A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

Arthien

Thriftygifty wrote: »

Is anyone good with IT stuff, I would like to buy an external hardrive are they all about the same or are some better than others? We have loads of photos and excel docs etc.

Theres a Toshiba one on Mr T's for £50 its 1TB

Some people would say certain ones are better than others, but I've never noticed a difference. I wouldn't rely on an external hard drive though personally, mine and those of several family members have all started deteriorating after a couple of years, and not even from overuse. Mine is now very temperamental on whether it feels like connecting to the PC or not, so I'd recommend one or two different cloud storage options as well as external hard drives and possibly even keeping a couple of disk copies of docs and photos that you'd hate to lose.

fairclaire

davemorton wrote: »

I got
Selflessly Caring

You care deeply and selflessly. When you truly care for someone, you make them an important part of you. You stay with them through their sorrows and heal their pains. No one can even say they protect and care as much as you for someone whom you love. Your loved ones never forget you and they always keep you in their hearts!

:A

I got

Exceptionally Big-Hearted

You have a big heart. When someone close to you is down, you never leave their side. You stand with them through their thickest and thinest moments. You've always been the truest friend and the most phenomenal companion. Even in times of pain and grief your love never ceases. It only increases.

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

I'm going to update M lists, and I'm reverting back to the old 'bold' showing items newly onto the list. Be aware that these won't work immediately, if they ever do, as needs time to get into the price comparison systems. Doesn't imply that even the 'carryovers' will work, we know how these guarantees are no guarantee;):rotfl::(.

Nice to see you back to your normal self Savvy :A

Glitch_Grabber

Arthien wrote: »

Some people would say certain ones are better than others, but I've never noticed a difference. I wouldn't rely on an external hard drive though personally, mine and those of several family members have all started deteriorating after a couple of years, and not even from overuse. Mine is now very temperamental on whether it feels like connecting to the PC or not, so I'd recommend one or two different cloud storage options as well as external hard drives and possibly even keeping a couple of disk copies of docs and photos that you'd hate to lose.

Anything except Maxtor...or so it was before they were taken over.
Terrible drives!

Search about, supermarkets are expensive! You can get 2TB for around £50

Thriftygifty

Arthien wrote: »

Some people would say certain ones are better than others, but I've never noticed a difference. I wouldn't rely on an external hard drive though personally, mine and those of several family members have all started deteriorating after a couple of years, and not even from overuse. Mine is now very temperamental on whether it feels like connecting to the PC or not, so I'd recommend one or two different cloud storage options as well as external hard drives and possibly even keeping a couple of disk copies of docs and photos that you'd hate to lose.

Thanks for your advise thats a good idea, We have so many photos, ideally I would like to get the main ones printed but it's going to work out alot of money! I think the virus scare made me think it's time to sort it out as we are being so silly and could loose alot of important stuff.

SpiralingDown

fairclaire wrote: »

Thanks SD :A We have sorted out a 'timetable' for schooling for the next few weeks. His school are going to fax/email me what I need. Have to say Im not a great advocate of home schooling but it's only for a few weeks.
I get the impression that, like DS2, he enjoys routine although maybe not so rigidly? I don't think he's had much for a while though. So my timetable should work out just fine

I don't think I could homeschool DS. My friend home schools her kids, she decided on it after discovering her eldest was severely autistic. She has just had number 5, 4 boys and 1 girl, she loves every minute of it. I think the flexibility is what she enjoys, they used to go to lots of doc appointments and not get much notice so it helped them be able to drop things and just go without having to explain to school/nursery. They are signed up to a holiday house swap thing so go on holiday several times a year, not including visits to her DH's family in the states.
I must admit I sometimes feel a bit jealous but then I think about having DS under my feet even more than he is and I'm glad he goes to school :rotfl:

SpiralingDown

fairclaire wrote: »

I got

Exceptionally Big-Hearted

You have a big heart. When someone close to you is down, you never leave their side. You stand with them through their thickest and thinest moments. You've always been the truest friend and the most phenomenal companion. Even in times of pain and grief your love never ceases. It only increases.

