinking seriously about this as well.

Mum says if worse comes to the worse, they will just change the living room into a bedroom for dad and get the downstairs toilet in working order again for him to use....something they had to do when dad had his accident in 1972 and was in a wheelchair initially, then onto crutches and finally his walking stick.

carolt

Glad to hear you're getting some support. Lucky for your kids that your parents have such a lovely neighbour and that your mil is helping out too.

In terms of mobility aids, there are all the zimmer-frames, rails attached etc things that are handy too. I suppose you'll just have to see what is appropriate when the time comes, but there is a huge range of useful stuff out there. In terms of help, it does sound like your mum is going to need some assistance, even if just short term till your dad is able to help her. Though I have no clues on how to persuade her of this...not easy to do.

Hope you're OK, Sue.

IveSeenTheLight

Exocet wrote: »

btw ISTL - I suspect that despite your run ins and exasperation with the aforementioned, he or she probably felt kindly towards you.

I had absolutely no anomosity towards Mewbie and occasionally he did bring forward some points for consideration and discussion.

Far too often he derailed topics though