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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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I don't want to need to meet her, if he doesn't want me to.
I don't know whether he is concerned how we will behave or whether he thinks our home may appear a bit OTT to her, so he wanted to see her home first. He keeps telling me she is very unassuming.
Hope you are able to get him to talk at least a little bit about what he wants and doesn't want.
I remember my mother telling me how nervous she felt about meeting LNE's parents for the first time - which was during our engagement. She said, "What will they think of us? I mean, they're probably normal!"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.
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PasturesNew wrote: »I think my sibling's inlaws only met my parents once or twice. Maybe before the wedding, maybe at the wedding; then maybe one more time.
They were posher than us - and for Xmas for maybe 10 years they'd send us a tin of M&S biscuits... oh the utter luxury. We LOVED getting those biscuits.... it was one of the things we really looked forward to.... then, one year they changed the gift
Never got those biscuits again.
What did the gift change too?0 -
grr - phone has decided to go so slow as to be effectively not working - a factory reset will probably fix it but I want to back it up first...whih I can't cos it is going too slow. If it were a PC you would swear it had a virus.I think....0
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Grrrr here too.
After receiving some helpful advice from a Nice Person by PM, I finally decided that yes, I probably should switch to google calendar etc. Except now I find out that it the google calendar app for Android isn't compatible with my phone.
?????? This is an Android. It's supposed to be all google-minded. I got it new last summer. The Google calendar app has been around a lot longer than that. Why isn't it compatible?
So I have just been through the next lots of months of the calendars on my laptop and phone and manually typed in anything that wasn't on both of them. Except the birthdays, because there are so many of them, and the annoying bug-filled sync software has deleted nearly but not quite all of them from the phone. I will probably end up getting a new phone when I get my compensation money (in about a month or 6 weeks from now).
Also, I find that when I follow the instructions for exporting my Outlook calendar to a file so as to import it into Google calendar, nothing happens. So I will go into work on Tuesday and get a nice ICT support person to help me, I think. At least they won't have a queue of students wanting help because it's half term. Just have to hope they're not all too busy doing a complete re-install of some major system.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 -
Umm there are lots of calandar apps you can install that sync with google calendar. I don't know anything about copying from outlook to google tho.I think....0
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Am watching the BBC2 comedy programme (last 50 years etc). They've done double acts and are now onto catchphrases. It's quite fun, particularly after a second glass of wine
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I am only telling you because I wish someone had told me:o I am sure I have been ghastly. Sounded nosy and rude.See I'm failing already. 1 out 3 but asked in a very casual way. No offence taken I think.
All good advice, thank you.
Not asking works both ways from a peace of mind perspective. You may find you feel you fall a long way short of measuring up to the other family on some level. Comparing and do dynastic genetic breeding forecasts may make a 'good match' from your perspective but not from theirs. Best let the young folks just get on with it.
We have had (in no particular order):
Divorced parents one a teacher the other severe long term mental health problems and made a fair demand on the bf
An accountant and SAHM who lived in a property mentioned in the domesday book and on ancient maps of Hampshire
A senior cleric in the C of E with church home to match
A former equerry who went on to head a chunk of the armed services and a former lady in waiting to a senior royal
On the genetic front our DD and long term bf had the potential to create brilliant or duff offspring . Her dyspraxia could have wiped out his fine motor skills, coordination and gift for sums. Or her language talents and his qualities combined would have created the grandchild equivalent of Red Rum or Desert Orchid.
With the ex that is still around they would have created someone who like horses..or never produced at all, but had horses.
As I said..best let them get on with it, never say anything to them about it and keep your thoughts to yourself or the NP thread. Any doubts about what to say LiR and Nikkster are fabulous at reinforcing my need to keep schtum . This is a fabulous outlet for getting the ghastly mother bf/gf stuff out without doing any actual harm.0 -
What do you mean, Spirit? I hope I don't say anything that makes you feel like a bad parent because I don't think anything of the sort!
On a different note, how are you feeling this evening?0
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