Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

Karmacat

Wow, Horace, it sounds like you have your work cut out for you tooo.... my mum blathers at me a lot on the phone - but just now, she's sent a little care package to me, of paracetemol, lemsip, lockets, cough sweets - its a really nice thing. I mustn't grumble!

Lula! Tee hee..... a hop, skip and a jump, hey? Its amazing that there's so many of us in the South East. Well, I suppose not, but it just seems odd to marry up real places to the people on here. Maybe I actually think I'm talking to myself on here ? Let me know when the men in white coats get here....... :rotfl:

Lula-Hula

Karmacat wrote: »

Wow, Horace, it sounds like you have your work cut out for you tooo.... my mum blathers at me a lot on the phone - but just now, she's sent a little care package to me, of paracetemol, lemsip, lockets, cough sweets - its a really nice thing. I mustn't grumble!

Lula! Tee hee..... a hop, skip and a jump, hey? Its amazing that there's so many of us in the South East. Well, I suppose not, but it just seems odd to marry up real places to the people on here. Maybe I actually think I'm talking to myself on here ? Let me know when the men in white coats get here....... :rotfl:

KC - they'll be on their way as soon as they've wrestled me into one of those lovely coats with the extra long sleeves :rotfl:

Karmacat

Hurray, we'll meet face to face! Oops, we'll be in padded cells in no time :rotfl:with warm wrists :rotfl:

GeorgeUK

Hmmm, I was going to the Edinburgh meet, bit... is it safe??
I know it's nearing Christmas and all, but is everyone going to be crackers?

Karmacat

Crackers, crisps, nuts - I've just done a lightspeed survey, can you tell :p

Horace

Brrr....I am not going to scottie dog land am staying home where it is relatively warm..I do so love it when the downstairs neighbours put their electric heaters on full blast..it means that I can pad around in bare feet and be warm:rotfl:

Had the breakfast meeting this morning but it was dark and I hate driving even a short distance in the dark so I dragged my ski jacket out (lovely and warm, it was free - after I took the shop to court..long story but the shopkeeper never came to collect it:j, it also got ripped after a tobogganing accident). and set off at 7.15 arrived at destination at 7.45am..a good 2 mile walk, walked home too and then walked the 1.5 miles to the hairdressers..now my neck is feeling a little cold due to being cut short..graduated bob which is extremely short and shaved at the back:eek:).

I met an idiot this morning..if he thinks that I will do the ISO9000 with him then he has another thing coming..he was a thoroughly nasty whiny devil - he moaned that his breakfast didnt arrive and during the 1:1 pointed out that my business name sounded like a mental illness - so me being me turned around and said "oh really, I was suffering from a mental illness when I set up my business and anyway it was obvious to me that he was so uneducated that he never did Latin at school":rolleyes: He moaned too about his daughter being 32 and getting married and he didnt see the point of her having a nice dress so he was going to give her £2000 to pay for it and asked me if I would do it so I said no as I don't organise low end market weddings:rotfl:.One thing though I do have his business card..he liked to brag about his cards because they have his photo on them...cool..it will give me something to aim for when I am hammering nails into bits of wood:rotfl:

Not much work done today..spent a good few hours in the hairdressers - the colour sale was still on:j so I saved £25:cool:, have been thawing out and slobbing on the sofa:rolleyes:

My parents are stubborn old sticks..mum is creative and gave me an ornament for my christmas tree that she had made (actually it was something that I had given her years' ago which she glued together and decorated)..I love her to bits even though she irritates the hell out of me:rolleyes:

Wol2

Hi All

Hope to reply later to individual posts.

