Minor rant thread 2017

[DannyK]

MET Office now says we should be ok from about 08:00. Trouble is it'll be sodden from earlier rain.

It'll probably change again.

[Baldy]

Teenage sons - grrr...

[Cadalot]

Balders - Daughters in their 20's - Grrrr...

[Jungle Jane]

Teenage daughters though! Around midnight last night I'd fell asleep on the settee & my daughter phoned-"Mum can my friend stay round,he's missed his train back to London? We're down the park it's freezing" Ive no idea who this friend is,he wasn't mentioned ever & I know her friends in our town I think,I don't know all her online friends though,they could be meeting anyone but hopefully she has sense,he's gone now though we're all alive & haven't been burgled or anything

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

You Know what! Thank gaw'd I live nowhere near the "Big Smoke"

That would just worry the hell out of me!

[JanieB]

Guy Fawkes is November 5th. I understand the arranged bonfires although I still think they should be on Nov 5th. Some idiot has their bonfire night tonight. No warning. I take it they haven’t got pets.

[Cadalot]

I get to the allotment to enjoy the quiet and solitude, an alarm goes off on the building site behind me. Half an hour later it has not stopped I phone the police. We don't have time to come out to alarms, phone the council.

The council, if you look at the alarm it will have a telephone number, phone the supplier - Doh it's on a building site and I can't see the number but its Sunday morning and breaking the noise buy laws

An hour later I see a workman on the scaffold.

Have you come to turn off the Alarm?

Yes but it will not turn off

Another half hour and finally, the piece and quiet was restored.....

[Baldy]

Cadders - look after yourself fella - maybe make one call or something like that, then just get on with your own thing. Its not in your nature probably

[Lumpy]

My rant is about dogs as they are devious, evil creatures.

They arrive in your life and make you love them. They never criticize or judge you but wag, comfort and give you a reason to go out every day and talk to other fools who have been lulled by their dogs.

The longer you have them the more you are under their spell.

Until, you realise that they are going to make you pay a terrible price for loving them.

As you sit in the car late at night doing a mad dash to the vets you hope beyond hope that the doggy doc has a wonder pill or injection that will give your best friend extra time.

And then you sit on the plastic chair at the end of the table with your head against your canine companion and gently scratch both ears. You sit there and quietly tell them that they are a good dog and remind them of their adventures in the past whilst the needle goes in.

There's no drama or pain for them but for me my heart is being ripped in a way no human has ever done.

You walk out of the vets with a collar. It will hang on the fruit trees with the others as a memorial to a glorously beautiful creature whose passing has broken my heart.

R.I.P Poppy the Labrador.

[Small pumpkin]

Lumpys post making me cry!

I'm so sorry lumpy.

[Cadalot]

Lumpys post made me think about my old mate and made me sad

Thinking of you Lumpy

[SelkirkAlex]

why do nurseries, garden centres and plant companies insist on printing their stuff on glossy non compostable paper

[Lumpy]

That I have just had to do my Cri....boo shopping order so I can get a delivery for the 23rd Dec - all the delivery slots were full for the 24th.....................how do I know what we want or need then?

[KevinM67]

why do nurseries, garden centres and plant companies insist on printing their stuff on glossy non compostable paper

That's a great point - maybe we should let them know.

[Small pumpkin]

My rant is that Kevin and SelkirkAlex haven't started their campaign to rid the world of glossy/ none compostable seed / plant catalogues.
I think it's a great idea.