Sounds like you to a T.

fairclaire

SpiralingDown wrote: »

I don't think I could homeschool DS. My friend home schools her kids, she decided on it after discovering her eldest was severely autistic. She has just had number 5, 4 boys and 1 girl, she loves every minute of it. I think the flexibility is what she enjoys, they used to go to lots of doc appointments and not get much notice so it helped them be able to drop things and just go without having to explain to school/nursery. They are signed up to a holiday house swap thing so go on holiday several times a year, not including visits to her DH's family in the states.
I must admit I sometimes feel a bit jealous but then I think about having DS under my feet even more than he is and I'm glad he goes to school :rotfl:

As I said, not for me. That's not to say I don't appreciate that it works for some people. I just think that most kids need the social side of school. And it's very true what you say, we need our time away from them as much as they need it away from us!!

My new guest has absolutely no sense of humour though :eek: he's very serious and dead pan, bless him. DS2 doesn't always get 'our' humour, but he has his own brand of humour. This lad takes EVERYTHING literally!! So no silly jokes

DS2 got very tickled over a bottle of head & shoulders intense 'for tough flakes' tonight ......he said the term 'tough flakes' made him think of cadburys flakes that had been in the freezer :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

And... M lists are updated!! I've reverted back to the old 'bold' showing items newly onto the list. Be aware that these won't work immediately, if they ever do, as needs time to get into the price comparison systems. Doesn't imply that even the 'carryovers' will work, we know how these guarantees are no guarantee;):rotfl::(.

McVities Jaffa Cakes 12 pack are now £1.19:eek: in M, but packs twice the size (namely the McVities Jaffa Cakes (24)) are £1.00. But not putting that on the list as S/P is notionally cheaper. McVities 24 showing OOS in A so may be Tvs M, not that I ever would.

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

As I said, not for me. That's not to say I don't appreciate that it works for some people. I just think that most kids need the social side of school. And it's very true what you say, we need our time away from them as much as they need it away from us!!

My new guest has absolutely no sense of humour though :eek: he's very serious and dead pan, bless him. DS2 doesn't always get 'our' humour, but he has his own brand of humour. This lad takes EVERYTHING literally!! So no silly jokes

DS2 got very tickled over a bottle of head & shoulders intense 'for tough flakes' tonight ......he said the term 'tough flakes' made him think of cadburys flakes that had been in the freezer :rotfl:

Does he take everything literally (wonder if you yourself literally mean everything there?*), even after knowing that sometimes things are not met to be taken literally and therefore making due allowance/correction for that via his own intellect? Or does he not even have the ability/memory to retain that sometimes things aren't meant literally?

Myself - whilst my 'default' position is the literal meaning of words, and I tend to go less to the overall 'context' sometimes, I think that really I 'know' when people are being literal and when not. At least, I mean 'know', to the extent that I suspect it's a guess for the 'normal' person, as no-one but the person who said something really knows what they actually meant (and sometimes they haven't even thought about what they meant or said something different than what they meant because they did not give thought to the matter or its significance in advance - unlike Aspergerese: "a careful consideration of what to say and how to say it" (T Attwood, Complete Guide to AS)).

I think it's the intuition that is missing slightly (or more than slightly, depending on extent of autism etc.) but the intellect can process what, allegedly, comes intuitive to most people.

With me, I was forever reading the dictionary (not from start to finish, but just you know different definitions, at random here, whatever I wanted to read there) so that I knew the meaning of turns of phrase etc. and was never in any doubt that they were not literally meant. So I can deal with figures of speech as I have a knowledge, probably an enhanced knowledge, of those comparable to most people - I have a great vocabulary of words that probably surpasses the average person (as the average person did not read the dictionary loads, and sometimes I forget that actually 80% of the people at my school were in lower streams and, therefore, I'm in my ivory tower of superior knowledge:p:D:rotfl::rotfl: - no, I don't mean it like that!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - to most people).

Figures of speech are fine - I know what they (most of them) mean, if encountered before etc. (as is extremely likely as I am very likely to have seen them defined in the dictionary or in phrase books). But individual words, in order to interpret sentences in an academic way, sometimes I pick up individual words and take them, first, literally and then see 97 other possible interpretations (not literally that number of course:D) that, I very much suspect, never occur to many people. I often see literal meaning etc. when :rotfl:analysing the claims of organisations, in particular grocery chains that advertise certain things in relation to their products and price promise schemes. "Morries is cheaper". Cheaper than what?:p What does the word "cheaper" mean:think::think:? (Rhetorical!)


* [Edit: I now note you have capitalised it - presumably you did mean it literally as you meant to stress it in such a sense?:think::rotfl: - lol, there's me now trying to figure out whether you meant that as literal or not, having gone to my first 'default' position that you did and then thinking and thinking it far more than many other people would.]