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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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As employers we find that a larger and larger proportion fo university students doing the courses we traditionally recruit from are either EU citizens (not a problem or non-EU citizens. the later are a problem, not in terms of sponsoring work permits but because most govt deparemtns require security clearance which seems to be near on impossible or at least takes an impossibly long time for non-eu citizens
Sadly UK students seem to choose less rigourous subjects.
I saw an old friend last week. Her daughter has just done GCSEs and will be starting A-levels next month - double maths, physics, chemistry. At her school (an all girls one) this is considered perfectly normal, but my friend and her daughter have been appalled by the number of people who have expressed surprise or even dismay at her having chosen such "unfeminine" subjects, including a shocking remark from a family therapist who suggested that there was also something equally concerning about the girl's brother having chosen classics rather than sciences. :mad: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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James got better than expected results, so smiles all round. Middle son gets his GCSE results next week.
Yay! Well done James. Hope it gives him a lovely cause for celebration this week, and a boost to his confidence as he goes off to uni. :T:beer::jDo 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 -
James got better than expected results, so smiles all round. Middle son gets his GCSE results next week.
Excellent news!:T
Am helping DD move house today so not clear what our results are like.
Have supped with the devil by starting a contract for a new phone for DD. It's capped though, as I haven't yet lost my marbles. It's this one
I'm amazed at how many cases it takes for a teenager to settle into a room.:eek:There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Oh, and on Spider-Man, I did raise the sex question, just to see what was said. Condoms aren't,t required, but on further probing questioning, it was eventually decided that in response to a question that no one had ever asked before it would be advisable to ' wash thoroughly' before a certain sex act. They took this better than the neurologist took my comparison of a certain sort of pain.
Its getting to be a sort of personal hobby....ask a medical practitioner a sex question. (Its not, I wouldn't do it to taunt them.....unless I were in a much better mood.)
They had rethought this on second scan and saidthey'd been thinking about it and weren't as sure.....
I said it could have been more straight forward, if I'd asked you about (self censored) and they said, yes, in this case that would be a straight forward no. It had obviously been lunch time discussion and they had said what I have been thinking but not saying on here.
Interesting that its never been discussed before though.
Anyway, for some reason there was no traffic at all, and I made it home in super quick time.
I have the hair dresser tomorrow, so I should do something with my hair tonight. 0 -
Stress over, James has had his uni place confirmed!
No idea of his final results yet as we pick them up at 9.30 but he has had confirmation that he is in at his first choice.
So proud of him, on the verge of (happy) tears here.
Fantastic news! Well done James!
Where is he going, and what is he reading?...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: »I've no idea what either of those look like
Covent Garden - huge tourist trap, very elegant c. 18th century market-place. Sort of place where you can get charged £15 for a sandwich and a coffee, if you aren't careful. Lots of street entertainers, etc.
Barbican - a 1960s - 1970s concrete complex in the north of the City of London, with a fantastic selection of theatres, cinemas and exhibitions, and very high towers that look the twin of nasty council tower blocks around the country, but command an astonishingly high price and a service charge that would make you weep (many thousands of £ per year)....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 -
I saw an old friend last week. Her daughter has just done GCSEs and will be starting A-levels next month - double maths, physics, chemistry. At her school (an all girls one) this is considered perfectly normal, but my friend and her daughter have been appalled by the number of people who have expressed surprise or even dismay at her having chosen such "unfeminine" subjects, including a shocking remark from a family therapist who suggested that there was also something equally concerning about the girl's brother having chosen classics rather than sciences. :mad:
that is weird. I was at an all-girls' school until the mid 1990s, and lots of people did double maths, physics and chemistry, or swapped one of those for biology. I did English Lit, Geography and History, and Physics AS, and that wasn't strange, either. One of my sisters did biology, chemistry and art, the other did biology, chemistry and physics. My brother, at an all-boys' school, did English Lit, history and Latin.
I went to a very, very academic girls' school - 101 girls in my year, and 45 of us got all As at A level (1996). They didn't do A * for A levels then. I got 7 A* / As and 3 Bs at GCSE, and was well below average. Dyslexia scuppered me in German and Maths, and I also got a B for music....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 -
oh gosh, I would have been distraught. It's terrifying when they scratch to get out. We used to have an old whicker one with leather straps and an old male tabby called Morris almost nosed his way out of it on one vet trip. He would have just fled into the road and got run over.
Since then I bought plastic ones + took Wink to the vet the other week and, despite it being secure I still carry it to my chest with the door squashed against myself.
Sons is depressing him (after only 10 days...he is impatient
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I have the slight snag of 'Creative Block' at the moment and really bad dose of Procrastinitus'.
Usually clears after a weeks or 2 but this has been 5 weeks now :eek:
Any tips would be handy NP's
My cat basket that fell apart was a brand new plastic one, Meggle is now back to travelling in the old Whicker basket plus added cable ties.
I read about your son house hunting and that you and OH were helping with deposit. :T Then I remembered that you recently said you were closing your purse following a need to help another family member. I am impressed by both your generosity and liquidity.
On your creative block..is there anything that works as a 'holiday for the head' for you? For me it is paintings at the Musee D'Orsay. At a push the pre raphaelite paintings at the Tate. Or Anthony Gormley. I do not have a creative bone in my body, but some great art works have helped me to empty my head of "stuff" and restore a balance.0 -
Surfing is brilliant like that. Nothing like being hit on the head by lumps of the Atlantic to clear your mind, and you sleep incredibly well, too.
There's also something wonderful about doing something fun and in the sea, then having a lovely hot shower and putting nice, dry clothes on. A very sensual experience, the whole thing....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 -
fc123, Do you sell to Verona?
In a very smart shopping street in the window there were clothes that had 'your look'. I was pointing them out to Mr S explaining.
One shop had a dress, the other a Bikini.
I was so obviously not going to be buying that I did not like to go in and enquire of the make.0
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