Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

michaels

WS did I ever tell you how witty and intelligent your posts are and how attractive you are?

wageslave wrote: »

I been offered 30k as an advance on a book.

I phoned up and they thought I was complaining. They actually apologised and went on about the present economic climate

lostinrates

There has just been a police chase down our tiny rural road....its gone past our house, round the bend, past my field and off down the road further down, which will take it back to where they came from. I wonder if they'll come around again? Our local police station closed down...I wonder where they could send a car from to intercept.....if its just the car and the police car they could go round for ages!

lostinrates

They didn't come back.

That's about as exciting as it gets here. Not as exciting as the night a car rally came though without telling us. note: however angry you are do not use flash camara to secure evidence of crazy drivers at night...v. dangerous to them.

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

There has just been a police chase down our tiny rural road....

It happens. Some time I'll tell you how I got my party of 70 school children mixed up in a police chase for armed robbers in Lulworth Cove....
It's a long one and I've no time now, but to save any suspense, the robbers were caught.

Police stopped an old granny in an Aygo in front of me today. No idea why, but I suppose I've just got used to all the mad & sloppy driving around here.;)

What I really meant to say was sorry you have had problems with the finances on this one. I suppose those have to come in front of the potential problems with the planners too. 'Tis a minefield!:(

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

What I really meant to say was sorry you have had problems with the finances on this one. I suppose those have to come in front of the potential problems with the planners too. 'Tis a minefield!:(

One wonders how worth it it is frankly!

lostinrates

Well, today is a day that will go dowe in village history. The car chase and then the tale of the ''well cared for'' dog. There was a dog in the road, I stopped and had a look to see who it could belong too...there was noone around. By road I of course mean rural lane, on which I know very cat, dog and wild deer. I don't know the rabbits individually, but I'd have a good go with the pheasants. If I don't know where the dog is from, its not here.

So I drove into the village with dog, pathetically grateful to be greeted, and asked if it belonged to ''the big village'', I corner the young Grande dame of the village. we all love her, her word is final on all matters not to do with farm machinery, she should have inherited ''the big house'', don't you know.

anyway. Nope, no one knows the dog. Some of our naighbours had a dog that looked a little like this one...but it died about 12 years ago. Chances are this isn't it. Someone else might have lost a labrador about 5 years ago...this is a terrier.

The village is in up roar...is this a ''well cared for dog''? or is it dumped here? I point out that the dog is a rather corpulant person of a dog, a great snuggler and despite being a little smelly shows signs of being ''rather well loved'' and thus qualifies as ''well cared for''. It has no tattoo, or tag, and its nails MIGHT be a little long, pronounces the woman who has been called in as a terrier expert. She has some sort of terrier, thus is the terrier expert. It is queried over and over again, is the collar and corpulence and snuggliness a balance for the lack of tag, and possibly long nails, and obvious loss, of the dog. Several people start to vie for terriers affection. Terrier seems happy to love and snuggle everyone equally. The question of ''well cared for'' is silently pushed aside. It is clear we will not agree, and to not agree outside the bar or host's dining table is not good form, so we stop discussing it.

Terrier expert sensibly suggests we have it scanned for a chip. She then goes on to list all the people who could do this if they were a: alive, b: not on holiday c: owner a scanner. I suggest it goes to one of the local vets. Vets is seen as a reasonably good comprimise. Someone might even have called the vets to notify of a missing dog. ''If its well cared for'' raises terrier expert's neighbour.

So now the prickly question of who should take the terrier. Terrier expert is keen, I'm the dog's finder, thus in pole position, but really....don't like ''The'' vet that is pronounced on as acceptable by The Grande Dame. Grande Dame is keen too, I can sense it. I tentatively nominate Grande Dame, after all, I say, people are most likely to call her to enquire about missing dogs, as our natural leader, (of course I phrase it more deliately.) Grande Dame beams, and throws of her apron with something not unlike gay abandon. After all, there is a chicken pot pie in the freezer, for emergencies such as this. Seretly I think Grande Dame rather fancies keeping the terrier. She'd like a dog, and is in a position to have one for the first time, but would never buy one. dogs either happen along or they don't.

Terrier Expert, leaves, a little disgruntled. With instructions to the Grande Dame (we're terribly egalitarian, one is allowed to make pronouncements on the area of expertise) to tell the vet it might be part Austrailian terrier. Or part Yorkie. Or possibly a sort of Wheaten cross.


I am now following the explicit instructions to receive a telephone call to inform me of the outcome.

