Just needed to be heard for a little while

Pyxis

Both Elsien and LIR might like this super cartoon blogspot about the trials and tribulations of training dogs!
And how to give your dog an IQ test.
(I gave one of mine this test once. Hmm.)



http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/dog.html

oldestgnome

Whitewing - your dislike of camping makes sense now, I do appreciate it is not for everyone. Glamping is a whole different ball game and your daughter may love it, my friends have twin girls that age and they think it's wonderful

As ever this thread teaches me something new every day.

Sending positive thoughts to those who are having a tough time right now

seven-day-weekend

It's me again, here if anyone needs a chat, a bit later this time!

whitewing

Morning All!

I think it will be a duvet day today, with the weather.

Pyxis

Yes! I'm up and dressed, but decided to go back to bed with breakfast and to watch news, chat here and read Radio Times for a while!

I pity any Carnivals that were planned for today! Shame it didn't wait till tomorrow!

seven-day-weekend

I'm looking after my friends' dogs and one of them is a Spanish Pointer cross who was born in Spain and lived there for two years. He hates going out in the rain. Trouble is, he won't pee in his own garden! Looks like both me and him having a miserable time this morning

I din't go back to bed this morning. May have a sleep later.

DUKE

Good morning all Just doing a bit of catching up.

Waves_and_Smiles

Good morning all. I am awake for a bit but going back to bed soon. I have just managed to make myself burst into tears by reading someone's humorous blog. They made a jokey post about how they feel sorry for inanimate objects just like i do.

Then I go to thinking all of the things I have abandoned over the years, how I shut a sponge in a drawer with a bit sticking out once and how my mother told me that the sponge was crying because I hurt it. How I stuck a pin in my toy balloon doll as a child to see what would happen and my dad held it on his lap and said I'd killed her. How I gave some toys to a jumble sale as a child because the money was going to be given to a homeless charity and I thought I was being kind. Until my mother held each toy and said it's ok, she doesn't want you anymore and hugged them all goodbye.

There were so many incidents like that and I grew up feeling like I abandoned everything, from a toy to a scrap of paper. My mother would hold things that I had thrown away and say she was sorry that I didn't love them anymore, even things like chipped mugs. Later my family said I had done the same to my dad, abandoned him because I was angry with him which is why he died. Then later my uncle told me my mother had committed suicide because she gave up because I walked away.

So much guilt, I have tried to be a good person. I have never meant to hurt anyone or anything, I am so sorry I let people and things down. I didn't mean it.

I know I am being silly sitting here crying, this is why I have to be careful about things that I read. The guilt and self-hatred is never far from the surface. So sorry to be depressing everyone, I will cheer up again after another nap, it's probably best that I try to close my mind off for a while.

DUKE

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

You have both given me a new perspective on one's! I should have thought of that really having hamsters, they are only happy on their own. I need to try to alter my thinking that one doesn't mean lonely, abandoned and rejected and that there are good things about it. I think I need to make myself a long list of why one's can be good and possibly move onto other odd numbers.

One Love as Bob Marley would say

DUKE

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

So you did Pyxis! I am still very used to slang so I just read it as 'normal' words. My mother and grandmother used quite a lot of it. I remember being told to put my titfor on as a child. (tit-for-tat, hat).

Interestingly like a lot of cockneys of their generation they were very against swearing. The most they would say would be cor blimey, flipping heck and blooming heck. Anything else was seen as very rude.

I never knew that WaS, I always associated Flippin' 'eck with the north rather than south. Which reminds me of reading an article where one soldier (when writing home) asked another other how to spell tinarf. The soldier said that he's never heard of the word, the other soldier said ''Y'know when you say tinarf hot, or tinarf cold''.