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

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Stirrer!:D

sometimes the real act of friendship is to stir, not just agree.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

yes. I'd really like to buy a teenage boy. (LJ, thats a weird question.)

I was just chuckling at your original question....:)

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

sometimes the real act of friendship is to stir, not just agree.

Completely agree. I was in a situation about 11 months ago where I know I should've stirred. I took the cowards way out & didn't confront a mate with something I really should have done.
Days later, it was too late.

Doing what is easiest, isn't always the best.

(Guess I'm just feeling a bit playful tonight...)

lostinrates

because the nice people know everything:

we have a indago snooper sat nave, its six/seven years old I think and we on't and never have used the camera thing, just the sat nav function...at which its very, very good (though guess the maps are getting old? how does that work? in a sat nav) BUT the in car chargers are shokcing...they fall apart within weeks. last time we broke one we bought something that sort of fitted but wasn't correct brand and it doesn't work.

I do not want to replac e something thats not old, but getting fed up with buying expensive new car chargers....it doesn't have a great battery life. any ideas?

vivatifosi

I don't know the model you mention lir, but for some of our applicances of that type we have spare batteries charged and ready to go. If its losing charge it'll probably be cheaper to get a new battery than a new sat nav, particularly if you have lifetime maps.

Speaking of which I use a map rather than a satnav. Never need new batteries then. I don't want to sound like a luddite, but I have a good sense of direction so can't see the need for a satnav when I've spent almost 30 years driving round the UK not needing one.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

On average, a woman starts becoming infertile about 20 years before the menopause and becomes completely infertile about 10 years before the menopause. A staggering number of people don't seem to know that and it's not anybody's job to teach it.

And men should think how old they are when they father a child. I left having a family very late and my son's got ASD. I'd shudder at the thought that that was anything to do with me leaving it so late but there's a recognised correlation, and I struggle to shake off that worry.

Not a great conversation to have with one's OH at Christmas obviously but not one we can put off indefiinitely.:A

I think its at 24 ''our'' eggs start declining in quality? Horrific when you think about it. the increasing risk of things we know can go wrong with ''older'' mothers (who aren't yet older women) and the things we don't yet know that could be related.

there is no reason many women can't have babies when older...my mother did, but she points out the pregnancy when she was younger was easier, and so was the recouperation afterwards....and the running around.

Ideally for me ...no health issues considered I'd have wanted to do it between ages 28-32 I think. I'd rather have a baby than our house...we could have just had a different house.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know the model you mention lir, but for some of our applicances of that type we have spare batteries charged and ready to go. If its losing charge it'll probably be cheaper to get a new battery than a new sat nav, particularly if you have lifetime maps.

Speaking of which I use a map rather than a satnav. Never need new batteries then. I don't want to sound like a luddite, but I have a good sense of direction so can't see the need for a satnav when I've spent almost 30 years driving round the UK not needing one.

I have a great sense of direction (hurrah), dh still gets lost at home :rotfl::rotfl:. No...not joking.


That said, I thought I'd never take to sat nav being a ''just drive'' kinda gal, but they are amazing when they are good. I found routes in areas I've always known reasonably well that I would never, ever have thought were better.....but they are!

not sure you can change the batteries in it...I'll have a look right now!

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

Speaking of which I use a map rather than a satnav. Never need new batteries then. I don't want to sound like a luddite, but I have a good sense of direction so can't see the need for a satnav when I've spent almost 30 years driving round the UK not needing one.

That's what I used to say. However, now my phone happens to have a satnav app, I use it. I have to admit, it's probably a good thing for other road users that I've got it. I consider myself to be a reasonably good driver, and certainly a competent mapreader, but some of my attempts to drive and read a map simultaneously (especially in London) have resulted in less than ideal driving. Of course, if there are two adults in the car so the mapreader and the driver are separate people, it's quite different.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Of course, if there are two adults in the car so the mapreader and the driver are separate people, it's quite different.

unless one of them is dh. he has many many talnets anything to do with getting somewhere in a toime effective way, planning routes or even journeys on trains/planes....dont have him as the other adult. At about your ds's age I started getting wquite into maps and finding where I was and how to get elsewhere. maybe he could start following routes on maps?

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

unless one of them is dh. he has many many talnets anything to do with getting somewhere in a toime effective way, planning routes or even journeys on trains/planes....dont have him as the other adult. At about your ds's age I started getting wquite into maps and finding where I was and how to get elsewhere. maybe he could start following routes on maps?

He was just beginning to be useful at it when I got the phone with the sat nav app anyway.

Talking of DS.... He likes making lego animations, and he's pretty good at it to within the limits of the equipment he's got. I'd like to encourage him in it, and I think he's getting to the stage where it would be helpful to get him some better hardware/software. Do any of the nice peeps know anything about this sort of thing, and has anyone got any recommendations? Thanks.