Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

phoebe1989seb

I'm sure she'll be fine michaels.....

DS's first trip away from home was a residential to Westminster Abbey for a week at aged seven.

He was a cathedral chorister and our choir replaced the Westminster choristers whilst they had their annual break. I remember it really well as it was the week before Princess Di was killed in the car crash in Paris and we were (hating) living at my parents' house for six weeks after our sale had gone through and we were waiting to complete on our purchase.

We did go up to London on the Saturday as it was his eighth b/day, took him out for a meal then we went home and he stayed for the final Sunday services.

Later he went on several overseas tours with the choir as well as school trips to Russia and China and on the latter ones (when he was 15/16) he would text to say he'd arrived safely, but he definitely didn't miss home......a far cry from my German and French exchange trips, when I recall being extremely homesick, lol :rotfl:

lemonjelly

Good luck PN!

ukcarper

lemonjelly wrote: »

There are robins in the garden here. Indeed, there's a robin nest in the ivy on one side of the garden.
The robins did start building a nest in ivy the other side of the garden, & I have held off pruning the ivy on both sides, as I don't want to disturb the younglings. I am having to repeatedly chase off a very fat looking cat most evenings that appears to know there are chicks in there.
I don't want to disturb, as I assume messing about might make the parents not return. But how long do I have to wait? At what point will the little uns be able to leave the nest?

A couple of weeks after hatching, the robins in my Ivy have already fledged one brood and have started on another.

lostinrates

ukcarper wrote: »

A couple of weeks after hatching, the robins in my Ivy have already fledged one brood and have started on another.

This sounds about right tbh. But if I had nesting robins in a suburban/ urban garden I'd keep what they live in and get rid of it out of nesting season.

phoebe1989seb

Will be thinking of you, PN x

ukcarper

lostinrates wrote: »

This sounds about right tbh. But if I had nesting robins in a suburban/ urban garden I'd keep what they live in and get rid of it out of nesting season.

I'd agree with that Robins normally have 2 or more broods.

GDB2222

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

Will be thinking of you, PN x

Me, too. Plus non touching hugs.

Spirit_2

Picking up on a number of themes.

We have a landline. It is the only gauranteed way of contacting us at home and needed for our superslow internet. At least we are now with plusnet so only pay about £27 a month for phone & internet instead of the £80 BT was charging us.

I also pay vodaphone for the privilege of only picking up texts when I go out and never being able to make or answer calls at home.

OH and DD are with O2. Better service than mine in that their's is only carp whilst mine is non existent.

DD hated school trips and went to huge lengths to avoid going on them. She had, had plenty of nights away from us since babyhood so it was not that, she just did not like the group experience.

On a couple of occassions she boarded for a night, which bizarrely she enjoyed.

PN look after yourself. Thinking of you.

Spirit_2

We had blackbirds nesting in a honeysuckle near the kitchen window. they had hatched chicks , but one morning OH found feathers on the ground below the window. It was not our cat(not her modus operandi), and we think not a cat at all but another bird as a couple of days later OH saw a large speckled bird on the nest. It was too big to fit in it.He thought cuckoo, although we have not heard it's call. DD and I have seen a large thrush in the same area.

silvercar

Safe and distant hugs to PN x

I remember DS2 going on a 3 day trip to York in year 7 (1st yr of secondary school). It was designed to get the kids, who had arrived from 20 different schools) to bond. We were told that they would be allowed to phone home as and when they requested.

I complained that I didn't get one phone call, where upon another Mum said I should consider myself lucky, she had had 14 calls in 3 days!