Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

Pyxis wrote: »

Has anyone seen the new fiver yet?

I'm wondering if you can fold it, or if it will fight against that?

I always fold my notes into four so that they fit in my purse, which isn't a wallet type. Will I still be able to do that with the fivers, or will they keep springing open and jumping out?

They will probably be like the Aussie and Canadian ones, which you can fold. I like the colours and the transparent Windows. They are more vivid.

michaels

DD1 has started a new subject today. Caecilius est pater!

There is something reassuring about it being the same course I did 'cough cough' years ago.

WE also had the start of year intro evening for year 8 at DD1s school. As you know I am very against selection. This is nothing to do with living 50m from one of the top 50 non-selective schools in the country....

PasturesNew

Just found another one in a big mansionette. Cook, name misspelt though so I've still to double check ... but, if so, there's a 1% chance she fed Charles Dickens as he visited that house.

Scraping the barrel now for "interesting stuff, sort of, almost"



Apparently Charles was a regular there.

EDIT: I know it's her, the mis-spelling of the name's to be expected.... even the Daily Mail didn't get our name right when they did a piece on my aunt many years ago.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bet they're only on the telly and a few (London) posh places that are using them as part of some promotional event, to get people in to see them.


I'd expect it to not be any different to a paper one. It'll fold, screw up, etc.

But not tear.

michaels wrote: »

DD1 has started a new subject today. Caecilius est pater!

There is something reassuring about it being the same course I did 'cough cough' years ago.

WE also had the start of year intro evening for year 8 at DD1s school. As you know I am very against selection. This is nothing to do with living 50m from one of the top 50 non-selective schools in the country....

Against selection by house price or against selection by ability?

I've been reading a lot recently about why educationalists are against grammar schools, real eye opening stuff. Up until now I thought that they were generally well thought of.

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

I need that same service Lydia asked for - someone to give me a kick up the a**e if I am still green light after 10.30PM.

Put in an offer on another potential btl/development opportunity today. Needs a lot more research but an offer is not binding after all....

Shouldn't you be offline by now?

Pyxis

Yeah, Michaels, GO TO BED!







Edit....his light's red now!

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

I am overwhelmed today. House stuff is more stressful than work!

Having finally filed every invoice in the house and thoroughly tidied the company accounts, I was left with a small pile of personal things to attend to, which I thought would do today.

My lounge has been a tip since I started using it as an office. So it's very nearly there but there's random stuff that needs somewhere to live. The cleaners are coming today so they can make it sparkle too.

That is the worst thing. I'm now trying to find places for things to live so at least my lounge is nice on my husband's return tonight and it looks like I did something.

What is actually happening is that I am tearing the house apart on some mission to find storage without actually emptying all the other places I still need to clear and the washing baskets are now overflowing and every other surface in the house is covered in clutter. Every storage facility is full and a mess, so those few little items have nowhere to go. The spare room os a storage facility itself and I can't move. And nothing in there has anywhere to live either.

I think this is why I go to work. I didn't notice it when I was on site.

I could really do with the weekend to sort stuff out but am supposed to be visiting my friend in London while she is in the country.

I may just decamp to the M&S deli.

This sort of thing is definitely the reason I go to work .. or come on the NPT to get away from it all.

Pyxis wrote: »

No good me having a cleaner.

You can't see the floor.:(


Or the sofa.:(


Or the chairs.

Or the tabletop.

You're not the only one.

SingleSue wrote: »

Middle son back to uni yesterday, ... Next week is the uni run back for James.

Good luck to both of them.

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

DD1 has started a new subject today. Caecilius est pater!

There is something reassuring about it being the same course I did 'cough cough' years ago.

So did I. Clemens est servus. servus in horto laborat.

silvercar wrote: »

Against selection by house price or against selection by ability?

Indeed.

silvercar wrote: »

I've been reading a lot recently about why educationalists are against grammar schools, real eye opening stuff. Up until now I thought that they were generally well thought of.

IMO they are great for the people who get into them and are middle to top once they get there. They are bad for people who only just scrape into them and then feel thick for years because they have trouble keeping up with the rest, and if there are more than a tiny few of them, they are bad for the other schools in the area, which get all their bright potential students lured away.

chris_m

LydiaJ wrote: »

DD1 has started a new subject today. Caecilius est pater!
There is something reassuring about it being the same course I did 'cough cough' years ago.

So did I. Clemens est servus. servus in horto laborat.
Indeed.

If it involves a Metella (can't remember if she was Mum or daughter) and an inebriated butler then so did I, also "cough cough" years ago

Pyxis

Pyxis wrote: »

Yeah, Michaels, GO TO BED!







Edit....his light's red now!

You're up (and on here) early, Michaels!



Edit. He's gorn again!

chris_m wrote: »

If it involves a Metella (can't remember if she was Mum or daughter) and an inebriated butler then so did I, also "cough cough" years ago

Well, can anyone remember this?

When I first started learning Latin aged 11. We used a book called "Pseudolus Noster", about a little boy called Pseudolus and what he got up to!
I googled it recently, and found a reference to it.

A few years ago I restarted Latin with the U3A, and we used the Cambridge Latin Course, which is used in a lot of schools today.

It's very pictorial and the first book is set in Pompeii, around an ordinary Pompeian family: Caecilius the banker, Metella his wife, and Quintus the son. Same one as yours, Lydia?
It was set just before the eruption, and By the end of Part two, I was feeling upset about what was in store for them!

The next book was set in Roman Britain.