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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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Fetched, removed immediately. Then had to go back to collect everything, then bring it back .... and lots of sibling phone calls, some I couldn't take as I was off to get the goods, some I had to take later as they called back. One I simply passed to the old as I picked up the phone and said "I am going out to get the stuff, here ... speak and ask for yourself" and I understand the old had an ear-bashing. Other sibling told the old they were being very selfish and gave the old an ear-bashing too. So old is trying to play "poor me" - and now I have a headache and I'm too tired (mentally/emotionally more than physically) to even be 4rsed to go to the shops to buy in appropriate food for the old to eat tonight. Tough t1tty really. Hard luck.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.
Sibling just 20 miles away is offering me a quick haven to run to, but I can't make concrete plans in case the old decides this isn't working either. So I'm on hold again....
Tired, fed up, alone, headache, p155ed off, angry, frustrated, forlorn, desolate, alone ..... and defeated.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »And, looking ahead, when the old did pop .... my siblings would want their slice of the pie -.
fair enough...I suggest they take their share of the pie filled with the responsibility to practically and financially help with the responsibility of meeting Old's needs until then.0 -
Happy Birthday lemonjelly. Do we ask if it's a round number?
:j:beer:_party_lemonjelly wrote: »I get told off for the fact that we have to shop for milk daily!
Who is this "we" who has to shop for milk daily? I thought you were living alone and single, and that lir was trying to find you a nice girl?PasturesNew wrote: »Sibling just 20 miles away is offering me a quick haven to run to, but I can't make concrete plans in case the old decides this isn't working either. So I'm on hold again....
Thank goodness for Sibling. I hope your family succeed in bashing Old's ears to the point where Old goes somewhere she can be cared for safely.... very very soon.PasturesNew wrote: »Tired, fed up, alone, headache, p155ed off, angry, frustrated, forlorn, desolate, alone ..... and defeated.
Oh Pastures, I wish there was something I could do to help. I so recognise those words... all of them... but especially the defeated one. It's the worst of the lot.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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Happy birthday LJ
PN, sorry to hear old playing up
we're off out to a gig but it doesn't start till 9pm, strange. Anyways, am absolutely knackered and would just like to collapse in bed, stressy day at work.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »I drink a LOT of milk. Always have. Love it.
We use about 3-4 pints a week. Isaac, Sam and I have it in tea, Sam has it in coffee, OH drinks both black. Isaac insists on dry cereal, too....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 -
Whilst bad luck is a possible explanation, it is very unlikely. According to http://miscarriage.about.com/od/pregnancyafterloss/qt/miscarriage-rates.htm, "about 10% to 20% of women who know they are pregnant have a miscarriage some time before 20 weeks of pregnancy". So, the chance of 5 miscarriages with a satisfactory pregnancy in the middle is less than 4 in 10,000.
The first (very first) was at 6-7 weeks. The second, third and fourth were these "missed" miscarriages at about the same time. SO that's why the doctors reckoned it could still be bad luck, until this last one made 4 similar ones. It could still be bad luck, but as you say, pretty unlikely now....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 -
Poor PN - it sounds absolutely terrible for you....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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Not speaking to the old, I've hidden in my room with the light out. I have a stonking great headache and am very, very angry. Had to take a call from a sibling, then came back to my room.... I've not had lunch, or tea .... and I doubt the old's eaten either. Hunger will sharpen her mind a bit.
The old isn't saying what they want, they're saying what they don't want. So you meet that criteria and they don't want it. Then there's the "I am not stopping you doing your own thing, you've got a life; I don't want to be in your way".... 12 hours today of running round after them - and now I can't even enjoy the telly as they're sat in that room with a face on.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Hunger will sharpen her mind a bit.
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That or burn the house down.
PN, its not kind either, to either of you. And you need to eat. Don't you have anything you can plonk infront of both of you to eat?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »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.
Hm... been wondering whether to respond to this.
All I can say is that only part of the economic system is man made. Much of it is not. Much of it is limited by 'the real world', and even that part of it that is man made, is not controllable.
You can make very simple systems on computer, and still not be able to predict the results of minor changes in input.
These are called, in mathematics, chaotic systems.
The economy is a much more complex system than anything programmed, and it is not computationally possible to accurately simulate it, or, as you put it, "to control the game," since any given change in government policy is guaranteed not to have any predicable effect.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0
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