THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

milasavesmoney

So very s Aspergers, which is now no longer a definition as it is being shuttled back to autism. So much for the spectrum.

ivyleaf

maryb We can look at our roof through binoculars all we like, we still won't be able to do anything about the missing tile that's up there (or rather, isn't up there ). It took months and months to find someone to come and clean our blocked gutters!

We and next door now have pigeons nesting under the eaves between our houses, after they were displaced when the trees across the road were cut down and a derelict building demolished. They are a ruddy nuisance and our landing window ledges are liberally decorated with their droppings

Apparently it might be worth buying a decoy owl to see it it will scare them away. No idea where we'd put it though, unless it could go on one of the gateposts!

ariarnia

ivyleaf wrote: »

maryb We can look at our roof through binoculars all we like, we still won't be able to do anything about the missing tile that's up there (or rather, isn't up there ). It took months and months to find someone to come and clean our blocked gutters!

We and next door now have pigeons nesting under the eaves between our houses, after they were displaced when the trees across the road were cut down and a derelict building demolished. They are a ruddy nuisance and our landing window ledges are liberally decorated with their droppings

Apparently it might be worth buying a decoy owl to see it it will scare them away. No idea where we'd put it though, unless it could go on one of the gateposts!

On a sideboard peering out through the window?

That'd put the devil in 'em when they landed on your ledges :rotfl:

More seriously though, you can get plastic spike strips (not sharp and in a range of non-intrusive colours) and put them on the outside sill. Means they don't have a flat place to land.

daz378

hiya people bad day in work last week ....when i went into work on the monday i was told the client i look after mid forties heavy built male with learning difficulties ... had been beaten up in the local park sustained head injuries.... police are looking for the culprits but we also acknowledge the client non verbal can point and gesticulate towards kids adults who are in his opinion up to no good say parkkeeper mentality ... this does by no means excuse what happened to him.... we have gps on his phone and if we couldnt see him for 30 min ...we would ask management to find him in the light of incident this has been reduced to 15 min.....the tension between clients Dignity of risk and our duty of care to keep him safe.......hes a lot better now..thankfully and he still likes to go for a walk. Did Avuva retirement app to estimate my retirement income....but wasnt sure how much my employer contributes i still have local government pension even though we have been privatised i guessed at 12 % btw my storage chests are nicely filling up with tins......take care

singlestep

Sorry to hear about your client, Daz. People can be so vile, can't they?

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I'm feeling the changes in the season. It's mostly dark when I get to work at 7, I've looked out my warmer work clothes and it's definitely soup in a food flask rather than salad for lunch. I have a week off quite soon and have a list of pre-winter appointments (flu jab included), stock-ups and preps to do, including the dreaded beginning of the Christmas shopping.

All I really need for myself this winter is a decent pair of shoes I can stand up in all day. I am a bit lower than I'd like on tins and condiments. It's an improvement - not that long ago, I'd never have noticed until too late.

ivyleaf

ariarnia wrote: »

On a sideboard peering out through the window?

That'd put the devil in 'em when they landed on your ledges :rotfl:

More seriously though, you can get plastic spike strips (not sharp and in a range of non-intrusive colours) and put them on the outside sill. Means they don't have a flat place to land.

Thank, but they don't land on the ledge; it's very narrow. They're up above under the eaves. We wouldn't be able to access the outside ledge anyway as the window is a sealed unit.

thriftwizard

I found it fairly horrible they were trying to 'cure' his autism...

Why can't we just accept people the way they are - it's a difference, not a disease.

i was told the client i look after mid forties heavy built male with learning difficulties ... had been beaten up in the local park sustained head injuries

So very sad... but as a parent of a youngster with autism-related problems, you can't help but be aware how the less-empathic amongst us will peck at someone different, like overcrowded chickens, whether physically like daz378's poor client or "just" verbally. So you do want your child to be "better" so they don't get hurt when they're out there in the "real" world & you'll try anything when desperate. Utterly agreeing that the parents in this case were totally irresponsible, though, but it's clear that there is some kind of food/gut/brain link in many cases of autism; my girl's self-imposed diet of fresh vegetables, home-laid eggs, a little fish and a whole lot of fermented foods does seem to have helped her considerably.

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FYI DigForVictory (and anyone else in Northern Lancashire), there's another ISS pass, in ~ 30 minutes.

Details are:-

Magnitude: 2.2
Start time: 19:34:40
End Time: 19:40:01
Duration: 5m21s
Start Direction: W (260 degrees)
End Direction: ESE (103 degrees)
Start Elevation: 10 degrees
Maximum Elevation: 62 degrees
Predicted Weather: Clear

There's a second one tonight, but it's only 0.7 Mag, lasts only 1m35s, and has a maximum elevation of only 23 degrees.

thriftwizard

DS2's just come in crowing about seeing the ISS whilst walking TDiL home from work! A lovely bright clear sky tonight; I might have to get the sunbed out, which mainly gets used for star-gazing!

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
I know it's not really prepping as you can't really prepare for idiots but this is a take care warning we live in a smallish town in the middlelands ds1 has just shown me a photo and warning a friend posted on FB last night. Clowns jumped out and chased him as he was biking over the train bridge, he pedalled off fast thinking he just get away but they had tied a wire across the end so he went over his handle bars and got quite badly grazed up (luckily no worse) ds2 works at a local eatery in the evenings so main warning was for him. But if they are doing stupid stuff like that he it's bound to be in other uk towns - especially with Halloween coming up.