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

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    if anyone vomited on you in the third floor bar during "fives go mad" on saturday night, that was probably me.

    sorry. :o

    Did you go to Los Locos, too? With their wonderful slogan, "Nobody's ugly after 2am"?
    ...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'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    right what is everyone getting their mum for christmas. i need to copy someone else.

    I'm getting her (already got) an 18 century map of the Thames, it's very long and thin.
    ...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'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    fc123 wrote: »
    Croydon was quite a raw place but quite good for inspiration (you need some pain and grey to create sometimes). My then tutor now heads a post grad course at a London one.


    My mother went to school there - the GPDST school.
    ...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'.
  • zagubov
    zagubov Posts: 17,938 Forumite
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    I think DD will be staying in halls even if she goes to the local uni.

    Think she'll have a better experience in a northern university. Plus the prices of most things seem more sensible outside London.

    I'm younger than Davesnave but older than most people here I reckon. as i went to uni in '76.;)
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • John_Pierpoint
    John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,401 Forumite
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    edited 14 December 2011 at 3:23AM
    So that make me the "father of the thread"?

    Dropped out of Glasgow '65

    No problems socially, very happy memories - probably the only one sober enough to have any memories :D - "No Mean City" came as something of a character building experience for a "soft southern" home counties lad.

    Just could not hack the maths - faulty education since primary school.

    DS & DD did Nottingham, Oxford & Canterbury after a gap year.
    I am a great believer in gap years - especially as going to uni costs serious money these days. No longer suitable for the "I suppose I could always teach" dilettante.

    I offered my kids a financial deal, what ever they chose to do, from the age of 15.
    Fortunately the property boom more than financed their further education.
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
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    zagubov wrote: »
    To all parents of teenagers, that would get called a Nunu. :D Be briliant in our house as well as our dog chases the vacuum anyway.

    Speaking of teenagers, DDs getting uni offers now, mostly up north, about 200 miles away or 100 miles away. None local yet.

    Any thoughts on what's best? Would NPs prefer your kids to study near or far away?

    I didn't go to uni, I was far too impatient to be out in the big wide world (plus the teachers strikes had pretty much beggered my courses up...hence why I am anti strikes).

    Eldest is looking at universities quite widely spaced apart and none very close to here...middle son wants to go to Cambridge, which is fairly close...well a lot closer than the ones eldest wants to go to anyway!

    I don't worry so much about eldest and where he wants to study, he takes after me and is very independent, middle son however will struggle and will need an assisted place, he is very bright but absolutely hopeless with independent living skills due to his aspergers/brain damage.

    Goodness knows about youngest...he just wants to have world domination:rotfl:
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,080 Forumite
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    edited 14 December 2011 at 9:26AM
    chewmylegoff wrote: »

    what i really want to get them is a proper sized TV to go in their front room, rather than the silly little thing that is in there now, but my budget is about £50 tops.

    A £50 Currys voucher, compelling them to pay for the rest of the TV themselves!

    I get given most of what I buy back. This year the MIL is getting one of those mega Estee Lauder make up sets. If I start giving them stuff I want, then I'll be happier when it comes back. Sigh.

    FIL is happy if the label comes under the 'booze' category or has something to do with Elvis. Elvis Booze would be perfect :)
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    chew...my mother got a chrsitmas cake from me.


    PN is a little younger than my sister and I was shocked a while ago to learn so many of us were the samish age. I write younger because of stupid broken head I suppose. That and that I'm an aries ;)
  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,080 Forumite
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    edited 14 December 2011 at 9:41AM
    fc123 wrote: »
    Anyways, I have missed chunks of news and I hope eveeryone is well but did notice that Doozer recommended a kitchen. Any chance you could recomend me a toilet and small sink suppler online? Kind of bathstore.com stylee is fine

    This is bathstore stylee. The budget is polar opposite of Plain English.

    Www.victoriaplumb.co.uk
    I get another 10% off and next day delivery thru trade if it helps, but you can probably blag it yourself, your co name is quite generic.

    Cheap and cheerful, but stylish, we had victoria plumb in our own house too for three years, until we sold, without issue. I'd probably put a higher spend on quality taps. I do occassionally get a bit of chipped sanitaryware but they are very good at changing stuff and the price when the item is mint makes up for the occassional error (we do buy a lot though and I think it's twice something has gone back)
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    If you hadn't would you have met DH?


    I don't know, possibly, as we met throuh work* that didn't relate to my studies and related to his first post grad stuff. Possibly not. Impossible to say. Had I not felt the constant need to keep my life broader maybe I wouldn't have been doing that for a bit of variety.

    * short hand for a complicated story that resulted in dh saying he fancied me before we had met and when we met he knew almost immediately (before the second drink) he wanted me for all time and told the ''colleague'' who introduced us he wanted to marry him He's sush a gushing romantic...(yacking smiley needed). I tried to fob him off for a while.....
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