Nice People 13: Nice Save

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is U a Dokta?
!!
Blimey ... *shoves two O level certs under the sofa*



Ah, I thought it was a wine.

pfft, steak and potatoes wouldn't cut the mustard at all!

No, I didn't stick at it. But it doesn't perturb me. . I


Edited

michaels

I expected to go mdown with something when I got here but perhaps dd's pneumonia was stressful enough to keep me well...there seems to be more and more evidence that we can carry nasties around with us for a while that then take over when we relax or suffer physical stress like getting cold.

However net result is another day lying in a darkened room for me whilst the others go up table mountain. The cough and fever would be enough to keep me away from the heat and strenuous activity but the real annoyance is the pain from the posture related tension headaches I get that don't respond to painkillers. What a moaner I am

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

What a moaner I am

Lucky you've got us then! Perfect moaning platform

lostinrates

Are you going to do a freezer shop this evening then pastures? All the breaded goods you want, waiting in the freezer to be toasted at your whim. Muffin one day, crumpet the next. . No having to choose for a week ahead.

Plenty of veg options as you can prep it all use what you need and Tupperware and freeze the rest for next time you need it. ( I find my freezer inventory very useful)

michaels

Apparently my chest sounds very poorly and I have an antibiotic and a sick note, not sure if I will use it. Was some discussion of whether I was likely to be well enough to fly home....I'm sure to a British doctor it would have been a virus and why are you wasting our time.

Table Mountain was good for those lucky enough to go up.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Hopefully, you can get spare parts. The Rotastak website gives a contact number.

I have emailed them. They haven't replied yet. I will try ringing them tomorrow.

Doozergirl wrote: »

There's no swanning around when you have toddlers!

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's heaps of swanning around with toddlers. Heaps. :P

Err... PN, have you ever actually tried doing anything while towing a toddler? "Swanning" is really not the word to describe the result.

It may look to an outsider as though mothers of toddlers are sitting around doing nothing, but you haven't appreciated the stress factor of having whatever you are trying to do interrupted every few minutes for 14 or more hours a day, 7 days a week. It wasn't until both mine were older than about 10 that I stopped feeling that the beginning of term was "going back to work for a well-earned rest".

ETA Not that that should be taken as disagreeing with what you said. I too disapprove of the behaviour you describe - wives who expect their husbands to keep them in the style to which they would like to be accustomed, without regard to whether the level of income is possible, or the workload to achieve it desirable. I believe that, in a two parent family, both partners are equally responsible for weighing up what the family needs in terms of income and childcare and domestic labour and so on, and coming to a mutually agreeable arrangement about divvying up who does which bits of it. So I've as little patience with the female behaviour you were criticising as I have with the stereotypical male dinosaur behaviour that refuses to have anything to do with the children (except the fun and irresponsible bits) on the grounds that that's "women's work".

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

I have emailed them. They haven't replied yet. I will try ringing them tomorrow.





Err... PN, have you ever actually tried doing anything while towing a toddler? "Swanning" is really not the word to describe the result.

It may look to an outsider as though mothers of toddlers are sitting around doing nothing, but you haven't appreciated the stress factor of having whatever you are trying to do interrupted every few minutes for 14 or more hours a day, 7 days a week. It wasn't until both mine were older than about 10 that I stopped feeling that the beginning of term was "going back to work for a well-earned rest".

I think the thing here is there are two very different types of parent non parents with no access to kids see.

The kind that swan around with quite old toddlers in pushchairs, often in small groups, either on phones or chatting ignoring kids, and most often smoking. And the kind of parent who potters pushing empty chair while chatting to toddler, about the world they are seeing, patiently answering questions and explaining the world around them, pointing out letters they know on big signs, identifying colours, or objects. The latter are less frequently seen because they don't spend so much time swanning around shops either!

Generali

All well BTW. The $&@?ing idiots missed me again.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

I think the thing here is there are two very different types of parent non parents with no access to kids see.

The kind that swan around with quite old toddlers in pushchairs, often in small groups, either on phones or chatting ignoring kids, and most often smoking. And the kind of parent who potters pushing empty chair while chatting to toddler, about the world they are seeing, patiently answering questions and explaining the world around them, pointing out letters they know on big signs, identifying colours, or objects. The latter are less frequently seen because they don't spend so much time swanning around shops either!

I think most parents will come under both of those umbrellas at some time. A parent who needs to constantly stimulate a child will end up either burning out or with a child that is clingy and too heavily reliant on their parent.

Anyone who thinks they are (or that is somehow possible to be) a perfect parent is on a probable hiding to nothing.

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

All well BTW. The $&@?ing idiots missed me again.

There's a pattern emerging, no denying!