Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

Awww! That is adorable! how incredibly cute!

System

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

My teacher friend has sent me a piece of amber for my birthday with flying ants, a beetle and flies in it! It is fascinating and millions of years old! I keep staring at it through WaSp's microscope and I am not sure whether to say wow! or ewww! They are all perfectly formed and intact. I had always wanted fossils and he had previously sent me a fossilised fish, now I have my amber, too. This is so sweet of him, I really am so touched, he doesn't have to send me anything!

(I also feel bad because they are dead but I am refusing to feel guilty about things that died millions of years ago. They are making me happy now so they still mean something to someone! I'll shut up).

ETA it is 25 million years old!

There used to be a shop where i went on holiday that sold amber, i was always fascinated by it, its amazing to think there are little pieces of life contained it it from millions of years ago

Waves_and_Smiles

It really is amazing, MU! There are quite a collection of different insects in this piece, you can see their tiny wings! Hard to grasp how old they really are!

tea_lover

It's fascinating stuff isn't it, glad you're enjoying your pressie

I think carers are one of the most underpaid and under-appreciated jobs out there. We've had a lot of experience of them over the last few years (both at home and in a nursing home setting) and the amount they're expected to do, for the money they get, is just appalling. It says a lot about society that we (a general we, not the good people of this thread) just don't value that work, but will pay ridiculous money to all the layers of middle-management dragging the NHS down.

*sheepishly gets off soapbox*

Waves_and_Smiles

Oh, I agree tea. My carer has 10 minutes to get from one side of the town to the other which is ridiculous, the traffic is horrendous around here for a start. She says she she always starts out on time but is invariably late by the end of the day. If people report her for that she gets into trouble, some carers get dropped from the agency when there is no chance of her travelling to every client within 10 minutes. Even by skipping her 15 minute lunch she still ends up late. It isn't a job I envy at all and it must take a special type of person.

dibuzz

When a new care home near here was advertising for staff they were offering carers minimum wage but £2 more for jobs in the laundry

dibuzz

Looks like you are all having a better night than me, went to sleep at 12 and wide awake at 1

Pyxis

Hi Dibuzz!
Please remind me, have you had one of those wired-up sleep monitoring things done? Or been to a sleep clinic where you stay overnight to be monitored?

whitewing

Treatment resistant depression:

http://inhealth.cnn.com/finding-the-best-depression-treatment/getting-help-for-treatment-resistant-depression?did=t1_atftxt&hpt=us_c2

dibuzz

Pyxis wrote: »

Hi Dibuzz!
Please remind me, have you had one of those wired-up sleep monitoring things done? Or been to a sleep clinic where you stay overnight to be monitored?

No I haven't Pyxis.
Staying overnight somewhere would make me so anxious I would be even worse.