Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

fc123

Spirit wrote: »

My elderly cat had to go to the vet today for dental work. I get the effects of acute anxiety taking her, so my lovely husband took her in, and DD picked her up.

I think I have said before that 2 years ago when I was bringing her home after a check up the basket fell apart in the car park. She ran off, it is 5 miles from home, and it was almost 3 months and a reward before we got her back and I spent many nights up at 2 to 3 am calling for her in country lanes.

Since then I am terrified and she is fastened in to her basket with cable ties and I shake with fear.

She has had 5 teeth out including a canine is happily home with us and has eaten. When the pain relief wears off she will be ferocious. The antibugs are long acting so we do not have to pfaff around with tablets.

I am so fond of this little cat:o.

oh gosh, I would have been distraught. It's terrifying when they scratch to get out. We used to have an old whicker one with leather straps and an old male tabby called Morris almost nosed his way out of it on one vet trip. He would have just fled into the road and got run over.

Since then I bought plastic ones + took Wink to the vet the other week and, despite it being secure I still carry it to my chest with the door squashed against myself.

silvercar wrote: »

I think the theory is that people may put a well wrapped arm through a broken glass hole, but they won't climb through it. So if they can't open the locked window, they will only steal something within arms reach of the window.



Hence the requirement to now have one that is not key operated.



I was told that burglars train their kids in the family profession by getting them to climb through tiny windows, don't know if it is true.

Yup, trained to climb and scale walls, wriggle through small windows, push arm through cat flaps and manoeuvre a stick to knock keys off the side onto floor and then grab them.
That one happened to us.

Sis's burglary was smashed double glazed window to the back..no-one heard a thing.


How is Chewys house hunting going?

Sons is depressing him (after only 10 days...he is impatient ) as the good stuff comes on and sells straight away. He see's it, thinks about it for a day or 2, books a viewing to be told it went under offer the night before.

The one he went to see tonight he had high hopes for....and hated it as it was really dark......looked really different to pics on RM.

I have the slight snag of 'Creative Block' at the moment and really bad dose of Procrastinitus'.
Usually clears after a weeks or 2 but this has been 5 weeks now :eek:
Any tips would be handy NP's

LydiaJ

Nikkster wrote: »

There are certain agents who never seem to do floor plans (would put me of selling through them), and 9/10 times the place didn't live up to the photos.

PN, I think you need to get round some houses. It's not the same looking online.

I saw some houses that I quite liked online and didn't like in real life. I viewed several that I didn't like online, just in case seeing them in real life made me change my mind, but it never did. The house I bought was one that I fell in love with when I saw it online, and found that viewing it just confirmed everything I already felt about it.

lostinrates wrote: »

I've never had anything like lamb shank at a wedding. I wish they did. The most hilarious wedding I went to was where one very generous set of parents had the champagne flowing very generously, but too generously, and too close to when everyone was seated and so over lunch everyone became a little flatulent, with the bubbles. But everyone was all ridiculously tiddly that no one really cared....

My brother got married (years ago) in February, so it got dark quite early. They had a power cut half way through the reception. We had to do the rest of the reception by the orange glow of some heaters (the sort with a bar element) high up on the walls of the church hall where it was happening. Nobody seemed to mind much - maybe because they were obviously so well suited to each other that everyone was happy about the marriage however the wedding went.

zagubov wrote: »

I've got a dog and Lir has more than one; any other NPs have one?

Not since avatar-dog died in the spring of 2008. Maybe in a few years...

Nikkster

fc123 wrote: »

I have the slight snag of 'Creative Block' at the moment and really bad dose of Procrastinitus'.
Usually clears after a weeks or 2 but this has been 5 weeks now :eek:
Any tips would be handy NP's

I am going for 'Holy Crap, deadline ahoy' combined with my work colleagues patented 'bosh it out' tactic. The latter isn't as bad as it sounds, one of the many things I've struggled with is the infinite 'polishing' of data and getting bogged down in how to pull it all together. Quite frankly, it doesn't make that much of a difference. No-one is likely to notice, and even if they did, they are even less likely to care. I'm now just going for getting stuff down on a page.

Mind you I'm not being at all creative, and I'm not aiming for glory - more the minimum to scrape by.

Do you need a change of scenery/ some 'you' time, fc?

lostinrates

I think wedding by heater glow would be a hoot tbh.


How are you dear Lydia?

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

DH has just given some very small amount cash to a 'reasonably ' well spoken woman who looked 'a bit distressed' on his way home from the gym. She offered to leave her ring which she said was a Tiffany ring, as collateral and DH just said its ok, I'm not expecting this back.

DH said she was excessively grateful ( but on questioning not that grateful).

I have been stopped in the street a few times by people who look reasonably well off asking for money. The one that sticks in my mind was the one who asked (amongst floods of tears) for £50 for a train ticket in exchange for a playstation which he would go and get from his house. He had stopped me right outside a cash converters and got quite cross and suddenly managed to control his tears when I suggested the obvious. I don't think he was genuine...

lostinrates

Found Friday dress ( still in hamper, so time to wash it and dry it, phew) cannot find books I want to buy so will re read something I suppose. I have a nagging feeling I have forgotten something important......

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

I think wedding by heater glow would be a hoot tbh.


How are you dear Lydia?

I agree. I've often thought that I would like a September wedding (got a bit of work to do on that one before anyone starts looking for a new hat), but in some ways nights drawing in early and cosy reception sounds appealing.

Of course its more about who is getting married than the wedding itself.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Found Friday dress ( still in hamper, so time to wash it and dry it, phew) cannot find books I want to buy so will re read something I suppose. I have a nagging feeling I have forgotten something important......

This is where a list comes in handy. I need to make more lists at the moment.
I forgot to take my towel to work today. Wednesday is aerobics day. My colleagues informed me that forgetting my towel was no excuse to skip aerobics so I ended up using a small face towel which lurks in my gym bag instead.

I forgot my towel a few months ago and vowed 'never again' so I leave it drying next to where my gym bag lives. Oh well.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I have been stopped in the street a few times by people who look reasonably well off asking for money. The one that sticks in my mind was the one who asked (amongst floods of tears) for £50 for a train ticket in exchange for a playstation which he would go and get from his house. He had stopped me right outside a cash converters and got quite cross and suddenly managed to control his tears when I suggested the obvious. I don't think he was genuine...

:rotfl:

Hilarious. DH's route is is that sort of juxtaposition of extreme wealth and poverty in the City. Lots of con artists of all sorts......who knows. DH was a the gym just before, and his gym clothes are super skanky. He will not have looked wealthy. Tbh....I'm surprised they let him in the gym sometimes...he forgets his trainers :mad:

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

This is where a list comes in handy. I need to make more lists at the moment.
I forgot to take my towel to work today. Wednesday is aerobics day. My colleagues informed me that forgetting my towel was no excuse to skip aerobics so I ended up using a small face towel which lurks in my gym bag instead.

I forgot my towel a few months ago and vowed 'never again' so I leave it drying next to where my gym bag lives. Oh well.

I make lots of lists, but I still think I have forgotten something. I know for example, I was meant to be nil by mouth from this evening, but I can find no reference to special diet leading up to today, so I am hoping this was n't just mentioned to me......