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This is a rant about dripping taps! My kitchen tap started to drip and as I hate changing tap washers, I called in the plumber to do it for me. My kitchen went in about 18 months ago so I was a bit disappointed that the washer needed replacing already tbh. The very nice plumber man came and looked at the tap and said that hardly any new taps had washers these days they had cartridges and each tap had a different size cartridge. So no one cartridge fits the tap unlike washers. It's best to get the correct cartridge for the tap rather than a generic one as it will (hopefully) last longer. So I had to phone up the supplier of the kitchen and ask for 2 sets of cartridges in case(!) the cartridges go again and they stop making the tap. The supplier is letting me have them free of charge as the tap is less than 2 years old. The cartridges come from Italy of all places so now I have to wait for a few day for them to arrive then my supplier will contact me, I'll have to go and collect them (so not free then as have to pay for fuel in car), call my plumber (again) and he'll fit the new cartridge for my tap. I've had a look on You tube to see how to fit a new cartridge to a quarter turn kitchen tap and it's not that easy. In my old house my kitchen tap was still going strong after 30 years and had had the washers changed once. I have had this kitchen tap for 18 months and the cartridge needs replacing already. Not happy!
 
I lost my job back in 2018 due to my health and haven’t been able to work since. My husband goes through stages where he’s annoyed at me because of this. He’s a teacher and went back to work today and is obviously having one of those days where he’s annoyed at me as he has barely said two words since being home and has said he doesn’t want to talk about it when I ask if he’s annoyed at me :(
 
Betsy said:
This is a rant about dripping taps! My kitchen tap started to drip and as I hate changing tap washers, I called in the plumber to do it for me. My kitchen went in about 18 months ago so I was a bit disappointed that the washer needed replacing already tbh. The very nice plumber man came and looked at the tap and said that hardly any new taps had washers these days they had cartridges and each tap had a different size cartridge. So no one cartridge fits the tap unlike washers. It's best to get the correct cartridge for the tap rather than a generic one as it will (hopefully) last longer. So I had to phone up the supplier of the kitchen and ask for 2 sets of cartridges in case(!) the cartridges go again and they stop making the tap. The supplier is letting me have them free of charge as the tap is less than 2 years old. The cartridges come from Italy of all places so now I have to wait for a few day for them to arrive then my supplier will contact me, I'll have to go and collect them (so not free then as have to pay for fuel in car), call my plumber (again) and he'll fit the new cartridge for my tap. I've had a look on You tube to see how to fit a new cartridge to a quarter turn kitchen tap and it's not that easy. In my old house my kitchen tap was still going strong after 30 years and had had the washers changed once. I have had this kitchen tap for 18 months and the cartridge needs replacing already. Not happy!
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It's so infuriating that modern things don't last and are harder to fix. How is that progress 🤷🏼‍♀️
 
Claire W said:
I lost my job back in 2018 due to my health and haven’t been able to work since. My husband goes through stages where he’s annoyed at me because of this. He’s a teacher and went back to work today and is obviously having one of those days where he’s annoyed at me as he has barely said two words since being home and has said he doesn’t want to talk about it when I ask if he’s annoyed at me :(
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Sorry to hear that. Hope he's more himself once he's back in the swing of work. I'm sure like many spouses without paid work, you do a huge lot to make his life easier and more pleasant.
 
Betsy said:
Went for a lovely 4 mile bike ride tonight along the old railway line. A couple of hours after we got home, I think I have a sore patch on my back. Ask OH to take a look and he said I have around 3 insect bite marks in about half an inch of skin. No wonder it's sore! I have no bite cream so have put some E45 cream on it just to sooth it a bit.
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I know I'm late to this, and hives aren't bites, but when I got hives as a wee'un, cheap perfume was what I put on them. Nobody liked it so nobody missed it, but the alcohol dried them right out.
 
Black piggies said:
Sorry to hear that. Hope he's more himself once he's back in the swing of work. I'm sure like many spouses without paid work, you do a huge lot to make his life easier and more pleasant.
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Absolutely nobody appreciates us "domestic goddesses" I may not go out and do "paid" work. I have successfully brought up 3 boys (2 of which are useful members of society and I'm sure the 3rd will be too), kept the house in reasonable order, had the dinner in the table when OH walks in the door and been on call 24/7 365 days a year. Nobody appreciates what is women who don't go out to work actually do!
 
