Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

I can recommend it. It's a pretty good life to live especially if you're born in a rich country. I don't think I'd have been allowed to bounce back from my career setbacks if I was a woman. To some extent you make your own luck but if you don't get given a chance to prove yourself then you can't prove yourself IYSWIM.

Yes, I know what you mean, and agree.


I do like being a woman (most of the time:D) But this is also luck of circumstance.

silvercar

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Something I find fascinating is the spread of grandparental ages - mine were all born between 1909 and 1915, so only 6 years eldest to youngest. Isaac's grandparents were all born 1948 - 1950, so an even smaller spread.

On the other hand, my mother's grandparents were born between 1860 and 1896, a much larger range.

Grandparents born 1908-1914, kids' grandparents born 1938-1945.

Me, OH and all our siblings born 1963-1972.

My and sibling's kids born 1990-2003. DH and his siblings' kids born 1990-2006.

silvercar

NeverDespairGirl wrote:

......OH's both died when I was pregnant......

That must have been incredibly tough.

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

Well I'm home and I'm knackered. Flew Economy. Ouch. Got a cab home = $100. Double ouch.

At least you didn't have the mini-gens to keep you company on the flight, even if you are missing them now.

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's a lovely story NDG.

Glad you found it interesting.

silvercar wrote: »

Grandparents born 1908-1914, kids' grandparents born 1938-1945.

Me, OH and all our siblings born 1963-1972.

Your grandparents and parents got going earlier than mine - my grandparents were born pretty much at the same time as yours - 1909-1915, so just a year later.

But in both cases, the pesky nuisance of a world war got in the way of children - so my mother's parents married in 1939, and my Dad's in 1941, but my uncles were born in 1943 and 1948, and my parents in 1948 and 1950. My siblings and I were born 1978 to 1986, some years after the youngest of your lot.

Before my uncle was born in October 1943, my grandfather was sent to the Far East by the Navy - and he didn't come back (or so much as set eyes on his son) for years - he left in May 1943, and returned to the UK in October 1947, I think - to meet the 4 year old boy who wasn't at all sure he wanted his family to expand from him-and-Mum.

GDB2222

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Isaac is a size 13 (little size 13).

So pleased you explained that.


Just had a lovely cool drink from our jug of tap water in the fridge and feel 100% better. Off to see the practice nurse in an hour to get my man-wounds inspected.

neverdespairgirl

silvercar wrote: »

That must have been incredibly tough.

That was an awful lot of not-much-fun. OH was 26, and his brother 19, when their parents died in their early 50s - of pancreatic cancer and multiple sclerosis - 6 weeks apart. They did know about the future-Isaac, though.

neverdespairgirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

So pleased you explained that.


Just had a lovely cool drink from our jug of tap water in the fridge and feel 100% better. Off to see the practice nurse in an hour to get my man-wounds inspected.

I actually do have a fair amount of sympathy for crash-wallop fall and grazes, they aren't fun.

What could the nurse do, though?

GDB2222

I'm hoping the nurse can reassure me that it's okay that my knee's not quite crusted over properly and is dripping goop?

zagubov

OK here's a question for NPs with teenage kids. My insurer won't add DD to my policy so she can practise driving as she's only 19 and therefore under 21. What's the cheapest option?

I reckon she needs cover as an occasional driver for at least the next couple of months while she's staying with us.

She's got a year's NCB via her mum's insurance but that's for a different car.

lostinrates

I just cannot keep up with picking them anymore. I cannot photo the whole length of the sweet pea run. It runs along the bit where we pulled the hedge out in front of the house. That's about a twelfth of it I guess. (Cannot remember how many wooden posts which would be the easiest clue to working out!) The smell is astounding, it was a great idea, but picking them is silly. If I had done mixed colours I could have sold them, but all whites ( with the occasional interloper) probably wouldn't get any buyers, and in this heat they are only lasting a day anyway. I need a cute little sales table for near my front door I think. Like a miniature market stall that I can paint prettility. Now things are busier we want people to use the door not the yard gate and the area we park in (which was a nice covered area to sell in. I might revert to that in the future when the yard gates are replaced)