Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

onomatopoeia99

Torry_Quine wrote: »

It hasn't helped that I'm still suffering with this awful cough although gradually improving after four weeks.

I had Italian class this evening and there's a GP in the class, she was talking about the three+ week long coughing bug and how many people were getting it (and how many think the flu jab would prevent it and all winter viruses!)

Pyxis

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

I had Italian class this evening and there's a GP in the class, she was talking about the three+ week long coughing bug and how many people were getting it (and how many think the flu jab would prevent it and all winter viruses!)

Yes. After years of the flu jab being available, you'd think people would realise the clue was the name.

It also annoys me when people keep wanting antibiotics. The vast majority of these things are viruses, against which antibiotics are useless.

calleyw

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Thanks but my problem is that we decided together that we wer goin away on our anniversary and he then just didn't put in for the time off. I wouldn't hav been so annoyed if we just thought of it and it was too late but it wasn't. It's just him though, unless I tell him to do things it just doesn't happen but he'd told me that it was all alright and then just forgot. However what's done, or not in this case, is done and I must put it behind me and appreciate that I do have an amazing, loving, wondeful man.:A Just yesterday he came home with flowers just because. So I really shouldn't moan about him.

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I also think with out being too sexist but think its a man thing. Not all but a lot of them. They don't seem to understand how much the little things mean to us.

Was watching The big bang theory with action man. When there was a scene with Penny who saved all the things her bf Leonard had given her, first rose etc. I turned to action man and said now you know why you give cards. For us to put in our memory boxes. He asked if I wanted cards then. I said no you do what you want.

Ono why does that not surprise me about the cold thing. I have had one for 6 weeks and before it was gone got another one :rotfl:

Yours

Calley X

elsien

Wednesday night is now also training night. Tonight is more explanation than practical, so we have homework. "I don't want you to tell them what to do, I want them to puzzle it out for themselves." Oh !!!!!!!g hell, that means that with Gitdog we'll be up all bloody night waiting for the miracle to happen.

whitewing

May be something that works for you, WaS

https://www.thesun.co.uk/uncategorized/2592356/ex-con-who-turned-his-life-around-by-devising-his-own-cell-workout-routine-reveals-secrets-to-staying-in-shape-using-just-your-body-weight/

System

Izadora wrote: »

I've love to have a biscuit delivery company. I could probably manage gooseberry fool too but I dislike pannacotta to the point where I don't think I could even attempt to make it.

If anyone wants to invest in something which is very unlikely to make them any money they could give me the money to start a restaurant. The more I think about it the more I'd really love to be able to have a cafe/tea room kind of place.

As random as it is i'd love to have a Hello Kitty Cafe! They have them all around the world but not in the uk (well there was a pop up one in london but think its gone now), i live and breathe hello kitty so that would be a dream! I just have no experience with running a business!

System

WaS, (and anyone else with experience of it) is there any advice on coping with BPD i could pass on to a newly diagnosed acquaintance (i'd say friend but we;re not really close she's more someone i know)? From what i've seen on facebook she has days where she's really struggling with it, i've reached out and said i'm there if she needs to talk (i know bipolar isnt the same but i was originally misdagnosed with bpd). I really want to offer her support but i don't know the best way to go about it. So anything yu could advise on either coping with it, living with it, dealing with symptoms etc would really help. I know now might now be the best time as you're dealing with it yourself but any advice i will gladly take. Thank you xx

Pyxis

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

As random as it is i'd love to have a Hello Kitty Cafe! They have them all around the world but not in the uk (well there was a pop up one in london think its gone now), i live and breathe hello kitty so that would be a dream! I just have no experience with running a business!

I found that interesting.

It sounds like there might be some sort of copyright/franchise/licence problem in this country.

Anyone who manages to overcome that could make a killing, at least for a while!

So.......overcome that problem, set up, make a killing, sell the business on before everyone else jumps on the bandwagon, and then sit at home counting the silver!


Go for it, MessedUp!




Edit....Just done some googling....

There is a Hello Kitty Dim Sum restaurant in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Before the restaurant opened, the owners spent a year and a half working towards being approved by Sanrio.


I never realised it started in 1976, although it was probably a lot later that it filtered through to here.

Apparently Kitty is British! (British stuff was very popular in Japan at the time.).

A very amusing thing is this.........

"As of August 2007, Thai police officers who have committed minor transgressions such as showing up late or parking in the wrong place are forced to wear pink Hello Kitty armbands for several days as penance."

:rotfl:



I also found this......

"The Hello Kitty cafe opens on June 1 2016, at Cutter & Squidge, 20 Brewer St, Soho, and closes at the end of August."
Perhaps that was to test the demand. Perhaps they are negotiating a licence for UK cafès with Sanrio as we speak.


Info on Hello Kitty franchises.........

http://www.evancarmichael.com/library/sarah-snyder/Sanrio-Franchise-FAQs.html

http://www.startupbizhub.com/how-to-own-sanrio-franchise.htm

http://m2.franchiseclique.com/profile.php?f=Sanrio---Home-of-Hello-Kitty


One downer is that a licence is likely to cost an awful lot upfront, but a bank might be willing to lend on the basis that it would be a sure-fire thing!


If someone else, like Cutter and Squidge (who are bakers), negotiates the main licence with Sanrio for cafes in the UK, they might then set up a franchise scheme, and you may be able to secure a franchise for your own cafe. You would probably be locked in to serving Cutter and Squidge produce, though.



Still, food for thought! :rotfl:

tea_lover

Just had a phone call from the huge pay cut place (so at least I know they have my application!) Spoke to a very nice lady who asked me about my reasons for moving.... it was difficult to fill in that part of the form as it is basically a step (or a few steps) backwards, and she wanted to ask about that. It helps that the organisation is a faith-related charity, so a lot of my reasons for wanting to work there aren't 'career progression' type ones, if that makes any sense. I was honest with her about fully understanding it was less responsibility etc than my current role and that wasn't a bad thing at all.

Am still totally unsure about whether it would be a good move - it's the same money as I was on 10yrs ago! Plus it would still be about 40 mins commute each way. But they may not even want to speak to me again anyway so no point fretting about it for now.

I do absolutely know after the last few days that I have to leave this place before I start telling everyone just how much I hate it.

Izadora

tea_lover wrote: »

It helps that the organisation is a faith-related charity, so a lot of my reasons for wanting to work there aren't 'career progression' type ones, if that makes any sense.

That makes perfect sense and, not that I'm ever likely to be in the position of employing someone, I would far rather have someone who wanted to work there for reasons entirely unrelated to their career than someone who saw it solely as a job.

I really need to win the lottery and then we can set up a craft/hello kitty cafe with a doggy-day-care attached