Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Whenever DKs suggest we get a rabbit or Guniea Pig I always say the problem is the amount of preparation required is disproportionate for the amount of meat you get...I am not a pet person.

We had a rabbit. He was a rescue.


I'd never have one rabbit again, and tbh, I have ethical issues about taking a social animal that makes its home underground and runs over great distances and making it live alone, in a tiny above ground hutch and run, but house rabbits can be great pets. Ours lived with the big dogs ( we had about five at the time ) and was a real character.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

CDT is craft, design and technology. You may have called it woodwork and metalwork.

Cookery got renamed food technology at one point.

Ah. Didn't do that. Woodwork/metalwork was for "boys only"

As for cooking, I did a couple of lessons, then gave it up because they took my food off me. Couldn't afford the ingredients, so the school provided them, but then the results were taken away to be sold in the staff room, while the others got to take theirs home.

Got fed up of that..... so gave up going.

mystic_trev

silvercar wrote: »

Cookery got renamed food technology at one point.

When I were a youngun it was called Domestic Science

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

Zag, hope your DD is safely back.

I have reacquainted myself with the wonders of modern life including a hot shower, clean clothes, sitting on a chair rather than on the floor and travelling by means other than by foot. I am just about to try sleeping-not-in-a-sleeping-bag:)
I can definitely confirm that I won't be abandoning house-dwelling to live in a tent anytime soon.

What's been going on with the NP in the past few days?

If you need a reminder of your event:
http://www.concertlive.co.uk/product.php?id=171

lemonjelly

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

On spelling, I am extremely correctable. I'm dyslexic, and spelling is my real weakness. I don't have any trouble reading, though, fortunately.

I have a number of dodges to avoid words I can't spell. There are a few things at work I have to handwrite, such as backsheets, and I am a master in avoiding those 'orrible words which begin with a weird combination of p and other consonents, and using "mental health assessment" or similar instead.

On the road near my parents' house, about 400 yards from the house itself (there is a private track leading to 4 houses / farms, of which my parents' is one) there is a long straight road, and then a sharp left-hand bend without much warning. Cars regularly go too fast along the straight bit, ignore the warnings that are there, and go through the hedge into a neighbour's field. About 6 times a year, on average. His sheep are now so blase about random cars entering their domain at speed that they hardly even look up when it happens.

I'd have never guessed!:o
Apols, no offence meant.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Counsel was furious with me for not coming up with better excuses for why he was late, but frankly.....not my problem, I was furious with him for being late and letting down my solicitor and our client. He wasn't a little late, he was like half a day late, and I had no idea what was happening because I couldn't get answers from his chambers. So I asked my solicitors what to say and they said to say to the clerk at court and they said to say I don't know but the solicitors are making every effort to find out'. I don my think any one anticipated I'd be asked by the judge when he lost patience!

Don't worry, his clerks would have been mad at him - clerks absolutely loathe being left not able to answer questions like "where the hell is Mr. Smith?"

I don't see why he could possibly be annoyed with you, when he was the one who was late.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Some of those subjects didn't exist at my school: Latin, Classical civilisations, Music, Drama, Extra Modern Languages, CDT.

I'd have loved to have done Drama, but they never did it at the school. I'd have been good at that.

Not even sure what CDT is really.

Drama was one of those things we all did in the Lower, Middle and Upper Fourth (first three years of secondary school) and was then an option at GCSE and A level.

Craft Design and technology is CDT - my school was a very feminist girls' school, so no cooking or sewing allowed.

lemonjelly

At bowls the other day, noticed that the blackberry bush was bursting.
Took a little tub. Filled it. The started on a carrier bag.

Made a delicious blackberry crumble last night. Lovely! Plus very MSE with the scrumping!

lemonjelly

mystic_trev wrote: »

When I were a youngun it was called Domestic Science

& also home economics.
Food technology is a weird name for a subject!

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Don't worry, his clerks would have been mad at him - clerks absolutely loathe being left not able to answer questions like "where the hell is Mr. Smith?"

I don't see why he could possibly be annoyed with you, when he was the one who was late.

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I think the point rather is his clerks probably knew very well where he was and were keeping schtum. Leaving my solicitors cross, the court fuming, prosecution smug but acting fuming ( I knew her).

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Don't worry, his clerks would have been mad at him - clerks absolutely loathe being left not able to answer questions like "where the hell is Mr. Smith?"

I don't see why he could possibly be annoyed with you, when he was the one who was late.



Drama was one of those things we all did in the Lower, Middle and Upper Fourth (first three years of secondary school) and was then an option at GCSE and A level.

Craft Design and technology is CDT - my school was a very feminist girls' school, so no cooking or sewing allowed.

There was no cdt at my secondary. There was home economics ( for wife training' or woman who does it all training. ). I did cdt in a prep for a year though. I loved it. I made the most amazing thing I am proud of to this day that my father took to the tip and I still haven't quite for given him. My parents were not the types to put macaroni pictures on the fridge with magnets either, but this thing really was amazing and I would be proud if I had made it today. I got amazing marks and I remember something about overachiever when she can is stimulated, perfectionist tendencies, then lost easily to boredom when others' needs are different ' ' in my report. I think throwing away that thing io made in cdt was actually the beginning of my very self destructive rebellion. That they didn't notice for years. :rotfl: