Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

5 exams and 50 miles down (50 miles of school/exam runs since Tuesday mid morning, in reality, it is much more as he had exams last Thursday, Monday and first thing Tuesday morning!).....too many to count to go.

Day off from the exam running around today, just the nice simple drop off (talk to school), collection run of the mill day.

He is coping ok at the moment apart from being very very tired, although he did have a stressy outburst on Tuesday night.

Bear in mind that a lot of kids have stressy outbursts at exam time.

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

The question of whether you get the statutory bereavement bit for losing your spouse

What is a statutory bereavement bit (I guess this is something no one knows about unless they are directly affected or a personal injury lawyer)

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

Glad you and he are managing so far, Sue.

Are you going to have a problem affording all the petrol? Because if so I'll chip in to help, and maybe some other NP will too.

Happy to help.

zagubov

Doozergirl wrote: »

When I was a child, from our hill, St Helier stood out in the distance, not far from the horizon as a huge, shining white collection of buildings, completely in contrast to everything else.

I thought it was a princess castle for a very long time. I went there to visit someone when I was 18, maybe. Not a princess castle but bulky, with dirty, flaking, greying paint. Please tell me it changed.

I'm not a very convincing liar.:o

When I get visitors I take them to a nearby park and let them see central London in the distance (we're quite high up). St Helier's is visible on the skyline and Crystal Palace transmitter. Usually a lot of buildings in west London and sometimes Canary Wharf

PasturesNew

When I was a child I lived in the Fens.... flat as a pancake
All you can see is the horizon.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

What is a statutory bereavement bit (I guess this is something no one knows about unless they are directly affected or a personal injury lawyer)

I'm guessing standard widow's pension and associated (aka complex) benefits, applicable by death and age and date.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I was a child I lived in the Fens.... flat as a pancake
All you can see is the horizon.

I used to live somewhere Nikkster knows. The only landmark you could see was an R101 (airship) hangar. Did a book company take that over as a storage depot? I may have heard this wrong.

I used to go gliding in that area . No hills at all for miles and miles.

chewmylegoff

bugslet wrote: »

The more I hear hospital tales from down South, the more I think there is a definite North South divide, but in the North's favour.

When Mr Bugs had to be rushed into hospital one evening mid week, he had a four room bay to himself, three or four people popping by in the hour I was there, to check the heart, ask questions, take bloods. Then smoothly whisked away to a ward. Very reassuring.

Don't think I'll pop over there on a Friday night though, to check if it's the same:eek:.

Good to hear that you sound brighter masomnia.

Today will be spent mostly trying to get some cargo to France; it's only been 6 weeks of trying and being knocked back - it's getting very dispiriting. It's normally easy, but one of the peculiarities of our freight, is the numerous restrictions, licenses and permits that are involved, along with not being able to go direct. I'll never get paid for all the work that's gone into the failed attempts either:(.

I have been in a&e twice on Friday nights. #1 cos of fainting in the work gym showers and cutting my face open when I collapsed. I was rushed to hospital, attended to promptly and then left on a trolley in a corridor from about 7pm until midnight when I finally managed to get them to stitch up my face wound and then I discharged myself... #2 was my own fault as I got mugged when drunk and needed some more stitches in my face. I sat in a cubicle from about 3am until 9am when they decided I had sobered up enough to have a local anaesthetic. I am sure they were delighted by my requests every 15 minutes to just stitch me up without a local.

However, they weren't particularly busy at that time and the nurses spent most of the time playing cards. So if you want to be seen promptly, turn up (sober) at 4am.

lostinrates

I had an appointment pencilled in for first week of June, ( that's not long right?) with new New consultant. He's had the letter from last new guy and says I must not wait till then, so I am going in on Wednesday for next prodding and 'look at the rare woman' session.

I feel better that its being rushed, weirdly, because that means me feeling a bit odd is not so 'odd' .

The unusal thing is I am not in much pain at all ATM. . So if I have this thing maybe its trumped the other thing, that would make me just 'rare' not 'freakish' so that would be better as there is a much clearer treatment protocol.

bugslet

That, lir, is sthe definition of putting a positive spin on things! But rare sounds better than freakish to me. And if it helps speed appointments along, even better.