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

SingleSue

Sorry PN, you can't stay in my garage as I don't have one....do have a nice line in large garden sheds with electricity provided though.

Middle son got his first GCSE maths modular result through yesterday and he wants to retake it as he was 2 marks off a top grade, with James, we would have been over the moon with the result!

I'm getting concerned with youngest though, it appears he has lost his TA's in class (which is contrary to his statement) and as a consequence, he is slipping behind quite quickly in his grades...and as a further consequence, he is closing off more and more from the rest of us.

We do have a statement review for him in just over a week and I will be saying something about it then but I can't believe how much the school can change in such a short time. We have gone from having an open and proactive school to having a rather closed and secretive academy (it changed over to an academy in September and the wonderful head we had moved to pastures new) where everything is about money rather than addressing the needs of the pupils/keeping the parents in the loop.

Now seriously thinking about finding him an alternative school but goodness knows where...and who on earth would be willing to take him?

chewmylegoff

Wheezy wrote: »

PN you must come and stay in our garage, enough beer and wine to last you for a year.

PN, my garage has 12 parking spaces, and a locked room with a bike rack and 12 storage cupboards in it. It is far more spacious than any of these other so-called "garages", and there is a cat that seems to live down there as well.

If that isn't good enough there is a total petrol garage opposite.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

frosts are lovely, unless you're wearing work shoes with a flat leather sole of course...

actually january and february are my favourite time of year. i wish we had a colder climate in this country. i'd basically like the whole of winter to be below freezing, and some kind of law against the max temperature in summer exceeding 22C. i don't mind a bit of sun now and then, and i like going somewhere hot (but not humid) for a couple of weeks holiday, but generally when i'm going to work or just trying to get on with my life, i just find heat bothersome.

Sheepskin insoles for your shoes are a great thing. I love mine.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Ljubljana, I really do understand. Fwiw, it's the same as I feel about light pollution atnight too, these things are good for us...light, dark, access to social activity, ability to get away from noise.


See what the spellcheck did to l j !!!

I did wonder what was going on there...

lemonjelly

How on earth have I ended up with 20,000 thanks for the drivel & dribble that comes from my keyboard?

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

PN you must come an stay in our garage, single, detached, tidy with a little red sportscar in it (mine - OH bought it for me for 1st bithday after we married - I have had it 28 years). You will have the company of our resident black cat who sleeps in the rafters at night. The back of the garage is converted to a utility/boot room with a seperate loo. There is also a fridge for drinks, a kettle and the PANTRY.

Sounds perfect... if I reverse in I can sleep in the boot of my car on a lilo.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

How on earth have I ended up with 20,000 thanks for the drivel & dribble that comes from my keyboard?

Same reason I seem to have 80,000+ ... there are too many people out there with low standards

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

PN, my garage has 12 parking spaces, and a locked room with a bike rack and 12 storage cupboards in it. It is far more spacious than any of these other so-called "garages", and there is a cat that seems to live down there as well.

If that isn't good enough there is a total petrol garage opposite.

Oooh space AND the option of hot pies over the road.

Both have a cat .... hard to choose.

12's a bit big I think; it'd be the biggest place I'd ever been I bet.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Well, you already have a choice of 3 garges now PN, so I won't confuse the issue.

Ours has had dead pheasants hanging in it most of the time since Christmas, so the ambience isn't that special anyway. :rotfl:

You've also no cat.... gotta love a cat.

PasturesNew

Having spent 12 hours solid researching something ..... I know something I do want/need for my hobby, but, yet again, no space for it. It doesn't need a lot of space, but as my kitchen worktop only has spare space the size of one dinner plate... and I use that space to serve up my dinner from the microwave, it's not usable space. And the research I've done says things like protecting surfaces for several feet as this stuff spits quite a distance and is corrosive/will stain.

One day .... I will have space to do stuff.