Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

I know now what was wrong. Its all rather embarrassing and female. Panic over, sorry to have panic posted.

Davesnave

I'm having a few issues with MSE just now & I've lost 2 posts to PN, but the gist of them was that confusion with time/day & night is very common with the early stages of dementia. With Dad, he'd have good, lucid days and awful confused days, which probably related to a physical cause, like blood flow to the brain.

Anyway, the thing to hang on to is that they're not doing it on purpose. Hard I know, especially when it's dark at 4am, and yet they still ring you to ask why the hell you haven't picked them up to visit Morrisons!

After one too many midnight visits to the PO to collect his pension, the taxi company eventually stopped responding to Dad's calls altogether, so the time confusion wasn't stuff he just visited upon me.

Dad didn't like the sound of Attendance Allowance either, but the social worker sold it to him as a medical extra. If you can't bully the olds, could you get a social worker to intervene for you? (with the backing of your siblings)

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

If you can't bully the olds, could you get a social worker to intervene for you? (with the backing of your siblings)

We've never had any social workers in the family ... how do you get one of those?

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've been away, so will be posting some stuff relating to what you lot posted days ago.

Firstly, the above quote. What on earth does it mean?:o It makes absolutely no sense to me.:o

I can see the words are english - the language I speak. But it has a completely different meaning I think!;)

I had no idea, I did post "what's the list?", but I assumed it was some posh sentences that only posh people would understand.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

so....I collapsed today. Anyone can faint and its really hot . I don't know if I fainted or if it was a brain broken type of thing (it was a big symptom early on but rarely happens now). I've scared myself silly and I'm shaking like a leaf.

Awww. That'll be all the excitement of knowing us, the nice people ... you were simply overwhelmed knowing that you're nice.

Hope it's just one of those things and you're not broken.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

I know now what was wrong. Its all rather embarrassing and female. Panic over, sorry to have panic posted.

Don't apologise. You make it sound as though unexpectedly collapsing is just part of being female, and you ought to be used to it by now. But that's not true. Regardless of the root problem, coming round after collapsing when alone in the house is very scary.

Glad you're feeling better.

lemonjelly & fc , good to have you back. :hello: Anybody know if wageslave is OK?

NDG - my parents use "scullery" to refer to what anybody else would calll the kitchen (where the cooker and sink are) and "kitchen" for what most people would call the breakfast room (where the table, dresser, breadbin & toaster are). To avoid confusing my kids, I'm now using "kitchen" to mean both bits together - the door connecting them is always open unless some child is having its height measured on it.

All our heights (measured for birthdays and half-birthdays) are still on there, plus my kids and sometimes my nieces/nephews/cousins if they've been there at the right time, plus dogs as well. When they redecorated, they painted the rest of the door, but not the strip up the middle between the panels, where the heights are. When they leave the house, I think we'll have to take the door with us!

PasturesNew

We've only ever had a kitchen. And small ones. Usually about 7'x8'. Sculleries are what you see in mansions on the telly.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

All our heights (measured for birthdays and half-birthdays) are still on there, plus my kids and sometimes my nieces/nephews/cousins if they've been there at the right time, plus dogs as well. When they redecorated, they painted the rest of the door, but not the strip up the middle between the panels, where the heights are. When they leave the house, I think we'll have to take the door with us!

I love that sort of thing.

michaels

I think the list is people who have had their phone hacked by NOTW - LIR is practically royalty (queens niece or similar) so unsurprisingly her 'circle' are of interest to the NOTW.

Weirdly DW will not let me measure how tall the kids are, apparently it is like measuring up for a coffin and very bad luck...

Edit: I'm glad the builders have got the new roof on but I'm thinking may be I should have had them building an ark: http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/4281?area=AL1

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

We've only ever had a kitchen. And small ones. Usually about 7'x8'. Sculleries are what you see in mansions on the telly.

My Granny had a scullery, a kitchen, a sitting room and a drawing room downstairs. 3 bedrooms and a small bathroom upstairs. I think it was a Northern thing: not keeping food in the cooking area perhaps???

She most definitely didn't live in a mansion; her husband was a factory foreman. I've always seen the scullery as being a working class (upper working class?) thing. Posh people didn't need them as they didn't go into the kitchen, the servants did.

Back to Aus tomorrow. Crivens I'm tired. I despise the class thing in the UK. It should have been gotten rid of at the same time as Charles I.