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Post by infofreako on Jul 4, 2017 10:40:21 GMT
More senior. Perhaps the owner of the raspberries should just concede that it is an unwritten part of their contract that they supply soft fruits on demand
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Post by londonmzfitz on Jul 4, 2017 11:34:19 GMT
The lady next door has her funeral tomorrow (earlier in this thread I posted about how her 90 year old husband dislocated his hip while messing about in my garden - he was taken to hospital where he stayed for 2 nights, the first night there the wife died after a long and distressing illness)...
Anyhoo - I was away for a couple of days 2 weeks ago seeing Messrs Ball and Boe somewhere near Portsmouth; on my return my son said the funeral would on Wednesday. Double checked with the neighbour "so the funeral is arranged for Wednesday"? - oh, yes, and he's having Some Enchanted Evening played as it was their song, etc, etc. So last Wednesday I rock up to Golders Green Crem to find out it's this Wednesday.
In May I had a hospital appointment for a routine boob squish, but we had dramas at work and I had to cancel that morning and rearrange for today. Got to the hospital, right time, right day - wrong hospital. I'd forgotten I'd changed it. 2 busses and a very steamy walk I got there 25 minutes late.
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Post by d'James on Jul 4, 2017 13:23:41 GMT
My cat's brought in a live mouse and for some reason I've frozen and the mouse has run off. Don't know what to do now. Now I feel sick.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 4, 2017 13:27:29 GMT
My cat's brought in a live mouse and for some reason I've frozen and the mouse has run off. Don't know what to do now. Now I feel sick. Scream. What a rubbish cat! Edit: I've just read the more helpful suggestions below mine and feel a bit guilty so just want to add:- if you do use a trap Malteezers are the absolute best thing - they are easy to attach and mice absolutely love them. True. |
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Post by kathryn on Jul 4, 2017 13:32:43 GMT
My cat's brought in a live mouse and for some reason I've frozen and the mouse has run off. Don't know what to do now. Now I feel sick. Make sure any food you have in the kitchen is in a sealed container - I mean jars/tins/tupperware, as mice can gnaw through most packets. Make sure you use a disinfectant spray to wipe down any food prep surfaces before you use them. Buy a mousetrap. Not sure what you can do about the dozy cat! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 13:33:16 GMT
I don't know how reassuring you'll find this, but mice can actually compress their skeletons to fit through gaps so tiny that you may not even know they're there. Keep your food stuffs shut away (in the fridge ideally), make sure your surfaces are clear of crumbs, and the mouse will have very little reason to hang around. If the cat hasn't already scared it off, the lack of easy food should discourage it further. If you can leave any external doors open too, that should increase its opportunity to flee. If you can still hear the mouse in a day or two, you may want to look into getting a humane trap (nothing that snaps, nothing involving glue!) but I'd bet it's gone already. That's the joy of a cat bringing in a live mouse rather than a half mouse, MUCH less clean up to do!  |
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Post by anita on Jul 4, 2017 13:39:14 GMT
If you catch it in a humane trap make sure you release it quite a distance away or it may return. People say the cat was bringing you a gift.
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Post by d'James on Jul 4, 2017 13:47:39 GMT
I'm used to dealing with the dead animals (except the pigeons) and I was going to deal with this one when it moved and I panicked. I've left the back door open hoping it'll find its way out. I think it was scared of me so I've left it for now. I've given up with the idea of lunch for now haha.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 15:10:58 GMT
Not too late to knock together a quick dish of bubble and squeak...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 15:17:21 GMT
Or a nice ham-ster sandwich!
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 4, 2017 15:19:00 GMT
Not too late to knock together a quick dish of bubble and squeak... Now you're just taking the mickey... |
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Post by michalnowicki on Jul 4, 2017 15:55:53 GMT
Not too late to knock together a quick dish of bubble and squeak... Now you're just taking the mickey... Oooh, I would give rat's ass to taste some of these! |
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Post by infofreako on Jul 4, 2017 21:37:50 GMT
Got offered a job I will quite enjoy that can work alongside my caring role which will hopefully help long term.
