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Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper
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Thanks Gen. I'll pass that on.
Had some great holidays in my twenties as a group of 3 couples. A few later as a group of two families with kids (with one of the other couples from the original group). Even one or two with that family once my family was no longer headed by a couple.
Don't "go on holiday" any more. Haven't done for years now. It wouldn't be a holiday for me without another adult to talk to, and there isn't anyone we could go with. I do take my kids to stay with my brother and his family, or my other brother and his family, or my in-laws, or my kids' various godparents. That's all, though.
Miss holidays. Miss going on holidays as a couple. Miss being a couple to go on holidays as.
The first year as a single parent was hard when it came to the holiday, everywhere I looked there were families with two parents and couples and then there was me, on my own, with 3 children.
It got easier after that though and now I don't even think about it.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I can't see the point of spending money hiring a caravan, to sit in a caravan alone in the rain (it always rains in England) ..... when I could just stay at home for free with it raining.
We have had many brilliant holidays in a caravan and most without rain apart from maybe a couple of days. For me, to get away from the house was (still is) the most important part...away I can be who I want to be, at home I am the sad begger whose husband slept with their best friend/the mum of the weird kids etc.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
CKhalvashi wrote: »Just don't ask for a chicken in Spain :eek::eek::eek:
I just don't get it. El pollo. What is risqu! about that?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I am quite happy adding sauces 'for' one meat to another.
DS who is a veggie has come up with a meal plan but it is very full of cheese (no wonder she isn't a skinny vegetarian), nuts (we keep them out of the house due to DS allergy) and a quorn spag bol which sounds even more tasteless in her recipe than in mine - perhaps if you never have mince you don't realise how bad quorn is....I think....0 -
Me too - I thought it was the peel rather than the raw potato per say though? Apparently it is very like tree pollen, birch etc.
For me, it seems to be the juice. And if I don't wear gloves when peeling potatoes, I might wash and wash my hands afterwards but can't get the smell off my hands.
Birch pollen - we went on a coach tour to the Italian Tyrol some years ago, in April, and there were birch trees everywhere. We both got the worst hay fever ever! The local pharmacist was very reluctant to sell us a couple of nasal sprays - she said "Here, we feel it is better for the nose to run because it helps the body to get rid of the allergens!" :eek: But we persuaded her in the end - just as well, or it would have ruined our holiday.0 -
DS who is a veggie has come up with a meal plan but it is very full of cheese (no wonder she isn't a skinny vegetarian), nuts (we keep them out of the house due to DS allergy) and a quorn spag bol which sounds even more tasteless in her recipe than in mine - perhaps if you never have mince you don't realise how bad quorn is....
I don't like Quorn and totally avoid it if I can. I prefer the soya mince from Sainsburys. Their veggie range is not bad and reasonably priced.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Film makers have blown up a bus on London Bridge. Given that members of the public were not aware it was for a film, it has caused panic:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bus-explodes-london-bridge-terrifying-7326412
There should have been signs everywhere that this was going to happen.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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Its been on the radio all day that the bridge was closed for filming and this would happen but agree some signs close by would have helped.Spend less now, work less later.0
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Michaels, this website has some yummy sounding recipes (we've only tried a couple so far and they were yummy) for specicific complicated diets. But there are some veggie ones if you go through them, and some of the meat ones look to me as if they'd be pretty OK to just leave out the meat. Fair amount of gluten free recipes too - how I found it in first place was searching for gluten free as Brother in Law has coeliac disease. OH has made some of the gluten free cake things, which were popular with his brother.0
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