Mundane News

[oldwheels]

How on earth do you lose a pair of cycling shoes?
Loading the car this morning and realised my shoes were nowhere to be seen. Must have left them behind the car the last time I was out on the trike but difficult to believe. I had some time in hand so up the road to look for them and they were nowhere to be seen. Who on earth would want a pair of SPD size 43 shoes. Has to be a cyclist surely.
Fortunately as I was searching and swearing a friend came past who had a pair he had not used for some time and offered to lend them so sorted till I get home and order another pair. Without SPD's the trike can be dangerous with leg suck.
Mask wearing on the ferry 99.9%. One family came into the lounge with masks but immediately took them off for the remained of the trip.
Still hordes of touroid pouring off the ferry on to the bus to Iona with cameras ,tripods, binocs and large telescopes.

 

[DCLane]

awww, maybe the cat will be intimidated on arrival & be docile

Erm ... nope ...

How's the vet ? Only one of our 4 is difficult to get in the carrier - we usually shove her in bottom first, before she realises. Can't go in front first as she sees it and out go the legs - fortunately she's a Ragdoll so doesn't deploy claws into the owner.

He got attacked, but escaped with mainly scratches.

Top-loading carriers are your friend here. So much easier to get a reluctant cat into them.

We've got a large cat carrier, but he's only able to go in/out one direction and can't turn around when in. He went in head-first, was taken out backwards by the vet who thought it'd be OK.

At least the cat showed he'd recovered from being very seriously ill last year.

I do accept that the cat's not very domesticated. It's a large Manx and naturally aggressive given he was abused until we got him at a year old from a rescue centre. He's used to us 10 years later but can still attack without warning.

 

[fossyant]

Ours quite often won't come out when at the vets, so we pop the catches off, and the top half lifts off. I assume no vaccine shortage - I think I'm getting the run round from one of my vets. The other vet's did two of ours without any mention of shortages.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Grey, mild and still here chez Casa Reynard.

I have had a bit of a kitchen morning. There is a tomato sauce going on in the crock pot, and vegetables have been sliced and sauteed. We are having a Mexican night,

My ISP's webmail is down (and has been since yesterday morning) which is awkward because I do have to get hold of some people. I may look into setting up an alternative (free) account somewhere.

it is almost time for luncheon.

I've been using mail.com for the last few years, I don't use the ISP's webmail.

 

[classic33]

From Google streetview, would the vets bill be any cheaper?

 

[Illaveago]

2 B1's have just gone over flying low heading for Fairford !

 

[Threevok]

From Google streetview, would the vets bill be any cheaper?
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Isn't that the cat from the pet food advert - Arfurs ?

 

[rockyroller]

We've got a large cat carrier, but he's only able to go in/out one direction and can't turn around when in. He went in head-first, was taken out backwards by the vet who thought it'd be OK.

oh too bad. ours has a screw off top

 

[Reynard]

Whew, that's another satisfying afternoon of lumberjilling.

I have a stack of logs ready for burning (pine) and a stack of logs to go for seasoning (ornamental bay) and I am beginning to untangle the whole mess in that corner. Under which I found a plum tree that is growing sideways because it couldn't grow upwards. That's going to come down as well. Next step is to get back in there with the loppers and remove more small frilly stuff.

I think I deserve a

 

[woodbutchmaster]

I have given up on hiding my age which is in fact 86.

Good man, thats a damn good score ! I doubt that l will get any where near you, l seem to be a magnet for physical damage at the moment. Yesterday l was attending to our horses when l tripped over some brambles hidden in the grass, flat on my face in amongst three very curious large animals is not reassuring. Then yesterday evening while standing on a very smooth tiled floor trying to put my boots on to go walk the dogs l slipped and fell very heavily on a hip and elbow . Talk about pain but nothing broken this time

 

[tyred]

I'm watching the Chase to see how stupid smart I am

 

[oldwheels]

Good man, thats a damn good score ! I doubt that l will get any where near you, l seem to be a magnet for physical damage at the moment. Yesterday l was attending to our horses when l tripped over some brambles hidden in the grass, flat on my face in amongst three very curious large animals is not reassuring. Then yesterday evening while standing on a very smooth tiled floor trying to put my boots on to go walk the dogs l slipped and fell very heavily on a hip and elbow . Talk about pain but nothing broken this time

My health is far from perfect hence my use of a trike. I take as much care as I can to avoid falling over. On a bike my main fear would be breaking an arm or shoulder so I have avoided bikes for at least a year now.

 

[Speicher]

I'm watching the Chase to see how stupid smart I am

I was watching Eggheads at lunchtime, and got a question right, whereas the Egghead supremo got it wrong. (a question at the end where you do not get three options)

 

[woodbutchmaster]

My health is far from perfect hence my use of a trike. I take as much care as I can to avoid falling over. On a bike my main fear would be breaking an arm or shoulder so I have avoided bikes for at least a year now.

Very wise, l broke my wrist some years ago after being knocked off my bike by a van. The pain was bad but the inconvenience of having plaster from fingers to elbow was worse !

 

[Reynard]

I have a and some krówki (little cows aka Polish fudge)