Claire W said:
I lost my job back in 2018 due to my health and haven’t been able to work since. My husband goes through stages where he’s annoyed at me because of this. He’s a teacher and went back to work today and is obviously having one of those days where he’s annoyed at me as he has barely said two words since being home and has said he doesn’t want to talk about it when I ask if he’s annoyed at me :(
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Aw Claire dont take it personally, I think something happens to men when they put on a tie, it cuts off oxygen to their brains or something... all through lockdown when piggy daddy had to go to school but I was working at home (earning 3 times as much as he does I might add!) I frequently encountered this even though piggy daddy is a nice person normally. Going out before 8am wearing a tie causes serious pyjama envy, I dont think employment status even factors in that much, men just get grumpy if they have to get dressed and wear ties and their wives dont!
Piggy daddy goes back on Friday, if he starts being grumpy too we could do a swap and you and your piggies could come stay with me and the grumpy teacher men can live together and make their own dinners and wash their own man pants lol :)
 
Claire W said:
I lost my job back in 2018 due to my health and haven’t been able to work since. My husband goes through stages where he’s annoyed at me because of this. He’s a teacher and went back to work today and is obviously having one of those days where he’s annoyed at me as he has barely said two words since being home and has said he doesn’t want to talk about it when I ask if he’s annoyed at me :(
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It is hard, my husband has told me before that I only work part time, I am a TA, but he was the one that thought it was a good idea for childcare, same holidays etc but on occasion during said holidays I am asked what I am doing today and get "looked at" if I'm sat with a cuppa, I sometimes feel unable to relax. My small humans are much older now so need less looking after/ or different needs but still need taking places etc which falls to me because whilst he is home now he is working, I generally sort the washing, cook the evening meal, do the grocery shopping, all those delightful domestic chores, all whilst working part time( leave house at 7.30 to run b'fast club get home between 3.30/4) I spent many years not working and was a stay at home mum, it's no less of a job than working.
 
Black piggies said:
It's horrible when someone is being off with you. Maybe he just hates his job, and taking it out on his nearest and dearest?
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He usually likes his job but he does find it hard work so yes is probably just taking it out on me. I guess it must be hard to go back to work after having just had 6 weeks off x
 
My husband went back to school yesterday and was extremely grumpy at having to get up at 5.30am again! I was a primary school teacher until I had a child and I remember the start of each school year being crazy. Fingers crossed that when he gets back into the swing of things, your husband will return to normal.
 
Teachers are going back to school to be told what the latest 'things will be done like this COVID rules are'. These rules are made up by pen pushers who haven't set foot in a class room since they left school. The poor teachers know it will all change next week and the week after...... I know it's always been bad at the start of a new term, this year must be impossible. It's no wonder they are grumpy. I hope your husband feels happier soon @Claire W .
 
I am an idiot. I managed to twist my knee earlier, the pain's centred around the bottom of the knee and the top of the lower leg. Then it stopped hurting and I forgot about it til I put my foot on the opposite knee and my busted knee did not appreciate the twisting.
 
Lorcan said:
I am an idiot. I managed to twist my knee earlier, the pain's centred around the bottom of the knee and the top of the lower leg. Then it stopped hurting and I forgot about it til I put my foot on the opposite knee and my busted knee did not appreciate the twisting.
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OUCH!
 
Update: I hate my knee. Can I have a new knee?

Also, I've had to answer my phone like 6 times today. I mean nobody's phoning me for no reason but good lord I'm exhausted. From answering the phone. People are exhausting.
 
Lorcan said:
Update: I hate my knee. Can I have a new knee?

Also, I've had to answer my phone like 6 times today. I mean nobody's phoning me for no reason but good lord I'm exhausted. From answering the phone. People are exhausting.
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Lol yes that's tooo many conversations for one day. Hope you get left alone now.
 
@Lorcan you want a new knee so can I have new lower back please? Well more precisely a new muscle over my left hip and a new gluteus maximus. I can hardly move it's so painful! When I walk it hurts, when I sit down it hurts and when I lie down guess what? It hurts. I can't take ibuprofen and don't want to take any painkillers otherwise I won't be able to have my bottle of wine (for medicinal purposes only) tonight. I have still managed to finish the ironing and make a fruitcake and a marble cake today and a loaf of bread. Been out and about, clean the bathroom, put out the piggies in the run outside and done normal stuff I do every day despite the pain.
 
Well the knee has now popped twice and is now less painful than it was. Now I can walk and wince instead of limp, but I still had to ask the Amazon driver to carry my groceries upstairs, and I hate doing that lol.
 
Lorcan said:
Update: I hate my knee. Can I have a new knee?

