We all need to be heard for a little while.

Georgiegirl256

jobbingmusician wrote: »

Ha ha! You haven't seen this, then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m9jh8VpphA

:rotfl: Sooo cute!

Hope today goes really quick for you code. It sucks having to go into work when you're not feeling too good....here, have a (gentle) hug! X

tea_lover

Do you have monday off code? (not sure how bank holidays work up there lol!) Hope you have a lovely weekend planned to look forward to.

Georgiegirl256

tea_lover wrote: »

You guys are making me want a hamster!! I'm sure P cat would like one too... but for different reasons :eek:. Having seen him eat a mouse in the garden once I'm sure he can't be trusted around small fluffy things!

My cat definetly can't be trusted around small furry things! He's always catching teeny tiny mice or voles in our garden. He doesn't want to eat them, just wants to play with them, and not in a cute 'I want to be your friend' way....oh no, he throws them up in the air and takes them on a tour of the garden! He's evil! :rotfl:

My BF has a hamster (or was it a gerbil?) and the cage was in her living room. She used to virtually chain smoke roll ups....she probably gassed the poor thing to death!

tea_lover

There was a story on the radio a few weeks ago about pets being made ill through passive smoking - v sad

Georgiegirl256

tea_lover wrote: »

There was a story on the radio a few weeks ago about pets being made ill through passive smoking - v sad

I saw something on this morning years ago about these cats that were suffering due to their owners heavy smoking. That was extremely sad.

purpleshoes_2

My mum has a guinea pig. He's massive. Probably because he was kept outdoors in a shed for months as the previous owners got fed up with him.

He's currently in the rabbit hutch in the living room as her rabbit doesn't go in the hutch. He can run up and down the stairs. We were going to buy him one of the hamster balls but think he's too big for it.

Rabbits and guinea pigs eat similar food and treats. She has five cats as well but they don't bother with him much, the rabbit loves chasing the cats.

She was a rescue and in rescue for months, all her babies got homes and she didn't.

My mum actually bought the hutch to try and help an injured pigeon who was having trouble flying but he died and she thought why not get a rabbit.

I've just done something I said I would never do ever again and contacted a gym chain to see about going on their cover list to teach classes. It can be hard work in gyms as everyone has an opinion on what you do. I'm also looking for work on the gym floor as a casual, covering holidays.

I went self employed for a reason that is some really horrendous jobs and if you teach classes for a gym you are usually self employed, but you also get the moans, groans, niggles, complaints if someone doesn't like what you do.

But I think I need to do something more. My classes are doing ok, but I need some more income and work until the pt takes off. I can always change my mind assuming they want me if I get the wobbles later.

I was offered some teaching work a couple of years ago but the rate was 10 quid an hour and you have to pay tax and ni from that.

I just couldn't justify working for a company who were expecting us to bring in and build decent numbers, so if they got 60-80 plus per night in income, we get a tenner.

I used to teach to 60 in gyms when I was teaching Zumba, I got 27 pounds an hour and I persuaded numerous non members to join, not a thank you.

I had a horrible studio Co ordinator who listened to every ridiculous complaint about me. Turned up to do my classes (I had never met her) trying to catch me out and then at the end said isn't it good that someone not young (I was 41, she's older) and not skinny (neither is she) is teaching classes.

It all came to a head when a friend of this girl who did my classes started a whispering campaign. I had stuff stolen that I had left behind at a centre by accident and was told it was there but when my mum went to get it, gone.

Was just more or less if your face fitted or not. I've always said I'd never put myself back into that environment but if things don't work out I can always exit.

Just that at the moment, I could be doing more with the qualifications I have.

codemonkey

tea_lover wrote: »

There was a story on the radio a few weeks ago about pets being made ill through passive smoking - v sad

This makes sense to me. Back in the day my brothers and sisters would come over, drop off their kids with me in the livingroom and hole up in the kitchen and smoke. The smoke would be really thick in there even though it was a big kitchen. The dogs lived in there. Both dogs died of cancer. By the time the next dog came along, they'd stopped doing it - that dog didn't get cancer even though she was the same bloodline as the others. Might be co-incidence.

Waves_and_Smiles

Hang in there code, you can do it! We are all with you for support!

When I had pets including hamsters I would always smoke out of the bedroom window. Never in the same room as them and never without ventilation.

Hamsters can eat a huge range of food! Although there are things like almonds and chocolate (they have their own chocolate!) that are poisonous to them there is lots of choice. They can eat any vegetables apart from onions and garlic, any fruit apart from citrus and any meat at all unless it is heavily salted or spicy. They love cake, pasta, rice, ice cream and eggs, any bread and adore cheese. Nuts and raisins are also favoured. Mine had standard hamster food in their cages but every day I would give them a meal made of different foods and vary it as much as possible. When George used to smell toast he would squeak and bite and climb the bars until he got some!

tea_lover

Random comment alert..... my diary at work has a 'fact for the day'. Today's is that Ayrton Senna died on this day in 1994. I'm a big fan of F1 and remember it well. Not least because I was with my first boyfriend. I can remember sitting on the sofa and being v pleased when he finally put his arm round me.

Slightly disturbed to realise that was 21 years ago!! 21 years of boyfriends and husbands and I'm still no good at it :rotfl:.

mellymoo74

Adult mental health services suck.
Short of taking him to A&E i am getting nowhere