Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

michaels

I'm with you Lydia, both on what makes a nice house and how misguided some people can be - I guess it is just the same as some people prefer listening to Adele rather than Rhianna - we just have to accept that not everyone can have taste

michaels

DS has had a cold for a few days and is mch more snuffly today but is looking a bit red in the face and his cold is making breathing harder so I am worrying after what happened last year. Hopefully the calpol and puffer will gets us through the night ok but his pathetic little cough is so heart-rending. With all 3 DKs having coughs and colds this week and thus me having severly broken nights it has felt like a very long week.

Doozergirl

Sorry michaels, nothing worse than that.I hope they get better soon, all of them. Make use of the extra cuddles going!

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

it was definitely more about the university than the course for me, and most of my friends i think. basically everyone wanted to go somewhere which would give that a credible degree, and that they could get drunk a lot...


sadly the days when you chose somewhere to go on the basis that it seemed like the best option for getting drunk a lot are probably gone for most. i think you'd have to be far more sensible about it if you were going to rack up a £30k debt in the process, and need to think carefully about whether the course was justified and whether it would actually increase your earning power. a bit sad that people have to make fundamental decisions like that so early in life, but i guess its just the reality of where we are.

Another thread not so long ago had great advice for students going off to a degree

Will try to track it down. It covered the usefulness of part-time work, being in societies. getting internships (work experience we used to call it). We used to give students advice before they left for university- very important as many students were the first higher ed students in thier familes.

The thread IIRC, recommended looking for a post-degree job in the third year, loooong before exams let alone graduating.

Knew friends who, before the course, did evening classes in shorthand and swore by it. another was cooking - very handy for people moving into non-catered accommodation. The guys in these courses were in a minority and didn't mind one bit!

My flatmate did a sandwich degree with paid work experience in Europe and America. Stood her in very good stead.

Any NPs got advice for good ideas after you've been accepted on your courses?

John_Pierpoint

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Smoked eel can be amazing, that's one of the things I would never have tried if I didn't waste money in poncey restaurants!

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I eat anything and lots of it.
Yum to everything everyone has talked about except oysters. Never tried them. Cant say the idea of them appeals but I'd give them a go.

It is strange how the passage of time and population pressures change peasant food into posh food.:

The London Apprentices went on strike to get the right to not be fed oysters more than twice a week

Oyster recipes were so cheap that apprentices, when drawing up their work contract, often insisted on a clause stating they would be fed oysters only a limited number of times a week. This was to prevent a miserly master from economizing by feeding his apprentices nothing but oysters.
http://recipes.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Category:Oyster_Recipes

A bowl of "jellies" used to be a 1960's pub closing time snack in many places within what became Greater London.
The eel was a cheap, nutritious and readily available food source for the people of London; European eels were once so common in the Thames that nets were set as far upriver as London itself, and eels became a staple for London's poor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellied_eels

What goes around comes around.

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - not sure you should be so dismissive of Nando's without having tried it even once?

I don't think I have been to Nando's - Strange marketing concept - masses available within the M25 but thin on the ground in the home and southern counties "posh" areas - but there are TWO in Basildon.

Presumably a franchise operation?

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

... or worked full time and done it in the evenings over three years ...

It'd be great if that were possible. I've always thought that's what's wrong with English education - Americans expect/can go to nightschool to get a degree, and we can't.

All I can do at evening class in this county would be some GCSE French or Flower Arranging.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

DS has had a cold for a few days and is mch more snuffly today but is looking a bit red in the face and his cold is making breathing harder so I am worrying after what happened last year. Hopefully the calpol and puffer will gets us through the night ok but his pathetic little cough is so heart-rending. With all 3 DKs having coughs and colds this week and thus me having severly broken nights it has felt like a very long week.

Got one of these last year http://www.amazon.co.uk/Medisure-MS05475-Steam-Inhaler-Cup/dp/B004GK0R2G

£2 at Wilkinsons the day I found it.

If you google it with the words "steam inhaler cup" then you might find one close to you/cheaper/whatever.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

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I'd work through the night, almost in a trance, with papers and notes everywhere. I'd smoke a pack of cigarettes too. By dawn, the job would often be done, at least in rough, ....

That's pretty much how I do most of my writing.... I suddenly get in the zone and hammer at the keyboard until something's appeared. I rarely even read what I've written .... then dawn's breaking, I've had enough of it and I hit "publish" and leave it.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

This one bed flat has a rather nice bathroom:



But it does cost £795 a week for the flat, though!

http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-to-rent/details/id/CCGL63025_RS115506/

I won't even be earning that this month .... income decimated by recent events and have had no peace of mind/settled state to even start to resurrect it

I'll never be in the sort of income bracket that could even consider paying so much for somewhere to store my leggings, eat beans on toast and sleep.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Opposite for me. All I wanted to study was maths. I would have been happy to specialise earlier. I couldn't do languages or anything practical, I didn't enjoy writing essays.

My school insisted that everyone took a foreign language - the only exam I've ever failed.

For A level, I did maths, maths, physics and computer science.

I loved maths, but got wrong-footed as the systems changed while I was at school. I went to one school where Old Maths was taught, then changed schools and they did New Maths so they let me teach myself maths for a year (same class, just had their old maths books that they hadn't chucked out and got on with it). The trouble came when I went in for O level New Maths and had never done New Maths..... so it all went t1ts up there.

You rarely see anybody mentioning Old Maths and New Maths systems and the changeover in the 70s.