Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

He was the bloke in the three-piece suit, that'll make him stand out.......

It would in my town - he'd be the only one. In fact, one day I saw a bloke in a smart 2 piece suit and carrying a laptop case.... up the road I saw a girl in a skimpy bikini at the bus stop waiting for a bus ... when I got home and online I told my friends I'd seen a man in a suit!



Hope you enjoyed the Scillies.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

It would in my town - he'd be the only one. In fact, one day I saw a bloke in a smart 2 piece suit and carrying a laptop case.... up the road I saw a girl in a skimpy bikini at the bus stop waiting for a bus ... when I got home and online I told my friends I'd seen a man in a suit!



Hope you enjoyed the Scillies.

We had a wonderful time in the Scillies - swimming, sailing, snorkeling, walking, and making sandcastles. OH swam from St. Martin's to Tresco at high tide, and OH and Isaac together paddled a double kayak from Tresco to St. Martin's and back again.

Davesnave

LydiaJ wrote: »

The big event in our house today was DS clicking "submit" on his online application for secondary school. I let him click it himself. Interestingly, although he's been unwavering in his certainty that he wants to go to a particular school (which is fortunately the one I want him to go to and the one in whose catchment we live), and adamant that he doesn't want to waste time going to open evenings at any other schools, he found it quite stressful making it definite by actually clicking the button, and had to be reassured that he could change his mind later and resubmit any time between now and 31st Oct.

lostinrates wrote: »

this deserves a post of its own. What an amazing child he is, very responsible.

It's a tough decision, if the child makes it, and it sounds like your DS did. Many don't, although they often say they did to their mates!

DD1 chose when she was 10, but not until she and her friend had toured their top two choices during normal lessons, not just on open evening. They attended those twice as well, in Years 5 & 6. It was a very drawn-out process!:(

Neither girl wanted to go to the usual single-sex schools in the city. In DD1's case she'd been adamant about this since infant school, when she found out what happened at 11. The other child was in my Year 6 class, and she was also a determined, self-motivated child.

Both children failed to gain their first choice place because they'd applied to a co-ed school outside their catchment. Both appealed. DD1 didn't trust us to do it 'right' so she wrote her own letter of appeal to add on to ours.

It was a stressful time, especially as DD had no interest of going to any other school with vacancies. Her Plan B was to stay at home!:eek:

Both girls won their appeals. They were the only representatives of their primary school, and that too was hard, but for the 7 years there, they continued to believe they'd made the best choice. It was probably a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Of course, being a sibling, DD2 walked into the same school without any problems at all. Luckily, it really was the 'right' place for her.

SingleSue

Well, I finally have my car back after two days of being at the garage for the MOT. It did fail it but not to such an amount it was not worth having the work done....I am just so relieved to have a car again, especially as the boys have had to go in a taxi to school (dad took pity on me and paid for it) and this morning, the school managed to misplace youngest son for a couple of hours!

I was in such a tizz when I got the text to say he was absent, normally I can say I handed him over to his helper or watched him go through the double doors but I couldn't say that as the last I had seen of him was him going off in a taxi and my imagination was running amok...thankfully they found him in the lesson he should have been in, PE.

Mind you, he is so diddy in height, he is easily missed :rotfl:

Davesnave

SingleSue wrote: »

....I am just so relieved to have a car again,

Me too, though in my case the money was purely to rectify a fault they created during the last MoT/service, which wasn't a mechanical fault, but a fault with the light which warns of a fault! So, £165 to make a light go out.:(

But it was cheap compared with the alternatives.

Their courtesy car was so bad, mine felt brilliant when I got it back!

silvercar

DS1 got a place at the only grammar school within a reasonable distance, though officially out of cztchment area. It was the sort of place you didn't turn down and he was delighted to go there.

We were also delighted, right school for him and it meant we could send next one privately if necessary.

DS2 wanted to go to the school that all his primary school chums were going to. I refused to let him. We had tears and tantrums when he secured a place and I wouldn't let him take it. It took him over a year to settle but eventually admitted I was right. Now he can see how right that decision was, he is very happy.

lemonjelly

Wheezy wrote: »

Not really. It's limited to muscle flexing, kicking bad guys and looking menacing.

You missed the standard splits in every single movie...

lemonjelly

Wheezy wrote: »

I always thought Poirot was a fictional character

So we already have Van Damme, Herge, Clijsters, Henin, Merckx and Poirot. Add Adolphe Sax and we come to 7 famous Belgians. Who ever said Belgium was boring??

Just don't mention Jelle Van Damme!:mad:

lemonjelly

sss555s wrote: »

He's real and he comes from Belgium and rides on the Orient express wheezy :cool:

I thought everyone knew that :eek::D

The only other i can think of the top of my head is King Leopold 11 who made a bit of a name for himself back in the day :eek:

Enzo Scifo?

Kudos for Eddie Mercx.:T

lostinrates

urgh...my neck is covered in horrid spots now.

I ave revised my to do list for the weekend, but got most of the jobs on it done. I have also found my passport...that was a bit stressful. It was in the bag I took to Italy in May.


Question: Monsoon have a pair of red cord culottes. I think they are rather cute.....though I'm picturing them in my mind with knee high brown leather boots (which I do not have) and me riding in them...which isn't going to happen.

Culottes were a fashion crime in the 80s.....will I look back at A/W 2011/12 with embarrasment if I spend it in culottes?