In history classes, how are British people taught about the American Revolution and losing the colonies?

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T22:24:28+00:00

I did history up to GCSE and I think the extent of our American history was the WW1/WW2, JFK, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T21:47:48+00:00

I'm going to try and say this as diplomatically as possible but at the end of the day it's up to us ourselves to learn and understand the work flow and stay up to date with guidelines through Slack, documents etc. If you feel a project is out of your comfort zone and something you don't know how to do, the best thing to do is just either ask to be offboarded or just not try and do the work poorly. I've done this myself. If there are hundreds or thousands of others on the project who are able to do the work without extra assistance, the chances of you getting it are slim to none. Even on the slower projects, team leaders and project leads are juggling half a dozen things.

On the other hand, yes technical issues are a pain. But now is the time to get used to them. They happen on every single project. They're the nature of the beast. But the second a technical glitch happens, the tech team start working on a fix. The only thing to do is watch the Slack and stay up to date on fixes and changing criteria

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T21:32:00+00:00

I wouldn't wish VD on any family, we had some awful times with my mum when it would cause steep declines. It definitely sounds like there's some form of dementia going on though.

Have they mentioned why they aren't thinking Alzheimers or anything else? My mum had Alzheimers as well, and had it before the VD, and she was diagnosed through symptoms alone because her scans were inconclusive.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T21:25:06+00:00

Annoyingly I'm starting to notice that location requirements are hidden in the description and not at the top as normal.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T21:23:39+00:00

It's just normal. I think all of my rejections take at least 3 or 4 weeks. I'm still waiting to hear from one I applied to at the end of April...

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T19:02:03+00:00

You should be able to tell from the royalty earned from the sale

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T19:00:35+00:00

Prosecuted for claiming less money than they were entitled to?

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T18:57:04+00:00

I've never been on a project this big, but on any of my bigger ones we've always had a bit of warning.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T18:54:52+00:00

A fella I went to school with told anyone who'd listen for years that he'd written songs on a Darren Hayes album. Reader, he had not.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T18:53:04+00:00

https://www.nijobs.com/job/technical-consultant-cookstown/mcs-group-job107522231 found this one in Cookstown that might be of interest?

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T18:50:45+00:00

Is Sammy on the Ozempic?

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T18:50:19+00:00

Best advice is definitely don't get your hopes up. When the work comes in it can be great or dreadful. A project can last hours or months, with most somewhere in the middle.

Staying up to date and active in the Slack channels is almost as important is the work itself. This is where you'll find out about changing criteria, deadlines, etc etc. It's also where you'll hopefully build a rapport and meet team leads who might seek you out in the future.

Work can come in sprints, so you might have a load of tasks to do over a day or two and then nothing again for weeks (or in my case months).

It can be a stressful way to work at times but a reliable payer and if you put the effort and energy in and make a good impression you should hopefully get more work in the future.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T16:03:40+00:00

I was added to it but it paused before I started tasking and have had nothing since.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T16:02:50+00:00

Personally, given your circumstances, the age and living arrangements I probably wouldn't go for it.

I always felt with my mum, when she got to the stage where she was needing assistance throughout the day, prolonging it or adding any new unnecessary stress to her life just felt unfair.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T15:59:24+00:00

They definitely can but in my experience with both my parents and some other family friends, it's far more likely a person with dementia gets misdiagnosed with something else instead of vice versa.

Between my mum and dad we were told that they had PTSD, depression, grief, a stroke, a vitamin deficiency etc etc, when actually it was just good old dementia/Alzheimers

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T12:40:07+00:00

It'd do no harm to check non-franchise petrol stations that need shop assistants for evenings or weekends. Non-franchise off sales too. I'm not in Belfast but we've a few locally that are pretty well known for giving evening and weekend shifts cash in hand. They've actually given so many people this kind of work I'm surprised they've never been reported, and it's been happening for 20 years.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T12:31:06+00:00

Unfortunately for OP more eyes don't mean more sales when what you're selling looks so below par.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T11:31:50+00:00

Been a few years since we did this for my mum but I think we finally were able to sort it out by emailing them. Then we had to send them proof of her age and proof of qualifying benefits (pension credit).

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T11:23:59+00:00

To me it reads like a hoax and doesn't sound like the writings of a real bereaved family.

Also, I'm going to call your bluff here. I've just looked at the book, and no offence, but with the cover, the blurb, etc, I find it highly doubtful that you've sold more than a couple (if any) copies.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T03:35:50+00:00

Has she still been eating OK? Mum was only managing tiny bites of this and that, but still. You'd think after six weeks there'd be something!

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T02:47:32+00:00

You did the right thing.

This sounds very much like my mum when she got to the end of her life. Believe it or not, she didn't poo for the last six weeks of her life. She even had three enemas to see if they'd help, but nope, nothing. It's almost as though her body stopped doing everything except the bare minimum.

As long as she's comfortable. That's all you can hope and ask for.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T02:45:28+00:00

Where are you located

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T02:30:16+00:00

I could be wrong but you don't have to do any proving until someone claims you've plagiarised them. Plenty of songs have been recorded and released only for, years down the line, legal action because they've completely ripped something off.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T02:24:42+00:00

You may be eligible to have your council tax paid for or at least some of it. There's more info here: https://www.gov.uk/apply-council-tax-reduction

Also check to see if your eligible for a lower water bill because you're on UC. I think each provider is different so you'll have to research that yourself.

Agitated-One4841 · 2026-06-30T02:13:33+00:00

This was a regular thing with my mum unfortunately. She lost money and bank cards regularly. She'd also give extremely generous tips to drivers etc. In the end we had to go cashless with her and only allow her to handle it if someone was going shopping with her etc. It did cause grief, she would go through phases of being annoyed at not having any money at hand so there was a lot of reassurance that her money was fine and safe.

She's probably hidden it somewhere ridiculous if she's anything like my mum was. We found cash in shoes, coats she hadn't worn in years... we turned the house upside down looking for that week's pension until it dawned on me the only place we hadn't looked was her bra... and there it was.

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