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A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues
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lizzyb1812 wrote: »The narrow page is due to the masthead change but we have the option to change back to wide:
Go to UserCP
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Go to Miscellaneous Options
Look at Forum Skin and select New Masthead, stretchy from the drop down menu
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Thanks for that Ive now got page back to normal size, if it wernt for you I hadnt got a clue how to alter it....:T0 -
Evening Toughies
Sorry to hear of people's ills and troubles - hoping for speedy recoveries, on both counts!
Today's Freebie: The Chinese Society at Uni were having a New Year Celebration (which I was invited to) which included entertainment in the form of dragon dancing, but no music (!!!Noise pollution, apparently!?) balloons, fire dancing and a free buffet. Oooh it was luverly - but thank goodness I was near the front, because they ran out of food half way through the queue
(no, I didn't snaffle it all, or fill my pockets, or boots either 
) Met some lovely new people; 4hrs of my life well spent I reckon.
I still have apples in my apple store which I really should do something about as they are going a tad soft now. But, that will have to wait until the weekend.
The weekend will bring another "freebie"; heard last night that someone has a lone chicken which needs re-homing and I've been chosen as adoptive mother. Chook will come with pellets, mite powder and don't know what else, but I'm confident she will fit in with my own flock (after a period of quarantine and then free-ranging integration). Lucky me!!
Did my good deed of the day and passed on some fresh eggs to a fellow student who is a bit hard up (who isn't?) and I knew would appreciate them. Second good deed of the day was to instigate a conversation between that student and a lecturer re: references and now the student has a guaranteed reference (knew he wouldn't bring it up on his own and I also knew he wouldn't mind me mentioning it
) Final good deed of the day was to give someone a lift home; it was only a mile or so in the other direction, but I'd rather they were home safe and dry then walking and soggy.
I've found in life that when you have less and make an effort to give a little of what you do have, it has a way of coming back to you thricefold - when you least expect it and, probably, most need it; often from a most unlikely source too So, as times are tough, I'm going to make more of an effort on the good deed front. Loaves and fishes principle I think.
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Evening Toughies
Sorry to hear of people's ills and troubles - hoping for speedy recoveries, on both counts!
Today's Freebie: The Chinese Society at Uni were having a New Year Celebration (which I was invited to) which included entertainment in the form of dragon dancing, but no music (!!!Noise pollution, apparently!?) balloons, fire dancing and a free buffet. Oooh it was luverly - but thank goodness I was near the front, because they ran out of food half way through the queue (no, I didn't snaffle it all, or fill my pockets, or boots either ) Met some lovely new people; 4hrs of my life well spent I reckon.
I still have apples in my apple store which I really should do something about as they are going a tad soft now. But, that will have to wait until the weekend.
The weekend will bring another "freebie"; heard last night that someone has a lone chicken which needs re-homing and I've been chosen as adoptive mother. Chook will come with pellets, mite powder and don't know what else, but I'm confident she will fit in with my own flock (after a period of quarantine and then free-ranging integration). Lucky me!!
Did my good deed of the day and passed on some fresh eggs to a fellow student who is a bit hard up (who isn't?) and I knew would appreciate them. Second good deed of the day was to instigate a conversation between that student and a lecturer re: references and now the student has a guaranteed reference (knew he wouldn't bring it up on his own and I also knew he wouldn't mind me mentioning it ) Final good deed of the day was to give someone a lift home; it was only a mile or so in the other direction, but I'd rather they were home safe and dry then walking and soggy.
I've found in life that when you have less and make an effort to give a little of what you do have, it has a way of coming back to you thricefold - when you least expect it and, probably, most need it; often from a most unlikely source too So, as times are tough, I'm going to make more of an effort on the good deed front. Loaves and fishes principle I think.
Toughies unite; I'll say g'night.
My mum used to call it, throwing bread upon the waters; she was a great believer in what you said above.
Some lovely, helpful, supportive posts...thanks to you all for being such stars. :T:A0 -
Are you sure Kate
:D:D?
No, no oozing, the carpet underneath is perfectly dry. And as I have shifted the rug around, and the damp patch is the exact same size and shape and in the same place on the rug, I doubt it is a wandering drip. It is just weird!
It's all a bit Sherlock Holmes, isn't it? Do you get the damp patch on the rug if you leave it in any other room?
Edited to add : Gardenia - great minds think alike!
Byatt - glad you're feeling a little better. Take care
StillStruggling - really sorry to hear of your problems. Sounds like the others are giving you great advice as usual though. Good luck. Will be rooting for you.
3v3 - lovely ideas - it's like "paying things forward". if someone does you a favour, you go onto do someone else a favour and so it goes on. My favour for someone today was to give them my free wood from work..my neighbours were chuffed to bits as their heating is OS and depends on the fire being lit, and they'd run out of wood, so were sitting in hats coats, scarves. Brilliant timing by sheer fluke, and I now have a little glow around my heart that my good deed was so needed and so well received.
Fuddle - where are you???
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Now we have a very odd thing happening at Chez Chip, I would appreciate any thoughts:-
I recently cleared an unused bedroom and move a small cotton mat from there into the bathroom. A few days later I noticed a damp patch and stain on it, and assumed it was where OH was not stepping onto the bath mat properly. So I dried it off, had a word with OH who said it was not him, and put it back down. The damp patch came back. So we though it could be the cat (uck! although it did not smell of cat wee at all) and did an experiment to see if it was - dried it off, put it down (the otherway around so the patch was not near the bath) and kept the cat out of the bathroom... the patch came back. Did it again .... damp patch came back.
VERY occasional Poster here..............
Any chance you get a bit of 'spray back' when the taps or the Shower are on? Or if the 'hair-washing elbow' is pointing in the wrong direction?
I noticed if I stand at an angle when I'm washing my hair in the shower (as against back to spray position iykwim) then I get splashes on our bath mat.
Think you need CCTV in there! :rotfl::mad: :j:D:beer::eek::A:p:rotfl::cool::):(:T0 -
Know what you mean, jfdi, I have done that in the past, but it's not that, I moved the end of the mat with the stain well away from any water, and it it happened there too... :eek:
This all sounds so petty with all the probs some of you have here...Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures0 -
Know what you mean, jfdi, I have done that in the past, but it's not that, I moved the end of the mat with the stain well away from any water, and it it happened there too... :eek:
This all sounds so petty with all the probs some of you have here...
It's not petty! I'm finding it gripping :rotfl:
Can't really suggest anything other then put the rug in a completely different room and see what happens. Loving the suggestions of ghosts...well, I am at the moment...wait until I go up to bed, though :eek:0 -
:rotfl:LBees! Woooohooooo Whoooooooo!!!! (that's my ghost impression if you were wondering!)
That's my next plan - it's going back into the room it came out of for the night.Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures0 -
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We lived in a house where a stain kept appearing on the carpet; my parents would wash it, then back it came. The exact same spot and the exact same size. Looked under the carpet...nothing. :eek:
It became quite a talking point. My parents were spiritualists so they believed it was something ghostly.
Me? I just avoided the room!
As LB's said, it is gripping. I :rotfl:at Katie's (I think it was), explanation of another cat with very diluted wee!
edit to add; I am also listening to Vincent Price tales on the radio. :eek:0
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