Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

I am not hiding anywhere ss. We moved some logs ( never bloody ending! Job, still from the trees we cut down when we moved......end of this pile will be a huge point to mark as w reckon it will be two thirds of them moved.

Dh went for a paddle on the cake in the icing. We spent a lot of time with the birds because we are worming them a nd eping them in, and the horses and the dogs...one on one time, not incidental because we were doing something that involved them.

Tomorow i think i might gird my loins and head into the chest height nettles tht cover what s meant to be one of my holding/ nursery beds. If nothing is salvagble i might just spray the wretch.

PasturesNew

sss555s wrote: »

Where are all the nice people hiding?

I've spent today 'working' ... trying to seek and destroy some 'rogue code' on my site, which turned out to be my adserver still serving ads from turned off campaigns. So that puts a huge problem to bed that I've been suffering from for the last six weeks.

There are no weekends, or Sundays, when you work online.... time is time .... and if there's time you do stuff.

lostinrates

Oh, also, today we de richarded a few more bags and boxes. We found telephone numbers/ email addresses, scrawled on scraps of paper or on cards of 17 people who we simply cannot remember who they are and lots more of people we know who they are but have no idea why the would have given one of us their numbers.

PasturesNew

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really ... fancy something sweet. Some sweeties, a chocolate biscuit... something, ANYTHING!!! But I have nothing.

Closest 24 hour garage is a 20-30 mile round trip

My can of rice pudding won't cut it... it's a bizarre chocolate kind of need I have.

LydiaJ

sss555s wrote: »

I'm sure he will love it Lydia. Kids manage a lot of things better than us grown ups. It will help to make him a more rounded young man.

lostinrates wrote: »

I am hopeful for him (and lydia) too, but dear heart, if he does not love it that too is a growing experience. It must be so bloody difficult for you parenting a wonderful but fragile child, because life doesn't stand still for them. He is such a bright boy and even if we could make the world stop turning for him to pause i am not sure that would be any better for someone so bright.....it might just let the fragility grow.

Honestly, he is so outstanding a young man, i cannot see him not growing upto be all he could be.

Thank you, both of you. I hope he is going to have a wonderful time, and I do know that it will be character-building even if he doesn't. I know that in all probability he will be scared and homesick for the first few hours and then have a blast for the rest of the week. I'll be the one to find it difficult. There is an irrational part of me that is quite confident that my kids are reasonably safe travelling in motor vehicles and doing activities if they are with me, but feels that they are at significant risk of death if doing such things without me. I know perfectly well that that's ludicrous, but my emotional response is based on the last time he was away from me overnight - broken arm, fractured cheek bone, and dead father.

At least I am not troubled by any shadow of doubt that going is the best thing for him. I was worried that he would try to get out of going - when he was in Y4 and Y5 he used to say he didn't want to go when he got to Y6. Providentially, though, there was a debate in the autumn term about whether they should do a joint Y5/6 residential instead of the usual one for just Y6, because they're a low birth rate year, and his class has 23 kids instead of 30, so the smaller numbers were going to make the trip more expensive unless they increased the group size somehow. So the whole of Y6 got worked up about not wanting Y5 tagging along on their special trip, and that seemed to carry him along into being willing to go. He is nervous tonight, of course, but still not suggesting withdrawing from it, for which I'm proud of him.

Sometimes it is almost scary, but also very humbling and awe-inspiring, to have somebody so vulnerable love me so absolutely. He was saying the other day that he doesn't want me ever to get married again. I told him it wouldn't be happening any time soon, and he should let the future worry about itself. Then I suggested that he wanted our home to continue to be just him, me and DD. He said "well, partly" so I asked what the other part was. "I don't want anyone else to hurt you the way Dad did."

I should perhaps explain that although I have always told him the truth that it was LNE's choice to leave and I didn't want him to, I have tried very hard neither to bad-mouth LNE to the kids nor to burden them with my feelings about the whole thing - I have adult friends for that.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really ... fancy something sweet. Some sweeties, a chocolate biscuit... something, ANYTHING!!! But I have nothing.

Closest 24 hour garage is a 20-30 mile round trip

My can of rice pudding won't cut it... it's a bizarre chocolate kind of need I have.

