Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

Agree with both those. Do your boys know about the hassle he gives you? If so, I suspect you may find that before long James will decide to give his dad a piece of his mind and explain in no uncertain terms whose fault all of this is. At least, that's what I would guess from the impression I've gathered of him: a young man with plenty of character and a mind of his own, who loves his mum and won't want to sit back and watch her being unfairly blamed. But maybe you've told him that would just make things worse, in which case he'll probably comply with your wishes. Have I guessed right, or am I waaaayyy off the mark???

You've guessed right. James is not the only one though, middle son is becoming just as vocal, if not more and he is not as easily swayed to hold back as James is. He is certainly not backwards in coming forwards and the end result is usually ex and his mum assuming I am telling him to say those things...as if I could ever tell middle son what to say, he is like the unmoveable mountain once he has made his mind up and there is no convincing him to do something opposite to what he wants!

Youngest son doesn't care either way...he never had a relationship with him in the first place (ex was youngest's first 'non' person), so for him, it is his usual indifference.

One of James' friends saw the post on Facebook and sent James a message saying "Well, maybe if he behaved more like a father, then he would have got something"...says a lot when their friends notice as well as the boys.

PasturesNew

Overcast here ... it was scorchio. I can see grey clouds outside the window trying to decide if they'll ditch their watery nastiness on me or some other sucker up the road....

Storage man was building some new units ... well, he had an idea to and then I spoke to him last week and he got right on the phone to order the work; he's now phoned and I have a new unit to go and inspect.... from the size he said last week it'll be big (6x4) ... but I'll be taking my tape measure up as it might turn out to be 3x4 in reality .... and I can't visualise space. Then I have to move what I've got into that space.

Delivery's not arrived yet, website says anytime 7am-9pm and that my stuff's on the van.... so, sitting her with the proverbial finger up **** pacing about. Yes there's lots I COULD do .... but pacing's all my head can manage with so many things in the air.

Lunch today will be cheesy mash and beans That's the end of the beans now.... so that counts as decluttering the food cupboard

SingleSue

I would love to go to Athens, it's top of my list. Shortly before me and ex hubby split, he let on that we had been offered the use of a large apartment in Athens, large enough for us and all the children FOC for quite a few years but he hadn't taken it up (or told me) because of the lack of medical facilities...he couldn't quite understand that the hospitals over there would be well aware of diabetes as it wasn't just a British thing.

To say I was a little unhappy would be an understatement....he always knew I wanted to go there.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

I loved cairo, but that was years, decades even, ago. I remember it smelt terrible though. I was there when lots opf tourists were and to be honest i found them very opreasive.....i hate being pushed and shoved in crowds and groups. But i can see why the lack of them would cause those problems with people being so desperate to sell something relying on a smaller market to sell to.

Goodness, everything is so.....sad.

Experience like that stays with you. I've lost all interest in visiting the middle east or Africa again.

Mind you I've barely visited half the countries of the EU. And I've booked a nice family holiday

SingleSue

Booked our train tickets for the open day...£30 for the two of us return by train which works out quite well as fuel plus parking would have been about the same but the stress would have been greater...

Quite looking forward to the day out, quality time for just me and James without the other two butting in.

purch

I took dimwit #1 to Edinburgh University on Friday.

It was actually cheaper to fly up there with EasyJet than use the train......

......they wanted over £400 for 2 :eek:

purch

chewmylegoff wrote: »

My car has 6,000 miles on the clock as of last Sunday.

It is 3.5 years old!

My Audi A8 has 148,000 miles on it (4 cam belts), and it's also less than 4 years old :eek:

P.S. That reminds me.........Oil change at the weekend

GDB2222

purch wrote: »

My Audi A8 has 148,000 miles on it (4 cam belts), and it's also less than 4 years old :eek:

P.S. That reminds me.........Oil change at the weekend

That implies that you are spending around 15 hours a week driving (assuming plenty of motorway miles). I don't envy you. At least you have a decent car to do it in.

SingleSue

My Vauxhall Astra has 154,500 miles on it....but it is 18 years old.

I seem to spend an awful lot of time driving but no motorways and def not the most luxurious of surroundings!

purch

GDB2222 wrote: »

spending around 15 hours a week driving

Jeez.............:eek:

That's scarey...

Last week, went to London for 2 days (about 450 round trip) Oxford 1 day (about 280), Bristol airport (120) plus assorted farting about........man it all adds up (not bad for £270 road tax :T)