Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

neverdespairgirl

Zag, I think it's probably the "least ruinous option" that you are looking for, rather than anything that could possibly have the word "cheap" near it.

misskool

GDB2222 wrote: »

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?

Slightly yellowy pus is not a bad sign. Mostly neutrophils in that gunk which means your body is working. With the knee joint moving more you probably find its harder to crust.

Hope you feel better soon and the nurse made proper sympathetic noises

michaels

Can any NP recomend a decent pair of kitchen scissors that are MSE priced not NP posh alert priced?

neverdespairgirl

Robert Dyas' own brand have put in long, faithful service in our kitchen.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

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.

Are you trying to use her as a driver, keep her hand in, or what? Might be cheaper to book her some local lessons with a school and/or use taxis. Combined cost would be less than insurance probably.

In my day, driving your parents' car was a god-like status attained only by the rare and few. I drove my dad's car ONCE while he was alive; he'd had a suspected heart attack at work and was carted off to hospital and I had to get his car from a public rail station and drive it 25 miles home; it was a Yugo (and not a new one). I did drive his car once after death, when my siblings wanted it moving into/out of the garage and didn't feel confident enough, but that was only 12'.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Can any NP recomend a decent pair of kitchen scissors that are MSE priced not NP posh alert priced?

One question might be: what do you use them for? I bought a 3-pack of Ikea scissors over 10 years ago and they're still good. Used for snipping sausage joins and opening food packets. When I say they're still good, they'll still be good when I shuffle off upstairs.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

One question might be: what do you use them for? I bought a 3-pack of Ikea scissors over 10 years ago and they're still good. Used for snipping sausage joins and opening food packets. When I say they're still good, they'll still be good when I shuffle off upstairs.

Exactly what I was going to ask....with pretty much the same answer!

Are they for the odd bit of snipping packets, chives and sausages or for jointing chickens?:D

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had a call from agents 90 minutes ago, to let me know they've not got hold of LL yet. Two methods to try: phone (turned off), email (not responded). So, I am still the great unwashed.

Actually, this is why a LARGE bathroom sink's essential, for when you do have to wash your hair, have a strip wash. I couldn't have done that in the tiny shower rooms many places have, with their hand-sized hand-basins. Every home NEEDS a d4mned good sized sink for "washing things you didn't expect to need to wash in a big sink".

Surely the agent can act if the ll is un contact able for things like plumbing and electricity?

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

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

Glad you found it interesting.

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.

My paternal grandparents both born 1886
3 kids born 1920-1926 (6 year spread)
15 grandkids (including me) born 1946-1969 (23 year spread)
27 great-grandkids born 1972-2007 (35 year spread)
2 great-great-grandkids so far, born early 2000s I think

My maternal grandparents born 1887 and 1895
3 kids born 1925-1929 (plus the half-sister born 1912)
9 grandkids born mid-1950s to 1975 (plus the half-sister's kids born 1936-194?)
14 great-grandkids - not sure about my cousins' kids (in Australia) but the 7 on my side of the family are 1992-2007

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my day, driving your parents' car was a god-like status attained only by the rare and few. I drove my dad's car ONCE while he was alive; he'd had a suspected heart attack at work and was carted off to hospital and I had to get his car from a public rail station and drive it 25 miles home; it was a Yugo (and not a new one). I did drive his car once after death, when my siblings wanted it moving into/out of the garage and didn't feel confident enough, but that was only 12'.

My parents paid for driving lessons for my brothers and me, but didn't want to pay for any more lessons than strictly necessary, so we all practised on the family car. Any time anybody wanted to go anywhere, the learner driver of the time would be called upon to drive them there, so as to get the practice. After we passed, we could use the car any time we wanted it and they weren't using it. Although since we all went off to university, there wasn't much opportunity to use the car because we weren't living at home.

LNE didn't have a single official driving lesson. His dad taught him. He had quite a long commute to school, so once he started learning, he drove with his dad supervising instead of his dad driving. He always said he wouldn't be paying for any lessons for DS and DD because he'd teach them himself, but obviously he won't be able to do that now.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Actually, this is why a LARGE bathroom sink's essential, for when you do have to wash your hair, have a strip wash. I couldn't have done that in the tiny shower rooms many places have, with their hand-sized hand-basins. Every home NEEDS a d4mned good sized sink for "washing things you didn't expect to need to wash in a big sink".

Homes without baths certainly do need a large sink for such purposes. I'm glad you've got one. In a home with a bath, anything needing something bigger (or more private) than the kitchen sink can go in the bath.