A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

THIRZAH

Kidcat-I bet that if you had sent your son to school today they would have phoned insisting that you fetched him home!

kidcat

THIRZAH wrote: »

Kidcat-I bet that if you had sent your son to school today they would have phoned insisting that you fetched him home!

I did that once when they were threatening me with allsorts, I sent him to school, they called and then gave me a lecture about sending him in ill!! Cant win with them I am afraid. There was the famous (in our area anyway) meeting where they complained about his attendance and produced a list of dates he had been off - I pulled out my own list and then marked all but one of the days, then handed it back, the woman looked confused and asked what the marks were - I pointed out they were they days they had sent him home!!! She was blushing furiously at the school staff - they had forgotten to mention that to them
When DD was there, she was in hospital and they wanted to send the school nurse out to check she was really ill - yes they actually said that! The hospital doctors had steam coming out of their ears when I told them.

Am exhausted, my foray outside has left me tired and shaky, just hoping I can get a bit more mobile tomorrow and build slowly.

stiltwalker

There's a word for people like that Kidcat but I don't think the sweary filter will let me write it here!

Feeling very sore and a bit sorry for myself here today as I've been in to hospital to have 2 wisdom teeth taken out under GA. At least they are both on the same side though as I'm slowly managing to drink cup a soup and nibble bread as I'm starving.

Keep well all or get better if you're not so good.

kidcat

Stilitwalker - I remember how ill I felt having a tooth out you have my sympathy. I found straws were a real help!!

Have just found out that I have won a giftcard for Mr A by filling in a questionnaire for a carers group, apparently second prize, was delighted. It was just nice to have some good news.

kidcat

Am furious, I have just received my energy bill by email, which says they are increasing our DD by £26 per month. It says based on our bills for the year and our current debit balance (£100) it will cost that amount for the year.
I have however added up the last twelve months bills, included the debit balance and it works out £12 less than we were paying. A difference of £38 per month. I am obviously going to call and complain tomorrow but I think its a disgrace that they think we are all so stupid not to check.

greenbee

That's why I'm on a tariff where I do a meter reading every month and pay for what I've used kidcat. It saves all the faffing about trying to work out how to spread the cost evenly - even if it does mean big bills in the winter to make up for the non-existent ones in the summer.

gardenia101

littlecal wrote: »

Gardenia - have a fab time!!!! Never really did Broad street and its just tooooo young now:D I lived over the other side of the city,The ring o' bells,the manor house,the mackadown all long gone.How strange,we were in Harborne last night at the white horse and the green man:D:D:D

I lived in Harborne as a child, & have been to both those pubs too (as a kid that is ) & I also remember many happy days spent at the Bell, playing in the graveyard next door. It seemed like the done thing back then for your parents to take you to the pub, then park you somewhere with crisps & coke while they stayed in the pub (or was it just my parents :rotfl:).

Hobsons_Choice wrote: »

Gardenia: Sealife was built over the site of the pub - but the pub was gone before then. Gt grandad was a boatman who diversified when the railways started taking over (as did his thirst) I think. All that area has been poncified now and is the place to be seen. Tre expensive to eat and drink around Brindley Place, nice though on a sunny day to be sat overlooking the canal though.
I was dragged up in Handsworth and remember those pubs well - only from a packet of crisps and a lemonade kinda way, of course.

We're both pensioners and our tiny increases are being eroded by the day. This coalition lot act as though they're doing you a favour with any allowance.
I'm getting a gang together to dig up Clement Atlee and his government, I reckon that was the last decent one we had!

I always feel a "wow" whenever I see Brindley Place - it is soooo different now. I used to love the scruffy canals with wobbly bridges, but it is a much "posher" area now to be sure! Whenever I go there I always get a hankering to go on a narrow boat & explore.

I know I shall be worse off - my ESA will stop at the end of this month as I haven't magically become better after 12 months :mad:. When I was self employed (for many years) I saved up for my pension in a cash ISA rather than a "proper" pension, so I shall have to live off that until it falls to a certain level. It is a difficult one - I now fear that not only will I have to watch the pennies now to eke out these savings, I will also have a much less comfortable retirement than I'd originally planned for, as I'll be spending it all long before retirement age (if there is such a thing then - probably we shall all be shot at 75 if we haven't collapsed before then, & made into fertilzer or something....)

