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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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lemonjelly wrote: »Surveyors report has arrived, & just been read for the first time.
What edited highlights should I post (in t'other place, of course...;) )
Scan it all in?
I'd definitely like to read the lot! Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl wrote: »
If anyone sees any used block paving near me, let me
know!
Yeah, no problem. As you know, I keep my finger on the pulse in these matters.....
http://www.reclaimedbricks.net/uk/westmidlands/bricks/reclaimed-salvaged/forsale.html
Actually, I don't really know where you are, except "oop North" - and yes, to us in the South, you ARE oop North, whether you like it or not 0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Yeah, no problem. As you know, I keep my finger on the pulse in these matters.....
http://www.reclaimedbricks.net/uk/westmidlands/bricks/reclaimed-salvaged/forsale.html
Actually, I don't really know where you are, except "oop North" - and yes, to us in the South, you ARE oop North, whether you like it or not
Let's face it, Welwyn Garden City and Leeds are effectively exactly the same thing.
It's a bit like Australia and New Zealand. Yes in theory they are different countries but as far as the rest of the world is concerned they are only places to get 2 spots in the rugby world cup.0 -
We're all over the place this weekend. Not getting anything finished but a lot of things started. Very annoying.
My joints are all swollen so I'm a bit of deadweight this morning, but we're going to try marking out some more garden because its something DH can do alone with me just sitting and 'offering helpful advice '
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Everything and I mean everything, is up in the air as they have just moved to the new build, so goodness only knows what is happening with his support...at the moment, it appears his friends are doing the supporting and the making sure he is ok.
His friends are great actually, they stick to him like glue and look out for him in a way that he doesn't realise they are doing it so he doesn't feel different. They have all changed their routine to eating from the swanky new outside cafe like thing they have at the new build instead of the main canteen/cafe inside as youngest cannot cope with the Atrium (the area where the inside dining area is) but they have made him feel like they all prefer it rather than them looking out for him and protecting him.
His exams start next week and despite me trying to sort out arrangements since late last year and asking what was happening before the move (they didn't have a clue when I asked before Easter), apparently it's all change again from the expected plan of year 11 doing lessons and exams at the old build to year 11 doing exams in the old build and lessons in the new build...and they have somehow conveniently forgotten about the travel arrangements again!
This is no short walk between the old and new buildings, we are talking approx 2 miles so they will either be walking, sitting an exam or in a lesson with no time to rest or eat and backwards and forwards all day but this is not the biggest issue....the biggest issue is that youngest doesn't go anywhere on his own and not all the exams will have his friends there! Coupled with that is his EDS/HMS and asthma, he physically cannot walk the two miles AND do an exam, he will be in too much pain or completely wiped out.
His head of year was supposed to ring me yesterday with what is planned, despite two reminders, no phone call was forthcoming.
Sue, that's appalling. Absolutely and unequivocally unacceptable. It's been dreadful that they've done things like this about his lessons, but they simply must not be allowed to disrupt his public exams like this. (Actually, they also shouldn't be making any of Y11 walk 2 miles in a hurry to do GCSEs without food or rest. What are they thinking????) :mad::mad::mad:
Can you contact that nice person (?from the council?) who was so shocked when he said in that meeting that stuff wasn't happening? Can you go into school and refuse to leave until they speak to you? If I lived over your side of the country I would come with you to back you up.
Lovely that his friends are being so great, though. 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 -
lostinrates wrote: »We're all over the place this weekend. Not getting anything finished but a lot of things started. Very annoying.
My joints are all swollen so I'm a bit of deadweight this morning, but we're going to try marking out some more garden because its something DH can do alone with me just sitting and 'offering helpful advice ' .
to the swollen joints.
Hope you get lovely weather for directing fir around the garden. 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 -
lostinrates wrote: »...me just sitting and 'offering helpful advice ' .
That'd be the limit of my gardening ability ...0 -
Although presumably the riding only lightens the bits that are long enough to come out below the helmet???
Don't worry - sisters never ride without proper helmets. But there's a lot of ourdoors stuff involved in horses (particularly in the summer) which doesn't involve actually being on one, and sister #2 does quite a lot of her chiropractic work outside, too.PasturesNew wrote: »
Marvellous. Want to drive 600 miles to go on holiday ..... get in, curl up and go to sleep, wake up at your destination
Welcome to that wonderful Victorian invention - the sleeper train!vivatifosi wrote: »Not alone... CK knows too. Just proves that in NP terms the Eurovision is beloved by us Hertfordshire types (just waiting for michaels to come along and shout "oh no it isn't!")
"Beloved" wouldn't be quite the term I'd choose for myself.....HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »At the risk of verging dangerously towards being on-topic for the board, has anyone else noticed ebay bargains are getting harder to find?
Keep getting outbid on stuff. Doing my head in at the moment!!!
Damn you George Osborne and your pesky economic recovery. :mad:
I've only ever used ebay for quite specific things, such as unusual books, maps, etc, and not that often, either. I've not noticed any real change there.
I also buy some unstrung loose pearl strands, but I have a pretty good idea what I'm looking for and looking at. I'd only buy freshwater pearls from there, too, not so-called seawater ones (so-called, because I reckon 95% of them on ebay aren't seawater at all).HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »And.... I've just realised both why I couldn't find the shoes Mrs McT wanted without paying well over the odds, and why she wanted them so badly.
You are a bad influence, Kylie Minogue.
Must be getting old.... Had never seen or heard of that video until tonight.:(
Obviously I'm not a bloke, and not the target audience - I find that not remotely sexy, but very, very funny....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 -
I know there's one to Penzance..... but they don't go everywhere. In fact, even trains don't go everywhere.neverdespairgirl wrote: »
Welcome to that wonderful Victorian invention - the sleeper train!
Door to door car sleepers - where you can load up the boot with all your random holiday stuff'd be great.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I know there's one to Penzance..... but they don't go everywhere. In fact, even trains don't go everywhere.
Door to door car sleepers - where you can load up the boot with all your random holiday stuff'd be great.
One of my magical childhood memories is going on the sleeper train from northern France to northern Italy - I don't know if you can still do it, but we drove to the ferry, then to the sleeper train near Calais, put the car on the train, and woke up going through the Alps. Absolutely amazingly good fun.lostinrates wrote: »we're going to try marking out some more garden because its something DH can do alone with me just sitting and 'offering helpful advice ' .
In a fit of "sorting stuff out before baby comes" we're unpacking the last 4 boxes that have sat around gathering dust since we moved in here in December 2011. I'm good at doing the helpful advice thing, too!
We've found the DVD player, which means we can't have watched a DVD on a screen bigger than 4 x 4 inches since we packed up the old flat.......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
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