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  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    edited 20 August 2018 at 6:58PM
    I need to go shopping. Not a huge shop, just bits and pieces for cooking with. DD is away until Thursday. DS is alarmed by New Dog and doesn't want to be responsible for her. It's too soon to start leaving her - she needs longer to settle in to our family and start getting over the shock of having been abandoned by her previous family. I could walk her to the shop and tie her up outside - I'll only be in there a few minutes - but when I tied her to the bannisters to persuade her to stay downstairs overnight, she chewed through the lead, so that doesn't sound like a good idea. I think I will have to drive - she seems very happy to go in the car - and leave her in the car for the few minutes it will take me to nip in and get the stuff, and hope she's OK. At least it's late enough in the day that the car won't be too hot for her. It does seem a bit of a waste, though - it's an ideal distance for a dog walk at her current stage of healing from being spayed, but I don't see any alternative to driving it and then walking her later.

    I am still stuck on a screen name for her. :(

    In related news, her visit to the vet this morning went well, the dressing is off her wound and it's healing nicely. The vet was as nice as the reviews said he would be. :)
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  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Belgian chocolates! How parochial. Sniff.

    Posh sweets are made in the Himalayas using milk from the Dalai Lama's own yaks, hand crafted by Tibetan monks, and decorated with crystallised petals from the very rare Himalayan rose, which only flowers for one month a year.

    ... do you think the wonky ones get bagged up and flogged at £land as mis-shapes?
  • Jackmydad
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    edited 20 August 2018 at 7:11PM
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    ... do you think the wonky ones get bagged up and flogged at £land as mis-shapes?

    No. :p (Too short etc.)
  • PasturesNew
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    ....DS is alarmed by New Dog and doesn't want to be responsible for her. .... few minutes it will take me to nip in and get the stuff, and hope she's OK. .

    If DS exists .... then make DS go with you - and leave him in the car with the dog, to keep the dog "OK about you leaving".... or send DS into the shop....

    Remember who is boss.... let DS "get away with" saying he doesn't want to be responsible is just a get out clause to "doss at home"... get him out with you :)
  • Pyxis
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    LydiaJ wrote: »

    I am still stuck on a screen name for her. :(
    :)

    As she's a fetcher, you could call her Cyrille. (Feminine of Cyril). :D


    Or Boomerang. :D
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  • Jackmydad
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    As she's a fetcher, you could call her Cyrille. (Feminine of Cyril). :D


    Or Boomerang. :D

    Nice one Cyrille! :D
  • Pyxis
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    As she's a fetcher, you could call her Cyrille. (Feminine of Cyril). :D


    Or Boomerang. :D
    Jackmydad wrote: »
    Nice one Cyrille! :D

    In that case, turn Cyrille into Squirille! :rotfl:
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  • silvercar
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    Are you around michaels?

    Either I've found the sort of loophole you would be impressed by, or the regulars on the insurance board hope my thread will disappear if they don't answer. Either way the answers I've had already don't address my question.
    I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.
  • chris_m
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    In that case, turn Cyrille into Squirille! :rotfl:

    Sciurus vulgaris or tree rat?
    :p
  • ivyleaf
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    New Dog thinks I should be using at least one of my hands for stroking her, and not both at the same time for typing.

    Aaah, she sounds lovely. Please give her a cuddle from me, if she likes cuddles :) If not, perhaps a fondle of the ears? :D
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