Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

Not sure if that's for the parents to celebrate, or the kids...

neverdespairgirl

sss555s wrote: »

Cute baby. I like baby's.

It's when they get to 14+ where the real challenges start.

My two are 9 years old, and 3 months old, so they both think their parents are *great*. The "embarrassing, tragic and hopeless" is yet to come. Are there mini-sss555s?

Generali wrote: »

I used to be the only person in the office in cufflinks when I started out in the 90s. It's become A Thing again.

My dad used to wear cufflinks to work too.

Yes, more fashionable than it was - except for some of us, for whom it was never out of fashion.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Apart from my dad, in the 1960s, I've never met/known a man who wore cufflinks!

Barristers do, and have done all along (both men and women). But then, men at the Bar also wear 3 piece suits and separate collars with their shirts, too.

silvercar

mystic_trev wrote: »

I think I'd pass on any wine that sold 3 for under a tenner.

neverdespairgirl

Depends how many children you had on their summer holidays, I suppose.

Or whether you were expecting guests that you didn't want to return.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

I think I'd pass on any wine that sold 3 for under a tenner.

If you look carefully you can just see the words:

"For external use only. If inadvertently swallowed, do not induce vomiting. Seek medical assistance urgently".

lostinrates

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation

I have grown to love the sheer ability to feed my book greed via e reading, but it still hold it will never replace books for me. Ever. Smelling, feeling, notation, just loving a book is different.

DH and I so etimes read a book together and even that is better with a real book.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Go mortgage free. Do the to let rooms first and your work space.

Let the students pay for the refurb. ( or mortgage for the same) presuming you have no structural necessity to attend to.

...that's what we are leaning too

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, there are "food rules" too about what you have to provide - and it's not posh nosh .... from memory it was:

Breakfast: list of stuff they had to have available and hot drinks
Lunch: Two sandwiches, or rolls, fruit, snack bar/cake, sweet/chocolate item, cold drink.
Evening Meal: Hot, two courses.

Also, age/location depending, you also have to collect them on the start day from the bus (when it turns up), drop them off/wait in the morning for the bus to collect them, be there to receive them when the evening bus returns (on one day two ran away in St Ives, delaying the coach returning by two hours). Then, if they're teens, you can't let them out in the evening - you have to chat to them in English.

Some can, and will, get up to all sorts of nonsense. I was told at the start that the French teens I was expecting weren't "used to English style shopping". They'd been used to going into shops and being served - so, in the past, they'd had several instances where kids would go into the shops and "shoplift" as they didn't understand the system of serving yourself, then taking it to a counter to pay.

And some just manage to escape and the police have to be called to scour the town looking for them.

....this is definitely not Easy Money. I am not keen at all. mmmm I feel A Heated Debate is due.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I had my second interview yesterday. The where to sit challenge wasn't quite as extreme this time as the table was rectangular and only big enough for 8.

I did ok I think - he said there was only 2 people left in the process so I stand a reasonable chance but I won't be too upset if I don't get it.

Being interviewed by banks appears to be much easier than trying to get a public sector job where you have to spend hours talking about meaningless "competencies" and "cultural characteristics". Both interviews were just 45 minute interactive discussions...

Good Luck.........will you be a banker who get's a bonus?


Now I have to post excuses as I am way back several pages and have to log out. I have got to work out a better way of keeping up.

Masomnia

Thank you for all the offers everyone

PasturesNew

34 years ago today I passed my driving test.

vivatifosi

Blimey, did you remember that or is it on the driving licence (have to admit to not studying mine)?