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

Wheezy_2

Hi jelly, get well soon sweetie :kisses3:

About pressies for teenage kids: Money or vouchers
I know it's boring, but it's too hard to find out what the kids are 'in to' at the moment.

I remember when I was a kid I prefered hard cash. I'll spend it myself thankyou, please don't buy me a woollen jumper!

We should do a NP Secret Santa

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

While we are on gifts, can parents tell me if waterstones vouchers ar terrible gifts for chilren you do not know well but want to remember?

as a kid i used to get right hacked off when i was given book vouchers, because i wanted a skateboard, or a machine gun (an actual machine gun, not a plastic toy). my sister, on the other hand wanted every present to be a book token, and was generally disappointed with anything else as far as i can remember. so it just depends really.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

as a kid i used to get right hacked off when i was given book vouchers, because i wanted a skateboard, or a machine gun (an actual machine gun, not a plastic toy). my sister, on the other hand wanted every present to be a book token, and was generally disappointed with anything else as far as i can remember. so it just depends really.

I always wanted book vouhers too, in fact, still would! What is another good gift for children you don't know well enough for a skateboard or machine gun?

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

My best gift last year...a timer for boiled eggs that you cook with the eggs and it tells you soft/medium or hard. I love it.

i've got one of those, it's fantastic! i didn't get it for christmas, but i did get one of these instead to go with it:

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

I always wanted book vouhers too, in fact, still would! What is another good gift for children you don't know well enough for a skateboard or machine gun?

i'm with wheezy, i always preferred to get money so i could spend it myself. failing that i wanted an alien, or a dog.

i know this isn't much help

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i'm with wheezy, i always preferred to get money so i could spend it myself. failing that i wanted an alien, or a dog.

i know this isn't much help

rofl. I'd give awy big dog this morning. Not sure the parents would be pleased, lol.

michaels

I suspect FIR will be glad to hear that...

lostinrates wrote: »

As a married adult I don't have any bed friends any more.

Hope you feel better soon Lemon - at this time of year as well as the lurgies I definitely have there are lots of 'nearlys' I find - lost appetite, painful belly without vomiting, sore throat, slightly stuiffy nose and sneezes, feeling rundown etc that do not actually go on in to proper ill so you are never quite sure if you have had something or not.

I CAN NOT do present shopping in the shops, I have to figure out what I am going to buy first and then ideally get it on line - even if I know what I want I don't know any more which shop will have it or where it will be cheapest and I hate buying things in shops that I know are half the price online...

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've no idea exactly what the illness is, but my insides feel terrible, & I've been off food for 2 days now. I'm exceptionally hungry. Might try a banana in a bit, as they're easy to digest.

Trouble I'm having, is that I'm not seeing stuff out there that is good present material. I spent 4+ hours in a shopping centre and got absolutley no inspiration.

IT is the sort of present I would want for my kids as it is the opposite of the chavtastic rubbish you see in most toy shops but my kids would probably prefer to open some big parcel of plastic tat on the day even though in the long run they would get much more enjoyment from something you could get at Waterstones.

lostinrates wrote: »

While we are on gifts, can parents tell me if waterstones vouchers ar terrible gifts for chilren you do not know well but want to remember?

My best gift last year...a timer for boiled eggs that you cook with the eggs and it tells you soft/medium or hard. I love it.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I suspect FIR will be glad to hear that...

Because we were early twentis when we met we both still had friends at uni(in fact, still do really and I think lots of them do probably still climb in with each other an its how you slept over with a friend often enough, with one room in a shared house or whatever. I seem to remember a discussion about it when he was going to stay overnight in Oxford in a female friends room and we decided this sort of behaviour was no longer appropriate even with trust between us. I think it was the right choice, but it also seemed quite a forced way to define our adult behaviour. I can see why dh would object to me sharing a bed with a chum, but it was a lovely way to be lazy or recouperative, don't you think?

IT is the sort of present I would want for my kids as it is the opposite of the chavtastic rubbish you see in most toy shops but my kids would probably prefer to open some big parcel of plastic tat on the day even though in the long run they would get much more enjoyment from something you could get at Waterstones.

Then, IMO, its a good present. Its not bout popularity is it, but about love. If I knew the kids better though I'd rather gve an actual book. I love the children's books I was given with a little note written inside

Davesnave

A speedy recovery from whatever it is, Jelly.....:)

Speaking of ilnesses, I rang the doctors' yesterday as they'd not rung me with the results of my last personal MoT.

"Why have I not heard?" I asked.

"Oh, it's all normal." said a bored voice. "Chloresterol - normal, no action, liver & kidney - normal, no action, haemoglobin, viscosity, normal...blah, blah..."

"Hang on," I said, "what do you mean 'normal?' Which end of 'normal?' I mean, everything has levels these days.....No warning signs? Advisory comments?"

"No, that's all there is. You're just normal for everything. So, no action. Doctor doesn't need to see you."

Huh, even the car gets more than that! For example, I know a little bit of emergency welding is all that lies between me and a new catalytic converter. At my old doctor's they used to do a really detailed thing, breaking your chloresterol down into different components. etc.

I s'pose it's the cuts. In ten years time it'll probably be, "You seem to be breathing and moving about, you know what day of the week it is, and you can do 7x8, so you're fine!"

tomterm8

Face facts, Dave, you're healthy. You don't have no stinking excuses

With all the gardening, you're probably healthier than the doctor.