What have you been doing today?

[Ihavenojob]

Ripping up and burning my decking. Rotted after 12 years. Strange the way it has rotted, I put the joists on plastic pads resting on concrete blocks, some joist look like new, others have completely rotted. so bad that my foot went through it.

 

[securespark]

Very busy, setting up the new laptop pooter. I've been stuck, 24 hours, trying to load Office 2019 on. I had managed, I thought, to remove 365, via Remove, yet it repeatedly complained about another version of Office on it. Just found out the problem was Onenote, still being there.

Given up on ripoff MS. Subscription to use Word etc?

I use Libre Office. Free.

 

[Mottie]

Mrs Mottie and I went to a local event just now in Hornchurch stadium advertised as a Christmas market with music, food stalls etc. Di A Bolical! 2 food vans in the car park. One selling burgers, the other, chestnuts. The 'event' was in the clubhouse and was a dozen stalls selling toot you wouldn’t even see on a cheap market stall. Imported Chinese toys, cards, sweets, crap jewellery and clothing that Primark had rejected. We were in and out in three minutes. Very disappointing.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Had to go for early dentist appointment for check up. Only a 15 min walk to get there. Being quite tall my feet hang off the end of dentists chair. Just got comfortable and happened to gance down at my shoes. To my horror, I spotted a very large and meaty one hanging onto the sole and side of sole of my left shoe.

Obviously didn't spot it amongst all the leaves on pavement as I was walking along. Luckily the dentist didn't venture down by my feet as it was rather obvious. However the nurse did walk around my feet several times going about her duties. I couldn't do anything about it, lying there looking up to the ceiling with my mouth wide open.

Just hope none of them could smell it and be doubting my personal hygiene. As if going to the dentist wasn't fraught enough!!!!! Least I didn't have any dental problems and no treatment needed.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Up the top of the ladder, drilling a hole, to free the trapped copper phone line by the soffit, so I could use the wire, to pull a draw wire in through the loft wing, into the main carpeted area of my loft. Basically making it easy for the fibre install engineer, to pull his fibre in tomorrow, and exactly where I want it to go.. Engineer, is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

Absolutely not the best day to be outdoors, and working up a ladder - there had been 2" of snow overnight. My first outing with this particular ladder - It's an alloy double extension, and one section turned out to be long enough to reach the house eaves. I had a slightly shorter double extension alloy, but it was a really heavy, industrial job. When I was younger, and fitter, it was a struggle to manoeuvrer, but now impossible without some help...

A few months ago, I offered them for swap via FB Market, for a lighter version of similar size double, and agreed a swap for the one I used today. He was building his house, needed a heavier duty ladder, so we did a straight swap, with my first test use today. It's quite wobbly, side to side, but worth tolerating, for being so much easier to move, and one section will work for most of what I need.

 

[Mottie]

To my horror, I spotted a very large and meaty one hanging onto the sole and side of sole of my left shoe.

Did something similar many many years ago when getting in a taxi in Sardinia. Practically snow ploughed through a sloppy one getting into the cab but didn’t notice. I sat in the front, wife and kids in the back, I noticed it as soon as we shut the doors, it stunk the cab out and I had the window open and was trying to hold my feet off the carpet. Kids were wetting themselves in the back. I gave the cabbie a very generous tip but it still didn’t stop him giving me a filthy look as he chucked a 'non in servizo' sign on the dash and proceeded to whip the carpet out before we were even all out! Kids still laugh about it nowdays.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Did something similar many many years ago when getting in a taxi in Sardinia. Practically snow ploughed through a sloppy one getting into the cab but didn’t notice. I sat in the front, wife and kids in the back, I noticed it as soon as we shut the doors, it stunk the cab out and I had the window open and was trying to hold my feet off the carpet. Kids were wetting themselves in the back. I gave the cabbie a very generous tip but it still didn’t stop him giving me a filthy look as he chucked a 'non in servizo' sign on the dash and proceeded to whip the carpet out before we were even all out! Kids still laugh about it nowdays.

That's even worse in a confined space like a car. Couldn't smell mine, so hopefully dentist and nurse didn't either. Though there was so much of it, it was obvious to the eye. Had one that turned my stomach couple of weeks ago. Once again I was walking along leaf covered pavement which makes it more difficult to spot any nasties. Anway, stepped on something that felt a bit soft, but carried on without taking too much notice. On the way back I spotted a flat dead rat in the place where I had felt something a bit soft under foot.

