Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

LydiaJ

I want a dog. DD wants a dog. I am being realistic that at present we would not be able to give a dog the amount of time and attention that it would deserve. We have to wait. When I explained this, she suggested a rabbit or guinea pig or something. I have agreed to another hamster, on the grounds that we know what to do with them and already have all the kit. So we have a new hamster. DD has named her Crystal. She is black and white. I will post a pic soon. She is very cute, but... she is not a dog. Sigh.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

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.

Agree with every word you say. Hope she's better soon.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

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.

Everybody with any sense thinks that, not just you.

Ask them what happens if she breaks her left arm and is in plaster for 6 weeks. She definitely couldn't swim, but nothing to stop her going to school.

CKhalvashi

Wheezy wrote: »

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"?

You are actually very close, it's Junior Eurovision, and if you search for press reports from about 2009, you'll find some info as to what I'm doing.

LydiaJ wrote: »

I want a dog. DD wants a dog. I am being realistic that at present we would not be able to give a dog the amount of time and attention that it would deserve. We have to wait. When I explained this, she suggested a rabbit or guinea pig or something. I have agreed to another hamster, on the grounds that we know what to do with them and already have all the kit. So we have a new hamster. DD has named her Crystal. She is black and white. I will post a pic soon. She is very cute, but... she is not a dog. Sigh.

Dogs = gadi dzaghlo iket = not for me.

A hamster would probably be a good addition to our household, as we have rabbits, but don't tell my DD's that.

CK

lemonjelly

So nice peeps,
what is wrong with this story:
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2013/09/19/grandmother-32-given-weekend-curfew-after-starving-dog/

:eek:

Wheezy_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

So nice peeps,
what is wrong with this story:

Enough to turn this nice peep into an angry peep :mad:

SingleSue

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?

There are times when youngest is just about ok for school but any other kind of activity (swimming, P.E etc) is too much for his asthma. The school are very understanding however, they know how quickly he can go downhill when he is already a bit dodgy.

mystic_trev

lostinrates wrote: »

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

Hopefully not for sex :eek::rotfl:

lostinrates

mystic_trev wrote: »

Hopefully not for sex :eek::rotfl:

No, we're talking Bout the six seconds between the seventh, obviously. Horses wouldn't make terribly great partners IMO.

lostinrates

As I was coming in to the hospital I saw a slim, elegant woman stop light two cigarette and walk off, smoking both at the same time.

Now that's a habit!