Minor rant thread 2019

[Lardman]

On autopilot tonight, thought Id make myself a nice cup of coffee to wake up a bit. Poured the milk into the coffee without thinking to check if it was still ok. It wasn't.

What a waste of coffee and to make matters worse I can't get the smell of rancid milk out of my nose either.

[Tailless]

1. Cat somehow sustained a ‘degloving’ injury to the end of his tail last Wednesday and consequently had to have a third of his tail amputated on Thursday.

2. Cat subsequently not coping at all well with being in a buster collar and is having to be cared for intensively (lifting in and out of litter tray, hand-feeding, grooming, comforting, etc.). If we remove the collar, even for a minute, cat whips around, growls and bites the stump, causing even more injury (thus an extra trip to vet). Now learned not to remove the collar AT ALL.

3. Started feeling ill on Saturday afternoon and by Saturday evening was head first down the toilet with (probably) norovirus. Couldn’t look after cat and be explosively ill at the same time so, in desperation, called husband, who had to get someone else to cover his night shift so he could come home.

4. Threw up so hard I pulled some muscles in my stomach and now bending over or even coughing is painful, on top of the residual aches and pains of the virus. Struggling with even small chores today.

5. Husband having to cover extra night shift tonight to ‘repay’ cover for Saturday night. Husband exhausted and also feeling unwell. Cat is miserable and restless and wants to be cuddled, but it is now nearly midnight and I have to be up at 6am for work (god, how do parents of babies and toddlers survive the sleepless nights?!)

6. £988 vet’s bill. Thank god for pet insurance. But right now I haven’t the energy even to start the claim process.

Sigh....

[Lumpy]

Families.............explains why I prefer dogs.

[Small pumpkin]

People take plants from my little sales barrow without paying.
Two days running!

[greenishfing]

Drat! Clumsy me! I dropped the pepper grinder in the washing up water. I took it out, stripped it down and attempted to dry it but now upon trying to put it back together I find something is missing or broken. It just doesn't grind any more.

[greenishfing]

I know when I started planting my seeds everything was labelled. Since then seedlings have moved to the greenhouse, I've given some away and swapped some. I remember thinking "Oh, I'll remember what those in the square pots are" and "I'll remember that the odd two are....."

FORGOTTEN!

I can't remember which are chillies and which are peppers, which variety some of the tomatoes are and I seem to have lost the aubergines.

Next year I will be more organised.

[Lardman]

Feeling the pain greenishfing I played guess the pepper or chilli yesterday.

My rant - why don't they make plant pots with a re-writable section built into them ?

[Thelma Sanders]

Next year I will be more organised.

Yeah right, like that's ever going to happen - I speak from personal experience HaHaHaHa

[roitelet]

That cats don’t live as long as us, RIP Sac à puce.

[greenishfing]

I felt sorry for someone and offered to help them. But, oh no, this weekend, when we have showers forecast isn't suitable for them, nor next week.
This means that I am going to lose one of these perfect gardening days this week. Think I'll keep my gob shut next time or find out more before I offer my time.

[Lumpy]

Pencils........pesky things that don’t vanish in the sun.
Hint hint.

[bramble]

Perlite...is this a ripoff.
€ 14.50 for 10 liters.

[DannyK]

Perlite...is this a ripoff.
€ 14.50 for 10 liters.

Agreed, same on mainland. Try Google first hit, have no time to do more, 100 lt E34.44 + E5 delivery. Must be some cheaper ones there.

Here £18.99 + free delivery eBay, mine will keep me going for a year or two!

[Nicos]

-2days before our trip to the UK and an important warning light has come on in the car.
It's over an hour to the garage and we are really pressed for time as it is.
-Also last night OH noticed one of our chooks has a massive prolapse.
Waiting for the 3rd thing......

[greenishfing]

The local council has put in a seperate cycle lane on a local road, no doubt at great expense, so why do idiots decide not to use it? Maybe because they can't ride 2 abreast or is it just to wind me up ????