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Did you and MG ever share the same dentist Moam?

I think not, but its no laughing matter...well it shouldn't be, no idea what this is going to cost....have warned the boss I may be in late as I fear this is about to twinge badly. At least its after the posh do we went to on Saturday - fangs & ballgowns would not have been a good combo LOL

Moam

Aesop

Please don't talk about teeth after 2 years of on/off pain, finally found a n NHS dentist, who said my tooth is past saving and needs to be pulled. Meanwhile a piece of it has broken off. She says another tooth needs a root canal and work to save it and that is priority over broken tooth.

Broken tooth is hurting so baadddd I want to cry.

maryb

Morning

Yesterday was not spent the way I would have preferred. Discovered a mouse (or a family of them) had got into my Armageddon cupboard. Destructive little so and sos aren't they? Tiny little holes in EVERY bag of flour and sugar that wasn't in lock'n lock boxes. So a trip to the tip, where I mournfully chucked all my hoarded supplies - I couldn't just put them in the bin, they were so heavy the dustman would have refused to empty it on 'elf'nsafety grounds.

Then I swung past the oldfashioned hardware shop and loaded up on equally old fashioned mousetraps. I've tried the so-called humane mousetraps in the past and they don't work. And I think poison is actually more cruel than a quick snap - besides, they crawl off and die where you can't get at them and the smell is just awful - we had that happen at work once and they ended up having to dismantle most of the ventilation system to find them.

By 10pm last night I was getting OH to dispose of the first corpse 'Why is it my job?' 'Because you're a man'. But actually it was because I had so grossed myself out looking up on Google to make sure they were mouse droppings and not rat droppings that there was no way I could possibly have dealt with it at that point even though I am not normally feeble-femaleish. And I feel totally and uncompromisingly ruthless where the destructive little barstewards are concerned

DD2 is hoping the mousetraps don't work because I have told DH that if they don't, we are getting a cat. I remember when I was a little girl and our cat had been run over, my mother said no more pets - until we got mice. There was one mouse that would come into the kitchen every night at about 9.30 and sit there licking the ratbait poison off its back - you could almost see it saying Yum, yum.

So we went out and got the smallest kitten you ever saw, just a ball of black fluff. And. do you know, just the smell of that cat was enough to make that mouse pack its bags. We never had any trouble after that.

Anyway, sorry to ramble. The point of this is to say, I now have to restock my Armageddon cupboard with dry goods (and with more Tupperware boxes)

MG you bake bread regularly - how much did you calculate you needed when you were stocking up? I want to keep about 6 month's worth in store but I never bothered to work out how much I was actually using.

Memory_Girl

I am paranoid about mice too - remember I had some when they ripped out the pub next door. As a country girl, a "humane" trap is one that kills them outright whilst the still have the taste of chocolate on their lips (I bait with Mars Bars).

I figure that is a kinder way to go than to be tormented to death by the killer cat.

I bake 2 loaves, 3 pizzas, 1 batch of pancakes, 1 raisin loaf and 1/2 batch of pitta every week. About a 1.5kg bag of flour or so - so 26 bags worth is 6 months for me. But I got a 25 kilo bag of chapatti flour and do everything kind of "half-and-half" now - so my bread flour is stretching a lot further now.

Why not just monitor what you use over a week/ month to double check?

MG

robsmum_2

Mary: How annoying about the mouse/mice:eek:and what an awful waste. 2 years ago we had a major rat infestation, fortuantly only as far as our conservatory. But I constantly was tearing thr house apart until we got rid of them. Once we were free of the horrible things my BIL built a slate trench all around thr conservatory and we bought a sonic repellant and fingers vrossed have not had any further problems,

Off to clean the cooker-I sprayed it last night so I couldn't get out of it but don't ant to do it!

maryb

Thanks MG. I figured it would be about that but when I had plenty I never bothered to check how much I was actually using. And I feel really uncomfortable having lost all my stores just as the cold weather is about to arrive. Not that I really need 26 bags all at once, of course.

A couple of weeks ago someone posted the link for getting bulk supplies of Fermipan yeast so I could buy flour in bulk from there since they are just round the corner from my local Lidls. I'd need mouse proof bins to keep it in but that's quite a thought

maryb

:eek::eek::eek:
Rats totally freak me out. We have a lot of them in suburban London because people leave rubbish bags out and also they feed the birds so much - except they are feeding rats really. I'll never forget seeing a rat on the bird table just outside the kitchen window when my sister in law was here for Sunday lunch. After that the birds were on their own.

When we had our kitchen extension done, the builders broke through the old external wall but then went off for materials yada, yada, for a day or two leaving the cavity exposed at the side where the new extension joined on. I was sitting in the living room quite late when it was quiet and heard a scrabbling noise, went into the kitchen to see what it was and was just in time to see a large rat disappearing back into the cavity.:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Fortunately because it was a solid floor we didn't have to worry about it getting under the floorboards. We barricaded the door into the rest of the house and I forget exactly what I said to the builder first thing next morning - suffice it to say he was back on site within the hour slapping some mortar onto the gap in the cavity

Lara44

Oh no - so sorry to hear about the mouse infestation MaryB.

And the teeth problems MG, MOAM and Aesop! Teeth problems are never fun. I was too skint for the dentist so I signed myself up to the teaching college and now I get check ups from students, then another one from a Professor. It's all completely free. I've never needed any work though... Of course i found out about it from here!

For me - catching up on reading for reading group tonight. My good friend and bridesmaid hasn't texted me back about lunch again. I haven't seen her since my wedding day in August - not for lack of trying on my part. Do you think I was a horrible bride and now she hates me? I can't think how

Firewalker

Great achievement, Lara - keep going and we'll celebrate another PhD soon.

Sorry to hear about all people with problems with their teeth and others - my thoughts are with you.

It may look like that I have been neglecting you but I do read - just don't write on here at the moment. There is a lot to be done on the blog (take a peek at the new look, btw) and for my job (sabbaticals are hard work if you want to reposition yourself dramatically).

Look after selves.

Firewalker

savingforarainyday

Eugh Rats_pale_. We had an infestation in the shed a few years ago. Thought they were mousies, but the humane trap caught nothing and they were eating all the birdy supplies and destroying stuff. So dh bit the bullet and put poison down.

This is the phone call I had from DD

DD "Mum theres a rat in the garden and the dog got it and its dead"

Me "The dog or the rat"

DD "The rat!"

Me "Well put a bucket over it and put a brick on the top" (to put dog off; she is only little)

DD "OK see you later"

So when I returned home there were 6 upside down buckets in the garden with bricks on and a "totally grossed out" dd.:eek:

Well I have at last managed to get my cv up to date for my assessor training. All client returns are in to hmrc and I have already invoiced most of them. I am in much better habits these days.

So I am ready to do my planning for February and on time. I think you ladies on here truly do motivate me.

I think my next thing for my home is making a throw for our bedroom and I am trying to decide between knitted squares and patchwork, which I have always wanted a go at. If I go for the patchwork it will be an incentive to file and shred the paperwork up there so I have space to set the sewing machine up.

Well its cold and I haven't put the heating on. I have left it on timed, only thing is my feet are freezing. So I am off to find some woolly socks