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

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

My house isn't warm yet, not given in and switched the heating on so it comes automatically. I did put it on for just less than an hour yesterday evening as eldest was complaining about being cold but that is as far as I have gone....wondering just how long I can hold on now, don't think I have ever been this late putting it on (although my feet currently feel like blocks of ice)

Apart from that, not much to report today......

sue, please don't freeze...don't you risk making your pain a lot worse? If you don't want to put the heating on can you put a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel on your feet?

ATM I'm ok....its still not hit the lows we had before the warm snap here, though it is feeling colder and more damp. But you have remided me that I should put my slippers on

StevieJ

SingleSue wrote: »

My house isn't warm yet, not given in and switched the heating on so it comes automatically. I did put it on for just less than an hour yesterday evening as eldest was complaining about being cold but that is as far as I have gone....wondering just how long I can hold on now, don't think I have ever been this late putting it on (although my feet currently feel like blocks of ice)

Apart from that, not much to report today......

Should be warmer the next few days

Doozergirl

twenty nine?

purch

Did you get the job?

It may surprise a few people, but I used to be damn good at what I did (long long ago )

PasturesNew

StevieJ wrote: »

A frog at the bottom of a 60 ft well can jump 5ft but also falls back 3ft every time he tries, how many leaps to get out of the well

One. He just leaps onto the head of the idiot that's down the well measuring how deep it is

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

sue, please don't freeze...don't you risk making your pain a lot worse? If you don't want to put the heating on can you put a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel on your feet?

ATM I'm ok....its still not hit the lows we had before the warm snap here, though it is feeling colder and more damp. But you have remided me that I should put my slippers on

Ah I'm ok, I spent most of my childhood in a house without central heating, so I know most of the tricks...I'm now sitting here with a quilt around me and getting more snuggly as time goes on.

That said, yes my joints are feeling it today, managed to get down one aisle in the supermarket and had to give up and come home.

Slippers are dangerous for me, I always end up falling down the blooming stairs so have now decided it is better to have colder feet than beggered up (more than usual) back and shoulders

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

Whinge alert.

DS is good at rugby. He started a new school in September, made the A team and now he's been made captain.

Wednesday afternoons are match day. Every week, bar two, from the beginning of September until Christmas are away matches. This week was a home match. I've just had a text message that today's match is in fact Away, again! I've been everywhere within Worcestershire, into Herefordshire and Shropshire and Birmingham too. I feel lousy today and we have DD's parents evening appt at 4.30 - this means I go down to Worcester to see the game and I either leave him down there so he can have match tea with his friends and go back to his own school after parents evening, or I drag him to parent's evening.

Next term is football. How can we physically play every game away? Is it that no-one wants to play our boys or what? They're only 10 and 11 and some of these journeys are over an hour each way for a 40 minute game

No need to reply, just venting. I'll be alright in a minute!

i was rubbish at rugby, all the school's A team games were at home it seemed, but the B games were never at home because we only had 2 pitches, and the other schools always seemed to have about 30. so, every wednesday (and most saturdays as well, as we had school on saturday mornings and then they forced you to play sport in the afternoon) i was shipped out to some ludicrous location - probably some of the schools you're going to by the sounds of things, as was in worcestershire / birmingham.

parents never came to a single game - i can't blame them for that, i was rubbish and must have been terrible to watch. i usually had to walk home from school afterwards as well, lazy barstewards. at least mum did dinner.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Its tough, but if its the worst that happens he's a lucky boy.

Some of the nastiest cattiest comments in my life I've heard while listening to matchside mothers, if I had kids there is no way I'd be going to every single game at all. But then, my parents came to zero of mine, whereas my sister never misses one....each, IMO, has its own pluses and minuses for the kids.

Parents get tea and cake afterwards. Hence you're more likely to find me at school games than the rugby club on Sunday

So far the parents are very well behaved. H is the noisiest when he comes, but he's a player and a coach too so knows the rules on respect and being supportive. Makes me cringe though, I don't know what DS thinks!

purch

I just shout at the Ref mainly...

"He's holding on !!!!"....."He's off his feet !!!!" ......

..........I'm normally told to shut the !!!! up, and end up watching the 2nd half from the car park (sometimes even part of the 1st half too )

StevieJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

twenty nine?

Correct, give that girl a star