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

fc123

Shameful confession to make (hope Dooz doesn't see it )

We have had a dodgy tile for years and a leak. OH would climb up sort the tile and it would stop but 2 years ago (I know !) the dripping through the bathroom ceiling got worse each storm. The original dodgy tile was fine and he couldn't find the source of the leak at all.
Ended up with a small hole which OH 'repaired' with a piece of A4 white card and sellotape (to stop bits of damp plaster falling through).
He kept meaning to 'sort out the roof' and it kept getting left.

Today our builder mate and son climbed over it and found the broken tiles, went and bought 3 replacements at the cost of £3.96. Mended it and refused to take any payment (as it only took an hour in total (excluding going to buy tiles). OH insisted he take £50 beer money for the favour plius he will be plastering the bathroom ceiling anyway at some point.

SingleSue

My parents have made the kind offer of paying £400 towards driving lessons for James, he is (this is a bit of an understatement), very chuffed and quite overwhelmed at the offer.

Think they have done it because his joints have really been quite bad just recently as he has a very physical part time job and it has taken its toll on his body, alongside an hour long walk to get to work in the first place (and of course, the resulting hour long walk home at the end of the day). They think having a full driving license may open up the option of different kinds of part time work where the physical impact may not be so great.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Fc, thats great! We don't, know anyone there in london so would be interested to know how he finds it when he is settled in!


Glad he has been busy for you.

I used to work with someone who was a partner there. Scariest person EVER. Properly hardcore.

Percy1983

Back from the honeymoon and we still love each other.

What have I missed?

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I used to work with someone who was a partner there. Scariest person EVER. Properly hardcore.

Nah. I reckon my mate's boss (he worked in a London job centre inthe 1970s)was the scariest boss ever. My mate got a shock when he stumbled into a waxworks of the guy in Madam Tussaud's :eek:
He was off sick and missed the Christmas dinner when the guy brought in his "special curry".

Percy1983 wrote: »

Back from the honeymoon and we still love each other.

What have I missed?

Welcome back, Mr and Mrs Percy :beer:

The end of the Olympics.
People getting problems attended to.
Nervous kids getting exam results.
And much, much, more!

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Any one else here use anything like myfitnesspall or calorie counter? After a few months of not giving a damn i have to get things unde ontrol again. I am horrified to note how much sugar has crept in ( i have started eating more bananas for potasium because thats meant to be an issue with this head business, and also because have not been well bouth those cheat breakfast biscuits). So while my calorie intake is low over all my sugars within that are too high.

There is a thread about the intermittant fSting which was recently discussed on horizon and which is not so different in idea (thoguh more successful) than my attempes to calorie hoard, but its all very confusing and contradictory what i am reading elsewhere about it, and the thread is not terribly illuminating.

Now i feel less like i am sloshing around i have felt like cooking again.

Its quite telling that apart from what we guess is fluid weight i have not lost anything mut my parent has lost three and a half kilos since movig in on something between what I eat and what dh eats....so its not my cooking and meal planning totally at fault, though its not perfect.

I haven't seen the horizon prog, but i presume it's about the weird results of the pretty extensive animal diet experiments on calorie restriction and effects on health and longevity.

There's a lot to be said for this (or to be precise, the limited versions of it). I gather radical calorie restriction is like starving yourself into "famine survival mode" where cell repair is upregulated to keep you alive till the other end of the famine, but the downside is wiilpower (you feel starving) infertility and problems maintaining particluar nutrients. The milder versions (intermittent restriction for days on end) sound more promising and realistic and animal experiments have shown similar life extension properties to radical diets.

The two days a week version may have some benefits, and would certainly be easier for humans to attempt. But I'd never recommend a restricted diet to anyone still growing and I'd be very wary of it if somebody was getting treatment for a complex condition. It would make sense to get that sorted first and then get advice.

It's fascinating. I've heard it suggested it's why Seventh day Adventists lived so long- thier diet is drug-free and low or free in animal products and they're encouraged to eat very healthily.

Calorie restriction's obiously a more extreme version. This whole topic might well be lightning in a bottle.

I've had to teach Biology courses which cover some of this stuff at a very basic level. I very much like the direction that Biology education's going right now.

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

DD's got into her chosen uni!:beer:

Congrats Zag!

I can also confirm that my sisters' school got 89 of 116 into their 1st/2nd choices! Up from not having a sixth form and being one of the worst schools in the county just six years ago!

She's leaving for Headship no.2 with another crap school on a high!

CK

PasturesNew

Just gone 5 o'clock... been laying here 2 hours, unable to get to sleep since flatmate got up at 3am and turned the hall light on (there's a glass panel at the top of the door and the light's right outside, so it might as well have been my room light).

And now.... I can't get to sleep, want to get up and watch telly/make a coffee/have a cigarette.... but don't feel 'able to' wander about and do that stuff while sharing. However.... I now have a greater need.... 2 hours awake, been drinking canned drinks ... so need the loo.... might as well go for broke now then and try to get the front door unlocked (noisy lock) and go for a cig too

Edit: Managed that pretty silently. The front door's the original, 40+ years old, wooden frame, single glazed door and lock with a long metal key and is temperamental... I think I've got the knack now so only took me 15 slow/quiet attempts to get it locked again and managed to unlock it on the 5th attempt

Flatmate's pretty 'dead to the world' when asleep, but I don't want to be a creepy person creeping about in the middle of the night making the floorboards creak

... you lot with your own homes have no idea how hard it is to live like this, without a semse of basic freedoms

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just gone 5 o'clock... been laying here 2 hours, unable to get to sleep since flatmate got up at 3am and turned the hall light on (there's a glass panel at the top of the door and the light's right outside, so it might as well have been my room light).

And now.... I can't get to sleep, want to get up and watch telly/make a coffee/have a cigarette.... but don't feel 'able to' wander about and do that stuff while sharing. However.... I now have a greater need.... 2 hours awake, been drinking canned drinks ... so need the loo.... might as well go for broke now then and try to get the front door unlocked (noisy lock) and go for a cig too

There's no reason why not

CK

silvercar

fc123 wrote: »

Congrats from me too to all the A level ds's and dd's.

Silvercar...the second choice one may be fine in the long run but I do sympathise with being the odd mark off a top grade. Son had it with his degree.

Its the second choice we've missed by a quarter of 1 per cent.

Some things have shown up in clearing, but if he grabs them now and the remark goes in his favour, he can't revert to the original choice.