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

lostinrates

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neverdespairgirl

bugslet wrote: »

Unfortunately we have to, as besides the page numbers, somewhere there will be a change to 8.2.1.4 (i) and some smart a*** will bring it up at a meeting and make you look a numpty, even though it's completely pointless.

Sounds exactly like the White Book. Immigration law, however, isn't subject in the most part to the Civil Procedure Rules, so I don't need to know what is Part 36 (iv) (b) and what is Part 36 (iv) (c).

lostinrates wrote: »

Or dog type

Exercised dogs are happy, tired dogs are easy. ( with the sun 'bursts' in the last couple of days the kiwi has recharged his batteries, but the others haven't.

Fwiw, I don't tend to let's dogs that aren't mine off the lead unless I know we are in contained areas. They might have 100 % recall for their owners but be oblivious to other people. I don 't want to find that out when I'm in charge. :eek:

Depending on the type of dog, though, walking enough to tire them out on a lead might require an awful lot of walking. My parents' collies do about 6 miles at a run for every half mile the person walking them covers at strolling pace. And they really do need the exercise.

But it wouldn't be wise, as you say, to let dogs off a lead unless you know then particularly well.

silvercar

Sue, if it helps, you are not alone, Every person I know with special needs complains that the support outlined on the statement is not supplied.

Spirit_2

Lir... That is a very obvious nose and very cute tassely ears.

I like the pose against the still life. It had a meerkats ad feel to it.

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

Sue, if it helps, you are not alone, Every person I know with special needs complains that the support outlined on the statement is not supplied.

It is not something I have direct experience of, but if what you report is the case it makes me wonder why we bother with this system if it is so obviously not working and abused.

Policy is espousing one thing and in school decision makes are all enacting something else. The local decisions being that they judge other things more of a priority to resource and manage than special needs provision.

Why can't the budget be allocated directly to parents - who pay for services directly. It works in the independent sector.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Each year I start a new folder, I need to move some off the really:
/2009
/2010
/2011
/2012

... are all probably surplus to requirements.

//Tax-Returns has it's own root directory, with the years under that and I am now moving all the photo folders to be under one directory ....

But there's just a big raft of "random old stuff; god knows what; it caught my eye online and I downloaded it" ... stuff....

Consider most of my drive as being the trash bin of fleeting dreams and ponderings

Nothing mostly important at all... there is one place I can look for my Ext HDD..... maybe I'll look there today; certainly not going to go through every box/bag I own looking for it
It's in a "smal makeup bag, along with similar items" so theoretically should be "to hand", but I did move 8x in 2012, which has left some things a little adrift.

That's the way with computers. I only upgrade occasionally, but I always used to put a complete copy of my old hard drive on the new PC. That took up a small fraction of the new space, as drives always increased in size dramatically between upgrades.

Just looking at my current drive, I have 130GB occupied, with the rest blank. That includes, for example, 12GB which is just copies of software CDs. I always copy the CD onto the hard drive when installing. But (this is where it gets silly) I never prune that directory. So, for example, I still have a complete copy of Wordstar on there, 1990 vintage, not to mention Office 4.3, Office 97, Supercalc. I have a directory of stuff for an LU120, but I have long since forgotten what an LU120 is. Hopefully, it's not too embarrassing.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I want to go and see some stone for the floor in here in the next few weeks. The stone seller is only open tues to thurs mornings, that makes going with DH difficult. . He does trust me but I don't want to make such a. Huge decision with out him being there. I guess I go and have a look then go again if one of them is a possible.

Can you narrow it down a bit, and then bag a couple of samples for him to have a look at?

Spirit wrote: »

Many children would have needed counselling!

As a child of about 8 DD was up the garden when she suddenly started waving madly and jumping about. I did nothing and then realised something was wrong.

A swarm of bees had enveloped her. She had many stings, mostly on her scalp as they had gone into her hair and on her neck and hands. I collected quite a few stings as I tried to pull her clothes off and disentangle them from her hair.
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The locusts didn't do him any harm - unlike your poor DD and a swarm of stingers!

Fortunately, as well, Isaac is fascinated by nature red in tooth and claw. He has an interest in a particularly nasty species of lizard called Komodo Dragons, which kill their prey by biting them and waiting for infection or blood loss to finish the poor sods off at some later time.

They are seriously ugly animals, and big, too - about 8 feet long and 90-odd kg in weight, I think:

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was a large tsunami in the 1600s ..... that flooded for miles and miles and miles.....

There was a tsunami after the volcanic eruption which lead to the Year Without a Summer in the early 19th century, I think. And the explosion of Krakatoa in the mid 1880s caused a tsuanami so huge that it was measurable (although not damage-causing) in the English Channel, the other side of the world from the explosion. It still measured a few inches by the time it had travelled from Indonesia to here, which is amazing to think of.

http://www.webhistoryofengland.com/?p=825

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Lir... That is a very obvious nose and very cute tassely ears.

I like the pose against the still life. It had a meerkats ad feel to it.

I thought it looked very serious face.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Why can't the budget be allocated directly to parents - who pay for services directly. It works in the independent sector.

I think part of the problem might be that not all parents are 'Sues' . Independant sector is a mixture of people used to paying for results or sacrificing for the results and thus motivated for success. Even when the parents don't care they are prepared to buy a service. Some state ted children (or those who might need to be) have parents who just are not going to be as motivated, plus those who don't have 'parents' but are system children may well have needs that don't have someone with the motivation of a Sue. Sme of those in the system are obviously going to be highly giving people, motivated, and loving, especially perhaps foster families.

But there are some kids, whose parents or home life and budget handed to parents no more, and possibly less thought and understanding is going to go into the process.

lostinrates

I just went to my diary on macputer to check a date last year and realised they have all been wiped away. How the hell did that happen?

I keep my paper diaries for a few years because sometimes dates turn out to be relevant.

This date was important because I was booking dog dog in for her spay. I hope I remembered it roughly currently. .

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