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

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

We live across the park from DS's school. He goes next door in the mornings and meets up with the girl next door (my best friend's daughter) and another girl in his tutor group who lives just round the corner. Then the three of them walk to school together.

Some boys in his class have noticed him arriving with the two girls and are making themselves unpleasant going on about the girls being DS's girlfriends. It is bothering him to the extent that he didn't want to invite either of those two girls to his birthday party (although happy to have other girls from his tutor group) so as not to give the annoying boys more fuel for their gossip. (Party is laser tag thingy, so not effeminate!)

I am unimpressed. :mad:

I am impressed that even at that age he is concerned about how the young ladies' virtue is perceived. However may be in this age of equality you should gently suggest to him that it is probably up to the said young ladies themselves to decide whether they would rather come to the party and virtue (perceptions of) be d*mned.

lostinrates

This evening i could not find attila the blind hen anywhere. She's been a bit of a pain today...wandering off to the building site, then out into the road by our drive and then by the front gate.

Anyway, after almost giving up i found her in the ditch by the road, she was shaking when i picked her up and she nuzzled into me like a parrot. We are going to have to consider putting the babies out in the big house now, and keeping attila, lame cheeky and beautoful cottoneye jojo in the house and setting up a run. Attila hates not to be allowed to free range, but her lack of eyesight is obviously a liability.

michaels

I believe some NP are in to audio books (I keep meaning to give them a try) and this site seems to have some links to some free ones - apologies if someone has already posted the link.

PasturesNew

kabayiri wrote: »

Oh, on a more positive note, aren't the McMillan nurses and the other support people brilliant. They deserve all the support they can get.

I found ours useless.... utterly pointless and useless really. A middle-class twee woman, who did less than nothing.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Attila hates not to be allowed to free range, but her lack of eyesight is obviously a liability.

Are chickens completely thick? Would it be possible to have a very low volume "beeper" constantly chirping so she could always find her way back home? ... or, are they just too thick?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Are chickens completely thick? Would it be possible to have a very low volume "beeper" constantly chirping so she could always find her way back home? ... or, are they just too thick?

Usually she comes when i call. I could actually train her to a beeper (chockens are extremely trainable) but i do not have the hours or the ideal facilities for that here. She was obviously scared tonight. Tomorrow they have to stay in any way, which they hate, but....you know, sometimes we all have to do stuff we hate. The next day the rain might keep her in. I think maybe our young cockeral is scaring her . she is his favourite and it must be terrifying to be leapt on from behind when blind, (well, when sighted too) sexually assaulted and then left wondering what just happened. She would quite like to be a shoulder bird, but it aint gonna happen.

kabayiri

lostinrates wrote: »

This evening i could not find attila the blind hen anywhere. She's been a bit of a pain today...wandering off to the building site, then out into the road by our drive and then by the front gate.

Anyway, after almost giving up i found her in the ditch by the road, she was shaking when i picked her up and she nuzzled into me like a parrot. We are going to have to consider putting the babies out in the big house now, and keeping attila, lame cheeky and beautoful cottoneye jojo in the house and setting up a run. Attila hates not to be allowed to free range, but her lack of eyesight is obviously a liability.

I'm sure G4S or Serco would electronically tag her. It'd only cost you about £13 a day!

If she were an American Chicken (is that Chuck?) you'd have to find less than £1.50 a day

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

I found ours useless.... utterly pointless and useless really. A middle-class twee woman, who did less than nothing.

That's disappointing to hear. I guess the reality is that you will find good; bad and middling in any organisation.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

I believe some NP are in to audio books (I keep meaning to give them a try) and this site seems to have some links to some free ones - apologies if someone has already posted the link.

Thanks! Good call - haven't seen this posted before.

Just in time as well, as I just finished listening to Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" today :T

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

Poor DS. Sorry that he is getting bother. It did make me smile though... In a few years those silly boys will be so jealous of another boy hanging out with two girls!

And then a decade or so after that they'll be sick of all the nagging and just want to go to the pub with their mates and talk about beer and football.