Todays - What Grinds my gears

hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Fucking Lawrence (alpha male tabby) brought a freshly killed pigeon into the house ... just as I was about to leave for work (in a brand new white summery dress Rolling Eyes

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So I went to get the broom to sweep it out into the back garden, and when I got back to where it was, it was gone - Billie (doggo) had stolen it from Lawrence and brought it into the living room. Brick Wall

She has that quick "thieving street-dog" stealth, its not often someone gets fresh food off Lawrence when he catches it himself.

So I swept it out the front gate where Billie couldn't get to to it, and kicked Lawrence out with the pigeon, then stomped off to work.

By the time I got home, there was no sign of the pigeon so I assume Lawrence found a nice shady place to disembowel and eat it during the day.
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BanditsHigh · Worse than a woman Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Karma :

The joke that are companies!

Just out of curiosity, when a guy knocked the door wanting to see if I wanted my house painted, I said ok give me a quote.

Now I bough the cheapest 25L drums off Ebay nearly 20 years ago, and only in the past few years has some flaked off, but I didn't use any stabilising solution, so quite surprised at how well it has lasted.

So quote is to jet wash the old paint off, fix any blown render and repaint ... semi-detached 3 bedroom house ....

£8430 Laughing

I just smiled and said that was a bit over the top, when he asked how much I'd expected, I said £1k-2k, he said I couldn't even buy the materials for that price!

Is that so ...

1) Bags of sand and cement for render, probably around £20-£100 depending on how much needs done.

2) Paint, I'll probably splash out and get some textured Sandtex, which has the same guarantee as the stuff they used, £35 for 10L, around 50L = £175 ... or go for the expensive stuff like Wethertex AP77 at around £360 for the same amount.

3) Labour = FREE ... me for as long as it takes!

Slightly cheaper overall and just as good, if not better, and I'll be able to patch it up at any point because I can just buy another tub of paint!

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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

Go for the Wethertex.
Sandtex lets the moisture get behind it and blows the paint eventually
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Dennis is being a bit peculiar. Even for her... Thinking

This week she has been:
1. AWOL for 36 hours
2. Grumpy upon her return, grumbles when I stroke her
3. Distancing herself from me and growling (yesterday she clawed me after only three strokes
4. Not eating much, not even licky-licks and today barely a mouthful of roast chicken (one of her favourites)

Today she returned late in the evening, and is covered in those little green sticky prickles. I will have to wrap her in a towel and gently brush her to get them out.

Happily, the dog is on her holidays untll the weekend so the house is calmer than usual.

But I am a tad concerned. Although she recovered from last year's chemo, and has recently been looking better than she has for a couple of years, I am a bit worried she might be going back down hill.

Time will tell I suppose.
Rolling Eyes

Edit: So anyway, we went to the vet on Thursday and only one of us came home. Bless her grumpy little tripod self. I shall scatter her ashes in the garden where she took such delight in shitting under my camellia bush.
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Tracey Suntan-King · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Nov 2012 Karma :

Sorry to hear this. It’s devastating to lose a pet. She was loved Wub

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panrider_uk · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Sep 2007 Karma :

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Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

Sorry to hear this. It's gut wrenching to lose a pet at any time.
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hellkat · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Thanks for the kind wishes. It was always gonna be a tough one.

This evening my mind was taken off my own sorrow during late night walkies by having to phone the old bill about rather a lot of banging from someone who seemed to be locked in, including letter box rattling and female screaming that was going on in a house we walked past. Within 3 minutes of me dialling 999 there was a carful of burly coppers pulling up. I didn't stick around as I had explained enough on the phone and just pointed them in the right direction.

I hope whoever she is, is okay.
Didn't sound like it.
For all I know she might be a nutter, but having been in the occasional domestic blue or two myself over the years, I couldn't just walk past.

Knowing my luck, its probably camera'd up and whoever is locking her in has now got my image burned on his mind Shocked

EDIT:
*gears more ground this morning when I was chatting to a neighbour who tells me that the place is a "hostel" and that when standing at the bus stop across the road, he has also heard the door-banging and letterbox-rattling/screaming thing which he reckons is a bunch of kids (aged from 9 to 15) who are left to run amok at all times of the day and night.

I did think the nature of the screaming and banging was odd and was wondering why I couldn't hear any what I would think of as "typical sounds of DV" , no man shouting or swearing etc etc.

But then ... I watch too much murder-tv and thought it might be a woman trying to escape a dungeon Laughing

When I came round the corner on this morning's walkies, one of the windows has all the contact paper torn off and you can see kids toys etc, so yeah I guess maybe it fits in.
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