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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Hello all - verbal explosions while I've been away, and it was only an over-night!

    Posted something in t'other place, as it's potentially identifying.

    Tried to take some better photos of my new masterpiece <cough> but realised it's quite hard to take photos of something you are wearing:

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    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Oh, I didn't realise/think it was for your hair. I thought it was for your neck.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Oh, I didn't realise/think it was for your hair. I thought it was for your neck.

    It was. But I couldn't take photos of it round my neck and get it in focus every slightly. So I cheated!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Nikkster, its coming from a different email address. Hotmail makes me want to break this macputer ATM.

    Hate, hate, hate new hotmail/outlook. It's latest trick is just freezing mid email. I send a distinctly brief email to viva last night because it froze but looked like a finished thing from a pithier person than this one!

    set up a gmail account?
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Vivatifosi, I don't have any problem with that. Having your own named accounts is fine, as far as I can see, there is no problem with it. The only problems I can see is when partner A keeps money he/she believes belongs to him/her in Partner B's account.

    I don't think michaels would say "This is my money but it's in her name." I think he would say "This is our money and it's in her name."
    zagubov wrote: »
    DS has some science exams but mostly will be taking GCSE exams in a year's time. Unlike DD, he doesn't show any propensity towards science at all. He struggles to memorise things, and is both alarmed and trying to supress his alarm. We have no idea how to improve this. :(

    Oh dear. How distressing for you all. Hope you find some way to help him.
    SingleSue wrote: »
    I have no advice to give because I am having the same problem with youngest! His are also science exams, only two of them but you would think the world is ending by how stressed he is...goodness knows how he is going to cope next year when he will have the lion share of the exams, like middle son has this year.

    His problems are more being able to cope in an exam hall rather than being able to remember...he can remember when he is calm but as soon as there is noise and people, it goes right out of the window, he gets stressy and usually ends up underneath the desk or going into meltdown.

    He now has permission to use a laptop (due to fine motor skills and Irlens) which is of course in a smaller room but even this didn't work in his mock exams, the noise of people pressing the keys or sniffing had the same impact as being in a room full of people writing and making noise...he failed his mocks alarmingly.

    The latest idea is for him to sit his exams on the laptop in a room on his own (obviously with someone there to adjudicate)....youngest doesn't want to even think about exams as it stresses him out so much, so has so far refused to talk about the new idea.

    If he doesn't want to talk about it, I would go ahead and arrange it anyway. It sounds as though a room on his own is definitely going to be the best option for him. I'm glad you've been able to get permission for him to do them on the laptop - that sort of thing is getting harder and harder to get as they are tightening up all the rules compared with how it was a few years ago. However, AFAIK, you don't need the exam board's special permission to be in a separate room. It's up to the school which rooms they use and how many candidates they put in each one, as long as there are the right number of invigilators in each of them.
    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.
    :)
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,133 Forumite
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    We don't have anything any more that is 'his' or 'mine'. It's all ours.

    We have separate accounts and a joint account, but I now only use my own account that I have had for years. Dh (mainly him now) manages them all online, transferring as needed.

    I prefer just to have my budget for the month in my account.

    Same with us (exactly as Viva says) definitely no separate money, instead we split roles so I do the earning and DW does the spending (that is not entirely true, I am allowed to do all the spending that is bills or boring shopping like groceries but certainly nothing that I want for myself. Only thing tha tannoys me is when DW does her spending in a non-MSE way like failing to use the correct cashback credit card or buying something immediately rather than looking online to see where it is cheapest first.

    My parents never had separate money and so it would not occur to me to do it that way.
    Nikkster wrote: »
    I'm not sure that would be enough for me.
    Oh, aren't we flush...
    misskool wrote: »
    set up a gmail account?
    WE have suggested this more than once before. I have never had anything but webmail for my personal email going back 15+ years
    I think....
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,133 Forumite
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    DW stresses over studying which I can see is extremely counter productive (she spends more time getting upset about not being able to do a question than she does working through the question as many times as needed until she gets it) but she has a bit of a perfectionist personality whereas I accept I am wrong as often as I am right and thus work through things methodically hoping but not really expecting to finally arrive at an answer.

    What is upsetting is that DD1 has started picking up from DW and as soon as something goes wrong in her homework it is time for her to start shouting, complaining and generally assuring everyone that she is stupid, the question is impossible and she will never get it.
    I think....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    edited 19 May 2013 at 3:11PM
    Easier to motivate myself how to work it out when its chicks rather than me with straight hair!

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    You can probably count ten there, but if you look under jojo's chest you might see one foot of number eleven sticking out.

    Edit...no, I think they are all out on a second count
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Spirit wrote: »

    What do other posters families know and what do they think?

    D knows about you all. :). He was pleased to meet so e no last year. He knows I relax a lot here and is ok with that.

    How we view it has changed.

    The same things that made me uncomfortable a while ago also made him uncomfortable. He asked me to not engage with some of it and I do my best to honour the agreement I made with him over that one situation. It's a very small part of the thread and therefore I find it fairly inconsequential to my use of it tbh.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    The way I view it is that SingleSue's kids are different, because IIRC they are somewhere on the Autistic spectrum. Anyone on the autistc spectrum is going to find it much harder to deal with exams than a 'typical' child.

    Just the disruption that exams cause is probably going to be a real issue for her.

    Of course, I might be remembering wrong.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
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