Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Yeah, I know. It's hard to persuade him, though.

He's a special young man. I think all you can do is support him and hope he learns himself. His decisivness will ofcourse stand him in good stead in many ways. If he can, with time, balance both he'll be extraordinary. He will be superb whatever.

zagubov

Interesting. DD's now got the offer of the nearby uni so the dilemma of home and away becomes a real decision to make. She's still absolutely in two minds but she's due to visit the near one and maybe that might help her make her decision.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Interesting. DD's now got the offer of the nearby uni so the dilemma of home and away becomes a real decision to make. She's still absolutely in two minds but she's due to visit the near one and maybe that might help her make her decision.

Which is better for the course? Did you establish that? Is it a course where employment centres are nearer/more closely associated with one than the other? What about socs, any particularly good for the non academic stuff?

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

He's a special young man. I think all you can do is support him and hope he learns himself. His decisivness will ofcourse stand him in good stead in many ways. If he can, with time, balance both he'll be extraordinary. He will be superb whatever.

Thank you. He's certainly special to me. So is she. One of the things I've always said to my kids is "I love you. I think you're great. I'm so glad you're mine." They frequently know about it when they drive me nuts, so at least I can keep telling them that it doesn't mean I don't value them.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thank you. He's certainly special to me. So is she. One of the things I've always said to my kids is "I love you. I think you're great. I'm so glad you're mine." They frequently know about it when they drive me nuts, so at least I can keep telling them that it doesn't mean I don't value them.

Special. Not just to you.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a smokery in somerset that does what i am told are amazing smoked eels. If i have to try eel, that is the way i will try it first i hope.

Japanese smoked eel (unagi) is absolutely absolutely beautiful.

On a bed of steamed rice and nothing else, it's one of a few dishes that make my heart sing.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Japanese smoked eel (unagi) is absolutely absolutely beautiful.

On a bed of steamed rice and nothing else, it's one of a few dishes that make my heart sing.

You certainly make it sound good enough to try.

silvercar

zagubov wrote: »

Interesting. DD's now got the offer of the nearby uni so the dilemma of home and away becomes a real decision to make. She's still absolutely in two minds but she's due to visit the near one and maybe that might help her make her decision.

lostinrates wrote: »

Which is better for the course? Did you establish that? Is it a course where employment centres are nearer/more closely associated with one than the other? What about socs, any particularly good for the non academic stuff?

How does the offer compare to the other one and to her predictions?

We are waiting til after the exam results in March (for the exams this week) to decide which offers will be accepted.

Its a strategic game. If he accepts an offer that he misses by one grade there is a chance that the uni could still accept him - but they might not. On the other hand if he rejects the top offer, then he won't have a chance of going there. So as part of the strategy he took more exams this time round to get them out of the way and to give a better idea of his final grades.

SingleSue

lemonjelly wrote: »

Did this on cinnamon bagels. Mmmmm!:drool:





Thank god someone agrees with me! I see the point lir & chewy are making, but even so, given how hard I work for what little I get, I still fail to justify £100+ for a meal. It'd have to be one helluva treat/thank you or similar.

I still wouldn't even want someone else to pay that kinda price for a meal for me.
Maybe that says more about my self perception than anything else, I dunno...

I'm with you too, anything over £30 for 3 courses is too much in my book...but then I am a scrooge and would expect decent food for that too.

I have been to a few expensive restaurants in my time with the various companies I and now ex hubby have worked for but that was company money, there would be no way I would pay the sort of amount they were just because it was a name.

My love interest took me out for dinner in our most expensive restaurant (£30 for a steak!), to be honest, I would have been far happier at the £6.99 all you could eat chinese a few doors down...the quality was about the same.

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

DS is a fussy eater, and I sometimes find it stressful taking him to people's houses if he doesn't want to eat what they offer him. At your house, with a varied selection on the table and the freedom for us all to help ourselves, he was happy and I felt relieved and grateful. :T

You were even gracious to me after I'd expressed myself a little too vehemently (before lunch) about what I considered to be the idiocy of a friend who wastes perfectly good cake by contaminating it with courgette.... and your courgette cake was actually rather nice, although I still won't be putting any courgette in any cakes I make myself.



Yes

Mine are just weird eaters, they will only eat certain meals at certain places...so they will have sausage at my parents but refuse to eat sausages at home or beef at home but nowhere else and so on.

James is the weirdest of all, he dislikes all meat apart from chicken or turkey, is not keen on pasta but will eat it if he has to but loves having a meal of yorkshire puddings with gravy....nothing else. He can be inventive though, his chicken burger stuffed with Orios is pretty famous around the school.