Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

tomterm8

misskool wrote: »

i apologise in advance for the rain that will be following. I am about to get a skip for the garden waste (too much for me to deal with). Every time we get a skip it rains for 6 months.

Could you not at least dig a pond or make a bog garden to balance it out? That's always guaranteed to cause 6 months of drought.

PasturesNew

One thing for those co-habiting might be that if you have a joint account for your rent/bills, then you each keep your own money.... if the proverbial bus trundles along, then the one left behind can access the joint account, but that's no longer being topped up monthly with half the rent/bills. They could come unstuck very quickly that way.

Nikkster

tomterm8 wrote: »

Lichen isn't the cause of a sick plant; sometimes it can be a symptom because sick plants can leak nutrients that the lichen can use to grow, and sick plants often don't have thick leaf cover which gives more sunlight to the lichen which it needs.

Yes, that is what I came up with last year (but probably worded badly earlier). Didn't manage to word it well enough for my mum either, who is still sure it is the cause of the problem. Assuming I have managed to correctly identify it as lichen It is on at least 3 plants which aren't right next to each other.
I'm back there this weekend so I'll be able to see how the plants are looking after a bit of better weather.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

i apologise in advance for the rain that will be following. I am about to get a skip for the garden waste (too much for me to deal with). Every time we get a skip it rains for 6 months.

There might be other/better/cheaper ways of dealing with that. e.g. give a "garden clearance" man a call and get a quote for taking it away. Also, you can buy a "skip" at some big DIY shops. It's just a big bag and you take it home (even if you're on the bus) ..... then unfold it in the garden and fill it - and they give you a phone number to call that'll take it away when you're ready. http://www.hippobag.co.uk

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

There might be other/better/cheaper ways of dealing with that. e.g. give a "garden clearance" man a call and get a quote for taking it away. Also, you can buy a "skip" at some big DIY shops. It's just a big bag and you take it home (even if you're on the bus) ..... then unfold it in the garden and fill it - and they give you a phone number to call that'll take it away when you're ready. http://www.hippobag.co.uk

i have 4 of those size bags and extra. we chopped a lot of stuff

will google garden clearance...thank you!

hjd

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh even chose window latches that looked most like saxes. I think they look like sperms. But w both like them, so no one is complaining!





Anyone wishing I had not sorted out photobucket yet?

Do you need bookends?
I got some for my daughter for Christmas (got Feed me, Seymour) which appealed to our warped senses of humour.
http://www.knobcreekmetalarts.com/Bookends-s/1817.htm?searching=Y&sort=5&cat=1817&show=120&page=1

lostinrates

hjd wrote: »

Do you need bookends?
I got some for my daughter for Christmas (got Feed me, Seymour) which appealed to our warped senses of humour.
http://www.knobcreekmetalarts.com/Bookends-s/1817.htm?searching=Y&sort=5&cat=1817&show=120&page=1

Debate the economy forum ones!


http://www.knobcreekmetalarts.com/Bull-and-Bear-Bookends-p/20196.htm

In fcat my favorite are the monkeys.

No bookends needed, they use room needed for books.:(

neverdespairgirl

We've just received the draft of Isaac's report from the educational psychologist, with a request for some further information. She definitely thinks he is dyslexic , and his writing and reading scores are both really quite low, below his chronological age. She said, for example:

It seems that by the time Isaac has managed to write down his first idea he has forgotten the rest of what he wanted to say. Isaac’s spelling is, at best, phonetic or semi-phonetic, and, at worst, fairly bizarre and indecipherable


Which is true. She reckons his writing age at 6, and reading age at 7, and he's nearly 8. This compares with his oral expression, vocabulary and mental processing ages of 11, 10 and 9. So there's a real mis-match between different areas for him.

She sounded a bit suprised by his answer to one question:

When asked how ‘Space’ and ‘Time’ are alike in the last question on the Similarities subtest he made the following comment:


‘Space makes time in the big bang. There was no time before the big bang. No one knows exactly what time is but it stops things happening all at once.’

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

The sun finally came out here halfway through the afternoon, prior to that it had been a dull and yesterday cold weekend - I was surprised when I spoke to my DS yesterday who is not far from LIR and Lydia for her to suggest the kids had been in the paddling pool as we were 11 degrees, cloudy with a cold wind at the time. However we are doing sick house with me, DD1 and DS all running temperatures and colds/sore throats so sitting indoors is not such a downside - although I have also taxied DD2 to her 2 ballet performances so there has not been that much relaxation to be had.

Weather beautiful here today.

Hope you are all better soon.

PasturesNew wrote: »

One thing for those co-habiting might be that if you have a joint account for your rent/bills, then you each keep your own money.... if the proverbial bus trundles along, then the one left behind can access the joint account, but that's no longer being topped up monthly with half the rent/bills. They could come unstuck very quickly that way.

Good point.

Another point to Nikkster and chewy who wouldn't let their money be in anybody else's name - that only works because you're not married. If you are married, then either you stay together, in which case the money continues to belong to the partnership (unless you're married to someone with a gambling addiction or hopelessly extravagant habits) or you split up, in which case all money is treated as "matrimonial assets" regardless of whose name it's in. So it may work for some people's day to day management to know that this money is "his" to make decisions about, and that money is "hers", but in the long term, it's all legally "theirs".

Nikkster

LydiaJ wrote: »

Another point to Nikkster and chewy who wouldn't let their money be in anybody else's name - that only works because you're not married. If you are married, then either you stay together, in which case the money continues to belong to the partnership (unless you're married to someone with a gambling addiction or hopelessly extravagant habits) or you split up, in which case all money is treated as "matrimonial assets" regardless of whose name it's in. So it may work for some people's day to day management to know that this money is "his" to make decisions about, and that money is "hers", but in the long term, it's all legally "theirs".

Oh yes, I appreciate that. I'd just like to know that the bills can definitely be paid etc. I lived with someone who had (probably still has) spending habits beyond their means. I'd also like to know that if I needed/ wanted to I could make a hasty exit.
Clearly I'm a romantic at heart

(seeing as it's been brought up again, I've been thinking about it and I think I 'bit' so quickly because ex would every now and again give me the 'well, its alright for you' treatment, knowing full where my little stash came from; and I think my reluctance to go fully joint accounts stems even before ex... my parents have always had an 'unusual' relationship (they are still 'together' as much as they ever have been) and I remember when my dad stopped the joint credit card without telling my mum)