Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

LydiaJ

bugslet wrote: »

Well I like them, but might not wear them LJ, it depends on what she likes and like lir, I go for warm metals as well.

I don't think unless you are showing it matters at all where his tail is and in my opinion, a tail cannot be too jaunty. Both my schnauzers have tails and seeing one with a docked tail, not that there are many left now, just looks disappointing.

We looked after various other people's Jack Russells when I was a kid. All docked in those days, of course. Today when I see ones with tails it still makes me smile to see them able to wag properly.

Doozergirl wrote: »

All my socks are black. It was to avoid the matching problem, but now most of those don't match either. If I really feel I need a matching pair, I raid DS or DH sock drawer.

I do have some fluffy indoor socks that are colourful but often end up wearing one fluffy sock, one regular.

The vast majority of our socks are black or dark grey, with a few coloured and some white for DD. We all wear much the same sizes now. I like to wear pairs. DD likes me to find socks out of the "haven't paired them up yet" basket for her, so I usually give her pairs too. DS just picks two socks at random, which obviously then makes it harder for me to find pairs for DD and me.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH and I have just been discussing potential names for the baby. There's a big restriction in that it must make sense in both England and in Israel. That rules out some names I like, such as Charlotte.

We also can't go for names which sound as if they end or might end with much of a vowel, because of the surname.

But the biggest problem is OH - he doesn't seem to like any names. He said "No!" emphatically to almost all of them, and "maybe" with a very dubious look to a few. I asked him to think of just one name of each gender that he actually liked, and he struggled. Eventually he did decide he didn't actually hate Noah (whcih is out because of the sound at the end) and Naomi.

So poor little sod will probably be Baby NDG until it reaches adulthood!

Some examples - Jonathan (No!), Joseph (No!) David (too commonly-used) Nathan (teenage arsonist), etc.

Daniel? Abel? Jacob? Benjamin? Reuben? Samuel? Aaron?
Rachel? Ruth? Not ending in a vowel is tricky with girls. I'm not sure whether Elizabeth is sufficiently Hebrew - I mean I know it's etymologically Hebrew, but I'm not aware of anybody in the OT of that name.

What were you going to call Isaac if he'd been a girl? Could you use that if this one is a girl?

When I was pregnant with DS we talked about his names on a car journey from Somerset to Scotland, and sorted out a name and a middle name for a boy, and a name for a girl (but no middle name). Then we had the 20 week scan and they said he was a boy.

When I was pregnant with DD three years later, we again drove to Scotland (to see my brother). DS didn't give us much opportunity to spend the journey discussing names. It went something like this:
Me: Do you want to try choosing names at this stage or shall we wait for the 20 week scan and find out the sex so we only have to choose for one or the other.
Him: Let's wait for the scan.
<after the scan, which said she was a girl...>
Me: Do you want to rethink names from scratch or shall we stick with <girl's name chosen for DS before we knew he was a boy>
Him: Oh, I don't want to go through that again. Let's stick with <name>.
We didn't choose a middle name for her until a couple of weeks before she was due, in the end.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've never bought anyone jewellry before. There's obviously a reason for that!:)

IMHO, jewellery is a very personal thing for most people.

Easy to get wrong and spend a lot of time sitting at the back of a drawer.

I'm currently struggling to think of what Mrs McT is getting for Xmas this year, as she has almost everything she's ever really wanted, a few things she loves dearly but never knew she wanted until she got, and would probably be more than a bit cross with me if I bought her something she wants but doesn't have....

(confusing creatures, women)

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Maria (pronounced Mariah), .

I have Irish cousins and a late aunt called Marie, pronounced Mahri which I like.

In England it is pronounced Marie...not nice at all.

Spirit_2

Sue

Hope parents are Ok, insured and have the drum kit somewhere dry

silvercar

DS2 didn't have a name for 2 weeks after he was born, we couldn't agree. He was very nearly Andrew until I suddenly said that I could imagine shortening it to Drew and OH rejected it. DS2 teases me about that, he says no one in his generation is an Andrew.

michaels

LydiaJ wrote: »

I'd want to know how big the balls are before I'd know what age of girl/woman they'd suit,

Sage advice

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

I have Irish cousins and a late aunt called Marie, pronounced Mahri which I like.

In England it is pronounced Marie...not nice at all.

A derivative of Mary, which is generally viewed as a very un-jewish name, weirdly Joseph is acceptable.

vivatifosi

Nelson Mandela has died.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Same old story....no support for youngest in the classroom and his general hightened anxiety. I am now keeping a diary of what support he is receiving for the LEA, so far this week, he had a TA for half a lesson on Monday, one lesson yesterday and none today. He is supposed to have a minimum of 20 hours per week.

With middle son, he is struggling with a business studies overload (he is doing double business), he also cannot understand why he has to do four subjects when some of his peers are only doing 2 or 3. He is also suffering from lack of support, although his need is far less than youngest and a TA in lesson is not needed, it is more generalised support especially around his poor short term memory and verbal understanding disorder.

But - one of the biggest problems over the last few days has been the inclusion of someone who takes high jinks and turns it into a form of bullying, into the music class....and the high jinks appears to be directed towards middle son. The sort of thing going on is what made middle son lose all confidence in his music before (being ridiculed for his equipment, having his equipment tampered with/hidden, being told his opinion doesn't matter because he is 'only a drummer', the pee being taken out of him when he was singing/playing a different instrument - because he is 'only a drummer' etc).

It's a shame really, middle son was just starting to come out of his shell a bit and showing his ability on different instruments to the rest of the class and his teachers, now he doesn't really want to play because he knows that this lad with start messing about with the stuff to wind up.

Oh Sue. Are the school doing anything to sort this menace out? DS's school and I may not always agree about the best way of dealing with his dyslexia, but they sure are fantastic at dealing with bullying. Such a welcome contrast to his primary school.

michaels wrote: »

Sage advice

I wondered if anybody would pick up on that.

silvercar wrote: »

A derivative of Mary, which is generally viewed as a very un-jewish name, weirdly Joseph is acceptable.

But there's no Mary in the OT, is there? So it's just a NT name. Whereas the Joseph in Genesis gets way more coverage (several chapters just for his story) than the brief mention of the one at the beginning of Luke and Matthew.

michaels

Nelson Mandela RIP