Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm not a novel person, but I've heard fantastic reviews of Atonement from my co-workers. One of them also said that it was quite different from the other McEwan that they'd read, but I don't remember what that was.

My own head is still buried in "How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog". It is as easy to read as a book about QP can be, but I can still only cope with a few pages at a time before my head feels like exploding.

Go for it. I read mostly non-fiction, but you have to lose yourself in a good novel every once in a while and whilst I haven't read this one, everything I've heard has suggested you won't be disappointed.

That's what I needed.
I was suprised at how much non-fiction I read recently. I like to try something that is fiction occasionally just so I don't end up in a rut or bored with reading the same kinda stuff.

Plus it has been on the shelf for a long time, & I've heard good reviews too.

<rolls sleeves up & heads towards bookcase...>:)

SingleSue

Just back from youngest sons progress evening at school....and amazingly, it is pretty much positive news (although how much of that is allowance for his disability I have no idea).

I am very relieved to hear his maths grade has come back up to a 5a but he still has a way to go to be where he was when he started high school which will take time and they are working to give him a more stable enviroment (his last maths teacher went on longterm sick and he had a variety of teachers, changing classrooms etc which he couldn't cope with).

They have also discovered he has a rare talent for one so young in researching things, once the mood takes him, he will go full pelt into it and not be happy until he has researched and know the last little bit of info there is to have on the subject (oopps, he gets that from his mother) and has the side effect of calming him down..double bonus!

I was very impressed with his science teacher though, she along with all the other teachers mentioned about youngest not being able to communicate difficulties but it was only she who came up with a brilliant and workable idea to get around it (now he seems to have lost his TA's to a child with tourettes - they are supposed to share but the other child is finding things very difficult at the moment). Her idea is simplicity in itself, if he is having problems, rather than sit there and become more and more frustrated and stressed, for him to just lay a special piece of coloured paper on the table which will alert her to him having a problem...so no verbalising and drawing attention to himself in front of the other children.

A brilliant idea and from a very young teacher....I have no idea what they are teaching them now when they are training to be teachers but whatever it is, it is blooming good! It has tended to be the younger, new to teaching teachers who have been more attuned to dealing with children with differing needs and who are more willing to think outside of the box to get them learning (we have had some older ones who have been like this too but not so many), long may it continue!

Now does anyone have any suggestions to get a 17 year old to visit a doctor? Eldest has been having major problems with his hips sublaxing/dislocating the last few days but he just will not go to the doctors or speak to his physio about it. Obviously with him being 17 I can't just drag him up there (nor would I be able to, he is 6ft to my 5ft4!) but he really needs to get it seen to before he really damages them. I know he has not quite admitted to himself about the complications of the EDS, or at least doesn't want to anyway but he can't go on like this, last night he dislocated and had a hell of a job getting it back again and has now been left with a pain similar to someone punching him very hard in the joint alongside even more frequent sublaxtions (in the space of 5 minutes yesterday morning, he dislocated his shoulder and sublaxed both his hips).

Davesnave

Sue, my advice would be use good old emotional blackmail. Tell eldest that although he is too old for you to drag him to the docs, if he were younger, that's exactly what you'd do, so if he isn't taking on the responsibility, it's distressing for you. In other words, if he won't do it for himself, he should do it out of respect for your feelings.

It also happens to be true!

misskool

i've just spent most of the evening playing with a new phone and terrified to take it away with me for the weekend in case i lose it

silvercar

Now does anyone have any suggestions to get a 17 year old to visit a doctor?

Make the appointment and offer him a choice of going alone or with you. Usually when faced with a choice they argue between the choices rather than pick a third option. If he is now in pain, then he may be more willing.

GDB2222

Where to buy a domain name? I have a business idea, and I want to park the domain name as the first step. Who is cheap for parking domain names, and even better will they offer a cheap option to run the website when the time comes?

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Make the appointment and offer him a choice of going alone or with you. Usually when faced with a choice they argue between the choices rather than pick a third option. If he is now in pain, then he may be more willing.

He always wants me to go with him anyway.....keep telling him that he is growing up and doesn't need me there but he prefers me there to pass on his medical history.

Unfortunately, he is like me...he would rather carry on in pain than admit there is a problem.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Where to buy a domain name? I have a business idea, and I want to park the domain name as the first step. Who is cheap for parking domain names, and even better will they offer a cheap option to run the website when the time comes?

To buy the domain name I always use 1and1 now, keeps it easier for me to have them all (except one now) with the same firm, a firm that's big.

But parking is a specific action that you do once you have a domain name.

If you buy a domain name it's yours. If you then type the domain name into the browser/address bar you'll just get nothing, or the host's default 'parked' page.

If you want to try to profit from your parked domain name, then mostly, unless you've been keyword targetting names to do this, you won't get any traffic, won't get any clicks and it's a lot of effort for nothing.

But, I suspect you just mean "I want to buy a domain name and do nothing with it, except know it's mine and it's there when I want to do something".

Parking 1and1 domain names can be done through them once you've bought a domain ... but I don't know anything about it. I don't bother parking domains, they're either forwarded to another relevant domain I own, or just left sitting around.

PasturesNew

I've spent the day slowly picking away at my new website.... added four new pages. Only put a photo on one because the act of locating relevant photos for the rest and uploading them and linking back for attribution, then informing the photographer I've used their photo under the creative commons license ... was more than I could face today.

Four pages and then three hours spent researching one simple list.

It's all very slowly taking form. 4 pages down, about 196 to go

GDB2222

Thanks PN, I just want to buy it and leave it lying around until I'm ready to use it. I've heard of 1 and 1, so I'll give them a look. Thanks very much.