Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

treliac

Davesnave wrote: »

I know all about that, and sometimes one has to badger. My Dad had a cancerous finger, and it wasn't really my job to diagnose it, but after repeated failures of 'treatment,' I put the boot in, and it was sorted. One wonders if nobody bothers too much when they're around 85-90.

I was lucky to have a certain amount of flexibility within my employment, provided I was willing to accept a more junior role. Came as a bit of an eye-opener!

I'm glad your DH is weathering the employment storm; it will free you up to take on your other role if he's secure.

Thanks Davesnave. Like most of us, probably, I know how older people can be neglected but this latest episode has been a real eyeopener. My in-laws have always had a brilliant service from their GP's and I feel sure that the doctors from my younger days would not have let my mum's condition progress to the extent it did.

Her more recent and younger doctor is now getting things moving but it wouldn't have happened without my input and the district nurses (and I had to get them onboard myself!). I would really fear for anyone in her position who didn't have proactive children who knew/could find their way around the system.

silvercar

Question: Mould on the jam. Do you throw away the jam or the mould?

OH: the mould, its only there because the sugar has no preservative.
DS2: the jam, your disgusting, we can afford more jam.
DS1: What's mould, you mean your not meant to it......?

misskool

Scrape it off, eat the rest of the jam and tell the rest of the family to use a clean spoon to get the jam out. The sugar preserves the fruit but breadcrumbs/butter encourages mould to grow on there.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Scrape it off, eat the rest of the jam and tell the rest of the family to use a clean spoon to get the jam out. The sugar preserves the fruit but breadcrumbs/butter encourages mould to grow on there.

This.

Unless it was jam you were eating to be MSE not because you love it. Because jam is not a daily eating thing here, usually, and if I neglect to put it out in a dish/jampot then its hard for ''people'' to remember to use a spoon, so jam we love lasts a long time and occasionally gets mould which we remove.

DS 1 probably has the constitution of an ox.

GDB2222

I used to take the view that a bit of mould was good for you. Helped to keep your immune system up to date. That was until I ate a really really old, mould scrap of Stilton that had been forgotten at the back of the fridge for several months. I cut all the nasty bits off. Even so, I felt really ill for a day or two. So, I'm a bit more cautious now.

lemonjelly

misskool wrote: »

STOP me spending money

bought loads on the kindle store, bought a new cover, then the sales and I still have to get a car. No wonder people complain about January being the diet month!

lir: hope you get some heating oil soon and don't get too cold.

and waves back to LJ

:wave:

I would like to say I'm undecided on a kindle, except for the fact that the 2 posts quoted below sum up my feelings...:o

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never seen a Kindle, nor an iphone. Books are good though as you can put your finger on the page where you are, slide anything into the page to remember where you are .... and not look an utter tw4t when you whip out a book to read in a public place

lostinrates wrote: »

I've seen an iPhone and seen lots of annoyed looking jabbing fingers at iphones. For me book are wonderful enough. I love the smell of them, the feel of them. I know they take up space, but....what more wonderful looking thing is there than rows of book spines, the different colours and heights. The only think I don't like about books are the cost.

lemonjelly

silvercar wrote: »

So family discussion last night on what would we do with a room even longer than the one we had before.

Boys say table tennis table at one end and snooker table at the other with old sofa and beer fridge in the middle.

Turns out one of youngers friends has a room like yours. They have those folding wicker screens that can be taken down or moved around to make the room larger or smaller (or hide junk away).

OH says that, if it has lots of light and the garden down its length, you can make it an outside inside room. So bringing the garden into your home but weather proof. Lots of plants in big pots and furniture that wouldn't be totally out of place in a weatherproof garden. Wicker and those massive outdoor sofas tht no-one would really put in their gardens.

I'm with the boys on this one...;)

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Plus you can read a real book in the bath.:o

LIR this is wrong in so many ways.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

LIR this is wrong in so many ways.

why? Apart from the prune skin? I put a towel on the floor by the bath so I can keep drying the hand and to rest wrist upon in the side of bath to be comfy and keep book dry. The bath is the nicest place to be. I can't wait till we get a new bath here, the one here is mean and sharing it is no fun, we're looking at lots of double ended baths. DH fancies a copper one, and I guess he might win. I like the idea of a wooden bath, but it also sounds like hard work.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

why? Apart from the prune skin? I put a towel on the floor by the bath so I can keep drying the hand and to rest wrist upon in the side of bath to be comfy and keep book dry. The bath is the nicest place to be. I can't wait till we get a new bath here, the one here is mean and sharing it is no fun, we're looking at lots of double ended baths. DH fancies a copper one, and I guess he might win. I like the idea of a wooden bath, but it also sounds like hard work.

To me, the idea of the bath is the nicest place. I do love a bath, I remain convinced of its healing potential for the tired body which needs to rest & recuperate.

But the risk of splashing onto the precious book!:eek:
Plus if you're as clumsy as I am, you'll drop something sooner or later!:eek:
& lastly, you're sitting there in the dirty water for how long?:eek:

I had a friend who read in the bath. His baths lasted 4 hours, with regular top ups of hot water. I never understood the impracticalities of it myself.:)