Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

SingleSue

Same here, I went with my mum when she took my brother, he hated it, I loved it and they finally allowed me to start earlier than normal because 'her brain needs stimulating as she is very bright'

Brother only went for the one session and never went again, I did ages and then started school early (I was just over 4) and my sister detested it too and only went to one session.

lostinrates

Coastal interior ideas for pn's browsing

http://www.housetohome.co.uk/room-idea/picture/coastal-living-room-design-ideas-10-of-the-best/2

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Coastal interior ideas for pn's browsing

http://www.housetohome.co.uk/room-idea/picture/coastal-living-room-design-ideas-10-of-the-best/2

http://housetohome.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/96/000019c47/7eb3_orh550w550/H2H-Room-Ideas-Week-4-Coastal-Livingroom-3.jpg
Good idea for tiebacks.... I suspect if I made some then mine would have a tag attached saying "PN, Aged 5½"

Of this, http://housetohome.media.ipcdigital.co.uk/96/000019c50/a8b0_orh550w550/H2H-Room-Ideas-Week-4-Coastal-Livingroom-11.jpg they say "Vintage interpretations of sailing ships make for a cool and creative armada of your very own."
I see "pointless clutter and tat on an awkward looking easel table"

zagubov

lemonjelly wrote: »

All this chicken talk, I'm peckish (not sure if pun is intended or not...)

On that theme, who's idea was it that chicken & chips in a basket tastes & is better/ & why is it so?

Dunno but I've always wondered about what other weird dish- serving combinations were tried out and failed e.g. porridge in a string bag, etc.:)

Our first house had a scary electric cable going out to the garage, which came down in a thunderstorm, but it wasn't anything like as scary as the wiring system you described. I did wonder if some people lack the genes that permit fear.

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

Actually, no it doesn't.
Capital/savings are not taken into account with tax credits.
The capital limit for council tax benefit has risen to 16k too, though I guess you'd be better off with WTC & 25% discount instead.

But I was talking about council tax and out of work benefits that PN could claim now without waiting until she's found a job. I thought capital was taken into account for those?? My general impression was that capital is included in means testing when the DWP does it, but not when HMRC does it. But I admit that the only benefits I know anything about are CTC/WTC, CB and WPA, never having claimed anything else. (Well, not unless you count claiming HB for a few months in 1986-7 before all the rules changed.)

neverdespairgirl

Kermie and I are booked for our third attempt tomorrow to have our respective 6 week post-natal checks (although I think Kermie's over-qualified for his 6 week check, now, as he is 8 weeks old today....)

I read out a list of milestones for a 2 month old baby, so that Kermie knows what he has a few days to work on before he gets there.

silvercar wrote: »

Without wanting to sound older than I am, I went back to work in 1995, there was no help with childcare in the form of benefits at all and childcare was a lot cheaper than it is now.

I've not even gone back to work yet, but there is no help at all with childcare from benefits as far as we're concerned - and we don't get child benefit now, either. For either of our two darlings!

lostinrates wrote: »

In my house blue is bathroom, white is kitchen. glass ones often are slightly different, and are green, ( green for glass) red/ pink is for .....general, and then you often get fluorescent yellow. I don't like the yellow ones much. No reason. I just don't like them.

Cheap ones are fine.

Yellow is kitchen, here. I like the yellow ones. I don't admire the colour, but I feel they clean better.

Spirit wrote: »

I liked this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-28192767


It gives me hope for next years vote:)

Those outfits are incredibly, specially ugly.

LydiaJ

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Kermie and I are booked for our third attempt tomorrow to have our respective 6 week post-natal checks (although I think Kermie's over-qualified for his 6 week check, now, as he is 8 weeks old today....)

I read out a list of milestones for a 2 month old baby, so that Kermie knows what he has a few days to work on before he gets there.

Hope everything goes well for you both.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've not even gone back to work yet, but there is no help at all with childcare from benefits as far as we're concerned - and we don't get child benefit now, either. For either of our two darlings!

Congratulations on earning enough not to get CB. Not that I'm surprised. You are obviously very capable, so hearing that you're successful fits in with what else we know of you. :T

Sorry to any NP who may have felt it was insensitive of me to forget that CB isn't universal any more. I've never been within sight of failing to qualify, so that end of it isn't on my radar.

Spirit_2

i went back to work when DD was 5 months old in 1988.

There was no help with funding childcare, and not a lot of provision. We saw many, some dreadful and chose a registered childminder who we liked and who also 'taught' on the registered childminders training programme run by social services.

We paid what was 'top dollar' at that time, paid in full for all holidays and every time I got a pay rise we offered the childminder more.

This was K who went on to become a loved friend.

When K moved to Holland we had a fulltime nanny, lived out, we provided a car, all legit for NI etc and also paid school fees as DD started school p/t. As I also had an 80 miles round trip to work my net financial gain was about £10 per month.

Worked out very well for us and it was important to me that when it was our money we stuck to good employer principles and did not adopt a meaner approach.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I read out a list of milestones for a 2 month old baby, so that Kermie knows what he has a few days to work on before he gets there.

Some report published this week said that research has shown that children respond better to a written list of things, than to the spoken word. You should have passed him to list so he could read it for himself

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Yellow is kitchen, here. I like the yellow ones. I don't admire the colour, but I feel they clean better.

As somebody who has seen the word microfibre, but never seen/used one ... I'm staggered that you all seem to [a] use them colour code them

michaels

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've not even gone back to work yet, but there is no help at all with childcare from benefits as far as we're concerned - and we don't get child benefit now, either. For either of our two darlings!.

You and NDB should probably pay yourself via a company and have 'grandfathered' childcare vouchers which your nanny could then have registered to accept.

We currently live on an income it seems most would struggle with in order to qualify for child benefit with and pay rises, bonuses etc all going into pension which makes fiscal sense but means our income is gradually squeezed by inflation, the answer has got to be for DW to find a school hours only job....