A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Mrs_Chip

My DB has been telling me how awfully wet it has been back at my home village in the last week - well today the village got a mench on national radio as firefighters had to rescue several people from cars in flooded lane. Not the first time - I remember back in the 60s/70s there being a double page spread in the Daily Mirror of an aerial shot of the village cut off by floods. This is the drought-ridden south east, so nothing changes!

Byatt

Well two rivers have burst their banks nearby, and my flooded drain is flooded but nothing is clogging it up, just a torrential downpour. My feet are getting webbish...

I did write a post earlier and lost it, so...Mrs C, love the idea of making the fat balls using up the left over fat from the chippies. You are definitely Nora Last, so resourceful. Love that Cat G was watching BBCTV! Hilarious. :rotfl:

Anyhow, does anyone know how many pieces a pyrex plate will break into when dropped on a stone floor?

also, how far does food travel when falling out of the bottom of the kitchen compost bin on being lifted?

I can answer both these questions now. :mad:

I am kna...very tired, so going to have dinner and then watch some tv maybe...

thriftmonster

or how many pieces a china mug will break into when dropped into the bottom of the rice bin with not enough rice to cushion the fall!! My sympathies to you Byatt - I did the other one on Friday!

Mrs_Chip

Just been out to look at the river across the road - it a seething torrent of something akin to builder's tea. I fear any nests on the banks further upstream will have been washed away . The sea is tea coloured too, and lots of white horses. Than goodness it's not big tides at the moment, the way the wind is blowing and all this rain would be perfect major flood conditions :eek: .

Hope your drains do just that Byatt! Or yard is under water as the ground level by the back door is lower than the drain :mad:. Rain has stopped a bit, so hope things have eased elsewhere (London has sun now I think).

ETA - Byatt - as many as a glass kilner jar full of salt that jumped out of OH's pandy's onto the tiled floor the other day!

GreyQueen

Pyrex is a bu88er, isn't it? I dropped a measuring jug on a concrete floor and was picking the shrapnel up for ages.

Seems like we've all been having a smashing time lately. I dropped a sauce jar in my bathtub and it went everywhere.

Errmmm, perhaps I should mention that it was an empty sauce jar which I'd used to cart some vinegar from the kitchen to the bathroom to rinse my hair when washing it..........on second thoughts, probably more straight-forward if people think I eat pasta sauce in the tub.

Have picked up the big bits and vacuumed the small bits and will be using the tub later.....better hope I got it all or it could be a bloodbath.

Sorry. I'll go now. :rotfl:

Byatt

The Pyrex also has fine shards which as you say GQ, shrapnel for weeks. I seem to be breaking all my vintage pyrex, all those years it's been around and I get hold of it and...

Mrs C off to check my drains now, it's eased off slightly.

Thriftmonster, oh no, and you had to throw away the rice too!

I'm still finding bits from my fall a week ago. Not bits of me I hasten to add! I have some amazing bruises on my knees now, really funky 70's style psychedelic patterns.

I'm watching Tea with Mussolini...

shegar

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Thanks sweetie. All buses are equipped BUT there is rarely spaces as they're taken up with prams and pushchairs. OH nearly had a heart attack when they bus driver said £2.30:eek::eek::eek::eek: and he was moaning as OH only had a £5 note....he was having a problem working out the £2.70 change.

Hospital transport would take 4hrs+ each way, so I wouldn't do that as my illnesses cause me to need the toilet rather quickly or too late sometimes and Id get to embarrassed if I had an accident:o

Ive just remembered that I have a Taxicard, so could use this for the journey from the station there and back. That would be £5 for both trips plus OH's train price, so doesn't sound too bad as it should total just under £10 maybe? I will ask the hospital though if I can claim anything back, but I doubt I'll be able too.

Thanks for thinking of me though.

PP
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Hi Our local doctors surgery do what they call Hospitalrides.com..................If you go online when you have a hospital appointment you will see perhaps someone else in your area have an appointment at the same hospital too and you can share rides, its a good idea because it helps with hospital parking plus you can share the fuel costs, it may not happen where you are but because our nearest hospital is 26 miles away it helps us folks in the country............................Just a thought you could check out at your surgery..............Our doctor started this off wjich as proved very popular...........:D

Its been a helluver day here for rain, but since 3 this arvo its turned out blue skies and sunny and warmed up quite a bit, thats what I call good growing weather...........................:D

lizzyb1812

Shegar - it's lovely isn't it? It's such a relief not to have to walk the dog in the rain again. Forecast seems to be dry from now on until the end of tomorrow - yippee! I've got lots of compost to sieve so I can repot my tomatoes.

thriftmonster

[Byatt[ - luckily there was only 1/2" of rice in the bottom (which is why it broke) - I was just about to transfer 10kg of bargainous stuff into it - so it wasn't too bad to throw away - although it was a Peter Rabbit mug that had been one of the kids when they were small - sniff!!

kidcat

Wow, so many posts!!

PP- good luck with your journey, have no real advice as its not something we ever have issues with as so many of our friends have cars I can usually manage a lift if we are stuck. My dads church run a scheme that will help their parishioners get lifts if at all possible just for the cost of petrol and parking. BUt not many churches offer this I think.

Been raining all day and night, we have two huge lakes in our back garden that are growing terrifyingly close to the house. Am beginning to wonder if I should be filling sandbags!


Have lurched into our latest crisis yesterday when one of the cats ( recent addition) had to be raced to vet. She has a golf ball sized growth on side of her jaw that during the weeks other issues I had missed.
Vet says there is an absess but he thinks there is sometihng underlying as she has no sign of injury to warrant the absess forming! So painkillers and antibiotics need to be given.
Trouble is she is not the most handleable of animals and I have not spent any real time training her yet. Consequently she tried to remove the vets hands, neck and face when he examined her. He refused to attempt to lance the absess as she was so unco-operative. So we now have to wait for it to burst on its own. If it doesnt go by end of week she has to go back and be sedated while they deal with it.
I am really going to have to spend time with her when this is over training her to be picked up. She attacked a dog through her cage in the waiting room.
The vet says that being left in my friends empty house for a month has turned her part feral - so its a case of starting from scratch with her which will take time.

DD6 has attended a birthday party this weekend and made a bear - you would not believe the prices they charge for these parties and they are not that good, it was really ten minutes making a bear followed by an hour and twenty minutes of keeping the kids together waiting for parents! I am sure there is a better more OS way of doing these things.

Struggling with OH at moment, since his fall he has regained enough mobility to be able to do the stuff he wants to do, but mysteriously not further, which means he is doing nothing and has no plans on going to work this week - which translates to no wages next week either. Thank goodness the mortgage has been paid last week.
He is adamant his foot is no better but it clearly is, when he wanted his phone charger from the top floor he was up like a whippet to get it, but when I need anything doing its a different story.
I am now stuck having to ask my dad to help with school runs all week as OH says he cannot go out! Grrrrr!!!