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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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I mooch around this board trying to extend my meagre knowledge of banks/finances etc and have much appreciated your input Generali.
Hope everything goes to plan for you.0 -
It is very windy up on the roof. They had some panels secured to the scaffolding with a bungy cord, waiting to be installed. The wind blew so hard that it snapped the bungy cord and blew the stack of panels over. One of them is broken. They are rushing about deciding what to do about it. I am not worried. If they can't get a replacement today, they'll just bring one tomorrow when they come to do my neighbour's ones.
ETA The project manager has just come to apologise and explain what happened. I've said I saw that they had secured the panels with the bungy cord, and I was in the garden and heard it when it happened, and I don't think it was their fault. He said he's just phoned his manager, who said there were some crews who'd decided today was too windy for installing panels at all, and maybe they should have postponed it. I'm so glad they didn't. I haven't got to be in work today, and can get away with going in late tomorrow, but it'll be half term before I've got two days at home in a row like that again. So, as I expected, they're going to finish installing everything else today, and then tomorrow morning they will fit the last panel before moving next door. Poor bloke, he looked so relieved and grateful that I didn't get cross about it.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
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Aww, I will miss your posts Generali...always very informative.
Last day of school holidays here, eldest has been allowed to stay on in the 6th form after his very eek AS level results but he has hit the reboot button and is doing different subjects bar one, so it will mean not leaving next September as planned but the year after....I thought it was a very mature decision as a fair few youngsters (and I was one of them), would have given in and most certainly would not have signed up for 3rd year at school.
He has taken the view it is much better to get it right and do it now even if it means staying on an extra year than not and possibly regretting it in later years. I did think his choices last year were a step too far bearing in mind his dyslexia but he could not be told and I didn't want to be overbearing and so it proved true but I think the subjects he has chosen now are more to his likes and strengths....although he will not stop creative writing and poetry, his short stories are very haunting, very dark (he once got the school very worried about his mental state when he wrote a short story regarding suicide in the first person!)We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
He is a very level headed young man, Sue. Well done him, and well done you, too. What subjects is he going to do now?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
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That's not really on is it ... I mean ... we're your mates. You need to be teaching US how to be doing the same too!I'm going to take a break from posting here after today. I have a plan to 'retire' in about 5-6 years and I need to focus on professional life for a while.
Be good kids!!! 0 -
Ironing? Ironing is an unknown activity. There is an old ironing board somewhere - and an old iron (complete with burnt bits on the base), but nobody does any ironing round here .... and none's been done for about 20 yearsIf you explain to a cleaner what the situation is you can get help with the tidy bits and increase their working area the further through the house you get. Just having someone to clean the loo and kitchen would help you. Perhaps they could do the ironing to pad out the time until you can free up some more space for them to clean in.
Cleaners are paid to clean. They don't mind dirt and mess. I used to be a cleaner in the dim and distant so I should know. Where there's muck there's brass! 0
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