Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I dare say you reckon "dodgy Scot" is tautologous?

I was going more for complimentary....

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Crap.

'Plan C' lasted all of 2 minutes.

I have just managed to drop an entire bottle of single malt onto a glass table before a solitary dram had crossed my lips, breaking the bottle and smashing the glass table top, and probably ruining the carpet as well.

So now I have....

a) nothing worth drinking in the house

b) a rather expensive mistake on my hands to deal with

c) a sodden carpet full of broken glass currently being absorbed by a pile of old towels

d) no choice but to clean up before Mrs McT arrives back tomorrow

Ar5e and parsley.

Bummer.... you farqed that one up good and proper then!

And you'll never be believed about what/how it happened.

Now you'll be the loser x2 and she'll have all the high graound as it's what she expected of you .... even though you didn't have any fun getting the house into that state!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bummer.... you farqed that one up good and proper then!!

I really did!!!

PasturesNew

Check the cupboards - should be able to sop up those smells/stains by sprinkling generously round the area with bicarb of soda.

Sprinkle, leave, vacuum. Repeat again a bit later if still needed.

I'd start by layering down kitchen paper though and pressing down with my hands on it to draw the liquid out of the carpet. Could end up using half a roll doing that.

I'm also a believer in anti-bacterial spray getting stains out - I've known it work on indian takeaway stains on kitchen worktops.

So:

I'd try, in this order:

1] Kitchen roll - tear off 2-3 sheets at a time, fold/put onto the wet areas, press down with your hands to get up as much as you can.

2] Spray with anti-bacterial spray, quite generously - leave it about a minute, screw up 2 sheets of kitchen paper and rub hard.

3] Sprinkle generously with bicarb of soda. Leave 10 minutes, vacuum. Repeat. You might finish by sprinkling it and leaving the last lot in situ for 1-2 hours.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Awww. Now you've said that big dog'll outlive the rest and end up in the DM as the "oldest dog ever!"

Would be kinda nice. and I've been wrong before.

We already own one of the oldest (but not the oldest) recorded of the breed. I think ours was second or third, something like that. And it was her many times great uncle.

He has one of the same health problems too. But I suspect, though I had a blood profile taken when she went to the vet for her neck and it came back clear, I suspect something worse. I'll be relieved if we can get her spayed soon. In fact, to put my mind at rest I might pop her to the vet next week for a look see and chat about my concerns.

In anycase, she is a food age and very perky, and that's really what we aim for. Good quality of life.

silvercar

PN wrote:

I'd start by layering down kitchen paper though and pressing down with my hands on it to draw the liquid out of the carpet. Could end up using half a roll doing that.

Glass, remember!

silvercar

:money:Just saved £30 a month over 2 mobile phone tariffs:money:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd start by layering down kitchen paper though and pressing down with my hands on it to draw the liquid out of the carpet. Could end up using half a roll doing that..

Helpfully saving the other half roll to mop up the blood from multiple lacerations to the hands???

No offence PN, but my night went pear shaped within 30 secs of listening to your last bit of advice. :whistle:

I may give this one a miss, if that's OK....:D

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Glass, remember!

I'd have expected you to have already vacuumed.

In that case, as above, but put on some gardening gloves first.

I kind of assumed you'd be applying adult common sense to my destructions.

PasturesNew

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

No offence PN, but my night went pear shaped within 30 secs of listening to your last bit of advice. :whistle:

You can't go blaming me because you're a ham-fsted butter fingers, so eager to get w4nkered that he acts like teenager left home alone for the first time!