Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

Hope all goes well for her, fc.

SingleSue

Hope it goes well for her and thinking of you and her FC xx

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

Until 2008 this house still had single glazed windows.

Most of our house is still single glazed.

lostinrates

FC, lots of love to you. Supporting someone you love is waring and draining and probably scary too.


My sympathy for your mother and her fellow patients livers are tremendous. As an undergrad last minute cramming advice from a lecturer included that if we were ever stubling for what to write out something about the liver...it was almost cat only involved somehow in whatever we were writing about. And also to the stories one hears in hospital.. My last eye clinic went really well, but I was doing my tests in the room with a guy who was not doing well. He was failing miserably and our beebs were putting each other off, in fact, i kept think my tests were finished from his beebs. later he was told there was nothing further they could do to save his sight, while I was told mine were doing so much better than consultant wa expecting from the notes and I was ok and didn't have to go back for a year all going well.


You can see how people lose a little 'sensitivity' when the dice roll as they do in health. Its a nasty old game.

FC hopefully this is where your mothers good diet will make the difference, her resilience and discipline will help.

Spirit_2

fc123 wrote: »

......we will just enjoy tomorrow and each day as it comes.

I hope the days are peaceful and gentle for you all.

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

Well I went to see the school this morning. I took the, "you probably didn't hear the music on Saturday but...." approach.

She was appalled and is going to have a word. Mission accomplished I'd say.

It's chucking it down here. It's a bit annoying as I have a day off but it will dampen down the bush fires which are still burning away here.

I was chatting on Saturday with a mate who has a house in a fire-prone area. He's been doing a lot of clearing of loose bits of combustible stuff and has cut back a lot of grass. He lives opposite a river so the firemen should be able to defend it pretty easily if it came to it.

Fires went through the area 7 years ago I think so there isn't as much combustible material as there could be.

I went in to see the woman who runs the canteen just to say hi. She's really aged in the past year. It's funny how people do that, just suddenly put on a few years.

What does one do with the cut grass and cleared things to minimise combustion risk?

neverdespairgirl

zagubov wrote: »

DW used to live abroad and it was quite common for people to hang or stick a layer of plastic film over the inside of their windows as a makeshift double-glazing. I found a store near where Wheezy lives called Transatlantic Plastics that supplied the same stuff and I bought some for my own flat. Dunno if it's still around.

I've seen it online, and we bought some - all our (vast) windows are single-glazed, and we put it over some of the smaller ones that we never open.

lostinrates wrote: »

never had cockroaches in uk, and where we lived where they were more prevalent it never reflected well on people who had them, like lice...you kind of know that kids who get them include clean kids...but noone wants to admit to it being theirs. We had roaches in condos and their were vile little bugs. Its what I want to come back as.

Isaac's had headlice twice - I reckon they are one of those delightful things that almost all children get, to add to the general glamour of parenthood. I don't mind admitting it, either, though!

I've never seen cockroaches in the UK - millions upon millions of them in India, but not here.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember that years ago, if you wanted to phone somewhere exotic and strange like Australia, you had to contact the operator and book a timeslot. Then, at the time, you'd phone the operator and they'd dial the number and connect you. I know this as dad investigated us emigrating.... we never went as mum refuses to go on any boat of any sort and the trip took 6 weeks.

My Granny always used to answer the phone before 6pm with a suspicious air, and if a member of the family was on the other end, practically assumed something had gone wrong, as ringing someone before 6pm implied an additional cost justified only by death / serious injury / etc.

silvercar wrote: »

It seems only recently ( last 2-3 yrs) that the hand signal for a phone went from moving your index finger in a circular motion to out-stretching your thumb and baby finger.

Longer ago, among the digital generation. Isaac spent a lot of time as a toddler talking on an outstretched thumb and finger!

For example:

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'm hoping the "then" in "my then GF" refers to a different time from "when DW moved in with me". :eek:

Two minds, and but a single thought.........

neverdespairgirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

Most of our windows are single-glazed. We have some secondary glazing, and some double-glazed units in ordinary wooden window frames, but most of it is 1940s original.

We have single glazing (with massive windows, as you saw from the outside of our flat, GDB). My parents do, too, but they're stuck with them, because of the Grade 2 * listing. No medieval double glazing on offer, sadly.

Generali wrote: »

Not if they were British or German. Both those countries had bad times economically in the 1920s.

In Britain, there was a post First World War slump, but wasn't that pretty much over by about 1921? Then fairly solid economic growth until the end of 1929, start of 1930?

PasturesNew

For people with kids to entertain in early December
http://www.littlebitfunky.com/2010/12/make-these-now-handprint-snowman.html