Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

Pippilongstocking

EssexHebridean wrote: »

What happened to the mouse?! I'm sure there was a mouse!

There were both mice and guinea pig - now rehomed.........one in a tummy, one in a kilt, one in a tiny paper coffin under a peedie tree

ZTD wrote: »

Perhaps the puffin ate it. And the wombat.

Womat left of their own accord - too many puffin!

Karmacat wrote: »

Pippi, can I ask ... *why* do you have the weird stuff in your freezer? I feel completely thick in asking ... is it part of the PhD thesis? animal food? Curiosity? Do tell ....

Ok well if truth be told we've a long history of this kind of behaviour.

It all started when I use to keep mice (willow catkins) in the freezer as a child - which I guess doesn't really count as they were really vegetarian mice being willows.

Then I married a farmer (many years later not as a child bride you understand) on an island - and when you live in remote island places - storage of all types especially freezers become like a filing cabinet - anytihng you want the vet to look at (if dead) you put in there for the next time they come, lamb colostrum for pet lambs - rodents and mice killed round the farm to bait traps for things like licensed traps for 'hoody crows' that predate lambs on islands as we've no foxes/etc the predators change a bit (eg when we lived on the island otters and hooded crows and eagles were the main predators) we didn't obviously trap otters - that would be very naughty.

Anyway - as time progressed - my husband changed jobs and we moved and he worked for a national bird conservation charity.

Within that lifetime, we had sea eagle poo (to see what they'd been eating to assure farmers there were no baby lamb bones in the skatt), eagles (dead which had been caught on live electricity wires) and various things in freezer to eat and not eat - research if you like for other bods in said charity.

Moving on to now - the variety of dead things changed wth my ex-partner (not husband) who also worked for said birdie charity. Often beach bird surveys etc if some thing odd came up it went into the freezer - he'd be known to bring me home dead puffins (the relationship didn't last - I wonder why?) so I could look at them close up etc.

Moving to now - a bit of that overlap still exists - but also my ds pet died and we moved so we didnt want to bury him there - eventually he ended up buried but in between times he was frozen in the freezer. Other stuff we've mainly been given as I was learning to identify birds at work - and one of the guys thought it part of my learnign to bring me in dead stuff to identify from his home - word spread and occassionally I get a dead bird on my desk, which I don't mind as a local guy who teaches is happy to have htem for his bird id class.

Essentially then I'm just a frozen holding station:rotfl:

Well you did ask

Anyway - I drove head first into a snow drift when I tried to get into my track - 1 hour later - a neighbour - two children, two dogs a couple of spades and a rake we've managed to dig, reverse, dig, reverse etc it out enough to put it up at the top of the road 1/4 mile away.

Windy, hail/snow and more to come

Never a dull moment.

Pippilongstocking

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

I'm wondering about the census jobs, i'd have to get permission from professional standards at work which could take a while and could also upset a few apple carts, but the money would be good.

came home early from work today cos of feeling icky, had hoped to be able to stick it out but wasn't to be.

I hope you're OK - and go for it with the census job - would you have to let them know?

Karmacat

Hope both Pippi and LT are okay.... Pippi, thanks for explaining about the dead stuff - its the kind of thing that, cos I've always worked in cities/towns - I just don't know about I now have something to freak out the family over Christmas they've heard of my mate in Orkney that I met at the local railway station :kisses3:

Lemon_Tree

please be careful and be safe Pippi, hate to see anything happening to you.
Best go, OH has decided we must wrap gifts NOW and i have to do it for him. Back soon.

Pippilongstocking

Lol sorry - it was only a 'peedie' snow drift - about 1 1/2 foot - the car couldn't cope - mind on it was upto the top of me wellies!

I dunno if its normal 'country' behaviour - either!

Karmacat

It probably isn't normal country behaviour, but it will still freak them out I like that, I have to have some fun




EDIT - thats not to make fun of what *you're* doing - I just thought, ooh, they know that kind woman that got off the train to meet me, and they know its the same one that sent the sage - thisll kind of round the picture out :o:o my family aren't goodlifers, no sirree.





SECOND EDIT - I'll get my coat, and not say anything. Sorry.

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

It probably isn't normal country behaviour, but it will still freak them out I like that, I have to have some fun




EDIT - thats not to make fun of what *you're* doing - I just thought, ooh, they know that kind woman that got off the train to meet me, and they know its the same one that sent the sage - thisll kind of round the picture out :o:o my family aren't goodlifers, no sirree.





SECOND EDIT - I'll get my coat, and not say anything. Sorry.

I'd have as much fun with it as you can!!:rotfl:

I'm bad like that too

Mind you my family are shocked that I know vegetarians and English ones at that - I dunno (in their minds) which is worse:rotfl:

Families are funny aren't they - you should have seen their face when I said one of our weddings earlier this year was a same sex one.
:rotfl:

Karmacat

Oh that would *definitely* freak my mother out. My sister's best man is now gay and in a long term relationship, and he's proved one of the best supports she's had in the recent troubles - she'd definitely be cool with that.

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Oh that would *definitely* freak my mother out. My sister's best man is now gay and in a long term relationship, and he's proved one of the best supports she's had in the recent troubles - she'd definitely be cool with that.

Yeah wierd eh - my sibiling was gobsmaked - as the girls were with us for a weekend, he had no idea they were a couple - the classic comment was that they were (after they left)

......For lesbians they were really OK I guess, even if one of them was English and the other ain (one) Irish, richt braw lassies.

Mind on though - I dunno how he would have coped if they'd been veggie as well.

Folk are funny - he's younger than me, and so very old fashioned - very tolerant - very friendly but very old fashioned!!!

ETA am glad your sis has a nice support chap xx

Pippilongstocking

Money money money money money

This week

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aside a massive fight with 1st Credit sneaky barstewards

extra work on 2 days this week so far - if I get in another 2 to go - only 4 hours a day - but every penny counts
1 doz eggs sold, two more promised
One day no go anywhere - no petrol spent (£4 saved)
lunch taken in at work
HC air dried
Mainly freezer teas

One cc cleared - the other one needing work

aside that - not much money to report.