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puddings_2

aureol212 wrote: »

we are going to feed the ducks tomorrow, me and DS. He brought the loaf of bread upstairs to me today and said we go and feed the ducks?

aww ducks and bread i so want to tell you off but daren't!
have a good day anyway :-)
im doing a trio of supermarkets tomorrow
sainsburys for breakfast, tesco to spend point coupons (they expire tomorrow) and then asda for the main shopping. Theyre all close to one another so theres not much extra petrol involved, and the neighbour goes too and she says that she likes it when we visit all three.

I need to get back onto track with the diet tromorrow, I wont tell you how bad the bingeing's been today cos that will mean that i have to admit it to myself and today im in denial! :-(

Aesop

oh? are you not supposed to feed ducks bread?

oh just remembered my tesco vouchers expire today too! thanks for reminder.

oh dear about bingeing is there a reason for it? I eat when I am upset.

puddings_2

I guess there must be reasons for the stupid way that i eat, but dont know what they all are!

I think tesco have been a bit stingey with the points coupons recently, especially as they have dropped their rewards value from 4x to 3x as well.

Our local Mr T store has blocked the slot for coupons on all the self scan checkouts advising that if you want to use coupons that you must hand them to a member of staff.
Its almost as if somebody has been blatently abusing the coupon system in that store :whistle: ho hum!

Aesop

just researched about bread and ducks....:(

I didn't know, it has always been the thing to do, go and feed bread to ducks. I have grapes which we could feed them instead, but everything else is expensive, mind you so are the grapes.

oh dear DS specifically wants to feed them bread, and i always buy fresh bread, ie cheapest bread from sainsburys to feed them with. not stale or mouldy bread

we haven't been for ages, and he must have remembered today about feeding them. Don't know how the grapes will go down. Whenever we go, there is never any bread left! The ducks eat it all! None on the walkway or the water!

puddings_2

a lot of people feed bread to birds but I think the official line is that you shouldnt do it.

Theres a big duck pond in a park nearby and the council/keeprs put a sign up asking people to only feed small quantites of food to the ducks.
It seems common sense to me but obviously some people need to be told.
An article in the local paper showed huge piles of bread and hundreds of chappatis just dumped on the path at the side ofthe pond and dozens of chapppatis floating on the water, not broken up into bits but whole ones. Lots were all green and mouldy and the council were warning about allthe rats that were being encouraged. Anyway Im really not trying to put you off feeding the ducks, its just in our town its a biot of an unpleasant experience !

puddings_2

I've no idea what they recommend that you feed to the ducks instead of bread. Has somebody suggested grapes?

Aesop

yes, grapes cut in half, wheat, maize, oats, all the expensive stuff!

the RSPB have listed recommended stuff.

I completely agree about the chapatis, and other stuff that people seem to think ducks will eat and especially when they have just left it whole! you have to break everything up for the ducks, and ours, well, they scoff everything! I have never walked away and seen any bread on the footpath or floating on the water!

But we don't go every week and we use fresh bread and not masses of it.

I agree about encouraging rats! In our last flat, we had rats coming in, and DS was only a baby! We lived next to the tube station and they coming over the tracks and through a massive hole in our cupboard and into our cutlery drawer, etc.

When I told my LL, he said Rats? I didn't know you had rats, thought it was mice? I said I told your Son... who obviously hasn't bothered to tell you! We caught one in a mousetrap, that is how we found out we had rats, and it wouldn't die, we had to hit it several times! So yes, completely 100% understand where they are coming from!

My DS knows food he doesn't want to eat, while we are out, goes in the bin, same with rubbish, not on the floor, as we see people doing. He even said the other day, Urgh... as someone had left a sandwich wrapper and empty juice bottle on the seat. He once picked up some rubbish from the floor of the bus and gave it to me, saying Mummy put in her pocket.

My rule is if there is no bin around, he puts his rubbish in my pocket, until we find a bin or get home. he wanted me to put the rubbish in my pocket to throw in the bin... taught him too well!

Aesop

hahahah just seen your Avvi......

puddings_2

sounds like youre a good mum and have brought him up well. shame theres not more like you and him about.

the new avatar! i was playing with a gif editor thingy earlier. I'd had the wobbly man for many years and needed a change. couldnt decide between that one or another one, but went for weein'dog in the end (at least for the time being anyway!)

bedtime now . nitex

Aesop

goodnight puddings.

My mum brought me up the same way, put sweetie wrappers in my pocket until I find a bin, or give them to her to put in her pocket, until she found a bin.

Bless her for teaching me manners. although we don't talk anymore.