I would just like to say

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Wimblowdriver said:
After the card has been on display for a week, take it and hide it until next year. Then give it again - and again, for years to come. Nothing to do with being a tight wad, more to do with the danger that comes with forgetting :cool:
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No way id get away with that the card would be all dirty n dusty full of creases & a coffee cup ring 🤣
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Well the "annus horribilis" continues.
Went to dig the dog bath out of the shed, (tis an old plastic baby bath bought at the equivalent of a car boot a few years back), got it outside and ..... poop, it's cracked vertically in two places.

Bit of swearing then I cleaned it around the cracks and applied gaffer tape, as you would!

Amazingly it worked!

Poor old dog didn't like being washed, as usual. Water went all over the decking, the table, me, etc. But she is a lot cleaner now.
Maybe I'll try and clip her this arvo. Not an easy job single handed but as we know W shouldn't be standing up and helping.

Anyone know a good way of washing off the excess cerumen a doggy produces? Being long haired and long eared, as well as having a bit of a problem, she has produced tons and the bath only helped a bit. I've googled it and all I can find is manufacturers trying to flog their product. I already have the normal stuff from the vets to clean the inner ears and they are lovely and clean now. It's the remnants of what was left over from before we spotted it that is greasy and needs sorting out.

I think I'll have to bite the bullet and use the clippers first, which will mean a huge clean up of them after, then try yet again with doggy shampoo. Unless anyone else has a good idea.
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Stanleysteamer said:
That is a massively intelligent question.
When we were getting the house built we were told we had to have a tank with either a normal crowsfoot outfall or a pipe leading to the "tout a l'égout" i.e. the main drains.
When I first asked it I was told that it was because the sewage company didn't have enough power/capacity whatever to deal with raw sewage so it had to be treated first by us. Then it could join the main drain.
When the water / sewage company guy and I had a convo last year I asked him why I was paying for sewage treatment when I was doing it myself.
At first he went and had a look at the paperwork and agreed with me that we shouldn't, have been paying for it and we were entitled to some money back.
The following morn he was on my doorstep at 8 a.m. to tell me he had made a mistake and we were not entitled to money back as they "collected" it from us.
I then asked him to inspect the tank and you know the next part of the story.
I asked him what was happening in the future and he said that a sewage plant to serve a whole load of little places like ours was planned for a few years time.
So I asked him where our outfall actually went and he basically said that it went all around a whole load of places then ended up.......


In a stream!!!


Go figure, cos I bliddy can't!!
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Big fu--- up then wouldn't want to be near that river😠😠
 
DanClarke said:
Morning All. :D
Bright, Sunny day here ATM.
Bing-Bong on the doorbell and a neighbour stood there to tell me not to bother trying to get a paper. :(
Herself will be distressed.
Have a good day. :D
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We used to get a paper from time to time over here, Telegraph, Mail if we could get nothing better.......
But since Brexit no Brit papers come over at all.
Don't mind reading the frog ones but I would like a good cryptic crossword to do, frog ones aren't a lot of fun and no one else does cryptics. :(
 
Stanleysteamer said:
We used to get a paper from time to time over here, Telegraph, Mail if we could get nothing better.......
But since Brexit no Brit papers come over at all.
Don't mind reading the frog ones but I would like a good cryptic crossword to do, frog ones aren't a lot of fun and no one else does cryptics. :(
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Get yourself a book of Telegraph Cryptic Crosswords. :cool:
 
Wimblowdriver said:
Get yourself a book of Telegraph Cryptic Crosswords. :cool:
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I already have a book of Times ones, and even a small Times crossword computer. But TBH the Times ones are beyond me now and I have even slowed down with the Telegraph ones. Either they have got harder or I have got thicker, prolly the latter.
But maybe yes one day when I'm physically too unfit to do stuff.....
Of course I could always pay a sub to the right wing rag on the pooter.... but that goes against my left-of-centre grain!!!
And doing the frog ones improves my vocabulary. ;)
 
Hey ho, off to start clipping the dog. We have to do it in bursts as none of them really like it.
She is off to the vets for a check up on her ears and eyes this arvo.
Just got the bill from them, €36 for ear drops, :eek::eek::eek:, one of the 4 treaments we have to give her. Which explains why the bill was so relatively high.
Still the plum and cinnamon jam is very nice!
Have a good one folks!
:):):):)
 
DanClarke said:
What do you consider a "good" one? I do the one in the Daily fail and its not too hard, butthe Times and Telegraph stump me every time.
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I'm like you, the Fail one though got tougher a little bit of a whiles before we couldn't get it any more. The Welligraph I usually managed to do, more or less, especially if I put it down and picked it up again every now and then, but the Times is a real sod.

So for me a good one is the Welligraph. Plus there is a website you can go to if all the other help you can get from books like anagram solvers, thesauruses (i!) and dictionaries don't work.
W once bought me a box with about 5 books in it all designed to help solve them and one thing was a book where you could look up words by their length and go through them with just a few letters you had managed to find. Also a book of lists of words under various headings, though I often find myself writing in words that should be on the list and weren't, once the clue is solved.

My parents used to do the one in the Grauniad, I never got that one, and I have heard that the toughest of the lot is in the Listener, but that is not a thing I ever read!
 
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