Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm fighting all the time to get random tat out of house and 'shed'

Its so good to hear you looking forward to it. :j

That is exactly what I thought when I read pn's post. PN if you want random tat there is more than could fit in your new house and shed right here that you can have for free if you sort and collect.

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

That is exactly what I thought when I read pn's post. PN if you want random tat there is more than could fit in your new house and shed right here that you can have for free if you sort and collect.

Same here!

We bought various bits at the 1 lari (about 35p) market yesterday; stuff that will probably be used for a while, but won't be after that (and most of it will stay in Georgia until we visit with a car in the summer)

Most of it is useful, but at that price does seem to get rotated quickly.

CK

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I hate hay fever although feel guilty for doing so as the rest of you have much more to put up with and accept with much more grace.

Hayfever can be utterly miserable. So what that it's not life threatening or actually painful? Anything that interferes with your ability to see and to breathe, and makes the surface of your eyes itch uncontrollably, is suffering, whether other people have worse stuff going on or not.

Unless you're about to die in agony in the next 5 seconds, there is always somebody in the world who has it worse. It doesn't change the unpleasantness of what you're going through, and the NPT is a place where we are all welcome to moan about the bad things and celebrate the good things, both trivial and significant.

lostinrates wrote: »

Did you say you were seeing the doctor about prescription remedies?

He complained that his GP was being useless about it. I said he should see a different GP, and suggested that the simplest way would be to make an appointment with a different doctor at the same practice. He hasn't said whether he's tried that or found it impossible, or whatever.

michaels wrote: »

That is exactly what I thought when I read pn's post. PN if you want random tat there is more than could fit in your new house and shed right here that you can have for free if you sort and collect.

Me too.

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

That is exactly what I thought when I read pn's post. PN if you want random tat there is more than could fit in your new house and shed right here that you can have for free if you sort and collect.

Then we wouldn't have the fun of sourcing and acquiring our very own tat though

PasturesNew

I should have said .... random tat of my own free will and choosing .... I am not an Open House to receive the discarded, broken, useless and pointless random tat of others who want a simple life!

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fundraising, standing at stalls.... not out on the boats
Selling pens and stickers to the public at open days.
That sort of thing. Land-based, waterside, with a good loo and comfy chair close by. Certainly not signing up for the call outs at 3am when there's a storm force 10 blowing and a ship's going down ..... having to pull on bright orange clothes and brave the weather.

I am not a hero.

Au contraire.
Volunteers are heroes, imo.

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

I am chilling, it looks beautiful out, DW and kids are at play in the park.I hate hay fever although feel guilty for doing so as the rest of you have much more to put up with and accept with much more grace. Should be doing filing, emails, arranging plumber and cleaner, decorating but somehow these days when I am not at work I just want to relax and veg out.

Good for you. A supposition on my part, but you need that time. Enjoy yourself! Forget the other stuff, put a cracking record on, sort a quality book, have yourself a bit of fun. I think you need it, & more importantly deserve it.:)

purch

hjd wrote: »

Prepare for the lynch mob.

When #1 SS was born, HID's waters broke at 9:30 pm on 23 Dec, and he finally emerged at a similar time on Boxing Day. during this period he had apparently been attempting to strangle himself with his umbilical cord, and at the last moment, when he still wouldn't emerge into the light, the doctor had to use a scalpel to slice my poor wife open to get him out ASAP.

As she was only using Gas n Air at the time, I think the pain was probably about as bad as anyone could imagine.

Unfortunately the first words SS heard his mother speak are unrepeatable on a NP thread :eek:

SingleSue

Generali wrote: »

It kinda gets easier as they get older because they can do stuff for themselves. They can get themselves entirely ready for school in the mornings now: lunches made, breakfast made and eaten, uniforms on, face and hands washed, teeth brushed, sunscreen on. That's been the case for at least a year.

I'm now in the process of getting them cooking.

We're going to make tons of bread this week or so that I'm off. Probably a loaf or something else every other day. It'd be great if I can wake up on a Saturday morning to the kids having cooked a loaf of fresh bread. That would make up for a lie in.

As mine have got older (James excepted), the looking after has changed rather than decreased.

Middle son has the memory of a forgetful fish and has to be reminded to change underwear, wash, shave, clean teeth etc as he has no concept of time or memory of if he has done it already.

Same with cooking, he can cook, actually quite a good cook but he cannot be trusted to be left in charge of a cooker as, again, his memory fails him..he quite literally forgets he is cooking.

We've tried reminder notes and books....but he forgets to check the book or the area where the notes are. We've tried writing on his hands (so he doesn't forget to check the notes) and he then struggles to remember what the blooming nora it is on about..plus has got into trouble at school for having writing on his hands. We've tried setting reminders on his mobile and Ipad but that also doesn't go down well with teachers who do not like the audible alarms.

Out of the two youngest, he is actually the one who will struggle to live on his own and whilst he is at uni as he is the one who needs most direction/guidance. He is also the most naive and has to have everything spelt out to him in easy to understand paths, you can't just say half and expect him to get the jist of what is going on.

With youngest, he would be perfectly ok to live on his own. Ok, he would rarely leave the property and would not socialise but as long as he could order food supplies and other things in, living away from home would be doable. However, if he did go out (he would have to be with someone, he doesn't go out alone), he would not be able to use another toilet facility (I have to stand outside the disabled toilet door - he won't go in toilet blocks), he won't go to parties (too many people), or eat food from a buffet (other people will have touched the food). He won't use a telephone (phone phobic) or talk to strangers (or even people he does know!) about any difficulties he has (people phobic) especially if it is autism or personal feelings related.

As for mumsnet - despite being on benefits, I can say I have never posted on there or even registered, they are certainly not my sort of person, think I am much too posh for them :rotfl:and I find the Jeremy Kyle show all rather distasteful, who on earth wants to wash their dirty linen in public! I would be mortified to know anyone on there!

neverdespairgirl

purch wrote: »

Unfortunately the first words SS heard his mother speak are unrepeatable on a NP thread :eek:

S'OK, they can apparently hear the mother's voice well before birth, so he'd heard other words first (-:

I was a bit worried when the doctor suppressed a swear word as he lifted Isaac up for the first time, but it turned out that he'd been peed on, rather than a problem with the baby.