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I feel terrible now - maggots in a present
WELSH-DRAGON_2
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I decided this year to be practical when buying gifts and knowing that my husband's relative liked feeding birds instead of the usual smellies I bought some fancy suet and peanut fairy cakes for the birds, packaged in a nice box from pets at home store.
Anyway, get a phone call from another relative and not the receipient to say that they had opened the box, put 2 cakes out for the birds and watched as maggots crawled over the worktops.
Urggghhhh how awful is that and I feel terrible now.
Welshy x
Anyway, get a phone call from another relative and not the receipient to say that they had opened the box, put 2 cakes out for the birds and watched as maggots crawled over the worktops.
Urggghhhh how awful is that and I feel terrible now.
Welshy x
I am the only Voucher Queen in my village LOL 0
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I'm a fisherman so I would of been well chuffed with maggots! :j
I reckon the birds would be pretty happy aswel!
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She rang you to tell you that the xmas present contained maggots? What are you supposed to say to that? Whatever happened to 'thank you very much' and chucking it in the bin on the sly?0
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I wouldn't feel terrible... It wasn't deliberate. Life's a learning curve, you know for next time."We're not here for a long time, we're here for a good time"
"Reach for the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come"0 -
The best present you could give if you ask me.
The relative in question will be able to dine out on that story for ages. (So will you)FREE THE WM30 -
I'm sure the birds will love the maggots!!I'm mad!!!! :rotfl::jand celebrating everyday every year!!!0
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Lord_Gardener wrote:I'm sure the birds will love the maggots!!
Just what I was thinking. Perfect, really!!!!0 -
You can buy live worms for feeding birds - MIL buys them
Birds like maggots.Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
Maybe it was a bird version of a bath bomb?? You know, it looks like a suet and peanut fairy cake on the outside but when it rains, all these maggots come out! Tell them it was MEANT to happen, a little surprise for the birds The world is full of Pink Fluffy Clouds......you just need to open your eyes to see them:)
"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.”0 -
I think its bad that another member of family called you and not the person who received the gift! How rude!
Like others have said, its not your fault and birds do love maggots;)
I would laugh about it. Maybe also draw up a letter to where you bought it from-maybe you will get a refund-but dont tell your relative that:p
Hugs
PP
xxTo repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains!FEB GC/DIESEL £200/4 WEEKS0 -
Ask at pets at home to see if that is common. If the bird food was kept in the warm then thats probably why.
This time of year is usually so cold that maggots would just be dormant and by the good weather noone is feeding the birds anyway.
Dont worry its nothing to do with hygiene or being stingey or anything like that.0
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