Last year I nipped down a lane behind a Lidl in France for a Jimmy. Unfortunately I stepped in a big one that obviously wasn't animal - which seems 10 times worse somehow. Didn't want it all over the carpets in my nice clean hire car that I had only picked up a few hours before. Ended up walking down to a conveniently located river, knelt down on the bank, removed the shoe and washed it off. If there's something really nasty within a 10 mile radius, my shoes seem to be magnetically drawn to it.

 

[Mottie]

Couldn't smell mine, so hopefully dentist and nurse didn't.

They might have thought it was your breath!

 

[ReganAndCarter]

They might have thought it was your breath!

Lets hope so.

 

[Brigadier]

That's even worse in a confined space like a car. Couldn't smell mine, so hopefully dentist and nurse didn't either. Though there was so much of it, it was obvious to the eye. Had one that turned my stomach couple of weeks ago. Once again I was walking along leaf covered pavement which makes it more difficult to spot any nasties. Anway, stepped on something that felt a bit soft, but carried on without taking too much notice. On the way back I spotted a flat dead rat in the place where I had felt something a bit soft under foot.

Last year I nipped down a lane behind a Lidl in France for a Jimmy. Unfortunately I stepped in a big one that obviously wasn't animal - which seems 10 times worse somehow. Didn't want it all over the carpets in my nice clean hire car that I had only picked up a few hours before. Ended up walking down to a conveniently located river, knelt down on the bank, removed the shoe and washed it off. If there's something really nasty within a 10 mile radius, my shoes seem to be magnetically drawn to it.

Muck for luck

 

[crystal ball]

Back in the 70s I was apprentice to a Glaswegian guy who related a tale of having a knee trembler in a back alley, after the event he offered the lady a ciggie which he dropped, he picked it up and scooped up a jobbie, class

 

[Stivino]

scooped up a jobbie

Boke

 

[Brigadier]

Not dog eggs, but a mate did a sponsored walk. A lot of the route was in the countryside, including canal towpaths.
A boiling hot day, so tops were off.

Caught short, he managed to find a bit of old chip paper or some such in a hedge, and disappeared off to "drop the kids off".

A few minutes later he caught me up, bringing a stink along for the ride (which, somehow, he hadn't noticed).

During the wiping, he'd managed to smear a track up into the small of his back. In the heat, this had set

 

[Mottie]

Up at 4.00 taking ibuprofen and paracetemol to ease the pain of my shoulder muscle that I tore last week moving a dresser 4” round my mums to plug a telly in. Was getting better until I took a t-shirt off and it felt like someone had chopped half my shoulder away. It literally brought me to my knees and at one point I asked Mrs Mottie to cut the shirt off. She just told me to get on with it - she's all sympathy sometimes! It’s okayish during the day but if I turn over in my sleep and lay on it for a while….feck me it hurts and wakes me up. I have to get up and dose myself up before going back to bed.

This was back in January. Still giving me grief - more so when taking a T shirt off, swinging a club or swimming. I get a definite 'thump' inside my shoulder so I went up and saw the doctor today. She thought it could be osteoarthritis but it’s not like it’s gradually come on, it came on when I tore something. She's going to send me for an X-ray/ultrasound. Might just have to live with it though.

Had my ultrasound today. Took about 30 pictures. When he'd finished, I asked him if he'd seen anything. He just said "I will communicate with your 'Dactar'". He didn’t even crack a smile when I asked if it was a boy or girl. Miserable git.

 

[Mottie]

I’m more than a bit annoyed! Mrs Mottie took our dog to the groomers this morning (was booked in for last Thursday but they cancelled at short notice). When she came back she wasn't her usual post groom sweet smelling self (the dog, not Mrs Mottie!). What’s more, she was limping and wouldn’t let us touch her left rear leg. I ran a bath and using our special doggie oatmeal shampoo, gave her a good wash in the bath and a good spray between the pads with the hand held shower and we got three large grass seeds out from between the pads on her left rear and and another one from the front paw. Not good for £45! I was going to phone up and have a moan but Mrs Mottie said no, she's got no confidence in using her again so we’ll find another groomer. She's not one for needless confrontation is Mrs Mottie - unless it’s with me!

Grooming time for Susie today. She was a bit overdue because of her recent illness. We had one that comes to the house. As Susie is very nervous when being groomed, she asked me to hold her while she clipped her nails. I did that and then left her to get on with it. Nails clipped, shampoo'd, haircut, even cleaned her teeth! Cost £55 but it took her from 1.00 to 3.45 so I didn’t think that was too bad. She had her City & Guilds qualifications on show in the van. What skilled worker can you get to come to your house and work nearly 3 hours for £55 these days?