Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

Aspiring_Writer

treliac wrote: »

Thanks AW. I shall be getting this one - latest edition was last year. I, too, am an aspiring writer...

Hello treliac, can I ask, are you man woman or beast? not that it makes any difference at all, to anything! ...

Any help, tips or owt i can help you with, just ask ok?

treliac

lemonjelly wrote: »

Getting a first is one hell of an acheivemnet.

Build a huge neon sign above the house to announce it.

Employ a person to walk 5-10 steps in front of you to clear your path announcing "clear the path, mother of phenomenal talent coming through!"

Spoil her rotten this weekend treliac. She must've put in some real dedication & effort to get this.

Come monday though, I want her in a job, paying taxes, & working on redcing this deficit we have!:D

Thank you so much lj, and to everyone else who has made such lovely comments!

She certainly has been absolutely dedicated to achieving her goal and is a very hard worker and a lovely girl too. She's had some health problems to contend with as well, which have made her achievement even more fantastic.

As for the future, she already has a place to do a masters next year but she went out and got a job as soon as she finished at her current uni, which she will hopefully be able to keep running throughout and around the next course.... in fact she's at work right now.

Her long term aim is to be able to make a quite substantial contribution in an industry that's acknowledged to be in need of the skills and qualifications she is acquiring.

Oh, and she's dead chuffed, too, to be reading everyone's kind feedback. :T

treliac

Aspiring_Writer wrote: »

Hello treliac, can I ask, are you man woman or beast? not that it makes any difference at all, to anything! ...

Any help, tips or owt i can help you with, just ask ok?

Definitely not man... the others, well maybe that's debatable

No, I'm certainly female homo sapien. BTW, I have been wondering about you too. Are you new to this board, as it would seem, or have you previously been known by any other name? Please pm me if this is an awkward question. But I have only recently become aware of you and you seem to have settled in so quickly, you already seem like an old timer.

As regards writing, thanks for the offer. I've dabbled a bit but nothing serious. It's always an idea for the future and I ought really to get going. Family life and employment keep me pretty busy, so I always find excuses not to make the push forwards.

If and when I do, I shall remember your kind offer and, providing you stick with us, I shall pm you.

Cheers.

vivatifosi

Hi tre,

We've not been on the forum at the same time of late, but I wanted to take this chance to congratulate your daughter too. Also the job and the masters need not be mutually exclusive. If she gets a job she really likes, she could still do her masters a couple of years down the line when she knows how to juggle both.

treliac

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hi tre,

We've not been on the forum at the same time of late, but I wanted to take this chance to congratulate your daughter too. Also the job and the masters need not be mutually exclusive. If she gets a job she really likes, she could still do her masters a couple of years down the line when she knows how to juggle both.

Hi viva. Thank you very much too. :A

The job is a basic one, to earn some money to pave the way through the next year, not one of longer term choice. She wants to get her 'essential' education done as soon as poss, in order to get into work 'proper'. She's in the scientific arena, where learning and skills are important, rather than a more people focused area where a varied job experience would be a more essential component.

Aspiring_Writer

treliac wrote: »

Definitely not man... the others, well maybe that's debatable

No, I'm certainly female homo sapien. BTW, I have been wondering about you too. Are you new to this board, as it would seem, or have you previously been known by any other name? Please pm me if this is an awkward question. But I have only recently become aware of you and you seem to have settled in so quickly, you already seem like an old timer.

As regards writing, thanks for the offer. I've dabbled a bit but nothing serious. It's always an idea for the future and I ought really to get going. Family life and employment keep me pretty busy, so I always find excuses not to make the push forwards.

If and when I do, I shall remember your kind offer and, providing you stick with us, I shall pm you.

Cheers.

I too, wonder about me treliac, almost daily...:D

I am a man, all the time the moon isnt out...alright thats too many ellipsis points now, and a shameful yet unintended link, moon-ellipsis? oh dear

Anyway, well done to your daughter, you are obviously proud and rightly so. As for how long I have been here, since September as a member, posted here and there throughout various boards/threads but for various reasons not hung around them, found this and liked it.

I am constantly surprised by the wealth of knowledge and glimpses of different lifestyles on here. Fascinating, and the warmth and compassion aswell, that might be an allusion to one of the reasons mentioned above...

Thanks for your comments though treliac

misskool

first bucket of elderflower fizz. now to scrounge for some pop bottles.

lemonjelly

misskool wrote: »

male or female flowers? You know you can only get courgettes from the girly ones.

No idea. Never done this before.

What is the difference? How can I tell?:)

lemonjelly

treliac wrote: »

Thank you so much lj, and to everyone else who has made such lovely comments!

She certainly has been absolutely dedicated to achieving her goal and is a very hard worker and a lovely girl too. She's had some health problems to contend with as well, which have made her achievement even more fantastic.

As for the future, she already has a place to do a masters next year but she went out and got a job as soon as she finished at her current uni, which she will hopefully be able to keep running throughout and around the next course.... in fact she's at work right now.

Her long term aim is to be able to make a quite substantial contribution in an industry that's acknowledged to be in need of the skills and qualifications she is acquiring.

Oh, and she's dead chuffed, too, to be reading everyone's kind feedback. :T

You're more than welcome.

I hope she is as proud of herself as you clearly are. You both deserve to be.

She sounds an amazing woman! Wonder where she gets that from...?:D

Best to not overdo it though! She needs her R&R as much as the rest of us.:)

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I hope she is as proud of herself as you clearly are. You both deserve to be.

She sounds an amazing woman! Wonder where she gets that from...?:D

i like that bit. I think its very apt.

Right. in between chats here to day I have been helping pack MORE books. we think we'll have all the books done next weekend...(DH wants to stack them in the crates as he thinks I'll either injure myself or bring all the boxes down, so I'm allowed to pack this end but not pack them into the crates) . We have actually filled a storage crate with books.

In th last couple of years we actually were forced to ''bricking'' up a large window with books, we've had them under the bed, in drawers, in the wardrobe....as well as in storage and in the loft.

We're weeding out as we go. I'm quite shcked, because I knew we had a lot but this many?

One of the commitments we've made in buying the house is to replace a bit pulled down in the past, to give either two reception rooms or one very large one: I had thought this would be a lovely large and slightly girly drawing/music room....all 18th c style chinoiserie walls and pretty things....I think I'm having to face its going to be more gentlemens' reading room.

Off I'm off again now....just a few more boxes to pack tonight!