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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Big hug to Sue. Sounds awful for all of you. Hope tomorrow is better, and middle son copes better with arts week than anticipated.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.
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lemonjelly wrote: »I do like De Botton's work, & it is relevant to this board. Only just started though...
good piece on Radio four this am by de botton, about economy and its inextricable link with moral philosphophy.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Sue your day sounds dreadful. I hope things are better tomorrow. You could do without another one like that. On the crime front do you like Peter James? He's very popular with my coworkers who tend to consider him as one of the better crime writers.
I have a feeling I may have read one or two of his books from a quick glance on Amazon but which ones I have no ideas....that said, from that quick glance, he looks like my cup of tea in reading so may well have to get some now!
So far a quiet morning here with no ourbursts thank goodness, I'm hoping my brother will be up to do my front garden as my path is being taken over with flowers etc which makes it difficult to walk down with my crutches....I did go out last week to trim the worse bit back (with nail scissors!) so that we could actually see the door clearly and made it safer for me to enter and leave the house but I really need him to do a proper job....I am famous for killing plants (no green fingers here, the only one in the family to be like that) and because I can't actually get down enough to clear the flowers/shrubs at path level without then needing a winch to get me back up! :rotfl: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 -
LJ funnnily enough dh and I were saying that with a shoicking hole in our education in english history its something we should rectify.0
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lostinrates wrote: »LJ funnnily enough dh and I were saying that with a shoicking hole in our education in english history its something we should rectify.
At this years Swindon literary festival. Went to a talk by Michael Wood (BBC historian) on how they involved a whole town in their own history. A place called Kibworth in Leicestershire. By having so many people involved they turned up items from Roman , Viking and Saxon periods. Enabling to map developement of the town.
At the end he said a very interesting comment. People of the 50's have closer ties with those periods than they do with us today. As technology has totally changed the world.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »LJ funnnily enough dh and I were saying that with a shoicking hole in our education in english history its something we should rectify.
I know some history, although not enough. I'm learning a surprising amount more by watching Horrible Histories with my kids, though.
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 -
I know some history, although not enough. I'm learning a surprising amount more by watching Horrible Histories with my kids, though.
Dh studied no real UK history. I studied some when I came to Uk but really remmeber very little history taught at primary stage. Then it seemed to be Tudors, WWs and wall street crash (we seemed to spend a lot of time looking at US 20th century in fact, war from that perspective). In fact, I rememeber more classical history gleaned from Latin classes than I do history from history classes. To be fair to my secondary school history teacher I'm afraid it was on a late afternoon, history, on thurs, and I was always just breaking at that point by then in the week and took very little in and frequently just had to be sent from the room in slightly histerical fits of the giggles (and it probably would have been tears if not giggles). I was not an easy child.:o0 -
HH Civil War report and songs about the Civil War and Restoration. Not quite what jelly's looking for, I suspect, but they're remarkably effective at getting my 7 & 10 year olds interested.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 -
lemonjelly wrote: »I meant to post on the last NPT a big thanks to doozer for posting the update on Daisy & the monkfish situation.
I miss the inspector. I hope he's back by the time the footy season starts.
I need to update peeps on what I've read recently, so will do so now as I have time. I will spare the detailed precis of each though:
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Seconded with regards to the Inspector and Daisy, BTW who won the fantasy football?
Did you read that book The Sett that I put up a while back? I am just reading it again, forgot how weird it was, I noticed that it kicks off not far from you with Badger Baiters in Kinver Wood near Kingsford. I can't believe it is a true story although it does name check real people and organisations.
Edit: I never realised that Staffordshire stretched that far South, A bit like Southern Ireland stretching that far north.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sett-Sir-Ranulph-Fiennes/dp/074932161X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310909882&sr=8-1'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
lostinrates wrote: »LJ funnnily enough dh and I were saying that with a shoicking hole in our education in english history its something we should rectify.
Tut tut. You should.
https://www.webhistoryofengland.com...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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