Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[hellkat]

I had to move a VERY LARGE dead rat out of my kitchen because Lawrence appears to have worn himself out whilst catching it and went for a nice sleep directly after crunching its cranium just enough to kill it, he left the whole thing uneaten on my kitchen floor, which is very rare for him, he usually eats most of them, but this was a big bugger.

I couldn't even get in there, the thing was in the middle of the floor. Eventually, after some hilarity and encouragement aka teasing / bullying via video from a brace of chaps in Amesbury ... I got brave enough to grasp the tail with a teatowel, in case it woke up enough to bite me, and throw it into a shopping bag.

I was screaming so much i had to take a break once it was in the bag. The boys were making squealing ratty noises to wind me up, and i was exhausted with tension and terror. Eventually i managed to get the bag, the teatowel, and the rat, out into the rubbish bins on the street. Someone pointed out that the bins were just a foraging place for other rats and foxes, but i don't care, its someone else's problem now.

But the boys very seriously then pointed out that the huge gaping hole in my floorboards by the back door, which still hasn't been fixed, is almost certain to be a nice easy route for rats, into my nice warm house full of yummy food. So they encouraged me to put some flatpack cardboard down across the hole, which i then covered with my box of Harley bits to hold it down so no more rats could come up - just in case they thought they might like to, whilst i was asleep.

Ugh.
I picked it up by its TAIL.
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[Islander]

[hellkat]

Yes i know they would gnaw their way through it.
But it had to do for now.
Rang the housing association first thing and they are sending an emergency team today and the actual fixing is to be done in a couple of weeks. They offered to phone pest control but i said if i suddenly became inundated i would get them to do so, but that my cats were coping so far

Meantime, other more pressing issues have arisen.
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[hellkat]

That doyenne of taste, wit and culture, the artist formerly known as MCW, has fallen down her stairs and appears to have broken her leg.

Moves are afoot to rescue her.
Hopefully Salisbury Hospital is on emergency standby/their best behaviour.

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[Islander]

[JackButler]

As a scientist myself, I always thought that science was only interested in exact results.

How can one respected scientists opinion be so easily questioned by another equally respected scientist???
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[Islander]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[King29]

The bus to town today, Mr and Mrs twatt with face masks around their chins.

https://i.imgur.com/yGAqsPO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KH7oLfo.jpg

[LustyLew]

App developers/owners that are precious of their environments.

"You do realise your app needs updating as it has exploitable vulnerabilities that we told you about 6 months ago?"

"We will do it in the next service window."

"You've been saying that for 6 months."

GRRR

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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Islander]

[Easy-X]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Update: still fine but two broken legs.. one needs pinning.
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[hellkat]

In fact, a broken leg and a broken ankle.

I'm always a bit nervous about ankles, they're the bit you really rely more upon than everything and you don't realise it, til you don't have the use of it.

I might pop down ... i was planning to pop down to Amesbury this week as well.
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[wr6133]

Amal Carbs. Shit like this is why the Japs took over. Why do these shit things still exist and why do old duffers insist on fitting them.

It's brand new but I can envisage it getting binned, pile of utter crap.

I hope the Royal Artillery point an AS90 the wrong way and land a round on the Amal HQ in Salisbury.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Easy-X]

[wr6133]

[stinkwheel]

[stinkwheel]

Tradesmen who do not bother turning up for appointments.

I've waitied in today, on my day off, for a guy from a local double glazing company to come round and measure up for a quote for new doors and windows.

The double glazing business must be really fucking busy if they can afford to fuck off a customer who wants 13 new windows and 3 doors and has cash ready.

Whilst I have kept busy, I've had to do jobs in and around the house. It's been the first nice day in weeks and i could have been away off doing something else. Like riding my motorbike. This has been a waste of a valuable day off work. I should bill them for it.
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