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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Do be careful, and if you do need to go on a drip, just go and get them to do it, whether it disrupts a case or not. Dehydration can be a big deal. Be glad you live in a century when drips are available - some great-great-great aunt or other on my mum's side of the family got pregnant in the 19th century, got hyperemesis, dehyrated (with no drip available at that time), and died. 21st century medicine has a lot to be said for it.
It certainly does. I've got nice little test strips to check with, like mini-pregnancy tests, and if they go too red, I need to go for a drip. And I will.PasturesNew wrote: »I've not had my hair trimmed for over a year - I've been trying to grow it as I'd had "carer hair" (short/easy) before .... so I'll need to at least get it trimmed if I'm to go out in public. And if I can't .... then I'll need to find my beanie hat and only go where I can keep it on and not look strange
When we met, you were the Vogue model out of the 4 of us - Isaac, OH and I were sporting a combination of salt, seawater and snake oil hairstyles, and you looked perfectly respectable.PasturesNew wrote: »There's posh .....
I'd imagine I'd have been read some Noddy.
Posh? One was free on my kindle, the other was 99p. Poetry's great for calming children, even when they're far too young to understand any of it.lostinrates wrote: »From when I was very small I knew I'd all else's failed the copy of 'other men's flowers ' by the side of my mother's bed would be opened and yield some gem up. Its such a wonderful collection.
Funnily enough I just bought Edward Lear for new niece.
The other thing I ha at bedtime, when tiny than Isaac, was the trout. I must have wriggled off to sleep listening o that. Its hardly restful.
My Dad gave me that when I went to Poland, and I absolutely love it. A fantastic collection....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 -
Whenever one of us was ill as a kid, my mum used to get her mum to come to stay to look after the ill child, while Mum kept the show on the road for the remaining family who were still well and therefore busy. Granny used to read me "Granny's wonderful chair." I've been introducing it to DD recently. She liked it.
What else do you read to your children? Do you still read to DS?
My mother read to us all for ages, until she finished the Lord of the Rings when I was about 25 or so. She's really good at reading aloud (lots of people aren't) and she'd started it years and years before, but it takes a while to get through the whole trilogy, especially when children start doing A levels and shooting off to university, and so forth.
Isaac's favourites at the moment are The River's Tale, which starts:
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew--
(Twenty bridges or twenty-two)--
Wanted to know what the River knew,
For they were young and the Thames was old,
And this is the tale that the River told:--
and The Centurion's Song
LEGATE, I had the news last night--my cohort ordered home
By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.
I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below;
Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go!
I've served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall.
I have none other home than this, nor any life at all.
Last night I did not understand, but, now the hour draws near
That calls me to my native land, I feel that land is here.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/kipli05.html...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 -
Still want to go PT from after Christmas, but rather floored by the prospect of ill health retirement which Occ Health suggested and I am still mulling over. Not spoken to my boss yet as I feel very uncomfortable about this unexpected development.
Whilst that's presumably a great deal financially, how would you feel about it? Could you find gentler employment elsewhere?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Meh, NDG is great, Isaac is a doll, but I hereby issue a new commandment. Thou shall not sell thyself short as a parent. NDG is doing well, spirit is being more than nice and You are raising two kids I'd borrow any day. S they feed themselves from the fridge, I see that as teaching them self reliance and a positive.
You work half a job? But you also a parent a full time one.....alone and produce lovlier results than many people manage with a lot more human resource.
Stop it, all you lovely nice parents. I won't hear it any more, the nice children I know are delicious, and its not an accident.
That's me told then.
Thank you as always, lir, for saying the most affirming things. I will accept your compliment as long as nobody is trying to put me on a pedestal and run themselves down by comparison. 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 -
If anybody that 'knows me' ever saw that they'd be horrified and scream "OMG - whatever where the REST like???"neverdespairgirl wrote: »
When we met, you were the Vogue model out of the 4 of us 0 -
Whoosh ... that was hard going.neverdespairgirl wrote: »...
I think I'll stick with:
"... and nobody knows,
tiddly pom,
how cold my toes,
tiddly pom,
how cold my toes,
tiddly pom,
are growing...."
At least I know what's going on there!0 -
That's me told then.
Thank you as always, lir, for saying the most affirming things. I will accept your compliment as long as nobody is trying to put me on a pedestal and run themselves down by comparison.
I wouldn't feel that by putting you on a well-deserved pedestal I'd be running myself down. However, I'd be a bit worried that being on a pedestal could be a bit of a strain. You say things that make me feel that you are not satisfied with yourself and what you do, whereas most of us feel that in similar circumstances we would manage much less well.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »What else do you read to your children? Do you still read to DS?
My mother read to us all for ages, until she finished the Lord of the Rings when I was about 25 or so. She's really good at reading aloud (lots of people aren't) and she'd started it years and years before, but it takes a while to get through the whole trilogy, especially when children start doing A levels and shooting off to university, and so forth.
Isaac's favourites at the moment are The River's Tale, which starts:
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew--
(Twenty bridges or twenty-two)--
Wanted to know what the River knew,
For they were young and the Thames was old,
And this is the tale that the River told:--
and The Centurion's Song
LEGATE, I had the news last night--my cohort ordered home
By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.
I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below;
Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go!
I've served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall.
I have none other home than this, nor any life at all.
Last night I did not understand, but, now the hour draws near
That calls me to my native land, I feel that land is here.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/kipli05.html
I remember when I was about Isaac's age that I really enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes stories. Obviously, the darker side (the drug taking, for example) went whoosh past me, but the stories are beautifully written. And of course they are out of copyright now, so free on your Kindle.
That might keep him out of trouble for a few days. Then introduce him to GK Chesterton's Father Brown, and that's another few days. (Also out of copyright.)No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Our DD heard she has her MA today.
We are one happy pair of parents.
Congratulations Spirit!:beer:
As regards reading stories for kids, NDG, can I suggest robbing short ones from this site
or this oneThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
I wouldn't feel that by putting you on a well-deserved pedestal I'd be running myself down. However, I'd be a bit worried that being on a pedestal could be a bit of a strain. You say things that make me feel that you are not satisfied with yourself and what you do, whereas most of us feel that in similar circumstances we would manage much less well.
Thank you. I've no desire to live on a pedestal - lonely uncomfortable places, pedestals. However, regardless of how well others would or would not manage under similar circumstances, I do frequently feel that it would be better for my children, and especially for DD, if I managed a bit better than I do, and that makes me sad.
I think of myself as a basically ordinary person who's had to deal with some not very ordinary circumstances, and my memories of falling apart spectacularly and being a total basket case when everything began falling apart for me have resulted in my belief that whatever strength I have now is to God's credit rather than mine. However, I have learnt over the last 10 years not to be surprised when people who haven't been through what I've been through think I'm coping impressively, and I'm quite happy to accept their saying so.... as long as they don't follow it up by saying that they are bad/failing/useless for not dealing impeccably with some entirely different set of difficulties (such as throwing up all the time for months, which I have never had to suffer, and would be made utterly miserable by).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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