Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

PN you missed the cunning part with the visa prepay cards. This lets you 'spend' money to get credit card cashback or petrol vouchers but what you are buying is as good as cash that you can pay straight back onto the credit card thus getting the benefits for nothing...

So you get a card. Load it with money. Go shopping. Use the card to pay ..... then it lost me.

PasturesNew

In my day we had to take addressed/stamped envelopes to the school office and results were posted to us. No turning up.... and there was nothing in the papers.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

DW asked me to check on temperament. Has either of them bitten the postman?

Mother bites every one eventually. Just when they believe she loves them the most.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just found that thread.... they seem to (occasionally) post up their receipt/results.

First one I found declared a saving of £12 on a £30 shop. But one item was 2 x John Frieda Frizz Ease Nourishing Oil Elixir (100m... £19.98 £12.00

So ... that was £8 of this mythical saving .... and a thing I've [a] never bought at £6 each will never buy

To be honest, I didn't even know such expensive "things you stick in your hair" existed/were used. I use a frizz-ease type of stuff, sometimes ... costs me about £1 in a Poundland when I randomly discover it. Bought the last one 4-5 years ago.

She also "saved" when she bought two tubs of £3.25 marg for £2. Well, I buy the Lidl Butterly stuff at about 75p.... and then only 4 tubs/year.

Buy frizz ease ( extra strength ) for me and I'll reimburse you when we meet if it saves you money.

lostinrates

Wheezy wrote: »

:rotfl:

When it's time for westie's evening meal, we say 'dinner time!' and then he runs to his bowl and pokes his nose in it as to say "put it here! put it here!"

The girls watch me make supper, kiwi lies in bed pretending not to care.

Dog dog gets her's first ( slowest eater). Big dog and kiwi have to sit/ stay for theirs. Such a mean person I am.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

In my day we had to take addressed/stamped envelopes to the school office and results were posted to us. No turning up.... and there was nothing in the papers.

It was like that for me too. And none of this coordinated "everything on the same day" lark either. For O-level We had to have two envelopes because one of our subjects was a different exam board from the rest and came on a different day. All my A-levels were the same board, so only one envelope that time.

In those days there would have been nothing for the papers to say. O and A-levels were norm-referenced - ie the top x% got A, the next y% got B and so on. If the proportion of students getting each grade is fixed, then you can't have headlines about "higher/lower % of students getting top grade" etc.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

It was like that for me too. And none of this coordinated "everything on the same day" lark either. For O-level We had to have two envelopes because one of our subjects was a different exam board from the rest and came on a different day. All my A-levels were the same board, so only one envelope that time.

In those days there would have been nothing for the papers to say. O and A-levels were norm-referenced - ie the top x% got A, the next y% got B and so on. If the proportion of students getting each grade is fixed, then you can't have headlines about "higher/lower % of students getting top grade" etc.

Yes, more than one envelope as it was different exam bodies... also O Levels and CSEs. Some subjects were not available in O level, so there was stuff that could only be a CSE (e.g. Typewriting, Office Practice) ....

I didn't do A levels at school, but, yes, in those days it was a fixed %age that got each grade, so the %age couldn't increase.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Big dog and kiwi have to sit/ stay for theirs. Such a mean person I am.

I'd sit/stay if somebody made me dinners.... still the easiest end of the deal

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd sit/stay if somebody made me dinners.... still the easiest end of the deal

The difference between pasture's and dogs. they would LOVE To get their own, the sitting and waiting is almost painful for them.


Edit, meanwhile, I'm shattered from going out when not very well this morning, so, there are four of us on the brown sofa this afternoon

bugslet

Doozergirl wrote: »

I ask the dogs where their leads are. Cue mayhem . Doozerdog even understands 'where are the poo bags?'

'sausage' works better in our house than 'come here' - the opnly problem is that you have to stand back in case they all arrive at once.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Dad can't even shift in his chair without the dogs shooting off down the hallway if the collies feel they've not had enough walks recently.

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Yep, uncross legs and they get up and look hopeful. Darn irritating.

PasturesNew wrote: »

So you get a card. Load it with money. Go shopping. Use the card to pay ..... then it lost me.

Phew! your IQ's higher than mine, if you don't, I don't feel that I have to make an attempt.

I'm trying to find a kitchen I like now. I know what is happening with the building, which is just knocking the back of the kitchen through and putting a large window at the back and taking the ceiling height up to the roof where the pop-out bit is.

Kitchen layout partly depends on if I can convert the area under the stairs to a downstairs loo; I'm not fussed about one, but apparently other people like them and I have to work on when I want to sell in around three years.

My biggest trouble is that I just don't like kitchens, don't cook if I can possibly avoid it, don't like cabinets, all kitchens look the same. Normally I make my mind up very quickly, this indecision is annoying me immensely.