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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • GDB2222
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    Gen - all best wishes to Mrs Gen for a full and speedy recovery. That's a heck of a flu you've got going round your family, and you're being very brave!
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • chewmylegoff
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    I am pleased to report that the M1 is much better this morning! We left at a much more sensible 9.30 and we are just nearing the M25. Glad I'm lounging in the back seat and not driving though.
  • Yorkie1
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    michaels wrote: »
    Hi Yorkie1, not sure if you have posted on the np thread before but just in case you haven't , welcome to the thread and please drop by any time you would like. We will be nice :-)

    Thanks michaels :)

    I could spend far too much time on this thread :D

    (What am I talking about, I've already spent far too much time on this website ... 2 hours ago I told myself that I was only logging on to send an important email ... and I'm still here, sitting on the sofa, prevaricating about going down to the allotment and hoiking out those dead pea plants :o )

    Perhaps a cup of tea to gird my loins first?!
  • neverdespairgirl
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    Cuppa and a quick flick through the Np thread, and suddenly, it's lunch!

    Look after Mrs Gen, and yourself and the generalissimos, Gen. Hope she's on the mend soon
    ...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'.
  • StevieJ
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    Hope Mrs Gen is back on her feet soon, it must have been a shock to you all icon9.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • SingleSue
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    Cold. Its ruddy autumn. That silly weather man is still saying what a nice weekend it is. Very odd.

    It was gorgeous and blooming hot here!
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • SingleSue
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    Get well soon to Mrs Gen...I've had it too when James was a few months old and it was no joke at all.

    Me and ex are amazingly, working on the same page for once. He has told James he will continue to pay pocket money whilst he is at university to help out, as I am also doing. It only equates to £15 a week between us but it is better than nothing at all and bearing in mind the food costs he has to bear (due to his exceptional need of a huge amount of calories just to stay the same weight), it is the least we can do.

    Think ex hubby is rather over the moon at the boy's recent results, he told me what a good job I have done with them!
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • Spirit_2
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    michaels wrote: »
    They were spoiled rotten they were playing 'grandma wars', laying on child friendly activities, taking photos and emailing them to each other.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • Spirit_2
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Eglu - I had imagined that you had a huge country-style hen house. I don't know why. I associate Eglus with Londoners keeping a couple of chickens in the back garden so as to tantalize the urban foxes, not with 'proper' country folk who have keep-you-dry-in-a-storm coats.

    I'm sorry about the horse flies. They are no joke at all. :(

    It is OK you were right in your assumptions. We have a number of chicken houses.

    A tack room with nest boxes in it, and a pop hole cut into it out to the chicken run would hold about 30 chooks comfortably. An Eglu in the chicken run, a small coop & run in the veg patch which I use as a broody coop and is currently home to a bantam and two chicks, an indoor broody coop and run in a stable with bunny rabbits,which also has a hen and two chicks in.

    Chicken run is six foot chicken wire buried in the ground and about 12 feet wide by about 30-40 feet long. Most days they free range. I popped some eggs round to our neighbour about an hour ago and two of my chooks were round there destroying her garden.

    We only have 4 other hens and a cockerel at present. The Eglu is great for helping to solve the mites problem as redmite live in crevices in wood. Chooks all dusted with DE last night so hopefully we will be less lousy in a week or so.

    I have been quite lucky in that the horse fly bite has not reacted much.
  • Spirit_2
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    SingleSue wrote: »
    Think ex hubby is rather over the moon at the boy's recent results, he told me what a good job I have done with them!

    Too bl**dy right you have done a good job.

    As for the "over the moon" I hope he has a LBM and makes bit more effort to earn that feeling, by supporting them and you more.

    The star turns who show up when the medals are being given out p*ss me off.
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