Numpty's luck is clearly spreading as I was invited to a day at the races yesterday by a former client. Lovely day and I ended up £48 up (I only placed two bets and both came in :j:j)

Now normally piggies prefer to wee on someone else rather than themselves, as I'm sure both Numpty and Lula will testify :rotfl::rotfl:however I noticed Beech was a bit wet when I lifted him out of his cage late yesterday evening. Over the next hour he developed serious problems with his guts (impaction/blockage) and i rushed him to my usual vet at 1.30am for some heavy duty pain relief . Bang went the £48 and then some :rolleyes2. Finally got to bed at 5am after spending three hours with olive oil and cotton buds gently trying to clear some of it _pale_...pheeeaaawwww...so so gross.. _pale_. Still, he appeared grateful of my ministrations .(maybe it;s just because by that time he couldn;t feel anything as the painkiller had cut in :rotfl::rotfl:) as he started [STRIKE]weeing on me[/STRIKE] making purring noises :cool: ..He is back there today for X ray and if necessary a proper "unblocking" :eek:....

Have just checked Bandit to find signs he is developing the same problem , It could be due to antibiotics, the nadgering iteself or just because some boars (e.g. Maple ) wipe their bums on the ground a lot to leave their mark .


Need to get my act together as I am alarmingly behind on work and housework and don;t seem to have done anything since flood alert saturday apart from washing and disinfecting towels/carriers/cages every time a pig is moved and observe/check and feed all the pigs, collect poos (one way or another :rotfl:) and travel to and from the vets..

No word on the test results from the other vet who is not in again today.:mad:

I am so so tired ...physically and mentally atm....'tis not the best of days for inspecting/cleaning piggie bottoms ...but, don;t fret my friends, I will refrain from posting the gross details :cool:
xxx

Tixy

:eek:_pale__pale__pale_Ewwww - my word what a task to undertake with a cottonbud. Poor you Wol, one thing after another - hope specialist vet comes back with results soon. Good luck with it.

Horace

Glad you had a good day at the races and its a pity the money was spent on vets bills:rolleyes: All your talk about piggy poo has put me right off my cheapo Aldi jammy dodger:rolleyes:

Got up relatively early this morning and it was foggy and gloomy so left the car at home and walked 2 miles to the doctors to see the gorgeous male doctor who confirmed my suspicions that his dad was who I thought his dad was and how I used to work with him when I worked at the university. He took my blood pressure which was normal and I was rather pleased as it was a good walk I had this morning and all uphill:D Came home and then had to get the car out to go into the village (a bit too far to walk) to go to the chemist, (parked on tesco for free), nipped to bank, the butchers (my freezer is stocked up and I got some new meat - some flat rib which is yummy when slowly roasted according to the butcher so I hope he's right), went to the co-op and bought a few bits in there, went to the primrose hospice shop and bought a paperback book and a packet of gorgeous christmas cards - I thought that they were triangular but on getting them home discovered that they form a pyramid of robins:cool: I was really miffed in Tesco as I went to the whoopsie shelf and got some bits, then I stopped off for some organic rye bread (I can eat it til the cows come home) and then went to the check out. Got served by this wierd looking kid who looked as though he had two black staples in his bottom lip..so I asked him if he had been in an accident..oh the embarassment when I discovered that they were a facial adornment (disfigurement if you ask me because they weren't attractive) - I ended up having a row at the check out too as it seems that the items on the whoopsie shelf hadnt been reduced so I pointed out that they shouldnt have been placed on the shelf which clearly states that everything on it is reduced and that they should have remained on their normal shelves..I was like rumpelstiltskin, the annoying thing was that I needed the stuff so got it anyway at full price but I have told them that I will be making a complaint to Tesco. I am glad that I went to the butcher though as the meat there is much nicer and cheaper than the stuff they sell in Tesco..I had a look at the meat on the whoopsie shelf and it was looking decidedly not nice and was dearer than the butcher:rolleyes:

Off now to write to Tesco.

Wol..stuff the housework, run yourself a hot bath, sling something nice in it (e.g original source lavender foam bath) and go and have a wallow and an early night:D

Karmacat

Horace :eek::eek: sympathies on the Tesco thingybobs - they have no sense. I've been having a right moan at Tesco Direct, who at one point were being actively rude to me, and they've just realised quite how much they're in the wrong, and are putting it right now. Did I mention I hate Tesco?

Wol - you sound like you're coping brilliantly. Housework doesn't matter, gross details don't matter (much, lol) just take care of yourself, work on getting some sleep.

xxx