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

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

We buy milk from the supermarket - it typically says it will last 10 days and generally is still fine after 10 days if there is any left - do others buy different sorts of milk?

(I have to admit I only use it on cereal occasionally so am far from an aficionado on great tasting milk - unlike water where I got the company to switch water cooler suppliers as I didn't like the taste of the first one they had)

We don't all have sooper-dooper posh people fridges though!:p

lemonjelly

Back on track, I see the conservatives want to re-raise the ET limits back to 2 years (a shocking decision, as will just erode employees rights so significantly).

Also interesting is the reversion to blame politics:

conservative: we're in this position because of the mess left by the last government!
interviewer: so how come none of your policies are having the desired effect. Surely you need to review your strategy?
conservative: our policies aren't getting the results we'd hope for because of the world economic breakdown!

Is it me, or is that a case of having your cake & eating it?

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

the results we'd hope for because of the world economic breakdown!
Is it me, or is that a case of having your cake & eating it?

A bit.

But here is a metaphor:

the british economy is a bucket of water , the world economy water. If the labour government drilled holes in the bucket the conservatives can plug holes, but they still have to pray for rain or floods which the world's water table ain't providing.

we might be better developing desalination possibilities and laying pipes.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

We buy milk from the supermarket - it typically says it will last 10 days and generally is still fine after 10 days if there is any left - do others buy different sorts of milk?

(I have to admit I only use it on cereal occasionally so am far from an aficionado on great tasting milk - unlike water where I got the company to switch water cooler suppliers as I didn't like the taste of the first one they had)

Milk does last ages in the fridge now because of the processes. we also have unprocessed milk which doesn't last more than three days in the fridge IMO.

I taste water differences too. I'm actually surprised more people don't.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Thanks - after posting I also googled and ended up in exactly the same place you have quoted from. Obviously the fact that the probability increases with the incidence is relevant but someone is going to be in the unlucky 0.0001% of any distribution with a large enough population.

Absolutely true, as there are of the order of 500k children born in this country each year.

At this point, though, you start to think that there are two possible explanations. The first is extremely bad luck. The second is that there is some undiagnosed complication to the pregnancies which is causing the miscarriages. As a pure guess, I should think that the probability of the latter is around 100 times higher. Given that there is a high emotional cost in these repeated miscarriages and they already have a healthy child, the obvious course is to stop trying.

PasturesNew

OK .... so I had a phone call ..... old was determined to escape, they say it's an increased risk as the old is allowed to leave/do what they want, but they've identified that actually the old's not entirely the full biscuit (not got anything like the "d" word, just unaware of danger etc).... so ..... the old is back home and I now have to go and do a full removals to get their stuff back here .... so just popped in to say so. Narrow staircase + stannah prevents things easily going down the stairs, so it's a pain in the butt all round.

Now .... this means I have to move out, so will be getting boxes tomorrow and moving out by the weekend....

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

A bit.

But here is a metaphor:

the british economy is a bucket of water , the world economy water. If the labour government drilled holes in the bucket the conservatives can plug holes, but they still have to pray for rain or floods which the world's water table ain't providing.

we might be better developing desalination possibilities and laying pipes.

Or maybe, a better analogy is that governments trying to control the british economy are like King Canute trying to control the tides.

It works, for as long as the tides let it.

And then the tide comes in.

At the moment, and since 2007, there has been a tidal wave coming: it wasn't actually controllable by the labor government, neither can the Tories do much about it. But whoever is in office at the time, gets the blame.

tomterm8

PasturesNew wrote: »

OK .... so I had a phone call ..... old was determined to escape, they say it's an increased risk as the old is allowed to leave/do what they want, but they've identified that actually the old's not entirely the full biscuit (not got anything like the "d" word, just unaware of danger etc).... so ..... the old is back home and I now have to go and do a full removals to get their stuff back here .... so just popped in to say so. Narrow staircase + stannah prevents things easily going down the stairs, so it's a pain in the butt all round.

Now .... this means I have to move out, so will be getting boxes tomorrow and moving out by the weekend....

That's a !!!!!!, you must be so annoyed.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

That's a !!!!!!, you must be so annoyed.

actually, I'm quite worried for PN, as she doesn't want to be a carer yet seems to being pushed towards this role.


I'm afraid whether its the d word or not, your Old can';t have it the way she wants it safely if she isn't the full biscuit.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

OK .... so I had a phone call ..... old was determined to escape, they say it's an increased risk as the old is allowed to leave/do what they want, but they've identified that actually the old's not entirely the full biscuit (not got anything like the "d" word, just unaware of danger etc).... so ..... the old is back home and I now have to go and do a full removals to get their stuff back here .... so just popped in to say so. Narrow staircase + stannah prevents things easily going down the stairs, so it's a pain in the butt all round.

Now .... this means I have to move out, so will be getting boxes tomorrow and moving out by the weekend....

So your mum is moving back home, but is she able to look after herself? I appreciate that you don't want to become carer of last resort, but I think you should alert your SS contact about this. If you don't have one, alert the emergency number.

BTW, you have my sympathy, MIL is getting more difficult all the time.