Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

chevalier

Horace wrote: »

and then need to spend time trying to be MSE and fix my suitcase as there is a massive crack by one of the wheels and I am too mean to buy another new one (this one bought in Spain last year and used once)...some fibreglass gloop should do the trick.

or you could have a look on your local freecycle to see if they have one

Nargleblast

Good morning Wol, here's a guinea pig joke for you. Well, it's sad from the guinea pig's point of view but the rest I found quite amusing.

A woman and her little girl took their sick guinea pig to the vet. The vet examined him then shook his head and said "I'm sorry, he is a very sick piggie, it would be kindest to put him to sleep." At this the little girl started sobbing. Her mother said " I want a second opinion if you don't mind!" The vet said, " Well, I've got my pet labrador next door, he is an expert on guinea pigs, I'll get him to have a look." This big black labrador strolled in, put his paws on the table, sniffed the guinea pig all over, made several quiet growly noises then left. The vet said "No, he agrees with me, there's nothing we can do." The little girl sobbed louder, and Mum demanded a third opinion. The vet said "Well, there is also my cat Pussums, he has a degree in rodentology, he can have a look." In came the cat, jumped on the table and licked the guinea pig all over then made several quiet miaows before going out. The vet said "Same again, this guinea pig is beyond anyone's help. I am so sorry." The mother and the little girl then sadly agreed the guinea pig should be sent off to a permanent sleep. After the deed was done, the receptionist handed the mother the bill. The mother looked at it and said " How much?? £500 quid?" The receptionist said, " Well, he did have a lab test and a CAT scan....."

Lemon_Tree

sorry to hear what you've been going through with your mum Wol, seems like we sometimes need to turn down their volume settings or just hang up on them for our own sanity.

Karmacat

Turning down their volume settings........ I like that

Wol - it was good on here last night - poor Numpty being accused of spraying all over the toilet walls tho :eek:

As Horace said - tumours in your bonce are bad. Did you see that bloke in his 20s on BBC news recently? "The man who couldn't stop hiccuping" - he'd been hiccuping every couple of minutes for about two years, and when he first went on tv to appeal for help, he looked like a vampire, he couldn't sleep or do anything coherent at all. A Japanese doctor scanned him, turned out he had a tiny (benign!!!) tumour on the brainstem - he found a doctor in this country willing to do the op, I think, and he came back on tv afterwards, ecstatic that he could play guitar with his band in his mate's garage again. The simple things in life..........

Heartily recommend rug thumping as an antidote to the guilt, by the way :j

Lots andlots of hugs and good vibes.
xxx

Wol2

Horace wrote: »

Wol - stop feeling guilty - its not your fault, none of it is your fault..things happen and if you put your foot in it then that's not a problem either..concentrate on you and your piggies and basically f*ck everyone else (not in the literal sense but you know what I mean). You will be wearing a hair shirt soon as penance for your perceived guilt (where are the roll eyes when you need them?)..mind if any one needs a hair shirt its your flippin' mother:mad: That woman has the subtlety of a lead balloon.

Do you have rugs in your house? If so sling them over the washing line and beat the carp out of them..its wonderfully therapeutic as you can imagine the person's face on them - if they have caused you grief and angst. This is a win win situation - you let your frustrations out and the rugs get cleaned.

Any kind of tumour in your bonce isnt good - so keep taking your meds as you need it to be smaller than a puy lentil. Keep your chin up and don't let them drag you down.

Cheers Horace much appreciated :beer::beer:....didn;t beat the rug today - but the central heating went down :eek:.....so I have been madly decluttering and hoovering all the rooms so the engineer can access all the radiators tomorrow

As for the hair shirt - Muffin and Beechie have promised to donate their spring moult

Hope you;re back home safe after you're busy day - and you didn;t get snowed upon.

As for the "pah and pants" pink suitcase :mad: - if superglue and gaffa tape don;t work ......(I believe its now called duck tape - but you need the industrial strength stuff - we used it all the time at Brum uni to tape down all the cables for an event)........ I'd go with Chev's idea :beer:. In fact I'll kepp an eye open down here - Tunbridge wells and Guildford freegles have choice stuff - clearly no sign of a recession down here in view of the number of people chucking out year old kitchen appliances......anyone want a Bosch dishwasher?

Hugs to you Hun....keep the faith :grouphug:

xxx

Wol2

chevalier wrote: »

or you could have a look on your local freecycle to see if they have one

Oooh chev - there' s been a big bust up and a lot of freecycle groups have left and formed freegle instead.....:shhh:

Lovely to hear from you :j:j. How's you Hun and how is life down under? Are you having a good summer or is it being rather wet?


Hugs to you...:grouphug:..I know its been a tough transition and would love to hear how you;re doing now. Hopefully you and the family are now starting to feel settled - I do hope so - and you;ve started building your "new network" (minus the snotty cows :rotfl::rotfl:)
xxxx

Wol2

Nargleblast wrote: »

Good morning Wol, here's a guinea pig joke for you. Well, it's sad from the guinea pig's point of view but the rest I found quite amusing.

