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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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The lights really seemed to give you pleasure ( hope your gorgeous lamp is still out) .
I wonder if you could think of them as celebration lights rather than Christmas ones and get them out for anything worth celebrating?
We have three sets of lights in bedroom now an decided to leave the sitting room ones as a longer term feature ( now with a huge silk hydrangea).
I use candles a lot, which I know is not for you, but the power of the twinkly light is not insignificant!0 -
Not much to celebrate here... my sibling has always called my houses "Bleak House".... biggest celebration in the last year has been: getting some Xmas lightslostinrates wrote: »Pn.
The lights really seemed to give you pleasure ( hope your gorgeous lamp is still out) .
I wonder if you could think of them as celebration lights rather than Christmas ones and get them out for anything worth celebrating?
We have three sets of lights in bedroom now an decided to leave the sitting room ones as a longer term feature ( now with a huge silk hydrangea).
I use candles a lot, which I know is not for you, but the power of the twinkly light is not insignificant!
They're away now ...... so I won't get them out. Also, I'd need somewhere to hang them - I don't have furniture, nor hooks, nor a mantlepiece.0 -
Led...so cool.......they could even be on the floor.
I used to use fairy lights instead of bedside lamp. White tack and wall.. Yours are certainly to heavy for that, and when white tack fails over your head when your asleep its a little unnerving until you are used to it. 0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Not much to celebrate here... my sibling has always called my houses "Bleak House".... biggest celebration in the last year has been: getting some Xmas lights
They're away now ...... so I won't get them out. Also, I'd need somewhere to hang them - I don't have furniture, nor hooks, nor a mantlepiece.
When you get your new place, you can put them up to celebrate moving in, and then keep them up to celebrate having the freedom of not being a tenant any more.
DD has asked if we can keep the ones I put winding up the bannisters. She also wants some in her room on a permanent basis. I don't see why not. DS already has some, although I don't know that he turns them on very often. They've been there ages.
Or you could put them up somewhere in your current place, not as a celebration of where you are but as a "light at the end of the tunnel" symbol of your hopes for the future.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 -
Over the last couple of weeks, I have moved onto stage two of public transport prep for the boys. We've conquered trains, they feel safe and at ease getting on them now, so it was time for buses.
Glad to say, youngest had the best trip yet, we had to give up on buses a few years ago as he would just scream on them but today, he actually fell asleep! Now it will move onto them realising when they need to get off without me doing it for them...and finally, being able to get on and off trains and buses without me.
Long way to go for that but it's progress.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Woah.... really bad weather here at moment. Tipping it down, Gale, sounds like I live near the sea and waves are crashing on the shore... bit scary considering I'm roughly 70 miles from the nearest beach and about 450ft above sea level.
(Pops off to garage to commence ark building)Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I can hear rain lashing down as well - I keep thinking of the old seafarers' hymn, "O hear us when we cry to thee, for those in peril on the sea."
It's weird hearing wind in our flat - the bedrooms and kitchen all overlook the courtyard at the back, which has 5 or 6 storey buildings on all sides. So if it's windy there, it's gale-force everywhere else!...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 -
When you get your new place, you can put them up to celebrate moving in, and then keep them up to celebrate having the freedom of not being a tenant any more.
DD has asked if we can keep the ones I put winding up the bannisters. She also wants some in her room on a permanent basis. I don't see why not. DS already has some, although I don't know that he turns them on very often. They've been there ages.
Or you could put them up somewhere in your current place, not as a celebration of where you are but as a "light at the end of the tunnel" symbol of your hopes for the future.
When I was de-tinselling the bannister yesterday I thought that it would look nice with twinkly lights.... Was also thinking I could put some above my bed and return the lamp I've borrowed from my parents. Hmmm, might need to go and look in the post-Christmas sales.
I've been given some nice rope lights, but they will be used in my lean-to/ conservatory/ orangery once it is watertight (the lights are suitable for outdoors but still).0 -
Just heard a banging outside.... peeked out and saw some lighting ... which meant fence was flapping. Just wound up my wind up torch and traipsed out across the flooded garden in the dark to find the magic stick. Stick reinstated.... all's OK, although now I'm back inside I wish I'd taken a bit more care with double-checking it.0
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After going to bed at 12:30 last night having spent the evening doing an unofficial upgrade to DWs tablet tonight was definitely going to be an early night - so here I am at 11:30 and tablet is still refusing to behave, it upgrades, then all the apps upgrade then you reboot a couple of times...and then it decides to freeze on the boot screen - seems to be no rhyme nor reason I think....0
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