Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Don't know if anyone is looking for a new phone, but with Tesco mobile have a great deal on Android handset (HTC Wildfire) for £15 per month for 750 minutes, 500 texts and 500mb data. Have transferred mine today.

I would be, but I don't understand them yet... I know michaels (for one) keeps putting in a link saying "you want this", but it's on my "To Do" list to find that and list what I want/need from a phone and specifically enquire that link against that list.



I need to enter the 19th century and get a proper phone with internet and good phone capabilities now... it's time... nearly.

I saw some brilliant aerial photos taken by some photographer last week, taken on a Nokia N8 that made me think "OMG, want that camera phone". It's £300 to buy, or £30/month (I think)... without researching it for more than 2 minutes.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

There were ZERO c0ck ups on my watch!

Sounds like there's a job going for you somewhere in lirland! I agree btw, she sounds vile (eta: just read this back and mean the woman on the phone, not lir of course). One thing you won't need to worry about though, I've yet to meet a French vegetarian. Whenever I go to France as a veggie (I worked for a French company for 16 years) they look at me as if I am mad.

PasturesNew

Feeding students: Most of my families went to Lidl and bought up stocks of:
- fruit (an apple/orange a day each)
- fruit juice
- bread rolls and bread
- packs of ham/cheese
- multi-packs of crisps
- multi-packs of small bottles of drink

Evening meals tended to be regular English family food, so oven chips, cottage pie, knock up a stew.

Breakfasts were Lidl cereals.

Breakfast: Cereal, toast, coffee/tea, fruit juice (must be offered a hot drink)
Lunch: 2 filled rolls, pack of crisps, a chocolate biscuit bar, piece of fruit, bottle of water/juice
Evening meal: 2 courses and a hot drink

The above list for breakfast, lunch, evening meal were what the school listed.

If yours are French .... I think I've got a "french/english food translator sheet" on this PC from back then too (I'd hand that out so the families could hand it to the kids to point at if they had food communication problems; can't have the kids starving for not knowing what was on the plate in front of them)... although [a] I might have got rid of it by now and ... there's probably an "app" for that??

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

...One thing you won't need to worry about though, I've yet to meet a French vegetarian. Whenever I go to France as a veggie (I worked for a French company for 16 years) they look at me as if I am mad.

If they're young Frenchies though, things might be different. I think I had about 1-2 per coach of 70.

PasturesNew

One thing to remember LIR is .... the kind of kids that go on trips are the wealthier ones; they've come from good homes.

Some things that struck me about the ones I managed were how polite they were. In the mornings, the boys would greet each other with a handshake!!! There was no "boisterous" behaviour, no tumbling off the bus while play-fighting, like you get with Brit Brats.

The homes that tend to take them in tend to be the "less wealthy".... so your place will be one of the posher homes the students stay in.

Malcolm.

Hello nice people/ friends,

As many of you noticed I haven't been around for a while. I'm logging to let you know I'm OK.

THANK YOU for all the kind messages, they mean A LOT to me. It's good to know that I've made friends and my time on MSE hasn't been wasted.

I may be relocating to the Bristol area soon, which will be an upheaval for the family. If anyone knows of nice areas of Bristol, preferably near to the airport, I'm all ears?

Catching up on how you are, reading the nice people thread, will take me some time.

I hope everyone is well!

x

PasturesNew

Malcolm. wrote: »

Hello nice people/ friends,

As many of you noticed I haven't been around for a while. I'm logging to let you know I'm OK.

THANK YOU for all the kind messages, they mean A LOT to me. It's good to know that I've made friends and my time on MSE hasn't been wasted.

I may be relocating to the Bristol area soon, which will be an upheaval for the family. If anyone knows of nice areas of Bristol, preferably near to the airport, I'm all ears?

Catching up on how you are, reading the nice people thread, will take me some time.

I hope everyone is well!

x

Nothing's near to the airport.... it's in a field in the middle of nowhere

Malcolm.

PasturesNew wrote: »

One of the olds just got back from the quacks.... advanced "Big C". I think I'm going to end up stuck here if I don't shift out PDQ!

I'm sorry to hear this PN. My thoughts are with you and your family.

fc123

:hello::hello:
Never been to Bristol so no ideas from me unfortunately. Hope you are well.


Lir I cannot believe you have 2 students arriving tomo that you hadn't booked in........handy it was you as they will be fine and have a great time but, really....that type of appalling mis-management is inexcusable. You could shop her up afterwards maybe?...It could happen again and the outcome not be so good for the poor students.
Hopefully, they will love dogs and other animals.

Malcolm.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Nothing's near to the airport.... it's in a field in the middle of nowhere

I'll be forced to live in a tent.

What are the brentry, northille and/or stoke areas like?