Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Kitty777

Morning everyone!!!


Had a lovely day in London yesterday, took sandwiches to eat on the train and had a lovely hot chocolate in a relatively quiet cafe!

I rang up my employers HR to get a reference for my new job, and it went smoothly (phone calls are a huge phobia for me!) so that worry is out of the window now! Going to have a long walk to Morrisons soon and hope to get some of the worry out of my head

I hope you are all well?

Kitty.
x

onomatopoeia99

Flybaby wrote: »

Has anyone tried or used Hedgehog gutter guards? Am thinking of purchasing for our gutters as we are under trees and get a lot of debris in the gutters - just wondered if anyone had any experience with them? They look pretty effective from the reviews I have read and the logic of them certainly makes sense to me.

I've installed them and they work. Although "installed" makes it sound a lot more grand than the work involved, as it just means shoving them in.

I'm not under trees but since I live in a bunglaow there's a lot of roof and a lot of gutter so it really used to fill up, particularly as it's L shaped rather than the normal rectangle so there are two right angles in the guttering which got clogged. It's much better now and the downpipes no longer get blocked with the moss collecting.

One thing to note is that falling moss will often bounce from the hedgehog and land on the floor, rather than falling into the gutter, so you might need to do a bit more sweeping (if such things worry you more than they do me).

Waves_and_Smiles

Thinking of you today, welly!

Flybaby, I have no idea what a hedgehog gutter guard is but I am now picturing hedgehogs in suits of armour, holding spears on each end of my gutters...

I thought the stomach situation was going too well. I tried broccoli...nope! Stabbing stomach pain, hiccups, burping acid and running in and out of the bathroom for the whole night. So not quite ready for green vegetables yet then? Back to potatoes, it is.

onomatopoeia99

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Flybaby, I have no idea what a hedgehog gutter guard is but I am now picturing hedgehogs in suits of armour, holding spears on each end of my gutters...

That makes them sound much more interesting than they actually are!

Kitty777

Okay...I am sorry about this but I am in a really bad situation right now..

I was doing okay, then I came across a picture from post secret (not sure if anyone knows the website) that brought a ton of bricks down on me.

It reminded me of my beautiful darling Daisy cat and now I feel stupid sitting here sobbing my heart out. It has almost been 4 months since the day she passed away (I decided to have her ethuanised due to cancer). I feel so stupid that I am a grown woman and all I want right now is to be able to hold her and see her again.

I am in such a rough place, I haven't cried in ages over here but now I want nothing more than just to see her again...oh gosh the pain is more raw than ever..

codemonkey

Oh kitty. Massive Hugs.

It's been 10 years since my last dog died and 15 since the one before that and I still cry sometimes when I see photos of them. It seems so cruel that our pets don't get to live as long as we do because you love them so much.

Do you think you are ready to offer a home to another cat?

whitewing

Kitty,

perhaps taking the step of posting your first post here was your subconscious way of saying that you are ready to deal with the grief.

I have hovered around threads for a while, been happy to then post, and then felt worse about something for a little while, but been able to then deal with the feelings that were too painful to deal with before.

Hope all is going well, welly, and that we will soon hear the patter patter of little wellingtons!

jobbingmusician

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Thinking of you today, welly!

Flybaby, I have no idea what a hedgehog gutter guard is but I am now picturing hedgehogs in suits of armour, holding spears on each end of my gutters...

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

That makes them sound much more interesting than they actually are!

Actually, I suspect there is a merchandising idea right there! They actually look like this http://www.drainageonline.co.uk/Gutter-Protection/Hedgehog-Gutter-Protection.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjw1f6vBRC7tLqO_aih5WISJAAE0CYwhul41VUpEzmj_-OznDEk6TNyS8ZjGgrFx7skbOfDjxoCrgjw_wcBhttp://www.drainageonline.co.uk/Gutter-Protection/Hedgehog-Gutter-Protection.htm?gclid=CjwKEAjw1f6vBRC7tLqO_aih5WISJAAE0CYwhul41VUpEzmj_-OznDEk6TNyS8ZjGgrFx7skbOfDjxoCrgjw_wcB

But I bet if someone made some so they looked like a line of hedgehogs with spears, they would sell like hot cakes! We have one on our kitchen extension, so we could see the little hogs out of our bedroom window!!!

*goes off to think about this*

(We also have a spare gutter hedgehog in the back garden. It moves around quite a lot, we think because the baby foxes play with it! )

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Thinking of you today, welly!

Flybaby, I have no idea what a hedgehog gutter guard is but I am now picturing hedgehogs in suits of armour, holding spears on each end of my gutters....

Kitty777 wrote: »

Okay...I am sorry about this but I am in a really bad situation right now..

I was doing okay, then I came across a picture from post secret (not sure if anyone knows the website) that brought a ton of bricks down on me.

.

Like Codemonkey, my two dogs died 15 and 6 years ago respectively, and I miss hem dreadfully.

Kitty777

I have since moved house, and I can't get another cat as we live in a first floor flat..but I would love one...I would sooo love one!!

I am feeling a little better now, thank you...even though I got totally soaked walking to the shops!