'supporting each other through really tough times'

Byatt

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Byatt - the cats will be so cross that you passed their human intelligence test! :rotfl:

:rotfl:

Fuddle, one dead mouse and a dead vole (somewhere else!)


The mouse looked like it was sleeping, so I carefully touched it with a stick. It wasn't sleeping. :cool:

I nearly had a fit when I saw the first mouse, so was very blase the next night, they can't catch me out twice I thought! :rotfl:

Mrs Lw, glad you could have a giggle.

Popperwell

I love the moon and I do believe it affects our moods...I used to love watching it for hours with the clouds floating across or see it reflected on the sea or a river.

BTW I am thinking of other things and it is not working me up...more deciding on a plan of action :)I'm not off my food and I'm too busy to think too much...it just wasn't a nice to end yesterday after my trip to the Food festival and having a look around the coastal town of Tynemouth, looking at the sea, a ruined castle and buying some artisan bread.

No dearer than ordinary bread in a supermarket. Hope I can get mine to look similar. I would start now but other things have to be sorted.

Also a friend on the market donated some lovely Ginger Wine for the Tombola at the Music Club for a cancer charity event.

I dropped back into Newcastle and found some cheap garlic, blackberries and spring onions. Oh and some tableclothes at Pound world.

Going to post some images on my blog of the day...when time allows but I'm busy busy busy. I have even cleared a room that was not commented on but again had they not called it would have been done and they would never have known.

I have cooked a quiche so will have that with salad later...and now I'm having a minestrone cup a soup.

Popperwell

Only ever seen one mouse years ago in the back garden, none since and my food store is well protected and mainly tinned items in plastic crates or in cupboards. Everything else is in the Fridge/freezer. No pests...I don't think with the HA we have now I would dare to feed the birds like I used to.

Hardup_Hester

I think you're right about the moon Pops, wasn't it GQ who said that they seem to get weirder questions where she works when it's a full moon?
Hester

savingqueen

Its not fair on anyone when harsh views are expressed...

Good post fuddle. None of us are perfect, I am most certainly not but the great thing about these forums and others like it is that we can support each other no matter what. Not always easy being supportive to absolutely everyone with all our different life experiences and views but on here we are "supporting each other through really tough times" and by and large doing it with OS finesse. Lets keep on with the positive and my warmest wishes to everyone who posts or just reads.

Off my (non-branded, bought with a voucher) soap box to sort out tea, just a simple homemade spag bolly and garlic bread but boy am I looking forward to it. Then a bath, prepare a bit for tomorrow and an earlyish night for me.

might catch you all later
take care everyone
sq:)

GreyQueen

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

I think you're right about the moon Pops, wasn't it GQ who said that they seem to get weirder questions where she works when it's a full moon?
Hester

Yup. Both customer services and the housing department track the phases of the moon, paying close attention to the full moon (max aggro) and the new moon (next worst). People I know who work in mental health care know it, as well.

Sometimes if we're not tracking, it all goes weird and someone will ask Is it the full moon or what?! It's usually full moon, less often the new, rarely is there concentrated weirdness between times.

Sometimes the public come to visit our offices with intent; knives, guns, axes, samurai swords and fisticuffs have all been known. Mind you, HH, judging by some of the bad experiences you've had at your school, we're getting off lightly............:rotfl:

Popperwell

Fuddle try again...

RosiePuddingPaws

I'm not sure you would enjoy looking after my monsters then Byatt. I regularly get mice and shrews (and once the infamous mole that was behind the dressing table). Birds are other regular visitors (including the crow that was hopping along the bedroom window cill when I came home from work one day). I try to catch all I can and put them outside.

Take last night ...

I'm lying in bed reading (with elderly cat by my feet - although under a throw as it is warmer for her there), there is a noise in the hallway. Young boy cat "talking" to himself. Hmm. Usually means he has brought a friend home to play.

Up I get, on with the dressing gown and slippers. Go to investigate. Mouse. By the front door. Go off to kitchen to get beer glass and Tupperware cake scraper to try and catch the very lively mouse. It tries going up the curtain by the front door, drops down, scoots under my legs and heads for the kitchen. Boy cat and I follow.

There is a pile of washing on the floor - ready to go in the washing machine this morning. Mouse scarpers in that direction and ... vanishes.

In that corner of the kitchen is the built-in dishwasher. To allow the dishwasher door to drop down, the kick-board has been cut away a little. I guess the little critter leapt up and went down behind the kick-board by the dishwasher. But, I don't know for sure ...

Given that I live in a bungalow, IF the mouse comes out (if it went there in the first place), then it could turn up anywhere.

Still, that is not as bad as the mouse that I caught one night, we got as far as the kitchen door. One hand was removed from the beer glass/scraper combination to unlock the door. Mouse leapt out of the glass AND DOWN THE FRONT OF MY DRESSING GOWN!! There was a fair bit of shrieking that night.

RPP

Hardup_Hester

I temped for a HA for 6 weeks, I was advised to to have anything on my desk that could be used as a weapon, we also had a stabbing with a screwdriver in the foyer, great fun, NOT.
We find the kids at school go loopy when it's windy, rather than full/new moon. But friends in A&E tend to dread the full moon.

GreyQueen

:rotfl:Oh Rosie, what an image, a mouse down your dressing-gown. That would have caused maximum shrieking from me.

Years ago, a pal went on hols for two weeks and asked me to feed her boy cat. Since he'd never been left before and was a very soppy beast, she asked if I would spend time at her's in the evening, to keep him company.

I was instructed to use the cable TV, the pooter, the kettle, whatever.

Soooo, one evening I'm lying on her couch idly channel-hopping with the cat curled up on my tummy purring like mad, all restful, when suddenly he sits up bolt upright and stares at the corner of the curtain pelmet above our heads.

Peering over the top, aquiver, is a mouse. I reckoned it had come a couple of feet up the creeper, in thru the open window, and climbed the curtain. And discovered it was in the den of the beast.

Cat went ballistic and started pogo-ing on the spot trying to reach it and I could see a long night ahead of me if it escaped and went loose in the flat. So went to the kitchen and came back with a colander, a dishtowel and a chair to stand on.

I had that mouse into the colander and shot out the window (ground floor flat btw) so fast the cat didn't see the going of it and spent the next hour looking for it indoors. I shut the window pdq to stop it coming back in again.............:rotfl: