Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

SingleSue

I'm just finding it very muggy and unpleasant. Mind you, I am also nursing a left foot swollen to twice its normal size after something decided it would like to have a taster of me in the garden earlier this evening....

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

Is anyone else finding the air pollution high tonight? I'm going to shut the bedroom window, there's a dry, Dusty smell in the air and my eyes feel a bit gritty.

I'm ok but kids got very hot at their football training this evening (DD2 and DS). WE have the horrible damp smell again, it seems to happen every time I empty the swimming pool.

I notice somehow the time has ticked on to 11:30 again, tonight was the one where I was definitely going to go to bed by ten as I am getting so exhausted...and yet I am still only a little further through the to do list.

It is new broadband time for us, last year broadband plus line rental cost minus 40 quid for 12 months, this year it cost +5 quid. I would like to go for fibre as we do struggle with buffering/blockiness when several people are streaming but the cheapest I can see is about 140 quid all in for the year which sounds like a lot more than a fiver.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just found another miracle baby in a tree.
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Not a sentence you see every day! :T

(Only on MSE, eh? :beer:)


If you're not careful, Pastures, you'll find you've started a sect! :rotfl:

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

Not a sentence you see every day! :T

(Only on MSE, eh? :beer:)


If you're not careful, Pastures, you'll find you've started a sect! :rotfl:

I was about to say I hoped the poor little thing was well wrapped-up

Glad Miss Doozer is okay, and hopefully she'll manage fine today with an older friend.
The DGC were very happy with their new teachers, and DGS was really pleased because they'd spent most of the morning learning something new in Maths. there's no accounting for tastes!

Sue Sometimes being a bit over-protective just can't be avoided. Was it youngest? I hope he's okay.

oldandhappy

that was funny but could ......be true.
One thing (of many actually) is a puzzle in Hubbys family search I have being doing is they have many twins now but the earliest I can only go back to recorded is 1910.... they certainly had loads of children and many died at birth or as little ones as lived it seems but no twins found earlier so far.....BW Dianne

SingleSue

Yes it was youngest, he went out with a friend who has just passed his test and I don't trust the friend to drive sensibly. He went out but I then spent the next two hours stressing out, texting him to make sure he was ok and basically being a mess.

Complete letting go parent fail! If it was a school report it would have said 3/10 must try harder.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just found another miracle baby in a tree.

Presumably put there by a stork?

:rotfl:

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Yes it was youngest, he went out with a friend who has just passed his test and I don't trust the friend to drive sensibly. He went out but I then spent the next two hours stressing out, texting him to make sure he was ok and basically being a mess.

Complete letting go parent fail! If it was a school report it would have said 3/10 must try harder.

I disagree. You can't be too careful with young drivers. The statistics prove that.

Plus, I once knew a lovely 18-year-old boy, not a reckless type, who was driving his friend on a country road, probably became high-spirited and took a bend too fast, and went head-on into a car coming the other way. Neither of the boys had seat-belts on, and they were both killed.

At the very least, insist your son wears a seatbelt, drum that into him continuously, cite this post, and don't worry about checking up on him.

PasturesNew

Gutters cleared. The building site next door's having the gardens cleared/levelled (before they demolish two properties) .... so I was sticky beaking from the bedroom window and saw a man's van that said about cleaning. So I googled them and they do gutter clearing.

So I popped over and he said a price I could live with and he's now done it. £30! Previous prices bandied about have been a LOT more.

He was cleaning the underside of the gutters of the neighbour - and the fascia boards. Asked him how much to do those for me and at that price I'd rather leave them dirty (£40).

So that's an important job done ready for the winter/rain.

michaels

Just did MSE Martin's water meter calculator. If we switched to a meter our bill would go from 350 to over 800. I reckon you would need to have fewer than 2 people in a house or be very smelly to justify swithing to a meter.