Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

so I'd have to stay overnight

If I've remembered correctly and it was anywhere at all near here, you'd be more than welcome to stay at mine for any/ all of such a visit.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok.

I think I have lost my phone.


Should I get another simple brick ( last phones DH got a deal, one was £14 or you could get two for twenty quid, or something like that.

Or




Should I get something that means I could leave macputer at home.

This is technical, but can I link my macputer and an iPhone to 'join up' for info, like my photo bucket account ( it had a fit when I tried to have it on dh's macputer, which it call macpuster). I could Emil from it, could is read on it?

Is it hard to work or as easy as a macputer?

There seems no point in looking at other brands if it can link to macputer and eventually a network with the big daddy system we'll have to not know how to work properly but will make everything easier to do.


I'd take a poll for what I should do if we could have a poll on the thread. Hmm, I wonder if anyone I know has an old iPhone.....

If you can work a mac, you will find an iphone intuitive. That is what we all pay £££ for, not buying into the name but having something that is intuitive to use. The only frustration with an iphone is that the battery power is rubbish, but there are plenty of back-up chargers on the market.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

Trying to explain frustrations of a broken brain is similar. Lack of concentration foR medical reasons for example makes things that are well within intellectual grasp ( like hiring a car) difficult in a way people find hard to conceive. Juggling information does cut work in the way my mind expects it to.

Hearing switching in and out and processing issues plus concentrations make phone calls at times very difficult. ATM concentration levels are very low and I cannot really process what I hear very well, when I am talking face to face with a person its ok, or in writing easier, but RP cannot understand why I cannot phone and book a car. ( have decided that I will probably just drive jalopy and park in the road and take a stick and get a grip with directions, I know the way so just have to not frazzle). Even that's odd, I used to love accidental wrong turns as you found knew things or bits where roads joined up you didn't know,....now its hard.


Reflexes still work, i catch things:rotfl:

Its very difficult to explain things that aren't physical obstructions people can see, and the mind is a complex thing. I have the phrase ' just accept when I say I cannot that I cannot and the reasons to explain might be personal and embarrassing to me and offensive to you' when saying no to a persistent parent. ( my parents are not up to date with diagnoses ) I have said I might have a surgery as a result of this round.

Josh (middle son) has similar issues due to the damage to his brain during delivery. He looks 'normal', he is bright and of course, he is talented in music but people can't quite get their heads around the fact that things that others find very easy, leaves him completely befuddled.

He has the memory of a memory deficient fish and has a learning disability in verbal understanding....yet can also get 100% in a physics assessment. They just see a perfectly normal young man but out of all the boys, he is the one who will struggle to live independently.

SingleSue

Spirit wrote: »

I have just read this out to OH and told him about the 2 mile trip between schools at this time. We both agree this is appalling. Sorry we are not closer to offer some meaningful help.

The outcome has been that I am picking youngest up and driving him to the old build for his exam tomorrow. Not ideal but until they come up with something better, the only way it can be done to try to keep him calm, less anxious and without pain.

Youngest is happy with that, I'm annoyed but not too surprised.

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

We all fight our own battles. Whether you have apparant additional responsibilities is neither here nor there. Each one of us probably has something that wants to consume us.

I'm sorry you were down on your birthday. That's not a great place to be. I've had a few !!!! birthdays recently. I cried on each of my last three, so I know what it feels like. Worried about being a diva or whatever, it's your day, you're allowed to be disappointed for whatever reason, even if you don't know what it is.

Happy Wednesday instead, hey?

It was a momentary wobble. Or a mid-life tantrum. Something like that. That was the first time in ages that I've cried, so it was probably overdue. At least I didn't waste it by only crying at home where there isn't an audience :rotfl:

Feel completely normal (my normal anyway) today

Nikkster

SingleSue wrote: »

not too surprised.

I'd be more surprised if they actually did something they were supposed to!

Hope the exams go well.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

Doozer, if you and DB fancied moving further south, I think we benefit here from the best of both worlds. There are still areas here that compare favourably in price terms with the more expensive areas of the midlands, but they are shooting up.

From here I can pop to London whenever I want, and if I skip over to michaels's train line I can go all the way to Brighton for day trips. But I still benefit from the countryside. Hertfordshire countryside is lovely.

Incidentally, I work with "real" Portuguese and Spanish people, who say that they love their countries but there's no work there.

According to our Spannish guest the Spanish economy remains dire - however he is here to brush up his english and then plans to sell us (Brits) hydraulic machinery parts if anyone is interested.

Mas I did tell you there is a company in Inner Herts who might be interested in your CV.

I have to say Herts is too far from the seas to be ideal.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

... too far from the seas to be ideal.

If the sea's more than a mile away, then a location's not a good 'un

There's something lovely about being near water and watching it.

Nikkster

Well, it's an open offer. You'd be welcome to come and stay for a day at the end of a trip. Or even e.g. to come to stay with me for a few days after you'd got the trip with sibling out of the way. Or come over to stay with me and happen to go out for some day trips.I appreciate that it's easier said than done, but if there are places you'd like to spend time I think it's you should do so even if someone else doesn't want too.

I'm not likely to be moving from here any time soon (so long as I am in employment, anyway ), so please consider it a non-time restricted offer. I'd be delighted to give you the Grand Tour

Miroslav

lostinrates wrote: »

Welcome miroslav

Spirit wrote: »

Hello Miroslav. Welcome.

Do you live in Herts or somewhere else (known as Greater Herts on NP thread)?

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Me too, certain things in life change us for the better

Hello and thanks for the welcomes.

I live in Somerset, not Herts :cool:

Yes, i've had a couple of bereavements (Partner, daughter) that have changed me. I was never a bad person, but i'm now more patient with people.

Sadly, today I had bad news about my own health.