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

neverdespairgirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

That is too cute:rotfl:.

He also calls my parents Mum and Dad. When he was learning to talk, as the only grandchild, he was the only one being encouraged to say Granny and Grandad, with a host of people calling them Mum and Dad. So he didn't fall for the trick.

He calls them Mum and Dad, and us Mummy and Abba (which is Hebrew for Dad).

We do get some funny looks, on occasion, if were're out in a combo of, say, me, my mother and Isaac, and he's calling us Mum and Mummy. My Mama doesn't even notice, though.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

Still it will finally mean we can get rid of all the net curtains left by the previous owners, there is something about net curtains I find deeply depressing.

I agree, they're horrible things.

michaels

LIR I kind of see you as a go for it sort of person having come through more than most of us can imagine and yet still taking on your current project so 'Go for it!' I say.

(Plus the more nice people make a sucess of things the more chance that one of them might be able to find me a job)

lostinrates wrote: »

OTOH I've seena very nice baby horse and have enough hay to feed her along with our lot and think she'd be a good resale prospect...but have said I didn't want to get back into that game...its harder to say good bye nowadays. If I bought her through the business account and held onto her for two/three years she'd not cost me too much and I'd expect to make (time and effort and running costs removed) my money back at least two fold, maybe fourfold.....can't decide what to do.....

silvercar

OH and I are both eldest children. Sisters are all married now and with kids of their own. So we have a range of nieces and nephews from 16 down to 5 -seven of them between us.

We think it lovely, our boys, particularly the elder, think it a pain that at family get-togethers they are always the oldest.

On families, here is a coincidence, OH and I are both eldest children, we both have mothers who are the youngest of 3 sisters and fathers who are the elder of 2 brothers.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

He also calls my parents Mum and Dad. When he was learning to talk, as the only grandchild, he was the only one being encouraged to say Granny and Grandad, with a host of people calling them Mum and Dad. So he didn't fall for the trick.

He calls them Mum and Dad, and us Mummy and Abba (which is Hebrew for Dad).

We do get some funny looks, on occasion, if were're out in a combo of, say, me, my mother and Isaac, and he's calling us Mum and Mummy. My Mama doesn't even notice, though.

Is he still the only grandchild? What do you think will happen if/when more come along?

Many years ago I worked with a lady whose family all called the parents and grandparents by their names rather than any kind of mum or dad title. One of the pairs of grandparents was a couple called Mary and Joseph. The children caused great confusion at their school one January when they returned to school saying they had been to stay with Mary and Joseph for Christmas.

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Is he still the only grandchild? What do you think will happen if/when more come along?

Many years ago I worked with a lady whose family all called the parents and grandparents by their names rather than any kind of mum or dad title. One of the pairs of grandparents was a couple called Mary and Joseph. The children caused great confusion at their school one January when they returned to school saying they had been to stay with Mary and Joseph for Christmas.

I don't know what will happen if more come along. None of my siblings is in a hurry, all (happily) single at the moment.

We'll probably work it out as we go along (-:

SingleSue

I've never really been a girly girl, I did try to fit in with my friends when we went shopping at the weekend but it never really floated my boat.

I suppose my girliest time was when I was 18 and would dress up to go to the pub in mini skirt and stockings...during the day though, I was riding a motorcycle so not very girly at all!

Hmm, need to contact the carers allowance people, the amount has gone down this week and I don't have a scoobie why, absolutely nothing has changed.

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

I've never really been a girly girl, I did try to fit in with my friends when we went shopping at the weekend but it never really floated my boat.

I wouldn't call myself a girly or a tomboy. I was more someone who enjoyed pushing boundaries, which meant I got into more scrapes than I should have done. That's how I cut my ear off when I was five (getting too close to the wall on my bike, riding down the road trying to work how close I could get to the wall before hitting the brakes), decided to leave home when I was eight, started going to nightclubs when I was 14 and went trotting off to travel round France by myself at 17. In that respect I'm scarily like my grandfather who supported me all the way - probably much to the horror of my mum and dad. I'm much more settled as a grown up though.

I do like nice clothes though, probably because as a child I lived in hand-me-downs so as soon as I could afford my own I went for it in spades. And I have always, always moisturised (well since about 13).

Good luck getting Carer's Allowance sorted Sue. I can't see why they would put it down without giving you warning, that's scary.

SingleSue

I was the same with clothes, it was just I didn't like spending hours looking at them, my style was more go to the market, pick something up quickly and then get it home and adapt it to how I wanted it to look (god knows where that skill has gone!)

I have never moisturised, preferring to stick to the method my nan used to use....cold water splashed on (and I mean cold). At 90, she looked quite young with not a wrinkle in sight..at 41, I don't have any wrinkles yet either. Plus it doesn't help that my face doesn't like stuff being put on it, the eek of having contact dermatitis.

Re carers, nor can I but you get used to things going slightly eek when you rely on benefits occasionally, it will sort itself out (usually with the help of a phone call), I'll just have to budget a little more this week until it does.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I don't know what will happen if more come along. None of my siblings is in a hurry, all (happily) single at the moment.

We'll probably work it out as we go along (-:

Its the only way you can work it out really. We call my parents by a sort of family nickname.....weirdly the nieces use another realted word for my mother...it just so happens it works, sometimes they call my father grandpapa (technically he isn't but in all ways that count he is). Incidentally, he's younger than their father.