Littlecal - I've not seen many whoopsies in my area either . I'd almost got into the habit of never buying meat unless it was reduced, & now it is going to hurt to pay full price!

I've just come back from a very expensive holiday - when I've had another cup of tea I'm going to brave the accounts & see how much I've spent, & how much I need to juggle with this & next months budget...

Then I'm going to catch up with this thread (& more tea).

GreyQueen

stiltwalker wrote: »

There's a word for people like that Kidcat but I don't think the sweary filter will let me write it here!

Feeling very sore and a bit sorry for myself here today as I've been in to hospital to have 2 wisdom teeth taken out under GA. At least they are both on the same side though as I'm slowly managing to drink cup a soup and nibble bread as I'm starving.

Keep well all or get better if you're not so good.

Hope you're feeling a bit better after a night's rest, hun; teeth are the pits. I had my wisdoms picked off one-by-one at the dentist with just jabs, except the last for which they wanted to sedate me for 10 mins. My complicated medical history scares the pants off anaesthists (sp?) and I had to have a special meeting with the dental one a week or so beforehand to discuss how he was going to manage my care.

We agreed ahead of time what I'd do and what he'd do and he said something about not wanting anything bad to happen to me and I quipped about how being carried out on stretcher wouldn't look good for the practice and he looked faintly appalled........I have a robust sense of humour. I also have a different dentist now, for which they must thank their lucky stars.:rotfl:

I'd be careful about cracking your jaw wide open even after a few days have passed; a big yawn can give you a bit of a jolt for a week or so, in my experience.

kidkat your experiences of the school are appalling. I would have so loved to have been a fly on the wall when you handed them back their list of absences. And fancy wanting hospital doctors/ GPs to provide sicknotes for schoolchildren.....!

Well, went to my GP at silly o'clock and we had a discussion about various matters and I'm back at silly o'clock tomorrow for a bloodtest. It's not that I wouldn't be awake at that hour anyway but being dressed and out is a bit of a shock to the system, especially as it's perishing cold and raining.

I got waylaid by SuperGran as I went back home and she told me about the terrible night they'd had on her side of the block. Another blasted door has been stove-in and boarded up. She had no sleep between 2 am and 5 am and was looking a bit frazzled when she had a chat with me. I was lucky as the disturbance was over her side and I went to bed at 9 pm and slept well.

Yesterday, I readied some t.p. tubes and compost and put them into my cold frame but realised I'd forgotten to pre-soak the peas so brought them home and the little darlings germinated in 12 hours in water. I'm astonished but there are their little root-tips a-peeping out. I'm a big fan of pre-soaking big seeds like peas and beans, although the beans really need 48 hours. It requires a little more oranisation but it saves a lot of time. I've never bothered planting peas in open ground after the first year when mice stole 90% of them. And any neighbours who try it also lose 90% of theirs. How on earth to the mice manage it? Are they watching as we plant?

There's an old country rhyme which goes something like this: "One of the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow." Anyroad, these are home-saved seed from 2010, Early Onward if memory serves. And germinating well. If you're savvy, you can get away with buying one packet of peas and one of beans a lifetime and just save some each year.

Off, need more tea. Have a good 'un and let's hope the rain passes over like the weatherman said, or I'm going up the lottie anyway to get wet.

Laters, GQ x

stiltwalker

Thanks GQ - Not too bad this morning actually. I could have survived without painkillers but thought that would be pointlessly brave so have taken paracetamol, feeling well enough to venture out to the parent support meeting in town this afternoon. It's a new group trying to get going for parents of kids with additional needs so will try and boost numbers so they can continue. I find huge value in talking to other parents who have their own experiences of disability. Not that my friends with either no kids or neuro-typical kids aren't great but there are some things you have to have worn the t-shirt yourself to understand. I'm hoping to use my experiences along with my degree (when it's finally finished) to work with families just like ours, bridging the gap between services and families as I feel it is so important to have people involved who really understand.

Well must go as DD is colouring in tiger pictures and DS looks very funny - he seems to have acquired DD's straw hat and he looks like a little Amish boy! Going to have early lunch so we can get out - I'm thinking eggy bread as we might all be able to manage that!

mardatha

Tell me more about soaking seeds - I got some purple dwarf seeds here and tried 4 in wee pots just for fun - none of them ever appeared
Also does anybody get the Asda "spring greens" at 97p a bag ? What kind of cabbage is that, does anybody know? It's the only one my chickens will eat!