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LavenderBees

3forholidays wrote: »

LB I read this story & thought of the chickens

Yep, definitely there is a need for chicken care. I hate imposing on people and, if I can't trust someone to care for them in my absence, then yes, I would use somewhere like this. £1 a night per chook is cheaper than the pet sitter. The only problem I have with dropping them off at a Poultry Towers is that they don't travel well (but then neither do the cats), and I'd worry a bit about possibility of lice and other yukky transfers coming back with them.

If I had redundancy and a bit of land, I'd be thinking of a cattery/hennery :rotfl:. Dream job :T:T

LB xx

Winter_Phoenix

LavenderBees wrote: »

Last Monday's visit to toxic sibling, whilst good in some respects in that my friend and I frightened the cr4p out of my brother (just the fact I turned up with someone to support me for a change, did the job...they are so used to me being alone...and the fact said friend was in a suit and he didn't know in what capacity she was there, and she had an estate car to take all Mam's personal belongings with us, did the rest :rotfl: ).

But really, it was every bit as sad and miserable an experience as I'd expected. I was very ill afterwards, and, although I thought I'd rallied a couple of days later, I hadn't really, and have been desperately trying to stop myself falling into an abyss of depression ever since.

Still, the good thing is that I have some bits and pieces around me that feel familiar, and remind me of my parents. There's more !!!!!! work to be done on this front though, so I'm not quite finished yet...:(, but it would be silly to have come so far, and give up without a fight now...

LavenderBees, now that a little time has passed since the confrontation, I hope you are feeling a whole lot better.

Because IMHO you should be patting yourself on the back and glowing with pride for dealing so incredibly well with this miserable situation. Taking your suited friend and her estate car with you was a truly brilliant piece of inspiration and a great success.

You have won this round hands down - and now that you KNOW you can take charge of this ongoing issue whenever you choose to do so, you can work out exactly how to tackle the next stage. Springing a surprise on him, making him uncertain of his ground, seems to be the key.

Go, girl! :T

BookWorm

Evening folks.

I got well and truly drowned on my way home from work tonight. The biggest storm came over and the heaviest rain I've ever seen with hailstones too :eek: All dry now and settled happily on the sofa.

LB - hope that today has been easier than you suspected. Big hugs lady :A xx

MITSTM - I nearly spat out my drink over my lappy reading your comment about the internet being on/off. :rotfl:Not funny that you are having issues but loved the turn of phrase

Fiftyeighter - sorry to hear you are having issues with the HA. They can be a real pita. Rants are allowed by the way hopefully it helped

BW

calicocat

58-er..

I would look on their website, there will be policies on there saying what is classed as an emergency, and what time-frame they have to fix it....often the goons on the phone don't know their own companies policy I have found in the past.

There will also be a complaints template on there you can fill in, then also send an email to your housing officer in person...or the head honcho if you get really annoyed with them, explaining how many towels have been ruined by this/mould/damp....etc etc.....and about waste water leaking being unacceptable (and possibly a breach of health and safety policy maybe?)y....bla bla bla.....

This usually focuses their attention.






Just been up to LB's to finalise where stuff is for the girls etc and what to do etc.

The girls love being free range for a bit and pecking about in the soil and lottie grass....had a bit of a scrap over a worm.


Went for a meal after, we are both on diets so we had chicken burger and chunky chips with extra bacon and cheese, and scampi and fries....oh and I had a lemon tart and sorbet too......lol.

calicocat

MummyBobble wrote: »

LB lost both my parents many years ago and, while all those "firsts" are so difficult, in time it becomes easier to bring back the happy memories (and the downright ridiculous ones). Have you got anything planned for tomorrow? If not I think you should go round and paint Calicocat's fences (preferably without her knowing so she'll be really confused).

The firsts of everything are horrid, but as you say it does get to where you can see the funny things more than the sad.

After my dad I had the most horrific dreams too for what seemed like for ages, they have gone now, went a while ago now I think about it.

