Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

mystic_trev

Lock up your horses LIR!

lostinrates

mystic_trev wrote: »

Lock up your horses LIR!

Mine are all not food chain safe......look after who ever eats them! :eek:

I have no problem ethically with horse meat. Just with live export and kill practise, and that's all meat animals I feel the about.

michaels

I was eating a Tesco burger last night and ended up with a bit between my teeth...

You know the Tesco burgers are dodgy, well I hear the meatballs are the dog's bo****ks

The new packaging for Tesco value burgers:

My neighbour got rushed to hospital after eating one of these horsemeat affected burgers.

Her condition was said to be stable...



Breaking news....

Veggie burgers are now also being taken off the shelves,
It is suspected they have traces of 'uniquorn'

BertieUK

Just to see the lighter side of these funny comments, one that I read...

...Traces of Zebra found in Tesco barcodes.

or another...

...Horse meet in Tesco burgers!! Its been in there a furlong time!

I will probably get nagged at, buy hey.

BertieUK

A reminder for British motorists who have not renewed their photographs on their Driving Licences...

Otherwise you could face a hefty fine...

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/two-million-drivers-may-face-141603133.html

LydiaJ

BertieUK wrote: »

A reminder for British motorists who have not renewed their photographs on their Driving Licences...

Otherwise you could face a hefty fine...

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/two-million-drivers-may-face-141603133.html

Thanks Bertie. I just checked mine and it's good for another 18 months, assuming that the "licence valid to" date printed on it is the one to go by. However, until I just looked at it I hadn't a clue how long it was valid for, so thanks for reminding us all.

GDB2222

Lydia, about you son's reading ....

My experience of getting a LEA to issue a statement when they didn't want to is that it can be done, but it is very costly and enormously time-consuming. (We went to the tribunal over my third son, twice.) They also can stall for many months, during which time your son is not getting any help.

I am not sure what sort of specialised help he needs, anyway? If he would benefit from you and he practising with flash cards for 10 minutes every night, I would suggest just doing it. It's likely to be less time-consuming than tackling the LEA. If he needs much more specialised help than you can provide, you may have to tackle the LEA head on, but it won't be easy.

LydiaJ

Thanks GDB.

No, I don't want to get him statemented. I'm sure his difficulties aren't bad enough for that. He was on "school action" at his primary school - ie a step or two down from statementing - and that seemed about right to me. I accept that he's "within the normal range" and doesn't qualify for much state-funded help. But I won't be satisfied until reading and writing are like balancing when riding a bike for him - it was hard when he was learning how, but now it's effortless - so that he's free to have his focus on the subject matter, not the process of reading/writing.

On the other hand, I don't think flash cards would necessarily help either. Earlier this week I observed the senco at my school doing a help session with a Yr8 student, and the help was deliberately targeted at the specific nuances of the ways in which the particular kid found things difficult. I want to know whether he'd be helped by a coloured filter or a different kind of pen or something. I am already frequently helping him to understand his homework. When it's science/maths, I know how to teach it in a way that enables him to do it himself rather than just me doing it for him, but I don't have that kind of expertise in the literacy side of things. I also want to understand exactly what kinds of targeted literacy help would make most difference to him, and then decide whether to do that with him myself or pay somebody else to. If necessary, I will borrow the money from my dad and pay him back when I get my compensation from LNE's accident.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Lydia, about you son's reading ....

My experience of getting a LEA to issue a statement when they didn't want to is that it can be done, but it is very costly and enormously time-consuming. (We went to the tribunal over my third son, twice.) They also can stall for many months, during which time your son is not getting any help.

I am not sure what sort of specialised help he needs, anyway? If he would benefit from you and he practising with flash cards for 10 minutes every night, I would suggest just doing it. It's likely to be less time-consuming than tackling the LEA. If he needs much more specialised help than you can provide, you may have to tackle the LEA head on, but it won't be easy.

Our borough's notoriously rubbish with statementing and we ran out of energy and took the financially insane route of putting him in a small private school that's handinling his problems pretty well. In fact we put him in one then another when the first one was taken over and closed.

We considered ourselves lucky that such a place merely existed.

I admire and envy people like singlesue who have the personal energy to juggle and handle all the effort needed to get her sons treated properly.

Generali

LydiaJ wrote: »

Interesting. Did the person have a partner before getting their gender reassigned, and if so, did the partner remain their partner during and after the process? I know some trans people do have partners who stay partnered with them, but I feel as Gen describes - if I had a partner who changed gender it would alter the whole relationship for me. Similarly to michaels, I cannot in any way say *why* I am heterosexual. I just am. Women just do not ever inspire sexual feelings in me, however much I like them as people otherwise, or consider them to be beautiful.

Was married for decades but the partner died before the procedure was even considered let alone started.