General Chat

Joeva Thanks for question. Had better not answer fully. But I get around each week over about 60 square miles and talk to many each day. All walks of life, all situations. I just like people.

Hope you can accept that I know what I am talking about, have actually been in most of the places during my long life (from relative wealth to quite abject poverty).

But the views are mine - and I am happy if anyone thinks I am a prat (as one common sewer or connoisseure) called me. Mature debating point for him, no doubt.

John

So you did answer my question ..... you do meet all these people in the course of your work.

I too like people and are ready to listen to whatever they have to say but I sometimes have to take what I hear with a grain of salt.

I also know what it is to be absolutely skint. Like with a daughter one week old my husband went into hospital - which turned in to him being there for three months with sickness benefit of £3.10s a week with a rent of then £3.3s per week. without the help of my family we would have been out on the street. The only 'benefit ; then was National Assistance.

Never been wealthy but have always managed to pay my way because always lived within my means which unfortunately is not something that most people do now days.

Jo

I last read your thread late last night Rose. I was too tired to reply then and didn't have time this morning as I had to go out. From the sounds of it I've missed some interesting bits.

Jo I meet some via work, some via voluntary church and charity activities, some are just friends.

I have always tried to do what you do. Have been married thru ups and downs and OH is an absolute saint. Never complains. Just gets on with it. My children never have felt they have gone without. Even sugar sandwiches were made to sound exciting.

But we have never been down to our last MacDonalds meal or last IPod or last mobile phone or last packet of fags. Anyone who can live like that is not poor in my definition.

Surprised thread has still not been reinstated. Or for that matter the bullying thread.

Serious threads like that do make us think and react. Perhaps they hit home sometimes.

But these chat boards lose a lot when threads like that go missing. Anyway, back to thinking about something witty to say about the tree of Jack Schitt :-( :-(

Genelaogy threads and suggestions thread are sooooo slow these last few days. Interesting query about India/Pakistan roots on Genealogy, but that had died a death. Even the "I have just come back to Genes and I am appalled......" new post (usually posted on Games and Quizzes) has now dwindled to a trickle. :-( :-(

Think RR has been RR'd Too embarrassed to tell us, probably. ;-)

you could be right John
But maybe we will never know ;-) ;-)

Like it never existed. Is this what is meant by virtual? Ooo-er. It reminds me of Journey into Space on the wireless. Lemmy frightening me whilst I sucked my dummy sat on my grandma's knee :-( :-0

Ah no John I would never be embarrassed to tell people I had been RR'd :-D It's not the first thread to mysteriously disappear ( even very innocuous ones on genealogy have vanished into a black hole ).

I will no doubt have cause to put up a new one on the state of the nation ;-) ( bet you can't wait lol) what with Cleggy standing up to DC at the Lib Dem conference and pushing for "fairer tax for tough times" ;-) and the new 'Universal Credit' due out next year, I'd direct everyone to have a look, fore-warned is fore-armed as they say .

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/welfare-reform/universal-credit/

Some interesting conclusions to be drawn from reading between the lines of the FAQs
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/universal-credit-faqs.pdf

Rose I will always hang around for you and your next thread. "I am standing by the lamppost at the corner of the street in case a certain little lady comes by. Oh me. Oh my"

Songwriters don't write such lovely words now. Have spent most of my life meditating "Hot diggety, dog ziggety. Boom. What you do to me". Have concluded it is filthy and deserves an RR ;-)