Nearly two years on I now only think of the funny things in the main...which is how it should be, and certainly what he would prefer.

MummyBobble

Well what a flibbertygibbet gad about I'm turning into in my old age! Went out again last night - that'll be 5 times in 11 days, about 4 more times than I've been out all year! Enjoyed great food in the company of some very old friends this evening (I don't mean that they're very old, in fact I'm the oldest, I just mean I've known them a long time, probably longer than I'll admit to, sorry, I'm rambling now...) Can't believe that it's 30 years since I met my friend Dawn at work :eek: (obviously we were children :rotfl:). She now lives in the USA but when she comes over here we meet up and it's as if we'd never been apart

Blooming heck, the works Christmas dos were legendary, along with the half days (pay day, took the afternoon off and spent it in the pub,:beer:), and Friday lunchtimes "three halves of lager and three packets of crisps please" (Ordered three times but without the crisps on the second and third) An hour and a half later "We haven't got time for another lager" "Lets get wine then...") Not very productive in work on a Friday afternoon in those days Happy memories, but then we all got mortgages, children and had to at least pretend to grow up!

Calicocat - being the unfit mother that I am the "breakfast" takeaway was almost lunch so it was from subw@y (saved on the washing up too :j)

Hope everyone's having a good day x

LavenderBees

MummyBobble wrote: »

Calicocat - being the unfit mother that I am the "breakfast" takeaway was almost lunch so it was from subw@y (saved on the washing up too :j)

Hope everyone's having a good day x

You'll be struck off the OS Forum, admitting to a takeaway :eek:. I'm planning on a fish & chips takeaway on Friday evening, but don't tell anyone

Your description of works' Xmas dos made me laugh - when I first started work in the mid 80s, that basically described every Friday afternoon for some of the supervisory/management staff (us underlings had epic Thursday nights out, and spent all of Friday recovering...my goodness the hot beef stotties to ward off the hangover were fab those days )...and then the sackings started , and everyone decided it was a good idea to work when at work...been stuck in that horrible concept ever since :eek:

LB xx

calicocat

Ah........the late 80's and 90's........the age of excess.


I was out partying lunch and dinner every day of the week, it was house parties All Weekend and every weekend. I was a maniac, I spent more on a shirt once than I get a month now.

Once went into Russel and Bromley, came out with 3 pairs of boots 2 handbags......and 1800 lighter in my pocket!!.....what the hell was that about.

It was definitely work hard play harder....lol. although to be fair I didn't even work hard, just happened to be with someone who made shed loads in advertising. I guess I worked hard at the dinner parties and weekends putting everyone up etc.

It was ruddy good fun though.....not that I could be bothered now.

I changed when I got the dogs and moved out to the country from town, I just wanted to play animals after that really, so that meant all the partying was at home mainly after that.

Sounds like having kids doesn't it...lol.

If I look back at the money I could have had now though that was wasted then.........not wasted really thinking about it though, all part of my past.

I have just de-weeded the garden before tidy police next week...and it's now teaming it down here.

Off to the shops for fish fingers, scampi, and veg for the tea, a friend is coming over for what we call a peasants fish platter. What we would really like is lobster, crab, king prawns and langoustine (which is scampi anyway so we'll hit one).....but hey-ho...........it is what it is, and will be enjoyed just as much.

Right, off to shops. Have a good day folks.

Winter_Phoenix

calicocat wrote: »

Once went into Russel and Bromley, came out with 3 pairs of boots 2 handbags......and 1800 lighter in my pocket!!.....what the hell was that about.

_pale_ ...faints...

calicocat

Winter_Phoenix wrote: »

_pale_ ...faints...

Lol....the one thing I will say in my defence is that money pays.....those boots lasted for ever, for years and still looked good, and I still have one pair that are basically brand new. The handbags were a waste I will admit.

I would never do that now.....insane 20's, and no care in the world other than the next week.