THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

DigForVictory

Things have come to a bit of a pass when the mice prep better than I do. Still, I have a car & a credit card & an internet connection. And opposable thumbs.

Just finished a long day at work & am very glad that I have a colleague ready to elbow me if I look as if I'm about to nod off in a Team Meeting attended by not just us but some Worthy.

I have loaded the workbag with coffee sachets & dark chocolate. This may not stop the head cold being noisy, but will buy me a great deal more sympathy & toleration.

There's a thought. If a mouse wants to stay on my good side, learn to lug a coffee sachet into handy locations...

mardatha

Still upto our eyeballs in joiners and plasterers and electricians and a very miffed cat!

fuddle

Have you any units in place yet Mad's the Mad Arthur? And the big question - will you gain any extra cupboard space?

mardatha

Most of them in place but no doors on yet. Worktops black with black spashbacks, very dark and dramatic and will look terrific but I think I need LED lighting strips to show it off. Or else it might be a wee bit like the bottom of the pit. They had my cooker out the back garden then it came back in again and the washing machine went oot instead! But all safely herded back in for the night lol

Karmacat

Herding the appliances I like it
I'd missed that you were getting your kitchen done, Mar, wondering if you were okay - horrendous to have workmen in, but glad its that - shiny new kitchen ahoy

Cappella

Had my kitchen replaced a few months ago Mardatha. You have my most sincere sympathy.

I'm taking a little few days off. I'm still in the depths of the Armageddon cupboard and Danton's see an end insight. Normal posting will resume as and when I escape its clutches.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DigForVictory wrote: »

Things have come to a bit of a pass when the mice prep better than I do. Still, I have a car & a credit card & an internet connection. And opposable thumbs.

Just finished a long day at work & am very glad that I have a colleague ready to elbow me if I look as if I'm about to nod off in a Team Meeting attended by not just us but some Worthy.

I have loaded the workbag with coffee sachets & dark chocolate. This may not stop the head cold being noisy, but will buy me a great deal more sympathy & toleration.

There's a thought. If a mouse wants to stay on my good side, learn to lug a coffee sachet into handy locations...

You may have all those things - but can you fit through a gap no more than the thickness of a pencil, like those pesky varmits do? Or provide hours of entertainment as a chase-n-chew toy for an Idiot Cat?


Work had a major disaster today. They ran out of coffee in the Staffroom. And the hot water boiler thingummies both went wrong after (surprise, surprise) their service call. So no access to tea, chocolate or Pot Noodles (we have a lot of NQTs who live off the things).


I prep (well, duh - I'm on this thread ). So I have a tub of the blessed caffeine stashed in my office. And a kettle hidden in a cupboard [STRIKE]in breach of all H&S rules about having boiling water in receptacles that can be easily carried/knocked over[/STRIKE]. A select few staff members have once again benefited from my foresight/planning/[strike]tendency to filch one of everything for times of dire emergency[/strike]*


*See also how certain deserving members of staff have been provided with portable heaters and fans when the weather and general failure of the boilers have necessitated them.


Did I ever mention that I rarely have trouble getting things done for me at short notice?


Bribery and corruption. Makes the world go round, I tell ya.

DigForVictory

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Bribery and corruption. Makes the world go round, I tell ya.

Oh absolutely! Fondly recalls the old office & the tea club biscuit tin with which we bribed those who had potential & cossetted those who had helped us. (We couldn't afford corruption, but ye gods shrewd acquisition of biscuits on promotion, as well as strategic biscuit purchases to improve negotiations!) Aided by the biting wind along the Mersey, which made 'a little something' all the sweeter during fire practices.

I worked on a team where my manager lived in Nottingham & most of his team were in London. He loved coming to see how I was getting on as he got to sleep in, putter over, have a chat, be hauled (protesting very half heartedly) to the local pub and microbrewery After I had lined his every pocket in reach with delicacies from the biscuit tin (all individually wrapped) "for the journey home".

Back then, I didn't worry about mice, or teenager appetites overmuch. I kept the biscuit tin stocked, ran a fleet of assorted beverages and when the senior techie discovered they had Run Out Of Sugar, after a brief panic, a figure appeared mildly at my desk-side. He was gently ushered away from The Cupboard clutching a sack of the white powder on the understanding a replacement sealed sack would be along tomorrow & that we would be remembered as Righteous Amongst Nations... We had a wonderfully accelerated response time for technical hitches, and a reliable inside line on what we could slide across the network & when.

It is wonderful what good things happen to the deserving, eh?

mardatha - what tools do you use to herd appliances? A long stick & a whistle? Rope & mutterings of encouragement? Sheer force of will on the weaker minded? As a very feeble exponent of Jedi mindskills & a much cannier user of bribery, I can't tell what to hold in front of a baulky washing machine (other then my phone running google & in some cases youtube).

cappella - steady with the Armageddon cupboard - remember to prop as you go & make sure someone's on the lifeline.

Jojo - never in my lifetime will I be able to squeeze through tiny spaces - I will need cremation first, I fear. (Ex caver with a shrewd idea of exactly how thick my ribcage is.) I do admire your tender care of NQTs.

GreyQueen

Appliance Herding is a skilled pastime best left to well-trained specialist herd dogs.


Some authorities favour the Zanussian breed for general purpose herding of white goods, others insist that the Electroluxian Long Tailed Harrow Hound is the only pooch to go porch-to-porch with recalcitrant appliances.


A skilled Herdsperson will know exactly which breed to deploy in which kitchen, but it is worth noting that even the best appliance hounds can be confused by those brightly coloured curvy S M E G fridge-freezers and come over a bit peculiar.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

GreyQueen wrote: »

Appliance Herding is a skilled pastime best left to well-trained specialist herd dogs.


Some authorities favour the Zanussian breed for general purpose herding of white goods, others insist that the Electroluxian Long Tailed Harrow Hound is the only pooch to go porch-to-porch with recalcitrant appliances.


A skilled Herdsperson will know exactly which breed to deploy in which kitchen, but it is worth noting that even the best appliance hounds can be confused by those brightly coloured curvy S M E G fridge-freezers and come over a bit peculiar.

I'm in the process of (gradually!) upgrading to a flock of specialist herding bees.

Well, it makes sense, what with Miele being Italian for 'honey'...