Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

Eldest is ploughing his way through his exams, he enjoyed (yes enjoyed, weird child), his English exams but has not been too keen on the even earlier starts in the morning - paranoid parent here who insists he leaves earlier in the morning to make sure he is not late for the 8.30 exams.

I hate early morning exams. I'm guessing eldest works better in the afternoon. It's lovely to hear of children who enjoy exams. I hope J gets the results he deserves.

DH gets the children in our family (not our children - we don't have any) fired up, happy and less stressed out by talking about sitting an exam as 'going to a quiz session' or 'solving some puzzles'. Given that this is ultimately what exams are it takes the pressure off.

lostinrates

lostinrates wrote: »

Also its an in law (not the one Viva will think if she reads this, but their spouse). I really hate them.

I've softened from this position of hatred now too (which is much better for me, and of course would matter not a jot to them: they never knew!).

Its faded from a ''red'' hate to a sort of ''pink'' really think we have nothing to offer each other sort of feeling. It really was a very, very good bottle of wine I opened.

Davesnave

Gosh, what a good natter you lot had last night while I was on the M5, and then shopping in unfamiliar supermarkets. We have to use fuel (and time) efficiently out here in the sticks, so a trip 'oop norf' to fetch a tonne or two of composted bark is likely to turn into a full-blown shop....:(

My five pennyworth..

Longleat: my parents are scattered there, over the hillside at Heaven's Gate. They lived in Warminster for most of their retired years and had wonderful days there, mainly in the parts one doesn't pay to enter. Apart from that, avoid the Monkey Enclosure in the Safari Park, if you value your windscreen wipers!:eek:

Courgettes: I grow squashes too. The winter ones will keep for months, making their season much longer. I have far too many of everything planted, but hopefully I can sell some of the surplus, or give it away.

CDs in de trees: Yep, I've got those. I'll let you know if we manage to pick any cherries. No, Silvercar, blossom on the fancy double cherry varieties doesn't = cherries.:(

Exams: DD2 needs to raise her GCSE maths to C+ in order to go to Bournemouth College of Art, so she is cracking on with that, via Learndirect. Huge bloody waste of time IMO, but having visited every art college from Brum southwards and westwards, I can see why she wants to go there.

Now I am off to unload a huge pile of composted bark...Getting it into the van via a telehandler was errr...interesting....but getting it out will be just a long slog with a wheelbarrow. Who was it said, 'It's not easy, being green' ? Oh yes, and they made a good living out of it too.....:(

repeat after me: 'I will be peat free, I will be peat free. I will....':rotfl:

misskool

fc: How do those companies get away with paying so little rent? It's no wonder the council needs some efficiency advisors.

dave: why go peat free? Don't they regrow peat bogs or something nowadays? I've not found a good peat free compost brand yet (well, not one that doesn't involve a 25-mile round trip so the savings negate themselves).

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

for lir and the green ink:

Rowe vs Wade?
Rosa Parks vs James F Blake (or the Montgomery City Code)?

lostinrates wrote: »

you can be scarily clever! Hamish and mewbie have been replaced...too funny, so apt.

vivatifosi wrote: »

(blushes):o
Why thank you lir, but the reality is that I'm removed from the problem and had a vague idea of what makes a certain type of person tick.

I've been usurped! :mad: (or perhaps )

However, I feel I may have hit gold...

Nice peeps, I give you:

Kramer and Kramer

or

chucky & carolt:D

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've been usurped! :mad: (or perhaps )

Never Viva is able to take a more....informed view...knowing of the people involved....

...six people removed from knowing everyone in the world and all that. some of us probably even have acquaintances in common. Or know each other directly:eek:

John_Pierpoint

misskool wrote: »

fc:

dave: why go peat free? Don't they regrow peat bogs or something nowadays? I've not found a good peat free compost brand yet (well, not one that doesn't involve a 25-mile round trip so the savings negate themselves).

I think the point is that Sphagnum moss and other the other things "pickled" in bogs, take thousands of years to form and can be removed by a JCB in a day.

Here are 101 things that we did not need to know about moss bogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphagnum

silvercar

Exams: DD2 needs to raise her GCSE maths to C+ in order to go to Bournemouth College of Art, so she is cracking on with that, via Learndirect. Huge bloody waste of time IMO, but having visited every art college from Brum southwards and westwards, I can see why she wants to go there.

Mine's got maths GCSE today. His mates turned up last night for a last minute revision session that ended up with them throwing random past exam questions at me!

I think its so much harder to learn a subject you find difficult on your own, as you have no-one to tell you when you go wrong as you learn, its all a question of finding out at the end.

Doubly frustrating to have to pass a subject that bears no relation to your future studies.

Davesnave

misskool wrote: »

dave: why go peat free? Don't they regrow peat bogs or something nowadays? I've not found a good peat free compost brand yet (well, not one that doesn't involve a 25-mile round trip so the savings negate themselves).

In a word, marketing.

But it also makes sense from other POVs. I don't want to buy-in brands of compost, I mix my own. On site, I have enough good, free top soil to see me out, and I can pick up cornish grit for £65 a tonne delivered. Similarly, I can get composted bark at £35 a tonne if I get it myself (hard to source locally) and composted green waste even cheaper, if I buy by the lorry load.

Armed with that lot, my compost costs are minimal. To the various mixtures I can make with them, I'd add chemical fertilizer for non-edibles and chicken poo for the veg (which is short-term on-the-shelf IYSWIM.)

Win-win all round, and environmentally :A too (ish!)

Davesnave

silvercar wrote: »

I think its so much harder to learn a subject you find difficult on your own, as you have no-one to tell you when you go wrong as you learn, its all a question of finding out at the end.

Doubly frustrating to have to pass a subject that bears no relation to your future studies.

She likes working on her own; little bit of aspie in there, I think, and motivation is everything!