Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

GDB2222

I guess that house construction is exactly what you need around 360 days a year?

neverdespairgirl

Danny grabbed his foot with one hand as I was changing him this morning.

He appeared to be wondering two things - "what is this thing I've caught?"

and "OUCH! something hurt my foot!"

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I hope you get used to handling two different children at once, it still feels a learning curve ATM.

Yes. Well, it gets marginally easier, and you massively drop your standards to be more realistic about how much attention each child can have how much of the time.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I think both are pretty common, anyway - the mohel who did Isaac, and is lined up for Danny, is a GP and uses local anaesthetic.

Good. Local anaesthetics have come a long way since I was little. A while ago DD had to have blood taken for a test. The local anaesthetic was so effective that she didn't even know it had started and was very surprised to be told it was all over. (She was being distracted by a book held so that she couldn't see what was happening to her arm.)

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Danny grabbed his foot with one hand as I was changing him this morning.

He appeared to be wondering two things - "what is this thing I've caught?"

and "OUCH! something hurt my foot!"

Oh lovely! So many things for him to learn. Once he's a little older, Isaac can start teaching him things, too.

Doozergirl

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Danny grabbed his foot with one hand as I was changing him this morning.

He appeared to be wondering two things - "what is this thing I've caught?"

and "OUCH! something hurt my foot!"

That reminds me of this dog
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2O15DXv3Vwg

Doozergirl

That's such a sweet thing for the girl to say, Gen!

It was glorious here at 7am. I put my girl in to her summer dress. It got a bit cloudy before she left for school but I thought it was a blip. Then it rained. The sky is now black and I can hear thunder. The weather is really frustrating at the moment, it holds everything up.

michaels

Has anyone heard from Mas recently?

Had to bring raincoat today even though it is very warm as the forecast for later is dire. DKs spent 4 hours in the pool yesterday afternoon, I was too busy to get more than 10 minutes on the recliner.

Thinking of trying to sell the rented house for 3 weeks at inflated agent valuation then appealing if that fails although I am still half convinced that another application might be worthwhile. Time limits men we can't do both.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

I guess that house construction is exactly what you need around 360 days a year?

Pretty much.

We're not having much of a winter this year but usually winter lasts about 6 weeks.

Winter in Sydney means a daytime temperature of perhaps 15-20C (15C if it's raining, 20C if it's sunny) and a night temperature of 5-12C with a frost once every few years (say 2C). It 'never' gets below 0C in Sydney.

Today is a typical wet winter day: it got up to 15C in the day and will get down to 10C tonight.

The annoying things with the utter lack of insulation is that you pay far higher air con bills than necessary in the summer: if the hot air can get out it can get in! I try to acclimatise rather than use air con but at night when it's been 40+ all day and it's still 25C at midnight you need the air con to get to sleep.

You know that thing in a British winter when your bones get cold and you simply need to sit in front of a fire for an hour to get the warmth back into your system? Well the reverse is true in an Aussie summer: sometimes you need to sit in a cold room and have a cold drink and get the coolth back into your system. The offies over here have a cold room where you can pick up a slab of 24 beers that are cold. The rooms are about 2C. On a really hot day I've been known to take the kids into the bottle shop and stand in the cold room for a few minutes.

Aussie houses are starting to be built much better now: insulation and thermal glass is on the list of extras if you have a house built and you can buy double glazing if you want (and can afford it). The existing housing stock is poor. A 40 year old house, unless built to a very high spec, is likely to be made from a wooden frame clad with pressed asbestos sheets about 3/4" thick with windows made of something like picture glass. It'll be set up on short brick pillars so the air can get under the house. Those things are freezing in winter and like an oven in summer.

I feel sorry for the Kiwis. Their houses are built in exactly the same way as the Aussies' but the climate is rather like the UK's. Ditto Tasmania.

Generali

I've been listening to Mozart to try to calm the over tired Generalissimos down before bed. I love Mozart.

The 16th Sonata is one to calm the soul.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sonata no 16 C major

Spirit_2

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Danny grabbed his foot with one hand as I was changing him this morning.

He appeared to be wondering two things - "what is this thing I've caught?"

and "OUCH! something hurt my foot!"

Such a clever boy. Well done Danny.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

yes, that's my mud problem. We have the 'jetty' of block paving across the worst of it now. It was right up to the front door.

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Hopefully you will feel happier now that you have "access".

On your 'paint' decision..I thought about it overnight...

We used to live in a half rendered/half sandstone house. The garden walls at the front were rendered. All was painted in the same cream colour. It was light and 'mediterranean" in its look. It was 20 years ago, so before the vogue for painting things in the garden blue etc.


Had there been a "feature wall" in something vivid it may well have put me off looking. It seems such a statement and I would be thinking "how easy will it be to cover that up". From what you have posted before I got a sense that you want to move..and this is your area of expertise not mine, so just a 'punter's view' from me.