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

lostinrates

I wonder if PN and her mother could pool resources to buy somewhere that had accomodation separately that would later be useable as holiday let, so that PN could have an income...or would inheritance tax issues make that impossible?

Wheezy_2

sss555s wrote: »

Keep yer pecker up

michaels wrote: »

Is that even possible without medication at his age?

lemonjelly wrote: »

Practise & exercise helps michaels!:cool:

I was expecting someone to come up with a punchline to wrap this one up,

lemonjelly

Wheezy wrote: »

I was expecting someone to come up with a punchline to wrap this one up,

The empty net awaits you wheezy - the tap in is waiting for you!:D

lemonjelly

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

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.

trying to reply to this my computer shut down,....

the problem with both our constructs is that tidal waves are not man made, where as the economy is. Its thus not unreasonable to expect to be able, if not to control the game, to be able to play it....but not necessarily in a rough and short term.

GDB2222

The government's job is to take the blame. That's why the tories have the lib-dems alongside them.

silvercar

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 did they deliver old? Or did you fetch her?

How are you going to move out if old is there alone? where will you go?

I think you need a family conference.

silvercar

Milk, I have discovered filtered milk. Gets rid of more bacteria and lasts much longer. Tastes fresher too.

I also like this:

http://www.lactofree.co.uk/products/?gclid=CMmn2oz4zKsCFcRtfAodCDyh1w

which has the lactose neutralised.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

..able to look after herself? ...

No

GDB2222 wrote: »

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.

They don't care. They came, did an assessment, sent a big pack of stuff saying it'd cost over £300 to meet her needs, along with a list of agencies to phone to buy that help in. End of. Self-funded... get on with it.

GDB2222 wrote: »

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

They do. They get cantankerous and 4rsey - and their logic defies anything rational. They think they can care for themselves until you cross-question that. e.g. here "can you make yourself a meal?" "Yes" ... if you want toast every day - and how does that bread come into the house anyway? And who cleans up the mess you leave? Oblivious .... the breadbin fairies and the fridge fairies have always worked miracles and so the old assumes. And toast isn't a meal is it ....

Old cannot receive a chilled meal and look at the date and decide to freeze it, then defrost/microwave it the correct amount of time. Old would receive the chilled meal, then not eat it for 6 weeks, then microwave it for a random time, then eat it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I wonder if PN and her mother could pool resources to buy somewhere that had accomodation separately that would later be useable as holiday let, so that PN could have an income...or would inheritance tax issues make that impossible?

Far cough.

There is no inheritance tax to pay. They weren't wealthy, just living frugally so had a few quid set aside and a "dated" small house they lived in. Nowhere near IHT thresholds even if they'd both popped together under the old lower rules

And, looking ahead, when the old did pop .... my siblings would want their slice of the pie - and I'd not be able to remortgage to give them that, so it'd mean another move.... so totally impractical.