I get those too. Intensely frustrating when there's nothing available that fits the bill.

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

Just seen the torch go through my parents local town. I gess I will take the kids to see it here as it is only the end of the road but I can't really say that I am in to all this Olympic thang. Sadly no sign of a rental for my house so it doesn't look like I will be able to quit the country for the games themselves.

At work we had to say how we would reduce our London travel footprint. I strongly doubt any of mine will carry any Olympic traffic anyway but apparently if I change from tube to train outside central London and then walk from 1 tube station away my journey is completely different and thus scores as being a journey no longer done....

It’s going through Stortford on 7/7, and whilst I’ve been asked to be there with the Deputy Mayor (friend), I’m a bit uncomfortable with the rumour that MI5 are snooping on various ‘undesirable’ characters (I’ve got a speeding/talking on phone offence list longer than my arm, and am somehow now down to 3 points :eek:, and a minor criminal conviction from when I was about 16 (drinking in a public place, but nothing too serious)).

Sorry for not being around, I’m trying to fight solicitors letters from a former employee (dismissed on Thursday for telling me on the phone I’m a ‘jumped up, arrogant !!!! who palms my kids off on OH/mum/a Turkish friend (I’m taking theirs to Georgia in the summer) who has kids of a similar age so I can go away for 3 weeks’, when in reality it’s not as simple as that.

On a completely separate note, if anyone wants an ex-company ’11’ plate Focus, 73000mi, please let me know. No longer needed, as the post doesn’t need to be replaced :eek:

CK

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really ... fancy something sweet. Some sweeties, a chocolate biscuit... something, ANYTHING!!! But I have nothing.

Closest 24 hour garage is a 20-30 mile round trip

My can of rice pudding won't cut it... it's a bizarre chocolate kind of need I have.

I’m going back to Cardiff in a few weeks (Facebook thinks I’m still in Cardiff :eek:); remind me to drop come chocolate off!

On that note, why do they put a £6 charge to come into Wales? Surely you’d be happy to pay an extra £25 to get out of there? :eek:

PasturesNew

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I’m going back to Cardiff in a few weeks (Facebook thinks I’m still in Cardiff :eek:); remind me to drop come chocolate off!

On that note, why do they put a £6 charge to come into Wales? Surely you’d be happy to pay an extra £25 to get out of there? :eek:

You know you'll never make a stalker.... I am 200 miles from there. And I haven't been there for 2.5 years.

Davesnave

sss555s wrote: »

Where are all the nice people hiding?

The computer died, so I was out, buying a new one from an old guy who happened to live very close to where the Olympic flame passed through.....His eBay advert had failed to secure any bids, so I contacted him and managed to do a deal.

Perhaps there are nerdy old men all over the country, sitting in lofts, building computers, but it looks as if it doesn't pay. The receipts with this one = £100 more than I paid, and that's without the OS.

"I dunno what he gets up to, but it keeps him quiet," said his DW, who'd just returned from watching the flame pass by. Unlike her DH, she was not wearing an Olympic baseball cap indoors.;) Yes, there had been people lining the street, but not in droves, and certainly not six deep.

We returned through the foothills of Dartmoor, which were pretty quiet for a decent Sunday in May. Are people staying at home more and buying less? People I know seem to think so. Like the computer, a car I went to see a few weeks ago, and almost bought, failed to get a bid when reduced by 1/3 on the Bay.....

Nevertheless, someone bought all our eggs while we were out. They're still eating.:)

vivatifosi

Sorry for not being around much. On Saturday I did my housework as DH was working. I have a guilty secret: I listen to Gaydar radio when doing the housework as they play non-stop disco and there's something about having 126bpm thumping out of your radio that gets the housework done double quick. I'm pretty sure that's also where I heard the Swedish Eurovision entry.

Yesterday I went to Watford with DH, he wanted to get some tech from Richer Sounds but then found out a new version was about to be released so kept his money in his pockets and came home disappointed.

With regard to all things Eurovision, The Economist has done an interesting blog piece on how well the economy has done in Baku over the past few years but how Azerbaijan still has its problems. It makes the auditorium sound mighty impressive:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/05/eurovision-2012-diary?fsrc=gn_ep&google_editors_picks=true