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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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lostinrates wrote: »that sounds lovely. Its very heavy rain here, and we're off to start a pre winter tidy of the barns having pulled out all the sunflowers.
It started raining at about 7pm, as Isaac and I left. It was lovely all day. Yesterday we went to a salvage / reclaim yard, and bought 4 doors and a "Smoker's Cupboard", which will be perfect for putting hooks in and then hanging keys etc.
Then we picked tomatos and beans, and the first sloes (on a south-facing hedge) and Mama and Isaac made gingerbread mans, gluten free, so my sister could eat them too.
Today, Isaac and Dad inspected spider's webs, and then collected acorns for an Isaac oak tree - it'll grow in a pot first, then be planted out later. Dad reckons that when Isaac's about 14 the tree will be taller than he is.
We then picked blackberries, made some damson jelly and sloe gin, and came home. A lovely weekend!...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 -
Is that Pro bono the trainee or the employer i.e. is the trainee paid by his employer for the Pro bono work?
For trainee solicitors, it's on the employer's time. For pupil barristers, it's on their own time....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 -
Oh to have a house where you have to traipse to the greenhouse to find a spider's web.;)
My mother exiles all spiders from the house to the garden (-:...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 -
lostinrates wrote: »That sounds nice Sue. Live music is always fun, even if its not terribly good its fun! When its good its a bonus.
How are your sore bits now?
Supper is a proper off the garden affair....apart from the pasta, the salt and pepper, everything in our mediterreaniean veg was grown or sourced here, in the garden or from a borrowed cow.
Yep! The boys had more fun pointing out the mistakes the band made........
Sore bits are still sore, so no standing whilst watching the band, I had to sit down the whole time. I have realised that along with my shoulder and back, I have also managed to do something to my hip...only realised when I had to start moving about on it to cook dinner.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 -
My old was handed a bag of drugs and told to come back next month, at which point they realised he'd been taking them wrongly ... so started him again (handing him another bag of drugs and telling him to come back next month). But it was all too little/too late.... by the end of that set he was unable to move more than 10', hadn't been eating more than 2 spoons of food/day for the past week ... and it was just 19 days later that the old was gone.The cancer story progresses, always good news and bad. I met the consultant for the first time, which was useful. Dad is responding better than expected to the chemo and with less side effects. So that is good news. In fact, staying there this week, we managed 2 mile walks each day - pretty good for a 71 year old in the midsts of chemo & cancer. Downside is that the cancer is inoperable (we knew that) which means that the chemo cycle lasts a few months then you get a break and wait for it to reappear, then start the chemo again. These breaks could be as little as 3 months (we didn't know that).
Sounds like yours is responding. Mine was obviously spotted way way later than yours.
Good luck, I know it's not easy - especially as you're not told a thing really.0 -
I remember when I was about 6-8, I'd get a bendy twig from a tree, curve it round so I was holding both ends between my finger/thumb, then I'd go round all the bushes with my circle of twig, swiping slowly through the webs to try to get them to stick to the twig, so they made a solid mass of web.... usually what happened is by the time I'd got the 4th or so I'd let the twig slip out of my finger/thumb and it'd pinged back to being straight... a few more goes and I was bored of that and would get a jamjar to go looking for ladybirds to collectneverdespairgirl wrote: »
Today, Isaac and Dad inspected spider's webs 0 -
That reminds me of that old-fashioned cartoon-style postcard.... nurse running after a patient with a pan of boiling water and a Doctor shouting "No nurse, I said pr1ck his boil".Just heard a good one on the radio, doctors and nurses from OZ, Canada and the US have to do a language test to work in the NHS but those from say Hungary or Romania are not allowed to be tested Don't you just love those EC rules? 0 -
Mine did that. Kidney, lungs... then liver in the last week.Unfortunately it has metastasised - I think. It was a small tumour in the bowel that spread to the liver, but little dots throughout the liver, rather than a single tumour. Sorry for the non technical explanation - third hand info.0 -
Hugs to silvercar, PN, and anybody else dealing with ill parents.
I visited mine today. My dad is doing well after his knee replacement, and they are hoping he will soon be well enough to take his caring role back up again, and are planning for Mum to come home from respite care after another couple of weeks. He can't drive yet, so I took him to visit her - nicer for him than going on the bus. It was all a bit manic - old people's homes are not the easiest places to control two energetic children - but she was pleased to see us, and enjoyed seeing DD's hamster, whom we took with us.
It's a good home, but nevertheless she isn't getting anything like the standard of care she gets at home with my dad in constant attendance. I think it would be all right to be there if you were physically limited but mentally OK, because there are lots of things organised for the residents to join in with if they ask to, and I saw several residents in wheelchairs sitting together, talking away, being friends with each other. Likewise, the physically able residents in the dementia wing seemed to be having a sociable time.
But my poor mum has Parkinsonism AND dementia AND a colostomy, besides having almost no voice and only being able to talk in a whisper, and a sort of dementia-related failure of initiative that means she can't seek out stimulation but only respond to it if somebody else initiates it. As far as I can see when she hasn't got visitors she sits alone in her room in front of a TV they've put on for her but which doesn't interest her. He's been visiting her daily since he got out of hospital, and organising a few other friends to visit too.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 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »My mother exiles all spiders from the house to the garden (-:
I keep spiders and intact webs in the house. We have a constant stream of flies from the dairy and I can use all the help going.0
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