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

vivatifosi

Just going back over the past few pages. Good to see tre back, albeit under sad circumstances. Really sorry to hear your news too Silvercar, it is so horrible. Lydia and Pastures too. I guess a lot of us are at that age now where these horrible situations arise, but that doesn't make it any easier. I'm not particularly a huggy person, but wanted to send my thoughts to everyone who is having a bit of a time of it at the moment.

Generali

purch wrote: »

Well.......the bowlers are English anyway

The batsmen and wocketkeeper are all English too by definition. If they weren't then they couldn't play for England.

Some of them have rather less than English sounding accents I'll grant you.

I've had this conversation once or twice with my Aussie colleagues as you can imagine. Some of them got quite excitable when The Poms were knocking spots off Australia's finest.

silvercar

StevieJ wrote: »

For those interested, England win the first test :j

Eldest has casual job in one of the bars there. The only concern is that play extends to 5 days rather than the weather or who wins.:o

fc123

treliac wrote: »

This seems a suitable time to call in and say 'Hello'. I lost my mum a little while back. I'd been very involved in looking after her as well as running home, family and work, so hadn't had much time to keep up to date with everyone here.

As NOK, I will have lots to do for the foreseeable future. And, I'm finding it really hard to believe and deal with what has happened. Our experience of the NHS over the past few months has borne out all the awful things you hear and read about it.

But it's good to speak with the 'Nice People' again and to know that everything over here is still going on as it should.

treliac xx

:wave: Hi Trell...sorry to read your news but lovely to see you here again.

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm dreading insuring this year. DH's accident has probably scuppered us and we'll be in a four figure insurance number. Stupid cars.

Don't ....went from £267 pa in Nice St Brighton to £700 odd due to our london postcode....and then put son on as named driver to use now and again and it went to £1250 0-0!. Shopped about and got a new price (full no claims @ £900 pa.....crazy money).

Bought a 3k polo (that no pro car theif would touch in S E London) and I had to get me going on a policy of my own again. Cheapest we got was for £760.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just going back over the past few pages. Good to see tre back, albeit under sad circumstances. Really sorry to hear your news too Silvercar, it is so horrible. Lydia and Pastures too. I guess a lot of us are at that age now where these horrible situations arise, but that doesn't make it any easier. I'm not particularly a huggy person, but wanted to send my thoughts to everyone who is having a bit of a time of it at the moment.

Ditto to the above and my thoughts with you all too.

LydiaJ

Thanks for the kind words, people. We've now got the date for my dad's knee op. It's right at the end of the summer holidays, so he won't be coming out of hospital until it's too late for me to go and stay.

He thinks (from his experience of having the first one done) that by the time they send him home he'll be able to manage looking after himself, just not her as well. My brother's organised for her to go into a care home for six weeks until he's fit enough to look after her. I foresee lots of day visits (including some during the week on the days I'm not working with my new timetable ) when I'll pick him up, drive him to her care home, spend time with them both there, and then drive him home again. Maybe I can drag the kids down there to stay over for a weekend, too. My dad is worried he will be lonely in the house without her, especially without the mobility to get out and do things. They've been married 55 years, and for the last two years since she was taken ill, he's done pretty much nothing at all other than care for her - at home for most of it, or by visiting at least twice daily whenever she's been in hospital.

Anyway, looking on the bright side, I'm really pleased he's able to have it in August and not wait any longer. There's such a contrast between the knee that's been done already and the one that needs doing. It's exciting to think of him having two straight legs, and being able to walk quickly and without pain or unsteadiness. Makes me glad to be living in a century when knee replacements are possible.

In other news, I can't remember if I've told you nice peeps about the latest development on the solar panels. My neighbour has decided he wants some too, and both the front-running companies are offering a discount if we both get them together. Now need to find out exactly how much discount, and make a joint decision with the neighbour about which company to go for.

neverdespairgirl

My Granny had a knee replacement in 1997. She was adament that it was the Nazis' fault, because her leg got a bad whack when a bomb fell on her house (she and my baby uncle were lurking in an under-the-table air-raid shelter). We did suggest that, given the decades in between, it might have another cause - she wasn't having it!

the replacement was brilliant, it gave her much more mobility.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Eldest has casual job in one of the bars there. The only concern is that play extends to 5 days rather than the weather or who wins.:o

http://www.espncricinfo.com/page2/content/story/524069.html

I seem to be hearing a lot about landmarks this week. It's the 2000th Test match and Tendulkar could hit his 100th international hundred. Then, this morning, I find out that it's Duncan Fletcher's 100th Test match as a coach. Well, what about me? It's a big match for me too.

Is Frank Higginbotham's 100th Test match as a bacon butty and hot beverage vendor not worthy of celebration? For 20 years I've been up and down the motorways of this fair isle, driving to almost all of England's Test venues with my catering trailer so that cricket fans may nourish themselves on cured pork and white bread sold at slightly inflated prices.

PasturesNew

I was reading last night about "the final hours/days" and it said they sleep more, then slip into unconsciousness... when the frail old came and said "the old's been sleeping 5 hours" - and I said "are you sure they're asleep and not unconscious??" and dashed off.... us appearing made the ill old wake up and wonder what was going on.... been asleep. Then I realised that the frail old had lost a grip with reality as I'd been dispensing meds just 2 hours before, so the 5 hours was either a lie/attention-seeking or dementia.... and I can't work out which.

I've got one about to leave us - and the other one angry/bitter and being needy about the fact they're being left behind and expected to go first.

Having to drag the frail old up the GP's today and I am not entirely sure if their illness is just attention-seeking or a real problem... not sleeping, but I think that's the whole change of circumstances they find themselves in, so they're probably lying awake at night annoyed they can't sleep because of the restlessness of the ill old, and fearful that the ill old will peg out each night.

If TV are looking for a life swap contestant about now ... I'm up for it.

LydiaJ

We're still here for you Pastures. Keep telling us how it's going, if that helps.

On a different note... I think I have birds living in my chimney (which goes through my bedroom wall) and the other day I was woken by a very odd (and quite loud) noise from my en-suite, which turned out to be a magpie walking up and down on the velux window. Any suggestions for making them go away? I'll be having scaffolding up in a few weeks' time to get my solar panels done, so it would be a good time for anything that involves going on the roof.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

We're still here for you Pastures. Keep telling us how it's going, if that helps.

On a different note... I think I have birds living in my chimney (which goes through my bedroom wall) and the other day I was woken by a very odd (and quite loud) noise from my en-suite, which turned out to be a magpie walking up and down on the velux window. Any suggestions for making them go away? I'll be having scaffolding up in a few weeks' time to get my solar panels done, so it would be a good time for anything that involves going on the roof.

I find a shotgun is good for dealing with birds, cats crapping in the garden, dogs barking and small children arguing.

If this method is unavailable for some reason then a water pistol is remarkably effective at scaring them off.