Also got approval to work developing an idea I had a hand in creating to run in the UK.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 1:18:43 GMT
Anyone else having a very 'Monday' Monday? on one hand 8 more Mondays until unemployment again...on the other 8 more Mondays woo! I would like to hope there will be a few more Mondays after that. |
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Post by viserys on Jul 5, 2017 7:00:23 GMT
What's worse than an early-morning flight? A late-afternoon flight, making you sit around at home and kill time. Please share some entertaining tales. New raspberry thefts? More live mice in da house?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 7:35:55 GMT
Argh! so a "friend" has taken to posting pictures of her baby alongside the relevant sonogram thingy with the caption '21 weeks in 21 weeks out' and it is a) creepy b) weird. And it just feel the need to share my pain at seeing that again first thing this morning.
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Post by infofreako on Jul 5, 2017 7:45:49 GMT
Argh! so a "friend" has taken to posting pictures of her baby alongside the relevant sonogram thingy with the caption '21 weeks in 21 weeks out' and it is a) creepy b) weird. And it just feel the need to share my pain at seeing that again first thing this morning. I feel your pain. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 7:48:49 GMT
Argh! so a "friend" has taken to posting pictures of her baby alongside the relevant sonogram thingy with the caption '21 weeks in 21 weeks out' and it is a) creepy b) weird. And it just feel the need to share my pain at seeing that again first thing this morning. I feel your pain. I appreciate that.
For 'flavour' this individual told me last year "Well I just resign myself to the fact I can't talk to you about things because you don't have a husband"
OBVIOUSLY my lack of a legal contract with an adult male prevents us talking about the latest episode of Greys Anatomy, or politics, or clothes or [insert generic conversation topics]
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 7:58:07 GMT
For 'flavour' this individual told me last year "Well I just resign myself to the fact I can't talk to you about things because you don't have a husband" To which the correct response is "That's the plan". |
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Post by infofreako on Jul 5, 2017 7:58:24 GMT
That's a very odd thing to say. I didn't realise marriage was vital to communication
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 8:00:10 GMT
For 'flavour' this individual told me last year "Well I just resign myself to the fact I can't talk to you about things because you don't have a husband" To which the correct response is "That's the plan". hehe well as I no longer actively see her socially (if I can help it) it's one that has worked!!
infofreako neither did I but there are a certain demographic of women that once they hit around 30 the having of husbands and Sproglets becomes vital to their ability to speak to you, nay even see you as a real human being...
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Post by viserys on Jul 5, 2017 8:05:35 GMT
Don't you just love these people who don't exist as a single entity and only as part of a Siamese Twin.
A few years ago my former best friend from school turned up on Facebook, or rather, suddenly people were turning up left and right because someone had taken it upon himself to organize a 20th anniversary reunion via Facebook. She friended me (which I couldn't have done the other way round because she like so many tinfoil hat-wearing Germans use weird nicknames on FB instead of their real names) and there was some brief chat about getting together again. But at the same time she was very very (VERY!) busy roping in a new man after separating from the last one and I was made felt so second-best already (I mean, come on, you haven't seen your best friend from school for nearly 20 years?) that I gave up on the very idea of meeting with her again. I also noticed that she very rarely posts a picture of herself, it's only ever her and the bloke (at least the man-hunt was successful it seems). Guh, if I unfriended everyone whose posts consists mostly of couple and/or kiddie pictures, I'd be down to something like ten FB friends. Sorry, rant over. I warned you, I am bored this morning.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 8:08:03 GMT
Oh another classic, that another friend does is the thing where you ask 'How are you' and get 'We are....' in answer to every question. Like I'm going to ask about your husband and kids but you don't have to answer everything as a group thing. You DO exist as a person.
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Post by stefy69 on Jul 5, 2017 8:08:21 GMT
To which the correct response is "That's the plan". hehe well as I no longer actively see her socially (if I can help it) it's one that has worked!!
infofreako neither did I but there are a certain demographic of women that once they hit around 30 the having of husbands and Sproglets becomes vital to their ability to speak to you, nay even see you as a real human being...
For some reason I have an image of Beverly in Abigail's Party going round in my head when I read that.... |
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Post by infofreako on Jul 5, 2017 8:12:40 GMT
I don't understand people who need a child or partner to validate themselves, such a strange concept.
The worst ones are those who spend the years prior to those life events telling anyone they speak to how much they need those things to complete themselves
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