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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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My only experience of beetroot is pickled beetroot, as part of a salad.neverdespairgirl wrote: »Beetroot is absolutely gorgeous, up to the point where you stick vinegar in with it.
Pickled beetroot is yuck, roasted beetroot rocks.0 -
Interesting programme just started on BBC4.
Unbuilt Britain - an architectural historian is exploring how Britain would look if 6 major past designs for massive things had ever been built. First one would have been the biggest glasshouse in the world
She's now looking at the alternatives to traffic before they picked the Tube as the way to go.
The Great Victorian Way: 1850s, an 11 mile long glass walkway connecting all the stations. Joseph Paxton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Victorian_Way
Edit: Shame she's whittering on for so long about Paxton, how he started, Chatsworth House, Crystal Palace.... just get onto the soddin' interesting bit you annoying woman (strange enunciation = annoying).0 -
Excellent news. Hope it helps him loads. Must make DS do some handwriting practice....
He's had 6 so far, and is still finding them interesting, which is a good start. And the teacher is fantastic, he's absolutely great at stopping it being boring, which is something of a challenge with literacy lessons!...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 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Interesting programme just started on BBC4.
Unbuilt Britain - an architectural historian is exploring how Britain would look if 6 major past designs for massive things had ever been built. First one would have been the biggest glasshouse in the world
there's a book similar to that which might interest you, called something like, "London As It Might Have Been". Includes such ideas as a giant pyramid-cemetary, and a Barbican-style tower block instead of Covent Garden....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 -
Our new section windows do have the open a crack option but I can see that these could then be jemmied a lot more easily. I also wonder whether anyone could get through the small top windows that open in the bathroom, I couldn't but a child probably could, are these commonly used as a means of access
I climbed through the small top window in the utility room of the rented house I lived in in my 20s when I had locked myself out. There was a bit of a scary moment when my hands were on the draining board, my knees were half way through the window and my feet were still outside the house. The window only opened to about 30 degrees, and while it had been easy getting my shoulders and hips through (because I could bend my head, shoulders and torso forwards) my knees only bend backwards (naturally). I had to rotate myself so that my back was to the window I'd just (mostly) come through and my knees were bending the right way to get the rest of my legs through the window and onto the draining board with the rest of me. I wouldn't like to try doing it again at the age I am now!It's still 2 months and a couple of weeks until the clocks change. And last year many trees did not shed their leaves until November. So, I'm resisting all suggestions about autumn being in the air already. Na na na na na na na, I've got my fingers in my ears and I can't hear you.
It's not autumn until I start back at school.I like outlook.
So do I. I've been using it forever - since you had to have everything on your computer because dial-up was so slow. I like having everything integrated, and I really really like being able to have everything on the calendar colour coded by categories of which one can assign more than one to the same event. This doesn't seem to be possible with any cloud based systems of which I'm aware so far. I do feel I need to sort out a more reliable backup for all my thousands of emails, though. Calendar and contact detail aren't a worry because all that is on both my laptop and my phone. Emails are only on the laptop, though.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 took my parents for their first look round the house I am currently trying to buy on Friday. It got the parental seal of approval, which somewhat surprised me (I've mentioned on here previously that during my brother's house hunt I was told that we (as a family) didn't do renovating houses).
We noticed a couple of blackberry bushes and possibly a plum tree in the garden as well as a large Buddleja which was covered in peacock butterflies.
Excellent news.
I've got a buddleia outside my house. I don't think it's supposed to be there - it's growing up through the tarmac and obstructing access to the garage slightly - and I cut it right down to the ground over the winter, but it's now taller than I am and covered in butterflies. I think I'd better cut it right back down again when it's finished flowering.lostinrates wrote: »I think its possibly an issue of where I live, but Sainsbury's are unsatisfactory here, which is a shame.
Sainsbury's here is closer than Tesco but is annoying because you always have to queue so long at the checkouts. Tesco is much better at opening more when they're needed.chewmylegoff wrote: »Instead spend time photographing cracks above extension. Went for dinner at parents' house this afternoon and their builder friend who helped me to renovate probate house back in 2004 happens to be there. He looks at photos of cracks and tells me not to risk it, extension appears to be sinking.
Sounds like a good escape there. Hope the next possible is more promising.
The agents I got to know when I was hunting were very varied. Best of all were Hamptons - I wasn't quite up into their price bracket but they tried really really hard to find the right thing for me, and made me feel that they had really bothered to understand who I was and what I wanted. The biggest of the local ones (small chain with a few branches around the county but not linked to anything national) was pretty good too. Unimpressed by Andrews, Taylors, and RA Bennett - most of which asked me for vast quantities of information about my requirements and then sent me huge volumes of details of every property on their books regardless of what I'd said. I was more or less thinking of this house when I told them what I wanted - I'd seen it and loved it but at that stage it wasn't on the market. And then when the vendors came into Andrews and put it on with them, they didn't even send me the details. I actually bought it when they moved to be with a small independent agent who convinced them it was overpriced and told them they'd have to drop it by £20k or he wouldn't take them.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 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »You can mix dogs and cats quite happily, IME. Yossie lives with the two border collies, and there is no trouble between them. They all recognise who is boss, even though the boss is far smaller than his henchmen. They play together, and if Yossie's had enough, he just jumps up higher than they can reach.
My parents have had both dogs and cats (a total of 4 dogs, and 6 cats) over the last many years - 23 or so, I think.
Oh I know but Jasper is a bit of a spoilt kitty and he would be so hurt if we got another animal...plus I can't afford the extra costs for insurance, annual jabs and food!
My fault for spoiling Jasper so much but he is so adorable it is so hard to stop myself :rotfl: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.0 -
DH has just given some very small amount cash to a 'reasonably ' well spoken woman who looked 'a bit distressed' on his way home from the gym. She offered to leave her ring which she said was a Tiffany ring, as collateral and DH just said its ok, I'm not expecting this back.
DH said she was excessively grateful ( but on questioning not that grateful).0 -
I had a bit of a comic moment in love interest's car this afternoon...I was trying to adjust the seat back as it was too upright for me and after several attempts the blooming thing wouldn't move.
I decided to give it one last try and BAM, ended up laying down as the seat back tilted back completely. Love interest was in stitches, one second he was talking to me at the same level as him, the next second he heard a loud clonk, looked and I was gone!
I have vowed never ever ever to touch that lever again.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.0
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