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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Depressing mode on, Mr Bugs is down to 6 stone 9 from 8 stone 3 at the start of Oct, and unless something radical happens, he's going to fade quietly away. He is having sub cut fluids, so he won't die of dehydration.
I'm as comfortable with that as you can be and I trust the staff at the nursing home to make sure that he's as comfortable as he can be.
You poor love - I was worried about you, sorry to hear he's in such a bad way <hugs>Anything with dates in is fantastic! Give me a pack of mejdool dates and I am a very happy bunny.
I think so too. Does the peppermint help with the nausea?
OH, Isaac and my parents join together in drooling over dates. I just don't quite get it - they seem OK to me, but nothing special.
Peppermint tea helps sometimes - except when it doesn't. :cool:...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: »This is weather that those with huge open-plan houses with vaulted ceilings wish they lived in a 1 bed flat
Yep, makes a big difference, the temperature falls more quickly from the 22 it sits at all day to the 18 at night once the timer programme tells it to at 10.30. IN the morning it knows it needs to be 22 again by the time DW gets up for her shower at 5 so it checks the outside temperature before working out when to start heating the rads and how hot they need to be.She would have walked if we'd still been living in the house where we were when we chose the primary school. By the time I bought this house DS was in year 5, so I chose with secondary catchment in mind rather than primary. Now that DS is at the secondary school, he walks to it, but I'm still dropping DD by car on my way to work.
Agreed. I don't entirely understand why some parts of my house are so much warmer than other parts, but happy that my bedroom seems to be one of the warmer bits. I think random people keep turning off the radiators in other parts of the house.
This morning the bathroom was slightly colder than I expected and I discovered the 6' towel radiator was off - fearing the worst I looked at the boiler controls but all was well - turned out DW had been cleaning the rad valves and had rotated them so she could clean all the way round...
Luckily our school run is much shorter as DW seems to do it multiple times a day what with different activities for different kids and DKs ability to forget their own heads if they weren't attached. Then she additionally gets to take me to the station and fetch me each day in the opposite direction....I think....0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »OH, Isaac and my parents join together in drooling over dates.
I always find too much drooling results in no second date, unless she is a real dog....
I'll get my coatI think....0 -
You're a ruddin' walkin' posh alert.Yep, makes a big difference, the temperature falls more quickly from the 22 it sits at all day to the 18 at night once the timer programme tells it to at 10.30. IN the morning it knows it needs to be 22 again by the time DW gets up for her shower at 5 so it checks the outside temperature before working out when to start heating the rads and how hot they need to be.
I guess I was thinking of people who can't afford to have the heating on ... so not you.
I've been huddled under a blanket for the past week already..... it's too cold to even think about getting up to make food. Braved it enough earlier to put the oven on and make up half a packet of 15p stuffing mix, then bake that and eat it.... fingers are freezing just typing this.0 -
I've never liked/had dates. I remember there was always a packet of dates in the bowl as a Xmas treat. The traditional packet that had rounded ends and inside was a plastic two-pronged fork.
Never fancied them.....
A box like these: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DbpqRnKDw4s/TRHpTuvvyVI/AAAAAAAAA1g/yTiTaZ8EBJo/s1600/eatme.jpg0 -
22 degrees?! Glad I don't pay your heating bill.
I must be more like my mother than I think I am. Although her thermostat is at 14 degrees (it's warmer in the kitchen, because of the Aga). We don't have ours on at all at night or during the day, it's on from 7am until 9am, and 5pm until 11pm. At 18 degrees....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: »This is weather that those with huge open-plan houses with vaulted ceilings wish they lived in a 1 bed flat
Sitting by the woodburner. So nope.
However, do wish I was living somewhere where didn't need heating engineers or electricity companies.
Thisaftertoons meeting brought a whole new surprise. House surprises are rarely good. Today was not a rare day!0 -
My heating, in the deepest winter, on the coldest of days, the bitterly freezing ones, when I've enough money, would be on an hour in the morning and 3 hours in the evening.neverdespairgirl wrote: »it's on from 7am until 9am, and 5pm until 11pm. At 18 degrees.
Rest of the time, the most would be 2 hours in the evening. Probably at 16-18 degrees.
It's not that's all I need or want - that's been the most I could afford in previous years.
This is what makes "fuel poverty" a mockery...... at 10% of takehome pay being the deciding factor, maybe michaels is close to fuel poverty whereas I wouldn't have been.
Fuel poverty shouldn't be "10% of take home pay", it should be more like "10% of takehome pay if you had it on for 3 hours/day at no more than 18 degrees, in the main living room only"0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Thisaftertoons meeting brought a whole new surprise. House surprises are rarely good. Today was not a rare day!
Oh no! What's happened now?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 -
Which aspect of the house was the meeting about?lostinrates wrote: »
This aftertoon's meeting brought a whole new surprise. House surprises are rarely good. Today was not a rare day!0
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