Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

Received lovely autocorrect this morning.

Instead of 'kind regards' it read ' kind Teagarden'. Isn't that a lovely image? A tea garden? I want a tea garden. You can buy tea plants. But I think my spot is too cold. If we had a warm garden I'd do it...imagine how lovely that would be.....I have some idea the foliage might smell lovely on a hot summers day but that might be pushing it!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Received lovely autocorrect this morning.

Instead of 'kind regards' it read ' kind Teagarden'. Isn't that a lovely image? A tea garden? I want a tea garden. You can buy tea plants. But I think my spot is too cold. If we had a warm garden I'd do it...imagine how lovely that would be.....I have some idea the foliage might smell lovely on a hot summers day but that might be pushing it!

Tregothnan is the only one in the UK.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Received lovely autocorrect this morning.

Instead of 'kind regards' it read ' kind Teagarden'. Isn't that a lovely image? A tea garden? I want a tea garden. You can buy tea plants. But I think my spot is too cold. If we had a warm garden I'd do it...imagine how lovely that would be.....I have some idea the foliage might smell lovely on a hot summers day but that might be pushing it!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/feb/21/growing-tea

"The tea plant is Camellia sinensis, and if you can grow camellias, you can grow tea "

We are on the wrong sort of soil for camellias, heavy clay, but you do see them around in London. I guess you just have to add enough peat to the soil.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2009/feb/21/growing-tea

"The tea plant is Camellia sinensis, and if you can grow camellias, you can grow tea "

We are on the wrong sort of soil for camellias, heavy clay, but you do see them around in London. I guess you just have to add enough peat to the soil.

I wa rather thinking that like other camellias they might do alright in pots?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

One test used is the MMSE. You can find a copy here. http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/our-services/acute-medicine-gi-surgery/elderly-care/mini-mental-state-evaluation.pdf


One of the questions reads:
Repeat "No ifs, ands, or buts"

I tried that out loud and duly messed it up the first time.

Just had a look at that.

(I've been thinking about everyone's kind and sensible advice).


I have no doubt in my mind RP would be able to do all asked on that test.

Examples I can give are....

Lydia comes from a town. When I mentioned to RP my 'friend' was visiting from that town RP asked why I has so e one coming from so far away. RP had confused that well known town, one my family have long familiarity with, for one in a different area of the country, also a well known town, and they sound similar but there was no mishearing, but rather a confusion.

This one is fresh in my mind really because I spoke about it to Lydia. But that sort of thing happens often. I think its telling to me because its a problem I have had with word confusion and language loss. I found this sort of thing very frustrating, alienating and upsetting. I know RP has trouble sleeping. No classic depression but talks of 'troubled thoughts' at night time etc. this is not new, but I think its increasingly 'all that's left' because RP refuses to get new interests or occupation and just potters like someone much much older. I think, frankly, this doesn't help the mind either, I know the more I do the better my mind is. Brains like exercise. I think it must be a terribly distressing experience. I don't think I'm helping much yet either, as I haven't found yet the best route to do so.

michaels

I'm not a nice person.

Our tenant (6 months tenancy, says she is not going to renew in April) has two problems:
One of the two front doors she says the lock doesn't work sometimes although she has never been able to demonstrate this to us. The only confirmed problem is when she looked the door with her key inside it and then it couldn't be unlocked fronm outside which is by design not a fault.
The dishwasher which she says is not draining but I went there and ran the rinse and drain program and it did drain.

Do I call a locksmith and a repair man or suggest she lives with it? WE may be completely renovating the place in April rather than getting another tenant in in which case both the dishwasher and the door are likely to be replaced.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I'm not a nice person.

Our tenant (6 months tenancy, says she is not going to renew in April) has two problems:
One of the two front doors she says the lock doesn't work sometimes although she has never been able to demonstrate this to us. The only confirmed problem is when she looked the door with her key inside it and then it couldn't be unlocked fronm outside which is by design not a fault.
The dishwasher which she says is not draining but I went there and ran the rinse and drain program and it did drain.

Do I call a locksmith and a repair man or suggest she lives with it? WE may be completely renovating the place in April rather than getting another tenant in in which case both the dishwasher and the door are likely to be replaced.

That's how locks work. You don't leave keys in locks partly you don't leave keys in locks so that people cannot come lone with a wire coat hanger fishing for luckies, filch it out through the letter box and let themselves in, now that there is no key in the lock.


Btw, I always leave a key in my lock :rotfl:

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

WE may be completely renovating the place in April rather than getting another tenant in in which case both the dishwasher and the door are likely to be replaced.

In that case why not replace them now ..... there's a chance you might be anyway, she's complaining, if there's a new tenant to be found without renovating then they might be more attracted to your property for having these newer items.

neverdespairgirl

Sorry to hear you and Sue are both under the weather, LIR - and the difficulties with RP sound immensely frustrating. You should be canonised in your own lifetime for the way you manage to deal with it!

I'm pretty sure brains do need exercise - could you encourage RP to do crosswords / play chess / whatever activity like that RP enjoys? My Granny did crosswords throughout her 80s, and said they kept her marbles in her brain.

The place confusion does happen to people of all ages, particularly if they are more familiar with one than the other being mentioned. When I was a pupil, I was advised to take great care ensuring I went to the right one of Clerkenwell / Camberwell, or Brentford / Brentwood, for example.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

In that case why not replace them now ..... there's a chance you might be anyway, she's complaining, if there's a new tenant to be found without renovating then they might be more attracted to your property for having these newer items.

The door probably won't be there at all.

The dishwasher is built in, if the kitchen is changed the new one might not be.

But otherwise yes probably the correct answer.