Aftermath chez Wol2 –moving forwards after the flood

boredofbeingathome

ooh, apologies WOL i have only just caught up with your thread. Hope you are ok and my condolences about your friend.x

Wol2

Hi everyone and thanks for all your condolences and good wishes. Funeral is on tuesday next week.

Well I will shortly be coming to the end of my three week "just being me" time...and it's been great having friends down to stay and going out and about to see places of interest and glorious gardens full of rhododendrons and azaleas..... I've also been helped with a few chores I can't do on my own - flood door maintenance, strimming the banks of the stream, moving the piggies outside etc.thanks veryone :A:A.......and Numpty's seeds are all germinating on the window sills...(note only Numpty's seeds have germinated....the one's i sowed are stubbornly refusing to show willing )

But now it's time to pick myself up and get back to earning some dosh, doing some exercise and getting into more of a regular routine......with fewer duvet days!

Dodget bodget and scarper's legacy continues..........A couple of days ago the curtain rail/fixings and pelmet suddenly fell off the lounge wall with a massive crash, Thank goodness I am such a slob and had left the ironing board out...... deflected everything so my poor shocked guest who was sitting on the sofa luckily missed having their head staved in by 2". However the stereo wasn't so lucky and is now waiting to go to the dump as it is completely smashed.

Today Grommie guinea is having his mouth examined and possibly teeth filed by the vet (We.....i.e. his favourite vet Auntie Ro and I.... think it's problems in this area that have been making his weight yo-yo up and down over the last week or so but until he's knocked out and they can look in his mouth properly, we won;t know).

I'm rather anxious because anaesthetics are much riskier in older guineas.......and on checking him in with the nurse this morning wasn't reassured to find she had incorrect operation details on the admissions form :eek: and that a locum vet was going to be doing the op. I felt a bit of a fusspot when I insisted that unless someone experienced with small furries (or "exotics" as they are called) was going to be on hand, then I would rather wait until Auntie Ro was available....but luckily the other vet in today who came to talk to me is a regular and has operated before on my piggies so fingers crossed.

Right today is for getting all those niggly things done that have been hanging around for ages....next job on list is to break down and bag up the bale of hay currently in my car boot.....

Back later

xxxx

Numpty_Monkey

Hi hun

Hope things go ok for Grommie

And that everything goes ok for Tuesday:A:grouphug:

Can you claim on the insurance for things falling off the wall



And my weeds are growing

Wol2

Hi Numpty

Clearly you have green fingers!!


Vet's just rung....Grommie is OK :j:j:j...had some bits filed off his front molars and should be able to pick him up in about an hour.

Meantime.....the RAT is BACK...big time.....have Bailey and Charlie in the run and went outside just now to find the rat inside their cage :eek::eek:(I had left doors open) but it scarpered before i could shut the door and trap him. He (actually I think it's a she) now keeps climbing up and pulling straw out of the cage..while I am watching :mad:

....Wol, scurries off to get secret weapon......

xxx

Numpty_Monkey

:j:j:j:j:j
For Grommie


:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
for rat

The sights on secret weapon are off, like the rest of us old and kanarcked
pic of where it should aim and where it should hit coming soon

Horace

I am glad Grommie is ok now that he's had his gnashers fixed.

As for the rat..being a scientificky type can you concoct something to kill it off I hate rats..they stink and have this horrid skinny tail:eek:

This self employed lark is fab because I can go out and meet people and say that its business - today I went to a lunch in one of the best hotels in Birmingham and as a treat all us ladies were offered a free manicure or file and polish (I opted for file and polish) and being very MSE had spotted a voucher on my plate from the hotel offering me a 2 for 1 on their main courses with a free glass of wine valid for 6 months:cool: Needless to say that ended up in my bag pretty smartish. Got to meet the chef too as I wanted to thank him for a lovely dinner and to get a recipe out of him, he told me how to make chicken with pasta and cream sauce (he made it for me without mushrooms:cool:).

The chap I have been seeing (not the London chap) who was my first boyfriend popped round today on his way to his caravan to drop off a little present for me - it was an Easter present, one large bar of Cadbury's Turkish Delight chocolate because he remembered that at one time it was all I would eat:cool: He couldnt stop long as I had to dash out - pity his car was full of stuff otherwise I would have blagged a lift to town.

Hopefully I will be able to do a mystery shop tomorrow if the bullring is open because it has been closed for the last 2 days because of some chemical incident:rolleyes:

Onwards and upwards...try and have a good weekend...and kill that damn rat:eek:

Numpty_Monkey

Rememeber squeeze the trigger as the barrel and sight raises up and off to the left a lot more, you will notice it jump, If you aim for ratty somewhere around 4:30:rolleyes: on the hour hand of a clock I don't think you'll be that far away

shaun40400

hi wal2
have you tried breeze blocks???
they work well with rats,
1 place breeze block on floor under cage,
2 place 2nd block on roof of cage tied with long strong string!!
3 when rat steps onto block 1 pull sting on block 2
4 result,,,,,rat sandwich
5 when this fails ,,,,ring council:o

ps hows the tribbles:cool::cool:

Wol2

Hi All

Well Grommie is happily munching cucumber - tomorrow he'll get carrots to see what he makes of those!

Freezer is inventoried, so consequently shopping bill was low and consisted mostly of cleaning stuff etc....oh...and wine :D

Lawns are all mowed, and have collected my delivery from the neighbours

So now I'm sitting here with a glass of wine contemplating the best way to "wreck the wrat". Thanks for the advice Numpty Hun..:A..think I will do a bit of practice before I "go for gold". Need to be careful not to injure piggies with any ricochet..... esepcially as Wroddie is only ever in view when outside the piggie cages. However, I could try putting a bowl of food on the floor in front of the cages (and taking piggies out)....this worked well a couple of years ago.:whistle::whistle:

Shaun....that's a great idea about the brieze blocks .....but this is a BIG rat that moves rather quickly so as the council are lousy wratters and this wrat has already eaten three whole bags of bait, perhaps if we adapt your idea slightly.......how about a large stone held up by a twig with string attached ? :shhh::shhh::D

Horace...yum yum.......big bars of cadbury TD are two for £2.50 special offer in Sainsbury's atm (says Wol guiltily looking in her cupboard stuffed full from this afternoon's shop )
and :eek::eek::eek::eek:....chemical incident closes Bullring for two days???!!! Hmmmm...I'd steer clear and check the wind direction if I were you before you venture back in there :cool:
Great to hear you're getting out and about ....I love being self employed because of the flexibility....

xxxx

Numpty_Monkey

Guess thats that bin of compost thats burggered, if its eaten its way through 3 bags of nasty stuff:eek:

Shaun if a anything moves quickly,
its pointless mentioning councils in the same year let alone in the same post:rotfl: