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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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chewmylegoff wrote: »When is it. I forgot the date you mentioned before but I don't think I can make it was it 16th?
Yeah, yeah, and where was it to huh...so you can check the weather, see if you need to , er......bring an umbrella? :rotfl:
I've pm'd you. If yes, reply with an email address you don't mind other people seeing....0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Having a room each doesn't sound very MSE, this sounds like one of those scams where we pay your mortgage and you steal 50ps from our coin jar to fund your gas habit.
Errr.... As If I'd do that. I have a shed. We don't need to tell anyone about our little arrangement. Gin and tonics all round :beer:0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »We didn't intend to find out, but then I had a scan a few weeks before my due date, and she said, "that's the arm.... back.... testicles...." which rather gave it away. I think we will find out this time, though. Not so much for practical reasons - I'm not sure you really need to get different stuff for different genders, but to get used to the idea, as you say.
We had a girl's name all sorted, the boy's took longer. We finally chose for certain the night before his Brit.
We found it helpful to know for the second one, in particular, because we were able to talk with DS about how he was going to have a baby sister etc.
When I was pregnant with DS, we picked a name and a middle name for a boy, and a name for a girl, but couldn't find a middle name that we both liked that went with it. Then we had the 20 week scan and were told he was a boy, so shelved the question of a middle name for a girl. With DD, we didn't bother thinking about names until after the scan, at which they said she was a girl, so we had a very quick conversation in the car on the way home in which we both agreed that picking a girl's name we both liked had been hard enough the first time round, and we didn't want to have to go through all that again, so we'd just stick with what we'd chosen three years earlier. We finally picked her middle name a couple of weeks before the due date.
The funny thing was that we'd talked hypothetically about baby names years earlier when we were newly married. I'd mentioned a girl's name that I really liked, but LNE said he hated it and would never want a daughter called that. But he seemed to have forgotten all about that when I suggested it when it came to the point, and was happy to choose it, so that's what she's called. I remembered all about it, but I never told him.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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I cannot remember, did viva want an email, oh dear, I'm worried now...I'll read back tomorrow and check.0
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The funny thing was that we'd talked hypothetically about baby names years earlier when we were newly married. I'd mentioned a girl's name that I really liked, but LNE said he hated it and would never want a daughter called that. But he seemed to have forgotten all about that when I suggested it when it came to the point, and was happy to choose it, so that's what she's called. I remembered all about it, but I never told him.
Wise woman. While we were in Cornwall, Isaac reminded OH of something he'd said a while ago, and he said he had Mummy to remember things for him already, thanks very much (-:
My parents, apparently, had both a girl and boy name and middle name sorted before I was born, and pretty much agreed when next sister was born. When their 3rd was born, Mama says that they'd not really got anywhere, every time they talked about it they veered off into Gwendolyn Gertrude or similar within seconds. Then, as my Dad was going through a Shakespearean phase, he wanted Cordelia, after she was born. My mother point-blank-refused, on the grounds that the baby had two older sisters and it wasn't much of a PR job for them (or Dad either, I suppose).
Then they just about agreed on Rosalind, and the next day found out that friends of theirs had called their own newborn (born 10 days after my sister) Rosalind. So they picked another Shakespearean name, sharpish (-:...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'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »My parents didn't know what any of us were until we were born; my sisters and I were all called "Edward" when bumps, but when my brother was born, they'd had enouhg of that as a name, I think.
How similar! My brothers were all going to be Katharine, but by the time I finally came along, they decided against Katharine for me.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
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This is true.... other people will tell you what you should do ... but it's their ideal home ... and, as we all know, everybody else's taste and ideas suck.
And take things at your own pace. People will say "what you want to do is ... ", and it can be easy to be steamrollered into making decisions before you've lived with the house for long enough to feel what the right choice for you is.
Hold out - doss in it for a few months, stare at the walls and ideas will come to you once you know how you will live in the house. How other people would live in it is irrelevant to you.... most houses I look at on RM I think "!!!!!!?" when I see things. I especially hate the way 99.99% of kitchens are designed....although I know I won't be able to change the kitchen of whatever house I get as it'll take all my money to buy it.0 -
What do you dislike about most people's kitchens?...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'.0
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Difficult to know where to start... firstly, my experience of kitchens has been that they're small.... so forget all those fancy bigguns you get on the telly. Think 6'x8''neverdespairgirl wrote: »What do you dislike about most people's kitchens?
Now, here's the outline list of dislikes:
• Any breakfast bar/similar that has a hob or sink in it; stops the area being multi-functional and being used for projects, working, reading big papers, having coffee/cake with friends, spreading out stuff you're sorting out
• Wall cabinets - too narrow/small to fit most stuff in them - and can't reach above the bottom.
• A kitchen design that ends up having a base unit in a corner - a corner that you can't ever reach, so anything in there you'll never use.
• No larder
• Metal strips joining the worktops where the corners are - dirt traps
• Not enough worktops at all, barely any
• Kitchen cupboards, instead of pan drawers (which are a brilliant invention)
• Tiny sinks so it's difficult to wash up big things by hand.
That's for openers.
I don't think I'm overkeen at sinks being under windows either.... I'd rather there were a worktop there so I could stare out of the window while waiting for the toaster or something.... or while making something to eat.
Generally, it probably comes down to kitchens being too small in the houses I can nearly afford.0
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