A woman and her little girl took their sick guinea pig to the vet. The vet examined him then shook his head and said "I'm sorry, he is a very sick piggie, it would be kindest to put him to sleep." At this the little girl started sobbing. Her mother said " I want a second opinion if you don't mind!" The vet said, " Well, I've got my pet labrador next door, he is an expert on guinea pigs, I'll get him to have a look." This big black labrador strolled in, put his paws on the table, sniffed the guinea pig all over, made several quiet growly noises then left. The vet said "No, he agrees with me, there's nothing we can do." The little girl sobbed louder, and Mum demanded a third opinion. The vet said "Well, there is also my cat Pussums, he has a degree in rodentology, he can have a look." In came the cat, jumped on the table and licked the guinea pig all over then made several quiet miaows before going out. The vet said "Same again, this guinea pig is beyond anyone's help. I am so sorry." The mother and the little girl then sadly agreed the guinea pig should be sent off to a permanent sleep. After the deed was done, the receptionist handed the mother the bill. The mother looked at it and said " How much?? £500 quid?" The receptionist said, " Well, he did have a lab test and a CAT scan....."

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Well I liked it Nargle





............................................but I don;t think Beechie is amused

Wol2

Sorry I'm a bit late in replying to this Horace - but you haven't been forgotten

Horace wrote: »

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I need to get some brown paper from the shop so that I can package the towels to send to Ginge & Co.:D I havent forgotten, I have been doing other things

No worries Hun.....as and when...it's very generous of you and thank you :kisses3: (by the way Grommie insists on refunding you the postage please)

like sorting out the travel agent and Thomas Cook and his sneaky £2 charity donation which I have eventually managed to get refunded:mad: Flippin' cheek I like to donate to my favourite charities and not be told that I am making a donation.

Atta girl - don;t take no carp from these people :T:T.

May well have some audio typing work which is money for old rope but it will at least keep me afloat.

Needs must and all that........good that you have other sources of income you can tap into when it suits....and wow - you are so multi-talented :T

Plan this week is to go to a breakfast meeting on Wednesday (2 bus trips) as there is someone I want to see and I want him to come and see me to discuss finances. Unfortunately for me I have a bit of money in a savings account but I can easily touch it and it is starting to be frittered away:eek: so I need to put it somewhere where I can't access it.

If he gets commission on the sale make sure he cuts you in on the deal (my IFA always gave me a cash payment representing a percentageof his commission )

Need to spend time today working out why my business email no longer works properly - it was ok yesterday but today is pants.

Where are the confused smileys when you need them ....Cue Z!!!!

Decided this morning that I will package up some of the trains that I acquired in the auction and send them to a dressmaker in Bradford (she is on MSE) to see if she can make use of them...it may be a freebie but could get a lot of good will. Need also to look at the new auction site that I found that has free listings and then I can photograph other bridal bits and stick them on there.

You could always ask her for a "donation" :D

As for parents being as they are - mine are the same, had a chat with mother on phone yesterday and she rudely reminded me that I made the decision to get married at aged 25 to someone who had extremely old parents and it was to be expected that everything that he did was a case of mind my own flippin business (words that he uttered every single day)...in other words you made your bed so jolly well lie in it.
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Me and my sis get the "well life is tough and you just have to get on with it" (to be interpreted as "don;t expect any sympathy from me" :rotfl::rotfl:)

I have never produced kids either - it sounds harsh but I didnt want any because I didnt want her controlling them like she has controlled me (insert banned rolleyes smilie). It must be driving her nuts that I am now keeping my distance:rotfl:

Similar decision but in this case it was because the partner i was with was a completely abusive control freak and there was NO way i was going to get pregnant and give him even more reasons/methods for control. Thankfully I finally managed to exit that one 10 years ago.......but by that time it was a bit too late to consider offspring...and i had to make up for 9 lost years (financially, career, mentally and the rest)

Things will come right for you hun - I just know it...so go and get your hair done chuck and get that new job.

Not heard anything yet but hope I get an interview just to boost my confidence in my CV. However I have been secretly networking ...and received insider information and I think that this could be an "already done" deal (and to be honest the person I think will be applying for the job is far more suited to it than me because they have already been doing the job for the last 6 months)

Thinking about it in view of current circumstances, I'm not sure I'd ready to take on such a political and stressful role with all the hours at this moment in time (you know the landscape Horace... it;s got the scarey potential for pre-breakfast meetings right through to late night networking....6am til midnight = 18 hour day :eek:)...I have furry dependents you know .....and I want to do this rodentology course.......and I'm also hoping the Ombudsman will come up trumps and I can get a large amount of building work done in the spring.

Like I said I'll be happy to get the experience of interview as one of the "candidate make-up-the-numbers fodder"...and it could be that i will then be able to apply to be part of the executive team (to be advertised and appointed at a later date )..which would suit me much better

Nevertheless I do seriously need to think about sources of income from 31st March onwards and pretty sharpish :eek:. If push comes to shove I can survive until end of this year but that would eat into my savings earmarked for my pension

However - you can;t take it with you and life is for living :cool:

Hope you;re Ok Hun

xxxx

GeorgeUK

Hi Wol, hope you're feeling okay.
Any sign of Z around? I think he's been missing out on some blatant innuendo here in the last few days.

I'm going to try starting on the cleaning once things have quitened down at work.

g'night.

Wol2

Horace wrote: »

Numpty: Does that mean you've been taught to pee properly..into the bowl and not on the wall, the floor, the ceiling:rotfl::rotfl::eek: (sorry I couldn't resist:rotfl:).

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Oh alright then....:o.. I should really put the record straight shouldn;t I - having [STRIKE]cast aspidistras[/STRIKE] made such wicked innuendos about Numpty's character:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::p....sorry Numpt but it was a giggle

Numpty is a lovely (and very well-trained ) house guest :kisses3:...and he is welcome here any time :T:T..(as he knows )......


.......I just wish his furry nephews and nieces would learn from his example :rotfl::rotfl:.

...........well not the "eating pizza and chips" but ...the "other stuff":rotfl::rotfl:

xxxxx