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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things
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OH came in last few days to keep me company and fit the new studio kitchen. Finished it late today and it's so nice
Basic Howdens jobbie @ about £600. The existing was grim 60's falling to bits.
Son helped too and learnt about datum lines and did some chop sawing etc.
[/QUOTE] I'm at work too. Tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. I have to finish something off and want to get it over and done with.
I think it doesn't matter when you work as long as you like the job you do. and you're clearly very talented at what you do and you love it as wel.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »I had riding lessons too. In exchange for spending a day mucking out once a week we got one free lesson on the oldest and most cantankerous nag they owned. It was lovely though. I gave up riding when cantering through a field of stubble the nag decided she didn't want to carry me anymore and headed directly for a low branched tree. I got chest bruises, a cut back from the stubble and four slipped discs. Didn't fancy it again after that. Dancing seemed safer.
Similar experience, wet day, training area very boggy and slippery and me and horse cantering.....then it slipped over, trapping my leg underneath.
I can trot and walk a horse still but as soon as it goes into a canter, I go into a panic attack.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.0 -
I think I would be too embarrassed to meet up....I get very self conscious and shy.
Plus, although my car is ultra reliable around town, I would not trust it on any motorway....especially if it hits a traffic jam.
Finally the boys, I would have to bring them but would then spend all day dealing with them than talking to everyone else.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.0 -
I'm up for meeting, as long as I get enough notice to arrange somebody to have my kids.I know there is a thread on it already but I was wondering if any NP live on the roads in this list (Posh Alert for PN). A couple in St Albans, Cunningham Hill Road is OK but not in a good catchment area for schools and Sandpit Lane?! - well it has a few nice houses but is no where near as posh as many other roads - Marshalls Drive and The Park are the addresses to have but both are losing the character to MacMansions with electric gates
There's a road within half a mile of me that would have made that list if it had had one more sale - they only counted houses with 7 sales between Jan 07 and Oct 11, and this road had 6 sales. Average price over that period just over £1.2m, with the most expensive house going for over £2.3m. But then there's also a road within half a mile of me that had an average price of ~£120k, and lowest price only a tad over £100k. Those were flats, though. Cheapest road for houses round here has average over the same timeframe of ~£135k and cheapest houses ~£120k. It's quite a mixed area.
ETA Hi treliac, nice to see you. :hello:Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
I'm at work too. Tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. I have to finish something off and want to get it over and done with.
I think it doesn't matter when you work as long as you like the job you do. and you're clearly very talented at what you do and you love it as wel.
That's nice of you to say........but you must have the same feeling as you want to finalise the experiment (if I got that right as you mentioned it the other day) but I really fancy having some home-sorting out time. Just to hibernate and strip anaglypta off the bedroom walls for a few days.Similar experience, wet day, training area very boggy and slippery and me and horse cantering.....then it slipped over, trapping my leg underneath.
I can trot and walk a horse still but as soon as it goes into a canter, I go into a panic attack.
I last rode a pony when I was about 9 I think in Wales on hols and it bolted. I didn't fall off but I remember the instructor shouting for me to 'control her/him' as he/she galloped off up the Brecon Beacons and I think I just hung on and screamed. It did stop in the end and I was then terrified of kicking her sides to make her 'go' again. I can't remember anything else but I haven't been near a horse since.
Big dogs I am a bit wary of too but I trust LIR's dogs 100%. I will be the wimpy townie @ her place. 0 -
We walked to school too, for primary school is was only 5 minutes walk away, for high school, 20 minutes fast walk uphill (could do it in 15 mins on the way home!)
We walked to my primary school in good weather (just under a mile) and later cycled. In really nasty rain, my mother would drive. But it had to be seriously unpleasant. My sisters went to the same girls' primary school as me, and my bruv went to the local state primary until he was 8, then prep school until 13, then Westminster. I did 2.5 years at boarding school, then my sisters and I all went to a girls' day school, and got a school coach there and back.Our holidays were simple affairs, camping in the main with mum looking through the camping books for the cheapest sites....
Ours varied. We went to stay with our au pair's parents in Switzerland when I was 3, and my next sister was 1. The next year, Devon. We went to Kos, in Greece, on a package holiday when I was 5, and Eleanor was 3. The next few years we went to Somerset or Devon, as my other sister and brother came along less than 18 months apart.
When I was 10, my sisters were 8 and 4, and Bruv was 2, we went to Tuscany, and did that for the next 3 years. Then two dinghy sailing holidays in Greece, then a few years alternating between Spain and Portugal.We didn't have the latest gadgets, mum and dad didn't even get a VCR until after I had left home...I got mine before them! We didn't go on the expensive school trips, although I did go to Holland with the school.
My parents got a video when my brother was a baby, so in about 1986 to 1987. I remember that, because he nearly wrecked it by posting toast inside it.I, at first, could not understand why they pulled me out, dancing was my life and at first, I was very annoyed with them but as the years have gone on and I have had my children, I have started to understand why they had to
Hard for both them and you.
Ballet is terrible for your body, though. One of my mates went to a ballet school from 14 to 18, then danced with a ballet company in Germany and the Royal Ballet for 6 years before she retired at the grand old age of 24. It wrecked her knees, and her diet is absolutely terrible, she is still under huge self-pressure not to eat, and is horribly skinny....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'.0 -
me and +1 are real. I've met fc and she was lovely!
When and where? (well, I'm just assuming i'm invited
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I'm real, so is OH, and no-one could ever make up someone as energetic as my darling angel.
...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'.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »power steering.
posh alert!0 -
Oh forgot to say...I am real too!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.0 -
Bit of Parakeet info for the NP thread. Does anyone else have them in their area?Green Woodpeckers are ground feeders and have very long tongues which they use to find ants nests in the soil. They nest in holes in trees but are being pushed out by the latest pest the Rose Ring Parakeet. They also nest in holes in the trees and take over the Woodpeckers home when they fly off to feed during the day but the parakeets stay in the holes so the woodpeckers can’t get back in. They are becoming quite a problem now and many of us have seen them flying off to their roosts in the evening.
There can be gatherings of 20,000 birds and one roost in Epsom has been estimated as having up to 60,000 birds in it , you can imagine the noise. Farmers and forest rangers have been given permission to cull the Parakeets before they cause too much of a problem. They strip the trees of buds and insects, starving out the native population. If birds such as the Tit family cannot feed their young sufficiently that they die, their very short life span means that very quickly there will be no new generations of birds.
John said he thought the best way to cull the Parakeets was to destroy the eggs in the nests. He didn’t think taking pot shots at them would achieve very much. Magpies are also becoming a problem as they destroy other birds eggs and these also can be culled.
I saw my brave Parakeet this morning come down to try to get nuts out of OH's bird feeder (it's one of his few hobbies looking after our tree family of bluetits/the robin and other small ones we don't know the names of) and it was vivd lime green with a luminous red beak and electric blue eyes. Very determined it was too and ignored the 'other' bird food scraps on the grass....it just wanted the nuts.
All the small birds fled when it landed.
Tried to find a google image (they are rose ringed parakeets) but no pics had the colours right.
I don't think people will be able to climb the trees and nab all the eggs though as they nest high. Wonder what will be done as they are breeding so quickly around here.0
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