Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Weirdly I do generally see spelling mistakes when I read anything back after I have posted/emailed but I can read things back a hundred times before posting and not spot anything.

I had a sneaky read of a letter sat on the customer service desk at Homebase last week.

It was from a local first school asking for 'plants for the pants stall'.

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

I still fail to understand why people who couldn't be @rsed to register to vote in a general election suddenly find a burning need to register for this referendum.

Once enfranchised, I wonder what effect these people will have on the next general election.

We can only hope it ignites a bit of a spark and they start to take proper interest. General elections do have a more obvious, or a clearer immediate impact on us personally than this referendum. And that is sad.

I think a lot of people are taking this as some sort of general election or even a revolution from the expectations of some.

Doozergirl

I should be working.

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Hopefully, that must be the reason, rather than watching X Factor too much. Some sort of half-way house ought to be achievable, though.

Thanks, everyone, for your good wishes.

Congratulations, GDB! As regards the way they hesitated in telling you, it's likely they've been told to stick to a script and not overload you by blurting out the result immediately.

Wheezy wrote: »

Yeh, westie wasn't a happy chappy last night.
Barking at each and every thunderclap followed by 5 minutes growling.

Our dog was not happy with last night's thunder. One. little. bit.

Anyhoo, I've only gone and voted

Pyxis

Doozergirl wrote: »

I had a sneaky read of a letter sat on the customer service desk at Homebase last week.

It was from a local first school asking for 'plants for the pants stall'.

Bloomers?


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PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

I should be working.

What constitutes working is subjective.

As a self-employed person you're currently scheduling and prioritising.

That's work isn't it!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

What constitutes working is subjective.

As a self-employed person you're currently scheduling and prioritising.

That's work isn't it!

Yup! Future planning strategy always involves an armchair, a cuppa/biccie and a side order of newspaper/riveting book/crossword. Can't be done otherwise!

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

SingleSue, your signature tells me what your eldest son's diagnosis is, but I can't remember, or never knew, what your other sons have.

Middle son - Aspergers, EDS, bowel disorder, partially deaf, brain injury which causes extremely poor short term memory and emotion control (he was starved of oxygen during delivery), verbal understanding disorder.

Youngest - Complex autism, severe asthma, hypermobile/EDS (diagnosed with hypermobility when he was a toddler, way before James was and before they were classed as the same thing), bowel disorder, gross food intolerances and allergies to nuts, shellfish and rhubarb (yep rhubarb!), Irlens and chronic fatigue (oh and he also has a growth disorder too!)

Bet you wish you hadn't asked now!

James appears in my signature because for years I thought I had managed to get one right, as in a 'normal' child and then my world fell apart again.

It's not apart now but it was a shock at the time...they are all doing really really well despite their challenges (been bloody hard work though!)

Pyxis

(((((((((SingleSue))))))))))))))

SingleSue

I'm not voting until later as youngest is able to vote for the first time and hasn't got a clue what to do, what to say (if he will actually be able to that is), how to move etc, so I have to go with him. On top of that, Josh can't remember what he did last time so wants me to go through the whole shebang with him too!