The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

michaels

So EE mobile network is down for calls today which means I can't make calls as BT is EE.

But it also means DW can not be called because her number was originally issued by t-mobile (now EE) and even though she has ported to Vodafone the call is still routed via EE but she can call out because Vodafone manage that....

chris_m

I think Tesco have rumbled me - no £13 off voucher this time

Oh well, back to Asda for my next shop - who will save me a 50 mile round trip to Barrow and back by picking, packing and delivering my shopping for the princely sum of, if I choose the right delivery slot, £1

LydiaJ

Spirit wrote: »

Your coping skills, including crying (it is a release) got a successful resolution for Josh, coping doesn't mean you don't feel bruises. it means you find a way to bear the bruises and do what is necessary until it is safe to get the bruises checked over and treated. Including getting medical advice.

What Spirit said.

Pyxis

I've been having problems with my internet connection for some time now, and I think it's getting worse.

I think it's the router.

If I disappear, it'll prob be because I'm having to wait for a new router to come in the post.



Stop cheering!
What do you mean, peace and quiet?

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

I'm not really a pie person, though I did like a Heidi pie form Pieminster with goats cheese, sweet potato and spinach.

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, that's a nice one! I love the names they give their pies. And the inside of the packaging is full of nice tales!

Now I want pie.

It's got to be a posh alert!

I'd never heard of them, so googled. Buying a box of six pies is £21, that's £3.50/pie. Individually, from Sainsbobs they're £4.50 each! Morries £4.50 each or two for £6. Waities, who have the largest range, £3.70 each or two for £6.
They weigh 270grams.
£3.70 is £1.37/100g; £3 is £1.11/100g

I'd usually buy "family sized pies" for £1.99 at L1dl/4ldi.

Pukka pies are 36-44p/100g at 4sda. Waities don't sell them.
A £1 buys me a 226-238 gram Pukka pie.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's got to be a posh alert!

I'd never heard of them, so googled. Buying a box of six pies is £21, that's £3.50/pie. Individually, from Sainsbobs they're £4.50 each! Morries £4.50 each or two for £6. Waities, who have the largest range, £3.70 each or two for £6.
They weigh 270grams.
£3.70 is £1.37/100g; £3 is £1.11/100g
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True, but the thing is, they are nice pies!
Yummy.

For me, lots of pies aren't yummy.

Same with beer. I can drink most beer, but I only really, really enjoy one or two. Because they are strong beers, they are more expensive.

But I like them!
As for the other beers, I might as well just have a glass of water!

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

True, but the thing is, they are nice pies!
Yummy.

For me, lots of pies aren't yummy.

Same with beer. I can drink most beer, but I only really, really enjoy one or two. Because they are strong beers, they are more expensive.

But I like them!
As for the other beers, I might as well just have a glass of water!

But there was a point in time when you hadn't tasted them - yet you still proceeded to part with a King's Ransom for a pie!

You felt able to potentially lose that money by buying a rotten pie... that's still in the Posh Alert camp of thinking and choice/risk management

To me a Pukka Pie's as posh as I've ever had. I've no experience of "nice pies. Yummy" beyond that. And I'd see the price and think "there's no way I'd risk spending a fortune on a pie, perchance it's better/good enough/nice"

That's posh for you .... choice without consequences!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

But there was a point in time when you hadn't tasted them - yet you still proceeded to part with a King's Ransom for a pie!

You felt able to potentially lose that money by buying a rotten pie... that's still in the Posh Alert camp of thinking and choice/risk management

To me a Pukka Pie's as posh as I've ever had. I've no experience of "nice pies. Yummy" beyond that. And I'd see the price and think "there's no way I'd risk spending a fortune on a pie, perchance it's better/good enough/nice"

That's posh for you .... choice without consequences!

Well, you get to the point where you're so desperate for a nice pie that you'll try anything! You have to eat a lot of blahugh pies before you find the yummy ones.
In the end, experience tells you to just go for the more expensive ones, because you waste too much money on the ones you don't like.

Cost-effective,you see, going for the Pieminster.


It's the same with Princes. I'm still working my way through the frogs.

When I find the Pieminster-version frog, I'll know that I need not search no more! Yummy pies. Yummy Princes. 'Tis but two sides of the same coin.

Or something.


Night night.

SingleSue

I now remember why I didn't go to autism groups when the boys were younger....other parents, well not all but most, of autistic children drive me up the wall!

Why do they want to keep their children at the level they are? Why are they not willing to help their children be able to cope better? Why are they so negative about their child's future and not trying eveything, searching everywhere for the thing that may possibly work to improve things? Why do they just blindly take the drugs to 'calm their child down' when that is only treating a symptom rather than dealing with the cause?

It's almost like a badge of bloody honour that they use to position themselves as the top of the group, my child is worse than yours sort of thing, "My child is on xxx" "My child has had to go to a residential school" "Oh woe is bloody me, my child can't do this, that or anything blooming other and everyone else must change how they do things for my child!"

Drives me barmy.

I did offer my help at a local autism group (which was turned down as my ideas didn't align with hers), think I may have completely burned my bridges now as I have got into a Facebook discussion over autism and she is not best pleased with me.

vivatifosi

I think you should write a book Sue. There will be other parents who are interested in what you've achieved, but sometimes you can only hear the status quo as it shouts louder.

I'm always inspired when I read what you've achieved. It's a crying shame that other kids do not have the same opportunity to reach their individual potential in the same way that you've pushed for your boys to have.