Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

I'd recommend Sound and Vision, Heroes, All the Madmen and Life on Mars?. And tons of his earlier stuff. And the early Roxy Music albums (their electronics guy, Brian Eno helped Bowie with his best albums and launched bands like Talking Heads and the whole genre of what we'd call ambient music).

One Direction's latest album is much much better.

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

Have the NPs got a desert island disc of songs we should all hear before we shuffle off this mortal coil? That's about 8 - 10 songs?

Yeah. One Direction's latest album

Wheezy_2

CKhalvashi wrote: »

(I'm going to meet a Welsh MEP in Brussels, please don't ask why, I dont know how to explain in English!)

He's lobbying because Wales wants to participate as a seperate nation in Eurovision because they don't want to be associated with "Royaume Uni...zero points"?

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

A question for NPs

DKs school are getting very bolshie about swimming. DD1 has swimming today which she loves, however she has a cold and cough and possibly slight temperature. To me she is clearly well enough to be at school but swimming (possibly getting cold, chlorine, ingesting water) would not be a good idea. Because of the timetabling it therefore makes sense to keep her at home this morning and send her for the afternoon (rather than sending her but saying she can't swim and thus leaving the school to have to make other arrangements for her).

The school refuse to counternance that a child could be well enough to be at school but not well enough to go swimming, either you are too ill to come at all or you are well enough to swim. I am sure this policy is designed to try and make sure all pupils swim as those who don't like swimming otherwise try and get a sick note to get out of it, but to me it is patently not true. Any other NP schools with similar policies? Anyone think for a child (or an adult) being well enough for work/school means being well enough to swim/gym or whatever?

I agree with NDG and silvercar. Do you think she's well enough to sit at the side of the pool, fully clothed, watching, or would staying at home for the morning be beneficial? Is there any reason why not being able to swim should prevent her attending the other things that will be happening during the morning - presumably swimming doesn't take up the whole morning? Both my kids have often been into school with something a bit wrong with them and therefore able to attend most of school but be off PE, swimming, choir or whatever.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I used to swim competitively, so this was often an issue for me and other club members. For a cold and snotty nose there were some capsules we'd take called Contac 400 which dried up the nose. I used them often and it always did the job.

Great strategy for an adult or teenager, especially if swimming competitively. Not so suitable for a primary school child, IMO, all the more so if just a school swimming lesson so no particularly big deal if it's missed this once.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

There used to be a tv advert when i was a teen that stated the old cliche that men think about sex every seven seconds.

I think I probably got an inkling then I had a higher than average sex drive.

What do they do the other 6 seconds?

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Great strategy for an adult or teenager, especially if swimming competitively. Not so suitable for a primary school child, IMO, all the more so if just a school swimming lesson so no particularly big deal if it's missed this once.

I think also, being realistic, there is a difference in people perusing competitive sports and people learning good regime for life. Most of us would do better with a good walk or gentle jog in fresh air when with a cold than we would a trip swimming or to the gym or serious training. A session of yoga rather than aerobics......

Grim old day. The weather is blergh, My hair is frizzy, my face is really wrinkly on the cheeks:eek: and my skin looks about as cherished as that of the average refuge collectors.

When I laid clothes out for this afternoon last night they were suggesting nice weather so I put out open toed flat shoes. Now I suppose I better just wear my driving shoes into the hospital.

This doctor always notices my shoes. I think he's that way inclined, Either that or its the only thing he can bring himself to compliment, Which I can understand.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

What do they do the other 6 seconds?

My men have all probably think about music. :rotfl: some might have considered horses briefly.

lemonjelly

Flying visit - saw this book & thought of Viva:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/ref=pe_452811_39905871_pe_pack4/1781311919

neverdespairgirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

What do they do the other 6 seconds?

"The time has come" the Walrus said, "to talk of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings".

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

I agree with NDG and silvercar. Do you think she's well enough to sit at the side of the pool, fully clothed, watching, or would staying at home for the morning be beneficial? Is there any reason why not being able to swim should prevent her attending the other things that will be happening during the morning - presumably swimming doesn't take up the whole morning? Both my kids have often been into school with something a bit wrong with them and therefore able to attend most of school but be off PE, swimming, choir or whatever.

We don't want her off school but the morning consists mostly of assembly, coach to pool, swimming, coach back from pool. The non-swimmers don't go and watch but are sent to sit in with another year group and read or do some work on their own, again something we don't have a problem with. What we would have a problem with is that DD will be told off/made to feel guilty about being there and not swimming and that DW got the same when she went into the office this AM to tell them DD would not be in in the morning.

I think we are all agreed that it is possible to be well enough for school and not for swimming. DD is not a 'serial shirker' of swimming, she actually enjoys it and would like to swim if she could (I think in the 2 years she has had swimming we have asked to miss one other session when she had a bad eczema flare up). Recently she has been pretty healthy (99% attendance last year) but when she was younger she got quite a lot of bad cold/cough/temperature which resulted in quite a lot of time off so we would much rather be cautious and try to make sure she doesn't need time off than push too hard and end up with her missing 3 or 4 days with a proper ear/throat infection.

Edit - Sorry for going on, it is just the schools insistance that if you are well enough for school you are well enough to swim was making me wonder if it was just me who thought you could be one but not the other.