Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

ukmaggie45

lostinrates wrote: »

We have a metre AND we deal with our own waste water. ( grey and otherwise). Makes one much more conscious. I was relatively conscious on septic tanks, having the biodisc thing, AND keeping the runoff really brings it home.

Hope you get a rebate on your Water Rates or whatever they call it now!

Grandmother's plates are blue and white Doulton, and a very lovely pattern. No way I would dish wash. Over the years I've even replaced broken pieces via eBay, though doubt will bother now. But I have had some nice meat serving dishes that match off the bay, I do get a lot of pleasure from them, and I think both the DDs like when they come out for Christmas or other feast days. Sometimes OH and I get them out just for us for fun. I think he's quite fond of them too. They are great for roast dinners, as are ironstone so you can really blast them in the oven so they very hot to keep your dinner hot while you eat it. :j

Spirit wrote: »

On the rehab front my arm is doing very well and I expect to get a full range of movemnt. currently working on lateral movements and this week I had had my hands on my head whilst standing, behind my head whilst laying down and laying on my front with my face resting on my hands.All aimed at giving me normal movement and identifying and resolving blocks to achieving normality

Gosh, sounds like your rehab is going great guns! :T :j I'm so glad. Will keep up The Vibes, I think any rehab is really hard work, so you are really doing brilliantly. :beer:

Spirit wrote: »

The movemnt is also the "right" movement rather than abnormal so I would not stand out in a crowd. That is quite hard as work-a-rounds are easy to pick up but hard to undo to get a normal pattern of movement. My legs and feet look quite normal when I walk, but my trunk is still a bit stiffand awkward. My movemnt gets better as the day goes on, until I get tired then it deteriorates again

Good for trying to get "right" movement back. I know about movement deterioration when tired, for me it just disappears "just like that" and it can be hard to get back to house from garden or to car from shop or wherever. Which is why use wheelchair for shopping or museum/gallery visits. Though even then OH has to push mostly, as arms give up after a few yards.

Generali, have you considered other modalities such as acupuncture for your back pain? I have to say that I didn't find it beneficial myself, but there is some evidence that it can be helpful for pain.

I got most benefit from a local chiropractor, really made a huge difference to my ability to stand upright (before was scuttling round like a spider), but he was recommended by someone we knew and I'm not sure I'd want to just go to a random one. If you know anyone who's used one local to you it might be worth asking. Treatment put me to bed for a day afterwards, not pain but knackeredness, but it really did make a HUGE difference. I doubt I'd be able to walk at all by now if it wasn't for him, I'd just be too bent over. And regular medicine had nothing to offer.

ukmaggie45

Gen, forgot to say my back problem is spondylolysthesis L5/S1, which is a forward movement of the upper bone over the lower one. Plus spondylolysis. But the help I got from this particular chiropractor made one helluva positive difference to my life.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Ok, another shopping question.

A digital photoframe suitable for a desk for a gift. This is not something I would ever be interested in. What should I be looking for? Any one got one?

We bought one for the in-laws. I'll dig out what it was. I remember we did a lot of research to find one that they could use without difficulty - they have zero technological capability.

Something like this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kodak-Easyshare-Digital-discontinued-manufacturer/dp/B000MRAAAG/ref=sr_1_7?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1429112557&sr=1-7&keywords=kodak+digital+photo+frame

chosen because they had a kodak digital camera, so could link the 2 easily.

we looked for remote control access and USB port. There are other touches like the ability to play music and the ability to print (via a printer obv) and an internal memory that you may want to consider depending on recipient.

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

If I had to choose, I think I'd have someone to cook dinner for me. I'd like them to cook like I do (I like what I cook myself). Just not to have to decide what to eat every night, or to have to cook it every night. I'd happily then do the washing up. Well, so long as they cook like I do using the minimum number of pans/ utensils.

Yeah... Think I'm best suited to cooking for myself. Meh.

I can see this. I hate cooking for just one person. Difficult to motivate ones-self to be creative or imaginative. Also, a big part of food for me is the social aspect - sharing it with someone & seeing them enjoy something I made.

Really happy to see a number of people looking at the value of a persons time re the dishwasher thing. That in itself has pretty much persuaded me.

lemonjelly

maggie - thanks for the info re apple/crab apple trees. I'll monitor!

Spirit - hope the recovery keeps on coming in leaps and bounds. Admiring your determination here!

LIR, I got someone a gift of a digital photo frame. It was from asda I think. Had a USB. Paid approx £30. To be fair, though the person liked it, it seems to get little use in their home (possibly cba to turn it on/off all the time...). However, for a desk at work or similar does make sense.

lemonjelly

Heard an amazing stat this week. Apparently, if a person watches 4ish hours of tv a day, that will take up 12 years of their life!

lostinrates

We are going on a weekend trip ( I think) in May. I am very excited because I thought I'd be able to combine this with seeing a friend who does something in the same place every second month, but its the wrong month. silly planning. But we have to go that weekend because fir is doing something with his saxophone. The place is coastal so fir says it justifies getting the swimsuit I was considering. I pointed out there is a nudist beach there.

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

Really happy to see a number of people looking at the value of a persons time re the dishwasher thing. That in itself has pretty much persuaded me.

When we bought our first one some 20 years ago, I was feeling a bit wobbly about spending so much on an item I thought we should be able to manage without. We opened the instruction booklet, and the first thing it said was "Congratulations - you have just saved x days per year in washing up time." (Sorry - after all this time I can't remember what x was.) It blew away my feelings of extravagance and laziness, and liberated me to enjoy the freedom from washing up ever since.

I am marking coursework again. The final stretch is proving difficult to motivate myself to do. Please could the NP encourage me as last time? Thanks.

As a part-timer, my share of the departmental coursework marking is not as heavy as some of the other teachers', but it's still plenty enough to feel arduous.

Y12: 40 criteria x 6 students = 240 marks. Completed 240/240 = 100%.
Y13: 40 criteria x 3 students = 120 marks. Completed 47/120 = 39%.
Total completed = 287/360 = 79.7%,

silvercar

So you are nearly four fifths of the way there. :j

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

We are going on a weekend trip ( I think) in May. I am very excited because I thought I'd be able to combine this with seeing a friend who does something in the same place every second month, but its the wrong month. silly planning. But we have to go that weekend because fir is doing something with his saxophone. The place is coastal so fir says it justifies getting the swimsuit I was considering. I pointed out there is a nudist beach there.

Swimming. In the sea. In May. :question: