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Where we live we each have a designated parking space with two free spaces for visitors. Well our neighbours have decided to take one of the free spaces for themselves spray painting their house number in the space! They currently only have one car but he’s learning to drive so they obviously want two spaces. To say I’m annoyed is an under statement!
 
Head boppers! Drivers with phone in hand texting whilst doing high speed
 
This is a rant against myself. I lost concentration in the gym this morning (not really surprising given that I lost Betsy yesterday) and a 10kg barbell rolled off the bench and landed on my left foot! I can only just about hobble. Nothing is broken it's just bruised. I've had it elevated and on ice since I came home. It doesn't arf hurt!
 
Betsy said:
This is a rant against myself. I lost concentration in the gym this morning (not really surprising given that I lost Betsy yesterday) and a 10kg barbell rolled off the bench and landed on my left foot! I can only just about hobble. Nothing is broken it's just bruised. I've had it elevated and on ice since I came home. It doesn't arf hurt!
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Ouchie! I hope you feel better soon
 
Betsy said:
This is a rant against myself. I lost concentration in the gym this morning (not really surprising given that I lost Betsy yesterday) and a 10kg barbell rolled off the bench and landed on my left foot! I can only just about hobble. Nothing is broken it's just bruised. I've had it elevated and on ice since I came home. It doesn't arf hurt!
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Definitely nothing broken? I dropped a school table on my foot once (don't ask) and my mother kept insisting it looked fine. One big toe was three times the size of the other one, broke it clean in half. Not much they can do with a broken toe but the "told you so" felt great. Just if you've not had it x-rayed it might be worth doing so anyway?
 
Betsy said:
This is a rant against myself. I lost concentration in the gym this morning (not really surprising given that I lost Betsy yesterday) and a 10kg barbell rolled off the bench and landed on my left foot! I can only just about hobble. Nothing is broken it's just bruised. I've had it elevated and on ice since I came home. It doesn't arf hurt!
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The gym is a dangerous place. I hope it gets better quickly. 🤗
 
Lorcan said:
Definitely nothing broken? I dropped a school table on my foot once (don't ask) and my mother kept insisting it looked fine. One big toe was three times the size of the other one, broke it clean in half. Not much they can do with a broken toe but the "told you so" felt great. Just if you've not had it x-rayed it might be worth doing so anyway?
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Yep def nothing broken. It was the bar that landed on my foot not the weight.
 
Lorcan said:
Definitely nothing broken? I dropped a school table on my foot once (don't ask) and my mother kept insisting it looked fine. One big toe was three times the size of the other one, broke it clean in half. Not much they can do with a broken toe but the "told you so" felt great. Just if you've not had it x-rayed it might be worth doing so anyway?
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When my daughter was about 10 she fell over in the snow and hurt her arm. She said it hurt but she could still move it. I took her to the hospital 3 DAYS later and it was broken. 🤭. Oooops. Bad mummy award.
 
Son broke arm in Judo getting landed on by nemesis during a battle. Both bones at the wrist - luckily not displaced much. Tutor wiggled it about and asked how much it hurt - he's going, "It's OK" because he didn't want to make a fuss. Decided it was just a sprain or something. They finished the session with a 3 minute plank. He said he just tried to lean on the other arm because it battered!
Off to A&E and he was knocked out briefly while 2 docs straightened and aligned his arm using a sort of Christmas cracker technique of pulling stubbornly at both ends. It worked and our doc was so chuffed with the neat x-ray she put it up on the light board in resus for a gathered crowd to admire. He healed well and didn't need pins which was great. And his kudos in Judo went right up! I can laugh about it - now....

Claire W said:
Thank you. The general advise is to contact the management company. I just don’t want to fall out with them :(
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Contact them. Neighbours might be trying it on or might have been badly advised or might just be ignorant of the rule and feel embarrassed after it's been explained - esp if they're young they might not have thought things through. But they're basically doing a Putin and trying to annex neutral ground as their own!
Maybe you can phrase it subtly, like "are they paying more rent to get the extra parking space - perhaps we can do the same..?" or "if the other one is going spare can we apply for it..?" or "can company put a copy of printed rules through everyone's door to clarify what to do if there is an issue because I don't want to cause a fall out".
 
Free Ranger said:
Son broke arm in Judo getting landed on by nemesis during a battle. Both bones at the wrist - luckily not displaced much. Tutor wiggled it about and asked how much it hurt - he's going, "It's OK" because he didn't want to make a fuss. Decided it was just a sprain or something. They finished the session with a 3 minute plank. He said he just tried to lean on the other arm because it battered!
Off to A&E and he was knocked out briefly while 2 docs straightened and aligned his arm using a sort of Christmas cracker technique of pulling stubbornly at both ends. It worked and our doc was so chuffed with the neat x-ray she put it up on the light board in resus for a gathered crowd to admire. He healed well and didn't need pins which was great. And his kudos in Judo went right up! I can laugh about it - now....