Also, I've had to answer my phone like 6 times today. I mean nobody's phoning me for no reason but good lord I'm exhausted. From answering the phone. People are exhausting.
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I hate phones too @Lorcan I actually set my phone so it blocks all calls between 9am and 5pm with an automated message saying send me an email. And it blocks all unknown and withheld numbers permanently. I actually only take speaking calls from my husband, daughter, vet and 3 carefully chosen work colleagues now! And everyone except the vet texts or emails anyway.
Can I swap your knee for my elbow? I have a really painful elbow joint which is annoying me because I want to make raspberry crumble and cookies that require dough making and assertive wooden spoon actions.
Clover pig is telling me and everyone else with joint pain to ask the vet for buprenorphine which helps painful limbs considerably, though I think it also involves lying about zonked wondering where your nose is and gazing intently at your paws so I'm not sure it would help with the cookery or coherent phone conversations :) x
 
Betsy said:
My OH is left handed but eats with his knife and fork as a right handed person does (fork left hand, knife right hand), Son No 3 is right handed and eats with his knife and fork as a left handed person does (fork right hand, knife left hand)!
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I’m left handed but use a fork in my left and the knife in my right because that’s how it’s supposed to be done. If you look at any restaurant/hotel table setting forks are always on the left.
 
Betsy said:
This is a rant about dripping taps! My kitchen tap started to drip and as I hate changing tap washers, I called in the plumber to do it for me. My kitchen went in about 18 months ago so I was a bit disappointed that the washer needed replacing already tbh. The very nice plumber man came and looked at the tap and said that hardly any new taps had washers these days they had cartridges and each tap had a different size cartridge. So no one cartridge fits the tap unlike washers. It's best to get the correct cartridge for the tap rather than a generic one as it will (hopefully) last longer. So I had to phone up the supplier of the kitchen and ask for 2 sets of cartridges in case(!) the cartridges go again and they stop making the tap. The supplier is letting me have them free of charge as the tap is less than 2 years old. The cartridges come from Italy of all places so now I have to wait for a few day for them to arrive then my supplier will contact me, I'll have to go and collect them (so not free then as have to pay for fuel in car), call my plumber (again) and he'll fit the new cartridge for my tap. I've had a look on You tube to see how to fit a new cartridge to a quarter turn kitchen tap and it's not that easy. In my old house my kitchen tap was still going strong after 30 years and had had the washers changed once. I have had this kitchen tap for 18 months and the cartridge needs replacing already. Not happy!
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Argh that’s hardly any time at all! Nothing worse than a dripping tap. My kitchen probably came out of the ark and badly needs replacing but its things like this crazy fast wear and tear of modern stuff that I’m not looking forward to. Touch wood the taps never had an issue yet but I bet it will the moment I have a new sink.
 
PigglePuggle said:
I hate phones too @Lorcan I actually set my phone so it blocks all calls between 9am and 5pm with an automated message saying send me an email. And it blocks all unknown and withheld numbers permanently. I actually only take speaking calls from my husband, daughter, vet and 3 carefully chosen work colleagues now! And everyone except the vet texts or emails anyway.
Can I swap your knee for my elbow? I have a really painful elbow joint which is annoying me because I want to make raspberry crumble and cookies that require dough making and assertive wooden spoon actions.
Clover pig is telling me and everyone else with joint pain to ask the vet for buprenorphine which helps painful limbs considerably, though I think it also involves lying about zonked wondering where your nose is and gazing intently at your paws so I'm not sure it would help with the cookery or coherent phone conversations :) x
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Cloverpig, this sounds like a great idea, except I can't take it :( I could take ibuprofen but I'd really rather not, I'm not hungry enough to eat lol. As for the elbow, I'd say yes @PigglePuggle buuut I have to warn you, my elbow pops often and it's a rather disturbing pop if you're not used to hearing it.
 
I ordered some Korrex from Kavee. First I was a bit grumpy that I had to order a double pack when I just needed the 1 sheet. Then after ordering I discovered they ship with FedEx which is the rarest and most inconvenient courier in my country, there are no pickup locations anywhere close in case they fail to deliver and they don’t do weekends.
I could not divert it to work because it would be impossible to cycle home with that and also we only have a receptionist in the mornings. FedEx can deliver up to 6pm which would be an empty office by that time.

So I asked my very lovely neighbor if she’d be home today and take it for me if it turned up (it’s due today). Well….it hasn’t turned up and it’s 6pm in a few minutes. It’s somewhere in transit in about 15km away since YESTERDAY MORNING so I really don’t understand the delay.

I guess it will be Monday now when there will be neither me or a neighbor around to sign for it 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
 
Claire W said:
He usually likes his job but he does find it hard work so yes is probably just taking it out on me. I guess it must be hard to go back to work after having just had 6 weeks off x
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Hello @Claire W I hope your husband is being nicer to you and you have a lovely weekend. ❤️
 
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Why has my kitchen been overrun with fruit flies... This has never happened before. Last night it was quite a fun game seeing how many I could hit on target with antibac spray, but now they're winning the fight! And finding their way to other rooms..
 
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