Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

Pyxis

I remembered a dream from last night, the first one I've remembered in ages.

I dreamt that a friend (dream friend, no-one in real life), said she'd do a bit of light pruning for me. Now my garden is an jungle, due to me not having really touched it for a couple of years. In my dream I fell asleep, and when I awoke (in my dream, that is, I was still asleep in real life), she had gone, and my garden was a pristine picture, all the jungle gone and all the shrubs neatly cut back. In the middle was a mahoosive pile of cuttings etc., which all I had to do was put into my green bin bit by bit each fortnight.

I was sooooo upset when I went downstairs this morning and the jungle was still there.

Pyxis

calleyw wrote: »

Can any one tell me why I have a pair of nut crackers in my utensil jar. I don't eat unshelled nuts!!!!!


Yours

Calley

Keep them. Even better if you have a second pair.

When I still drank wine and my wrists got so damaged that I could no longer open screw tops, I tried all the usual opening aids, but nothing worked except two nutcrackers.
You put one on the cap above the perforation and the others below the perforation. Then you grip and twist them both in opposite directions.

Apart from that, if you get rid of them , you will definitely start eating nuts in shell,in the next month or two! It's the law of Mr. S!

Georgiegirl256

((((Code))))

((((Pyxis))))

Dreams really can affect your emotions well into the next day.

elsien

Such is the state of my social life at the moment, the highlight of the day so far has been queuing up in BHS to debate a refund for a faulty light before they go bust.
Pyxis, if I were near you I'd happily come and attack your jungle - let me loose with the secateurs I'm there for hours.

Pyxis

elsien wrote: »

Such is the state of my social life at the moment, the highlight of the day so far has been queuing up in BHS to debate a refund for a faulty light before they go bust.
Pyxis, if I were near you I'd happily come and attack your jungle - let me loose with the secateurs I'm there for hours.

Good job Gitdog isn't a collie! :rotfl::rotfl:

codemonkey

Addressing my dream last night, my dogs were mother and daughter golden labs but in my dream,one was a black lab and the other was a fox red one. I was letting them meet DA dog and they all had fun. Wonder if it was trying to tell me something. As long as it wasn't a warning that DA dog would be joining them soon.

The caffeine shampoo is not helpful for my colour. It's stripped out the semi permanent but it's gone a nice ombre kind of way which looks quite cool.

Elsien, you're welcome to come and do my garden whenever you like :rotfl:

Waves_and_Smiles

Hi all! I have a totally different problem!

We have a young rat in the bathroom. There is a hole behind the toilet pipe and WaSp saw it climb in through there. It cannot get out of the bathroom so no worries there. Now comes the WaS drag factor, I will not kill it. No way, not happening, I will not kill a living creature that accidentally wandered in. Besides, I love rats. Even WaSp knew not to contemplate killing it because he knows it would really mess me up. What can I do?

The problem for the future is easy enough to solve, just block the hole behind the toilet again but we don't want to do that yet because it would stop it's only way of getting out. The hole appeared after a plumber fixed our cistern and our toilet moved out of place slightly. Neither of us are scared by it and will do whatever it takes to save it, I would pick it up if there wasn't a good chance of getting bitten. Any ideas please?

Oh, final question to prove I am as mad as I say I am. Should I put down water for it or will it be ok? I know not to feed it. I know, I am ridiculous. I may have named it...

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

I've tried all these things except the tape which I will try tonight.

When you try it, remember to put it on after you've said everything you want to say!

Also, be prepared for Mr. Codiwhatsit to have a guffaw or two!

Plus, keep the tape by your bed, because you might pull it off in your sleep, the first couple of nights. Persevere till you're used to the right amount of tension.
If it's too loose, you'll still be able to open your mouth, which will defeat the object, and too tight will feel like you're playing a bondage game! :rotfl:



(Who knows? It might catch on! :rotfl:)

Pyxis

WaS, block the hole.

It won't be its only way of getting out. It will have come in from somewhere else.

You really can't risk any disease it might bring in. This isn't a pet rat or fancy rat.

So just block the hole and it will go elsewhere.

There's water everywhere it goes, so don't worry about that.



Failing that, you'd have to buy a humane trap to catch it and then release it somewhere outside, a park or somewhere.

Waves_and_Smiles

Oooh ok! There is no way out of the bathroom to other rooms and the door is such a tight fit it scrapes on the floor so I don't have to worry about it getting out into the flat, It is very small and slim for a rat which probably means there are more babies near the hole who I don't want to come and find their sibling!

All I can think of is a humane rat trap and then WaSp says he will drive it out to the countryside (he is rolling his eyes a lot). I used to pick up huge live mice that my cats brought in but I know you need to be a lot more careful with rats. Only I could be more worried about saving the rat than the fact it's there in the first place (it's name is Monty).