Contact them. Neighbours might be trying it on or might have been badly advised or might just be ignorant of the rule and feel embarrassed after it's been explained - esp if they're young they might not have thought things through. But they're basically doing a Putin and trying to annex neutral ground as their own!
Maybe you can phrase it subtly, like "are they paying more rent to get the extra parking space - perhaps we can do the same..?" or "if the other one is going spare can we apply for it..?" or "can company put a copy of printed rules through everyone's door to clarify what to do if there is an issue because I don't want to cause a fall out".
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Thank you. You have made some valid points. I’ll see what they say when my husband has a word with them although I imagine other neighbours are equally annoyed.

Sorry about your sons arm, that sounds painful :(
 
Ugh I am sore.

It's my chest. Could possibly be my heart, but it's far more likely it's my ribs. Maybe I slept on them funny, I don't know. But damn it movement hurts, and the painkillers are not working fast enough, lol. FML.
 
Not sure if this belongs here or not.... I'm trying to clean up books in my house as I have too many and not enough spots for them. For some reason, I am really having a difficult time getting rid of some of the books. I'm fine with getting rid of mine, but getting rid of the baby and toddler books is just killing me! It is bothering me since I have realized I will no longer be cuddling someone in my lap reading those books to them anymore. I am donating them; I keep telling myself I am giving these books a chance at a new home to be loved and enjoyed together.

I still feel awful about it. Good-bye books! I will cherish the great memories that I made reading you to my children. :bye:
 
RedLoredAmazon said:
Not sure if this belongs here or not.... I'm trying to clean up books in my house as I have too many and not enough spots for them. For some reason, I am really having a difficult time getting rid of some of the books. I'm fine with getting rid of mine, but getting rid of the baby and toddler books is just killing me! It is bothering me since I have realized I will no longer be cuddling someone in my lap reading those books to them anymore. I am donating them; I keep telling myself I am giving these books a chance at a new home to be loved and enjoyed together.

I still feel awful about it. Good-bye books! I will cherish the great memories that I made reading you to my children. :bye:
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I have a couple of books that I read to my kids when they were tiny. Tiger Pig and Winnie Pooh. I thought of them today and decided that I could never get rid of them. My son read Tiger Pig to his Babcia (Polish grandma) when he was about 6 and she was recovering from cancer. A special memory for us all.
 
RedLoredAmazon said:
Not sure if this belongs here or not.... I'm trying to clean up books in my house as I have too many and not enough spots for them. For some reason, I am really having a difficult time getting rid of some of the books. I'm fine with getting rid of mine, but getting rid of the baby and toddler books is just killing me! It is bothering me since I have realized I will no longer be cuddling someone in my lap reading those books to them anymore. I am donating them; I keep telling myself I am giving these books a chance at a new home to be loved and enjoyed together.

I still feel awful about it. Good-bye books! I will cherish the great memories that I made reading you to my children. :bye:
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I am a bit of a book hoarder, I really struggle to let them go, I do have a box with my favourite books that we read with the children, I couldn't pass those on so will hopefully one day share them with my grandchildren.
 
Just joining in to moan about passport applications.
I could go on (and on and on), but my daughter needs her passport constantly.
She is 14 years old and splits her time between the UK and Switzerland.
Her British passport has to be renewed while it still is valid for at least 6 months (although this won't be added to her new passport).
So I already feel ripped off, but I can't argue.

I had to renew it in Feb - wait time was posted as 4 weeks.
I sent all the documents off with a 7 week window.
We are now on week 4 and still no progress with her application.
Her flights home to Switzerland are in 3 weeks and 1 day.
I am getting nervous.
 
Argh I know this is petty of me but really?

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And of course for every text there's also an email. I'm also ungrateful because it wasn't meant to be here for a few more days and I apparently get tetchy when stuff turns up early 😒

It's also a 10kg box. Here's hoping they don't choose now to want soft hay instead.
 
I lost my little hammie maple yesterday and today someone I used to work with posted on Facebook asking if anyone wanted her teenagers just over a year hamster because she never bothered with it anymore, it smells really bad as never gets cleaned and she 'can't stand the thing so no way she's cleaning it' poor thing! It's way too soon after maple for us to help but do not get pets for your children if your not committed to them as well (I say that as someone with both pets and kids!) I'd give anything to have maple back and clean him out one more time and watch him making his new burrows 💔💔💔
 
Comedy of errors moving a 10kg box of hay upstairs.

