Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

NPs, I think I have a moneysaving tip for you. Sainsburys are due to start their clothing sale, which means you get 25% off their clothes, which are generally quite well made. If like me you have a voucher for additional nectar points, you'll be able to put that against your spend too. However Sainsburys has also just dropped their petrol price 2p per litre and having bought clothes and spent over £50 you'll get an additional 5p per litre off (that's my understanding anyway).

I've been planning for this for a while and the lady in my local Sainsburys has kindly put some clothes aside for me. So I'll fill up with petrol while I'm there and save about £25 pounds on clothes and about £3 on petrol while getting a load of additional nectar points.

silvercar

I am doing quite well at not letting him know how I feel about him going away, but I miss my mum. I want to ask her how she felt when her eldest first went off on something like that, and work out whether how I feel is just a general mum thing or a specific mum-of-fragile-kid-who's-been-through-too-much thing.

All Mum's miss their kids when they first go away and a tiny part of them hopes that the kid misses Mum too. First time youngest went away for 4 days, he never phoned once. I was really upset until another Mum said that hers had phoned home 4 times every single day in floods of tears.

silvercar

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 , and a minor criminal conviction from when I was about 16 (drinking in a public place, but nothing too serious)).

Don't minor convictions drop off your record after a few years?

Unless it wasn't that minor and you were doing 100mph, drinking and talking on the phone at the same time.

silvercar

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?

Always annoys that if you pay by CC, they pass you a chip'n'pin machine and issue a receipt. Pay by CC on the M6 toll road and you can use the unmanned toll and no need to PIN. Queues on the severn Bridge add at least 5 minutes to the journey time.

silvercar

I've been planning for this for a while and the lady in my local Sainsburys has kindly put some clothes aside for me. So I'll fill up with petrol while I'm there and save about £25 pounds on clothes and about £3 on petrol while getting a load of additional nectar points.

Never managed to find sainsbury's close that fit properly.

What do you do with nectar points?

SingleSue

I know how nervous I felt when James did his year 6 residential trip....and they were staying only 4 miles away (the school decided to go cheap that year), and how ultra nervous I was when he went over to Disneyland Paris with the school a year later.

Middle and youngest didn't go on the trips, middle because he had only just gone back into mainstream education and they were wary of his violence and youngest because it was felt he would never cope and the potential fall out would have a negative impact on his transfer to high school (he is like that, it doesn't just impact for a few days after but for months and months)

Normal weekend for us but that also means not a huge amount of time I can be online, so that was where I was over the weekend!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

I listen to Gaydar radio

Must be a local thing. Never heard of it.

vivatifosi wrote: »

...there's something about having 126bpm thumping out of your radio that

Makes the neighbours want to move.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Baku

Never heard of it - I'll have to google it now to see if it's even a town, region or country.

LydiaJ

Thanks to the various mums who've replied. It helps.
We've finished putting everything into his case and will be off in 20min.

lostinrates

My houseworks radio is magic ( now that needs the blushing smiley, right) or absolute eighties.

I have a story which makes me the butt of the joke.

Last few weeks i have had trouble sleeping. The bans next door have been extremely noisy and the neighbours and i have been trying to work out which of their equipment was spontaneously turning on at night in a big volume way. This includes them getting up in the middle of the night, even though they have to milk early in the morning, to try and spot the mystery noise. It sounds like a very loud hum, or very deep tinitus and gets worse between about 11 and three.

Last night dh and i were woken by it at 3 am and i started to weep. Actually, i woke dh, not the noise. I was saying that even though i liked our neighbours it was time to call environmental health because i need to sleep properly as its impacted so much on energy and pain levels.

ANy way, we fussed with windows, which i have been sleeping with closed which i hate, and tried to work out where it was coming from.

Anyway after a frustrating hour or so we resigned ourselves to turning my radio up ( dh dislikes the raio on). Dh then started grumbling about the light from the extention lead so i said i would turn the whole thing off and then....silence. Dh sat up. I turned it on...bzzzzzzzzzzz.....i turned it off, silence. W did this a few more times then giggled ourselvs to a very excellent dark and silent sleep.


Today i will make cake to deliver with the humble pie i must deliver to our kind neighbours.

Davesnave

silvercar wrote: »

. First time youngest went away for 4 days, he never phoned once. I was really upset until another Mum said that hers had phoned home 4 times every single day in floods of tears.

Of course access to phones is much better now, but when I took 10/11 year old kids away for 1 week trips, phoning home was banned for that very reason.

Tough love & all that.

Hope your DS has a great time, Lydia. Bet he does.