THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

Karmacat

NewShadow wrote: »

Got an email yesterday saying Iceland won't be accepting points (saver points? Bonus points?) from some time in Feb.

I deleted it because I don't collect any points for Iceland, but you might want to check.

Ooh, thank you for letting me know! They're accepted in lots of places, it's true, but quite frankly I'd rather spend them on food.

DigForVictory

Though left eon, it seems to have allowed me to convert (ignored) points into high street vouchers - thank you! <Crosses fingers they arrive, now>

nannywindow

Hi New Shadow,
My family are Welsh and none of us oldies speak the language, but it is compulsory in all the schools around here. The local gov. ( labour) have shut a lovely small primary school and sent the children to a much larger one, where the class size, in my opinion, is too big for the children to learn properly. However the powers that be, have almost finished building a Welsh super school nearby, catering from nursery to secondary because they were given a massive grant from the Welsh Assembly, whereas other schools are struggling just to afford books.
The local saying is that if you put a labour rosette on a sheep it would get in power, although at the last local election Ukip came a close second.

Sorry rant over!

NewShadow

nannywindow wrote: »

Hi New Shadow,
My family are Welsh and none of us oldies speak the language, but it is compulsory in all the schools around here. The local gov. ( labour) have shut a lovely small primary school and sent the children to a much larger one, where the class size, in my opinion, is too big for the children to learn properly. However the powers that be, have almost finished building a Welsh super school nearby, catering from nursery to secondary because they were given a massive grant from the Welsh Assembly, whereas other schools are struggling just to afford books.
The local saying is that if you put a labour rosette on a sheep it would get in power, although at the last local election Ukip came a close second.

Sorry rant over!

No bother ranting at me.

Sometimes the powers that be decide they know best and I just bow my head and go home to watch Yes, Minister.

I'm wanting to say Port Talbot - because I know how unhappy the local residents were about how this has been handled - patronised is not the word. But truth is, it's happening all over - and not just in Wales.

Lots of politicians seem to think they know best and (while it may cause some personal difficulties) I'm really rooting for the little guys.

It's worth mentioning - for the first time in quite a while Welsh Labour don't actually have a majority - they've 29 out of 60 seats in the Assembly - given Ukip's 7 and the Conservative's 11... change is in the wind.

I'm turning into quite the little rebel since I started posting on here :rotfl:

Dim siarad cymraeg.

GreyQueen

Cappella, a good tip for glasses screws is to get them done up tightly and then apply a blob of clear nail polish to stop the darn things unscrewing.

Re the Welsh language, I recall as long ago as the nineties talking to a Welsh lass whose family had been in Wales for over 200 years but who spoke exclusively English. They'd ended up feeling so uncomfortable as a result of all this promotion of welsh language that they'd actually decided to move across into England, every man and woman jack of them.

I guess some really hardcore nationalists might read that and think good riddance if you can't be bothered to learn 'our' language but it's sobering to have spent your whole life including your education speaking one language then been told you have to become bilingual, because some other people think it's a good idea.

Didn't a lot of English-speaking Canadians move out of Quebec when that province went french-language?

nannywindow, around this neck of the woods, we say if you pin a blue rosette on a pig, it'd get elected to parliament, no problems at all.

I think TPTB at local, national and international need and are in process of getting the start of a great big slap from the silent and much put-upon Joe and Joesephine Soaps. Not before time.

They need to treat other adults as adults and listen to our concerns and not think that they know best because they come from a different social strata or have had a fancier education. You can have degrees and even PhDs and still be a complete and utter moron.

My archery Teach is dead funny when talking about the PhD students he teaches. They have to add the scores from four arrows together to make the end total. The very highest possible score, assuming all four hit the dead centre of the target, is forty (4 x 10).

These braniacs manage to come up with end totals like 41, 43....... this is the next generation of scientists, folks - can't even do basic arithmetic.:p

ivyleaf

NewShadow wrote: »

No bother ranting at me.

Sometimes the powers that be decide they know best and I just bow my head and go home to watch Yes, Minister.

I'm wanting to say Port Talbot - because I know how unhappy the local residents were about how this has been handled - patronised is not the word. But truth is, it's happening all over - and not just in Wales.

Lots of politicians seem to think they know best and (while it may cause some personal difficulties) I'm really rooting for the little guys.

It's worth mentioning - for the first time in quite a while Welsh Labour don't actually have a majority - they've 29 out of 60 seats in the Assembly - given Ukip's 7 and the Conservative's 11... change is in the wind.

I'm turning into quite the little rebel since I started posting on here :rotfl:

Dim siarad cymraeg.

This was definitely a case of "Google is my friend" at this end

NewShadow

GreyQueen wrote: »

Cappella, a good tip for glasses screws is to get them done up tightly and then apply a blob of clear nail polish to stop the darn things unscrewing.

Why did I never think of this!

Thank you kindly

These braniacs manage to come up with end totals like 41, 43....... this is the next generation of scientists, folks - can't even do basic arithmetic.:p

or they're really, really bad at cheating :rotfl:

Ivy - Where do you think I got the translation from?

moneyistooshorttomention

nannywindow wrote: »

Hi New Shadow,
My family are Welsh and none of us oldies speak the language, but it is compulsory in all the schools around here. The local gov. ( labour) have shut a lovely small primary school and sent the children to a much larger one, where the class size, in my opinion, is too big for the children to learn properly. However the powers that be, have almost finished building a Welsh super school nearby, catering from nursery to secondary because they were given a massive grant from the Welsh Assembly, whereas other schools are struggling just to afford books.
The local saying is that if you put a labour rosette on a sheep it would get in power, although at the last local election Ukip came a close second.

Sorry rant over!

I hadnt realised that's going on too - ie funding welsh language schools very generously and giving darn all to others:mad::eek:.

I know, at the end of their schooling, that they won't be given public sector jobs unless they speak Welsh (or maybe lie and say they will "learn it within the next 2 years" and then cross fingers for no complaints).

I wonder how career people with children (ie pretty mobile around the country - maybe even the world) are supposed to manage with all this going on and many of them seem to do so by refusing to come to Wales in the first place (at least the more welsh-speaking part of it).

I can understand the "feeling second class within your own country" and guess Welsh people feel it even more - as this is their part of the country. Some of them have made their "feelings felt" in my direction - when they see I'm sympathetic to them about this.

You can guess which party I'm voting for if they are there on the ballot paper - ie the one for abolishing the Welsh Assembly - and it's purely and simply because that seems to me to be the way to get shot of the law trying to force the language down peoples throats regardless of whether they personally agree with it/speak it or no. I've lost count of the number of people (including Welsh people) who have looked over their shoulder quick to see if anyone is listening and then said they're only abiding by the bilingualism thing (if its the public sector) in case someone complains about it and gets the organisation fined.

Dim sariad cymraeg too - and I refuse pointblank to learn it. Cant imagine why the phrase "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" just came to mind - I plead innocence that it surfaced in my memory at that point....totally unconnected obviously....ahem...

[Deleted User]

The problem with a cashless society is, what happens when the computer system goes wrong (or is hacked), or the card issuer sees unusual activity and blocks the card, while you are on holiday/working away?

Suddenly, without warning, you are stuck in a foreign country, without money. :eek:

NewShadow

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I know, at the end of their schooling, that they won't be given public sector jobs unless they speak Welsh (or maybe lie and say they will "learn it within the next 2 years" and then cross fingers for no complaints).

'Hi'

Says Civil Servant who sat her GCSEs and went to Uni in Wales - while not speaking Welsh - and got a job for the Welsh Government - while not speaking Welsh...and most certainly didn't lie about any intention to learn.