I shouldn't have waited til 11pm for it. First the box was wider than I expected (it's been sitting downstairs for 3 days, I've no excuses) so I smacked it off every bit of wall possible carrying it upstairs til I eventually gave up and pushed it up the stairs. Then in order for it to fit in the pigs room I had to move 3 black bags worth of rubbish (they've gotta get cleaned out and my bin was missing for 3 weeks. I'm never gonna get caught up with it at this rate), then I had to move their current box onto the bed to move the new box in to put the current box on top. Meanwhile I managed to kick a plate into a bookcase, smack my head off a carrier which promptly fell on me, caught the black bags on everything possible so now there's extra holes in 'them, and the entire time I'm getting stares of absolute horror from the boys. Like not only am I disturbing their peace but I'm trying to destroy their room in the process.

thankfully I live alone. I can own my own embarrassment that way. :doh:
 
Emx93 said:
I lost my little hammie maple yesterday and today someone I used to work with posted on Facebook asking if anyone wanted her teenagers just over a year hamster because she never bothered with it anymore, it smells really bad as never gets cleaned and she 'can't stand the thing so no way she's cleaning it' poor thing! It's way too soon after maple for us to help but do not get pets for your children if your not committed to them as well (I say that as someone with both pets and kids!) I'd give anything to have maple back and clean him out one more time and watch him making his new burrows
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Update on our neighbour:

Apparently another neighbour (we don’t know who) sent them a nasty letter regarding the parking space. Neighbours generally thought they had two parking spaces so it’s the estate agents fault. Anyway, neighbours have said they don’t want to fall out with anyone and that they meant know harm. They said they’re going to paint over the number so a good result although they still haven’t painted over it
 
Well that's a good result and it also looks like they were just nice people but misinformed rather than pushy space-grabbers! Hooray!
 
I've been invited to an awards do next week. After 3 months in jogging bottoms with no makeup, and all the other physical stuff you have to deal with post major surgery, I just want to feel pretty.

But right now I feel frumpy. Doesn't help that I have I have a post op belly pooch too so despite being a weight I'm happy with, I don't like what I see in the mirror.

I wanted to do something with my hair for the awards so I don't just resort to a headband like aways. On one hand I have decent long thickish hair. On the other, I have zero talent to do anything with it.

Just tried a bunch of 'simple' tutorials and all I've ended up with is a bunch of broken elastics and pulled out hair.

Just feeling a bit defeated and sorry for myself tonight.
 
CV26 said:
I've been invited to an awards do next week. After 3 months in jogging bottoms with no makeup, and all the other physical stuff you have to deal with post major surgery, I just want to feel pretty.

But right now I feel frumpy. Doesn't help that I have I have a post op belly pooch too so despite being a weight I'm happy with, I don't like what I see in the mirror.

I wanted to do something with my hair for the awards so I don't just resort to a headband like aways. On one hand I have decent long thickish hair. On the other, I have zero talent to do anything with it.

Just tried a bunch of 'simple' tutorials and all I've ended up with is a bunch of broken elastics and pulled out hair.

Just feeling a bit defeated and sorry for myself tonight.
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Definitely get your hair and make up done by a professional. That will boost your confidence. And a lovely new dress with a higher waistband and flowing skirt. You will feel amazing. Enjoy yourself. You deserve the treat. 😘
 
CV26 said:
I've been invited to an awards do next week. After 3 months in jogging bottoms with no makeup, and all the other physical stuff you have to deal with post major surgery, I just want to feel pretty.

But right now I feel frumpy. Doesn't help that I have I have a post op belly pooch too so despite being a weight I'm happy with, I don't like what I see in the mirror.

I wanted to do something with my hair for the awards so I don't just resort to a headband like aways. On one hand I have decent long thickish hair. On the other, I have zero talent to do anything with it.

Just tried a bunch of 'simple' tutorials and all I've ended up with is a bunch of broken elastics and pulled out hair.

Just feeling a bit defeated and sorry for myself tonight.
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Don't be so hard on yourself. You have just had major surgery

I always feel better when I have been to the hairdressers so may be treat yourself a professional do even if just a wash and blow dry. Treat yourself to a new outfit too, it doesn't have to cost a lot. You deserve to spoil yourself and I am sure you will look and feel a million dollars and have a great night x
 
Thank you @Claire W and @Betsy
Just tired and fed up at the moment. Think I'm putting a bit too much pressure on myself to get back to 'normal'.

I have three beautiful outfits to choose from - lucky to have snagged some great bargains in the past so I'm looking forward to breaking out a favourite that I don't get to wear very often.

Unfortunately I can't get to the hairdresser's on the day but I'll make sure to take as much time as I can to get ready. x
 
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