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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!

    I could probably make £40/week sticking sea shells onto mirrors and flogging them :) .... without the forms.

    We found a shell in the garden recently. Made a change from a bone or horn.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    You make your own croissants - pretty impressive!

    Croissants aren't hard exactly, they take time and love and I'll probably have to ask DH to work the butter in for me I'm afraid.

    They are miles better home made and making them puts you off eating them because you see in a very graphic way how much butter makes them so light. :D

    We have fruit salad a bit now I can eat fruit again. This weekend I ate melon and mango. And melon again. Trick to easy fruit salad is simplicity of ingredients I think. Choose just a few.
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    So... I just summoned up the energy to go outside and mow the grass.

    There is a bird (blackbird size, but not sure what it is) lying on the grass not moving (at all). I'm pretty sure it's dead. There is no sign of a fight, just looks like the bird fell over (maybe off the garage roof?).

    What do I do?
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,122 Forumite
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    Pick it up in a plastic bag and throw it in the bin.
    I think....
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    michaels wrote: »
    Pick it up in a plastic bag and throw it in the bin.

    Yes :) I've spent the past couple of minutes searching (of course I could have done that first but...)

    I'd much rather have the option of someone else picking it up in a plastic bag and putting it in the bin. But I guess I'd better just woman up and get on with it :(
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    Leave it there overnight first. Sometimes birds that appear to be dead aren't actually, and pick themselves up and fly away. If it still appears dead tomorrow, then it really is dead.
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
    :)
  • Nikkster
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Leave it there overnight first. Sometimes birds that appear to be dead aren't actually, and pick themselves up and fly away. If it still appears dead tomorrow, then it really is dead.

    Ok. I like that advice. Sounds sensible and has the added advantage that I don't have to either a) move the bird b) mow the grass tonight :o.

    I strongly suspect it won't but I really hope the little birdie manages to fly away.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Leave it there overnight first. Sometimes birds that appear to be dead aren't actually, and pick themselves up and fly away. If it still appears dead tomorrow, then it really is dead.

    Well, either that or they get eaten by something
  • Nikkster
    Nikkster Posts: 6,391 Forumite
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    Well, either that or they get eaten by something

    :(

    As much as I really, really, really don't want to move the bird, I'd like to move it even less if it isn't intact.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Nikkster wrote: »
    :(

    As much as I really, really, really don't want to move the bird, I'd like to move it even less if it isn't intact.

    Might take it all.

    I'm fairly used to it. :o

    Eg. The lesbian co parenting millefleur bantams are fiercely protective mothers, but......not very good at not trampling their chicks over night. I chuck them up on a roof over the cars for the owl. If I had friends near by with owls or something I'd do that.
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