Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

SingleSue

James was pretty easy for his 18th, he wanted (well really he needed), a decent laptop for his studies and because my budget is not capable of providing items like that, he just requested everyone gave him money (when they asked what he wanted of course, he didn't demand).

He got just about enough to buy a cheapish but quite high spec laptop. Blooming good thing really, his provided laptop at school has been with the technicians for quite a while now, so he just takes his own in.

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

Something to play music on (an upmarket ipod /dock spoeaker set-up. I don't know if hi-fi still exists!
A good TV to take to uni, with laptop connections? Just realsied how risky that would be to transport,though if it's a decent size!
Gliding lessons? Flight over London? balloon trip? I know you said he doesn't want experiences but if you pick something unusual that might tempt him, maybe he'll go for it.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

or a good pair of headphones, you can spend quite a worrying amount on them these days. just don't get those chavvy dr dre ones.

The iPod docking station was last year's present.

He has dr dre headphones from saving his money himself.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

The iPod docking station was last year's present.

He has dr dre headphones from saving his money himself.

well, there you go, you can buy him some respectible headphones and smash the dr dre ones to bits with a large hammer

let's move on to the next problem.

zagubov

Three years subscription to Spotify to serenade him through his degree? Plus something more tangible as well maybe. (e.g. a large hammer).

PasturesNew

yertiz wrote: »

Sorry to hear about you foot, hope it's better tomorrow, it might ease once you've rested it in bed. Do you have Ibuprofen? My son was given it by A & E when he sprained his ankle playing rugby and it seemed to help.

It is a little easier today, although not weight-bearing, so not moving off the sofa today.

I don't have Ibuprofen, I've got some cheap Aldi Paracetamol.

I am not a pill taker, in fact painkillers never even occurred to me and the only reason I have the paracetamol is I confiscated them from the old's stuff as the old wasn't aware how many they'd had already and I was buying way too many for them.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I'm a big fan of the OU, having worked as a tutor. One weird thing though was that I had a student in Dorset, when most of my students were within traveling distance of Surrey. They quickly reassigned them to a more westerly centre.

Their efficiency was awesome. You sent the scripts and feedback to Milton Keynes on Monday. They checked your marking and sent it out to the students. On the Saturday you went to whichever university they'd hired for the tutorial and the students all came in with their work and your feedback!

Maybe I better wipe this post as it might liook like an advert.!

Maybe the OU's changed then - I studied with them in 94-97 and got just two short tutorials in a year. Without the Internet either, it was all a bit of a desperate study method as there wasn't the chance to ask questions easily etc.

I've not studied since as I was moving about/couldn't make plans and couldn't afford it. Although, I now find out (through MSE) that I could probably have got funding ... everybody else seems to have been funded, but they'd kept the income rate low and my wages had dropped and I didn't know.

It was always my plan to continue ..... but the cost stopped me mostly. Now I don't know if there'd be a point. So what if I got a degree (which'd take another 3-4 years with them) .... I'd be unemployable due to being a new graduate of a certain age.

PasturesNew

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

What did you actually do to this foot?
Have you possibly pierced the skin and infected it.

Hurt it
No

Something was on the floor, as I was walking across the floor my small toe ended up one side of the upright thing and the rest of my toes were the other side of it, as I was walking, I then put my full body weight onto it and thought "f*** .... that's not right"



There's a lot of stuff on the floor when you've no room for things/stuff -and- you've got everything out as you're sorting it out. And I had to close the curtain and did that and then it was dark and I was walking over the floor (trying to avoid the printer) to get to the lightswitch.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am not a pill taker.

Nor am I , but on the odd occasions when I do, they work, and I don't need lots to feel the benefit.

Anti inflammatories, like ibuprofen, reduce the cause of the pain & don't just mask it. Worth having some in, considering the piddling amount they cost.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Or broken something?

Pastures, if it's no better this morning, you need to get it seen by a doctor. Don't bother with a GP. I did that once when I hurt my foot, and he just looked at me and said "Well, I haven't got an X-ray machine, have I? We need to know if it's broken so go to A&E."

If it might be broken, please don't just grit your teeth and walk about on it - you could damage it further and make it take longer to heal in the long run. You do a lot of walking and you really need your feet, so get this one looked after. If you can't drive, phone for a cab. Or you could try phoning NHS direct and saying you need to get to A&E but can't get yourself there with your foot in this state - you never know they might offer you a non-emergency ambulance.

It's a tad better.... I have to stand up for 3 hours later this evening, if it's giving me gip then I will be right by the Hospital.... although parking alone could cost me over £10 if I have to wait too long.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

I thought the siblings were all hundreds of miles away and only came to Cornwall occasionally, so not lift-giving distance. But I may be wrong.

Yes, closest one right now is at work 100 miles away and, when home, it would be a 60 mile round trip to take me. Other one's somewhere in deepest South America, maybe in a jungle or up a mountain.