Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

"72 room mansion" isn't many people's idea of "buying a home", certainly.

It was a home / business. Small hotel, same concept as a farm really.( and 72 counted things like little laundry rooms etc...it wasn't 72 rooms in the sense of 72 usable rooms..... Those estate agents do it at all levels it seems, lol.)

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

It was a home / business. Small hotel, same concept as a farm really.( and 72 counted things like little laundry rooms etc...it wasn't 72 rooms in the sense of 72 usable rooms..... Those estate agents do it at all levels it seems, lol.)

It was a little larger than a bedroom each and one for guests though

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was a little larger than a bedroom each and one for guests though

Only one room for guests wouldn't be a great business model for a hotel, I shouldn't think.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Only one room for guests wouldn't be a great business model for a hotel, I shouldn't think.

No, but the programme described it as a home.

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It most seems to be northern NHS staff talking to pregnant women on reality documentaries about the NHS.

E.g. "You need to stop smoking/drinking/intravenously injecting heroin: it will harm baby".

Yeah, that's annoying.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Yeah, that's annoying.

Can you legally get away with doing things to the foetus you are carrying that you could never do to the baby once it arrives? Assuming yes, what is the solution?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Can you legally get away with doing things to the foetus you are carrying that you could never do to the baby once it arrives? Assuming yes, what is the solution?

That wasn't really what I meant but it does raise a whole series of moral conundrums.

There probably isn't a solution. People should behave better. If someone wants to smoke or take crack or eat at Maccas, pregnant or not, then it's nearly impossible to stop them.

Road_Hog

Generali wrote: »

That wasn't really what I meant but it does raise a whole series of moral conundrums.

There probably isn't a solution. People should behave better. If someone wants to smoke or take crack or eat at Maccas, pregnant or not, then it's nearly impossible to stop them.

Just phone social services and tell them that the mother is a UKIP member, they'll sort it out.

Or of course, you can have the police taser the mother.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304158/Lucinda-White-Pregnant-woman-gets-tasered-cops-car-park-fender-bender-incident.html

bugslet

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Shortly after I gave birth While I was in labour, they gave me some powerful anti-emetic drugs in a drip to stop me being sick.

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That sounds horrendous to me, I hate feeling nauseous for more than 5 minutes, I think you are very brave for going for a second one!

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

All this "christmas is here" stuff is Bad News chez NDG. Once OH's senses are regularly assaulted by such fare, he gets grumpier and grumpier until Boxing Day. Then his birthday cheers him up nicely.

Right behind NDB. Blessings are that having no TV means that I don't get assaulted at home with too much Xmas stuff, I'm a cards only person at Xmas, it's been known to cost me nearly a tenner over the festive season.

Nikkster wrote: »

So, and update on the Ikea trip. I know this is what you've all been waiting for

We were in Ikea for 5 hours! Good job we stopped to refuel

You need to Ikea with me, I practice guerilla shopping there though I do adhere to the law of going out with something you didn't go in for.

@ silvercar, sorry, no idea what happened with the quote button there. Mr Bugs wouldn't want to be in the state he is in, but if he would choose at this exact moment to exit I am in doubt about, I think he has a bit more to go yet. He may confound us and be here next year.

He went into hospital yesterday and the palliative care team are coming round this afternoon, after that he many go back to the nursing home, if not it will be Wednesday.

Kennyboy66

PasturesNew wrote: »

We didn't have chocolate advent calendars; we had the ones where you opened a door and there was a picture.... wise men, stars, donkeys, baby Jesus. They were "the norm" where I lived.

Even LESS choccie intake!

I'm sure the choccie ones didn't come in until at least the late 1980's & it was fairly normal to save one years advent calendar to the next year and flatten it.

Advent calendars only had 24 doors as well, some today have 25 which annoys me intensely.

Other 1970's money saving tips from our household - cutting up christmas cards (with pinking shears to give a nice jagged edge) to use as gift tags for next year.

Carefully unwrapping presents so that you can use the wrapping paper again (still done occasionally if wrapping paper very nice).

One favourite uncle would wrap presents in newspaper, which would further be recycled as toilet paper (in strips hanging from a string) or go on the fire as a kind of newspaper log (all sounds like a Viz top tip, but I can assure you was true)

5 mile circular walks to post the local Christmas cards to save on postage.