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Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)
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lostinrates wrote: »Or we could guess?
He washed her passport?:D
Surely she would have used a javelin or alternative form of spear if it was as serious as that.0 -
O wow. You have to tell us what you did to deserve that.
It was during exam season. A couple of days later she decided that I had to move out and live somewhere else as a matter of urgency at 10pm. I wasn't allowed to take the car (despite it being the Aussie equivalent of my company car) nor could I spend any money. Her brother's sofa was put forward as a possible solution to my sudden and unexpected homelessness and insolvency.
It's interesting how I was the world's biggest AH every exam season. Do exams cause me to be an AH or does me being an AH cause exams? It's one of those causation/correlation things.0 -
From my days at Lakeland I have one of these:
somewhere. The uncertainty in location is a clue as to how many times it has been used.
We have an electric knife (well, my mum does). It has roughly bi-annual outings (Christmas and Easter). Because hearing the noise means that we are having a roast dinner of some sort (and even better that it is nearly at the table), we (my brother and I) love the sound of it. As soon as it is retrieved from the back of the cupboard we start making its noise and pretending that our hands are the blades. I'm not sure that we will ever stop doing this, and we have even managed to get my mum doing it too
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I have an electric knife...it is used pretty much weekly as my hands are a bit beggered with arthritis.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Oh that is hard. I am sorry to hear this.
DD was in tears last night and didn't sleep at all well as her equine friend has been off work for the last few weeks and the vet has now diagnosed that the abcess is a pedal bone rotation. Vet is coming out again on Monday and owner had asked DD if she would like to be there to discuss options.
This news stirs up baggage for us all.
We had a traumatic loss of her last horse - pulmonary rupture - a horror movie scene, she was brilliant in a crisis, I was hysterical, and then subsequent peaceful death of her childhood pony on the same weekend as we had a multiple close bereavement which we all still struggle with.
She is not a child and no stranger to loss but I wish I could save her and us from it and all it brings to the fore.
So sorry to hear that, Spirit. I think the desire to save one's offspring from loss is always strong, however old they are, and if the offspring are no strangers to loss that makes it worse rather than better.
Glad I didn't put my foot in it by commenting further on the issue.:o
If you'd come out strongly anti, that wouldn't have constituted putting your foot in it as far as I'm concerned. I was very anti myself before it happened. Just not quite anti enough to throw my bereaved in-laws' generosity back in their faces! (My kids are all they have left of their only child.) My change of view about kids with mobiles took me by surprise, and I'd never have imagined that I would end up feeling the way I do now.I would love to add to that number but alas, distance to travel with my ageing car and children (well one child in particular), who do not do well in new surroundings and with new people, would not make it a stress free adventure.
Lots of us would love to meet you, but we have enough understanding of the challenges to realise that it would probably be difficult for you.Re Uni allowance...mine will be getting zero and will be expected to get a part time job to cover extras. I don't have the money to give them an allowance of any sort.
But yours would get the full means-tested maintenance loan, wouldn't they? Whereas some NP have kids who wouldn't, I imagine. (Although I must admit I have no idea how the system works and am merely going off hearing the means-tested bit mentioned in previous conversations.)Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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I don't really use many gadgets in the kitchen, except kettle, toaster, microwave and a deep fryer for chips. I made doughnuts once but they weren't great, I did deep-fried mars bars once, and they were bloody lovely.
I used to have a hand blender, which I miss. Might get a new one, for soups.
My housemate has a slow-cooker, which I keep meaning to use but never do.
I'm a bit old fashioned on the cooking side of things. Simple meat and two veg type meals.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
3 kilos of french beans today and another 2 kilos of courgettes. I need bean recipes!!!!!!0
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Are they still tender missk? Have you had enough of salad niscoise?0
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