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ourcornercottage

have you had the tiles checked, not all asbestos is the same and sometimes it doesn't cost ££££'s to be taken away.

Haven't been keeping up with diaries so apologies if you already have!

edinburgher

I haven't checked OCC. Probably should, surveyor assumed asbestos in the house as well and there was none.

PositiveBalance

edinburgher wrote: »

I haven't checked OCC. Probably should, surveyor assumed asbestos in the house as well and there was none.

Please do, Ed: I know someone who died of asbestosis years after exposure and it was excruciating.

It's not worth it, however much it may cost.

Chances are if you get it checked that you won't need to get anything done, but the peace of mind will be invaluable to you all.

edinburgher

£5.84 to EF (at 71.56% of target).

Neck aching, glossed so much that I'm on my 3rd 50m roll of masking tape :eek:

edinburgher

Facepalm!

MIL felt 'told off' after I very politely (practically begged her) to try and encourage DD to take a morning nap, even if she resists. DD has been unwell for a few weeks and is sleeping very badly - I'd say we've have 2 decent nights' sleep in 5-6 weeks (no uninterrupted nights). MIL will not put her to bed unless she is literally falling asleep on her feet, which we don't think helps with any sort of structure to the day. Not really sure what we can do, was passing on concerns about lack of sleep made by her daughter, but messenger has been shot unceremoniously! :eek:

Do nurseries have facilities for children to nap?

Got all my glossing finished bar a coat to the woodwork on our upstairs landing, so decorating is now 75% finished. Need to pick up some sort of cheap powered saw today from Scr3wfix to cut up some outsized wardrobes for the small skip that we have arriving. I would have borrowed one from FIL, but relations feeling a little strained at the moment, we're probably seeing each other all a little too much. I would dearly love it if my parents could help out with the occasional small stint of babysitting, but they're very good at avoiding it. Worried that DD's village may be too small if she never sees my folks...

Skip should be arriving shortly, not entirely sure where they will be able to place it on our BMW-congested street, 1st world problems :rotfl:

£1,250 of credit card bills have left me a little glum, but I knew they were coming. I actually managed to go overdrawn for the first time in about a year. Luckily I caught it within an hour or so, money transferred from savings to undo the damage.

FIT reading submitted, it has been our best quarter yet (as expected), but all things considered, a very dull and disappointing summer. 874 kWh, which should be £130, give or take. Suppose I could do the magic pension trick and turn that £130 into £162.50! :j It's a fairly small installation, so perhaps my expectations are unrealistic. As things stand currently, it will pay for itself in 9.12 years based on FITs alone, 4.x years if we include the savings from reduced electricity bills. As always, hard to tell which is which, because your good behaviours re. saving power tighten up when you get solar panels fitted.

£0.65 OPed.

gallygirl

AlexLK wrote: »

:rotfl: Thought you were "Bodge It and Flog It"? Or do you just subject your poor tenants to your dodge DIY.

Actually it tends to be 'Bodge it & live in it' so I am definitely the one who suffers :rotfl:

Going back to an earlier convo re Latin, I had the chance for 121 lessons but chose to do chemistry instead......... Because I didn't want 121 lessons......... "smacks younger self hard round head". Mr GG did a few years of it and it definitely has helped him with Spanish - with the structure of language as much as anything. I can honestly say O level chemistry has not helped me with language learning, or anything else for that matter. Apart from answering a question on University Challenge on the Bessemer process in steel making. Which I knew the answer to as I got sent to the same corner every lesson for talking in class and there was a large poster about steel making on the wall. I learnt it by heart and answered a question in the exam on it, complete with diagrams . Still only got a C grade so fairly confident talking in class got me a pass :rotfl:.

turtlemoose

I would say it'll be down to the individual provider - I viewed loads of nurseries before deciding. They all had *somewhere* but provision was different in each. I didn't like the one that had rows and rows of cots, looked like a room of mini prisons The nursery I ended up with had a mixture of options for the kids to choose, for the older ones (ie no longer needing a flat bare sleep surface) they had bouncy chairs, big bean bags, enormous cushions, a covered over 'den' type structure, or if they were in the under 2 rooms sometimes they slept in the nursery worker's arms if that's what the child needed. Ask around and see what suits your child's nap needs

edinburgher

Haha - nap needs! Go to !!!!ing sleep! :rotfl:

Oh wait, that's my nap needs

edinburgher

Skip arrived, didn't need permit, wasted £50 What can you do, I did ask before hiring, but literally got the new guy on the phone. Doubt I'll have any respite, I'd visualised the skip being bigger, so thought it wouldn't fit on (sloping) drive. Never mind, it's here now, will have a garage back by the end of the weekend.

earthgirl

Do nurseries have facilities for children to nap?

Yes, all that I have come across do and they will accomodate parents wishes for naps as far as possible. I only came across one that said 'nap time is after lunch'.

I have issues with the care provided by grandparents, so I feel your pain! I try to provide solutions or compromise if I can, which works sometimes. I have hardened myself to their critisism of me and my 'requests' as they are my children and I don't care what they think of me. However, I am not paying them, so I understand the kids have to fit around them. This year they are only having the kids for a hour or so at a time, maybe once a week. Good luck with yours!