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

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Bloody foreigners taking our jobs and our wimmin.

Is that what your neighbour just shouted at you?

chewmylegoff

StevieJ wrote: »

Wow, cheers mate, a result straight away, James Herbert's new novel for £0.20p, it was £8 last week and around £5 yesterday. I have been debating whether to buy the hardback or the ebook That must be wrong surely, I have been waiting about three years for him to release that book. It is no.1 in the Amazon bestsellers, no wonder at £0.20p.

presumably drop it down to £0.20p for a couple of days and get it to #1 and then ramp it back up to some ludicrous price like £18.99 and reap the rewards? perhaps that would get it onto the official best sellers list as well, selling more physical copies?

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

The trick is to let 'em get as grubby as they like and then give them a good rinse afterwards.

Normally i let 'em get filthy. This was a difficult day,it is going to ocd father and grandmother straight from here and it reflects on mother badly if i let it get filthed. Our washing facilities are very temporary and erratic....i would not want to put a very small person in them....

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

The school are still messing up...youngest still has no escort to take him over to the other campus, so it was down to me to dash down there to pick him up and take him over after a panic phone call.

This is a real safe guarding issue, youngest is classified as vulnerable and is unable to cope at the present time with lone walking on an unfamiliar route especially with lack of support over on the other campus because of their original mess up where he could get so stressed that he just disappears in a meltdown trying to make his way home. Due to his needs, I myself am not allowed to let him go out and about alone, so how can the school be allowed to do so?

That's awful, Sue. Who says that you are not allowed to let him go out alone? Would they have the clout to make the school comply?

SingleSue wrote: »

Things appear to have settled down a little here but then, he has not had to cross site since the last panic call on Monday, so youngest is far happier. I have been busy however dealing with the debacle, having meetings with head teachers, form tutors, subject tutors, head of the ILC at one campus and the new head of the SEN department plus his outreach support bod, so that, hopefully, things will go smoothly for tomorrow when he cross sites twice in one day (very very poor planning that one!)

Glad to hear there's some improvement.

SingleSue wrote: »

Eldest went through a little 'eek' moment though as they decided to disband his form group and disperse them amongst other forms. His main gripe was he had been put into a group which had a science teacher as the form tutor and he had decided, in advance, that she was going to be strict and no fun. I asked him to hold back on that view because knowing some of the NP's are science based and are not at all stuffy (and of course, I have always been inclined that way), that he might just be surprised.

He had his first new form time yesterday....his teacher is not at all stuffy and in fact James said she was just as weird and eccentric as he was, so he was happy! :rotfl:

Yay! Sounds like an excellent teacher for him.

zagubov wrote: »

Good news on the DS front. He's now geting geared up to travel to school by bus (not regularly but it's a start). He's already coming home by bus twice a week and we're looking to expand this to four times.

A big advance in the personal autonomy side of things and also thinking selfishly (and guiltily) from the point of view of less parental time spent in chauffeuring on some mornings and most afternoons.

Yay! Don't feel guilty. It's not like anything bad is happening to him in order to free you from so much chauffeuring. He's doing brilliantly, and there's a payoff for you too. Great result. :dance:

I am feeling impressed with DS and his friends.

He tells me that while in primary school, people got teased for any suggestion of a girlfriend/boyfriend, now that they are in Yr7 there's a lot of pressure on everyone to have somebody. (Insert ridiculous pre-teen story of boy asks girl's best friends if she'll go out with him, friends ask her and report back yes, girl hides in toilets all lunch time to avoid meeting boy...) However, DS says that he and his best friends (twin boys his age) think it's stupid to go out with somebody you've only just met, merely in order to have a gf for the sake of it. DS tells me that if he ever has a gf, he's going to go out with somebody he's known for ages so that he knows her properly.

Just hope he can hang onto some of that maturity and common sense once the hormones arrive... :eek:

Meanwhile, I am on a roll. I have sorted out my buildings/contents insurance (just in time for tomorrow): did a comparison and saved a bit of money on the renewal and there's a meerkat on its way to join DD's enormous collection of toy animals, too. I have tracked down DS's NHS number to put on his PE form. I have discovered a friend with a son who's not using his shinpads so DS can borrow them tomorrow and we can give DD time to search for what happened when she borrowed DS's shinpads without needing to buy any replacements just yet. My life feels a lot less out of control than it did an hour or two ago.

All I need to do now is a quick tidy up of the chaos the DKs have created, and I can go off out for a very belated birthday meal out with my 4 best local friends.

lostinrates

Ds really is a nice boy lydia. I hope ypu have a great night.

I am whacked. Exhausted. I have made the dogs' portidge but i cannot ge up to feed them yet.

PasturesNew

Spent the day doing bu**er all ..... I'm repeating this amount of effort for the whole evening.

Heard on the radio earlier that there's some new TV programme tonight, channel 4, called "The Audience". Somebody has a decision to make, so 50 complete strangers/volunteers follow right behind him for a whole week ... then help him decide what to do.

Tonight: farmer, brought up by aged farmer uncle, doesn't know whether to continue working long hours in old-fashioned/run down uncle's farm.... or run to the hills and shack up with his lady friend

9pm

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Perhaps I'm missing the point but isn't this true? Black people are routinely treated by many as inferior, stupid and criminal. They shouldn't be but they are.

Similarly, women are often considered to be unsuitable for senior management. I was planning on telling my daughter that she'll have to do more to prove herself than a man often. Should I not do that?

I just think it's the parents role from an early age to prepare kids for what's fair and what isn't. Possibly in this instance that isn't happening, who knows. I had a horrible bullying teacher at school and the article initially reminded me of that, which I'm afraid coloured my judgement a bit. Thankfully I've got more balanced michaels to keep me on the straight and narrow:o.

Pimperne1

Funny clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqavDqWL_Q0

chewmylegoff

Location location location on 4+1 now, they're in Hertfordshire. Kirsty just said that Hertfordshire smells, and that only non nice people live there. 100% fact.

vivatifosi

Slip End... Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

ETA: thanks for the heads up chewy, even if I did miss the beginning where they said Hertfordshire smells and that only non-NPs live here. Tring and St Albans are both areas I know pretty well, so it's very interesting. Though why they'd send someone to Slip End who wants St Albans is beyond me. Not only is it in a different county, but there's a whole other town between it and St Albans. Mad. Dagnall as a Tring alternative makes more sense though.