Somewhere, out there, some poor walker has lost a dog and has no idea their dog has wandered into ''The Archers'' and will doubtless get a page in our parish magazine.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, todayis a day that will go done in village history. The car chase and then the tale of the ''well cared for'' ......................

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I think you are amazing LIR And I don't care how that sounds. Deff .....LIR Rocks.:cool::dance::dance:

I have V Good news today too but am eating whilst reading right now so will have to wait until later.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

OK, I just deleted a post by accident;

FC I laughed my pants off about you and ginger. Hence forth Pink Whistley is y Creative manager, and Special old horse is Logistics Manager.

Sj I missed ya too.

Wage slave, congrats? Are we in it?

Second old girl-horse gave me the fright of my life this morning, thought she was on her way out. She was lying on the floor and let me hug her (she is most definitely not a huggy sort of horse, nor a trusting one, so being able to get near her lying down was a bit odd and worrying)Went to get a headcollar to bring her in and then couldn't catch her for her hooning around. so all seems ok.

A horse just lieing down on the floor would freak me out big time. What do their legs do? Their teeth scare me too...the way the lips curl back and just big strong teeth showing.

Conrad isn't too bad.....he just seems to know quite a few ins and outs in lending......but accept that he :)may not be the correct broker for you.

Ginger is being a very mean, disloyal Brand Manager at the moment as he spends 80% of his life at Deirdre's a few doors down. I think he prefers it as it has Palais de Versailles design references. He spends most of his time on a nice retired, baby boomer lap that isn't jumping up and down every 10 mins.....cos it just missed being a cosy BB.
He comes in for outrageously priced processed cat food pouches (and only eats the jelly bit, leaving the bits) and at night to sleep on the walnut bed as, I guess, hubby of Deirdre won't let him sleep over.

You going to rent something or live wild in a camper van on the land whilst you build? I am guessing self build will take a year?

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

A horse just lieing down on the floor would freak me out big time. What do their legs do? Their teeth scare me too...the way the lips curl back and just big strong teeth showing.

Conrad isn't too bad.....he just seems to know quite a few ins and outs in lending......but accept that he :)may not be the correct broker for you.

Ginger is being a very mean, disloyal Brand Manager at the moment as he spends 80% of his life at Deirdre's a few doors down. I think he prefers it as it has Palais de Versailles design references. He spends most of his time on a nice retired, baby boomer lap that isn't jumping up and down every 10 mins.....cos it just missed being a cosy BB.
He comes in for outrageously priced processed cat food pouches (and only eats the jelly bit, leaving the bits) and at night to sleep on the walnut bed as, I guess, hubby of Deirdre won't let him sleep over.

You going to rent something or live wild in a camper van on the land whilst you build? I am guessing self build will take a year?

Really, FC...what do YOUR legs do when you lie down? Or Gingers?

Mainly horses lie either flat on their sides with all four legs out in front...like they were standing IYSWIM, or sit/lie on tummies, a bit like a cat on a window sill. Their legs don't curl up quite the same though. Watching a horse get up/lie down or when they roll always makes me laugh: they are so unnoble, or fleet, or anything we think of as ''horsey'' while doing those things.

It was more the not standing up that worried me. Grumpy old girl is not a cuddly horse, it wouldn't have surprised me if special girl hadn't stood up, but grumpy girl is less trusting, many owners never get near any of their horses laying down. Its a big sign of either trust or illness generally! Knowing grumpy girl I was sure it was illness. :rotfl:

Self build can't START for three years. That is the'' law ''of ag. planning. Also, have to show serious profit within that time to get permission to build at all. This is the catch 22, eg, moving stock to somewhere you are not, you are leaing a lot of valuable ''stuff'' alone...wih horse businesses even harder....noone wants their horse to go somewhere where there are limited facilities and certaonly noone living on site. Its not usual for common or garden ponies to be worth 5 figure sums now (or to be sold at that value of not actually ''worth it''). who wants to leave somethin so valuable at a place where noone is....outside, or locked in a stable, ripe for anyone to arrive in a lorry at 2 in the morning, load up and drive away with it? Its very scary, and no small issue in making a business with some equine income viable.

edit: the lips curling back is a flehmen.....have you ever seen Ginger do smell face after a wash? Sort of holding his mouth open a little and looking a little cross? That's he same thing. Crudely, its a way of smelling /sensing things better. If you don't want horses to do it don't give them unusual things to eat or change your perfume too often, lol

vivatifosi

Ooh lir, can't wait for an update on the terrier. If its nails are long my guess is it doesn't get walked very often, so maybe belongs to an old person and got out. Need to know the answer...