A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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Lizabel said:
I think my photos go back further than this without backup! I don't dare look to see how many there are though...a large proportion will be of the piggies, the dog, frogs and insects in the garden...I really need to spend some time on them but I don't enjoy doing it and there's always something else to do. Thank you for the reminder 👍
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Mine are all plants, my nephew, occasional trips out or random things from around the house. We did a farm trip the other week and I took just over 200 photos! I don't have the phone space to take / keep so many on my phone and I've always enjoyed taking photos. My little canon has been abroad and allover. I must have had it 15years now! Spent an hour sorting them and will finish later as going to tie it in with doing a free prints order to make me feel productive.

I'm only here at this time because I've just been to the toilet (thanks brother for being so noisy) and killed a spider with my foot. As I walked across the landing (no light on) I felt something crunch/spring under my left foot.... I've removed its remains but now laid here feeling odd about it but so pleased I had socks on!
 
My neighbour at the back! I really don't like her (neither did my MIL when she lived here).

The doorbell rang a couple of days ago, so I answered the door to a lady I had never met before whio introduced herself as "your friendly neighbour from round the back" who then proceeded to ask if I'd had any thoughts of cutting down the bushes in my garden! What a cheek! I've never met the woman before. She didn't even have the courtesy to let me know her name or ask me mine. As it so happens the gardener is coming on Tuesday to cut around 3ft off them. We know they are too tall but we've had to wait 3 months for the gardener to come round. We have tried to keep them to a reasonable height but we can't do it with the limited garden equipment and time that we have. We have bought loads of stuff to try and tame the garden. During Lockdown we had the time to keep it under control.
 
There aren't enough bad words in the world to describe my fire alarm right now. Why is it the top one that keeps going off? How does that even make sense?!
 
Doctors surgeries. I’ve just been to see my GP about my new tablet. She’s still not happy to put it on repeat prescription but is apparently sending me a prescription for it across to the pharmacy as I’m about to run out. She told me to make another appointment for 4 weeks time to see how I’m getting on.

Anyway, when I went to make the appointment, the receptionist told me there’s no appointments available. She managed to make me one in 5 weeks time but I’m going to run out of tablets by then as I only have a 4 weeks worth 🙄
 
Claire W said:
Doctors surgeries. I’ve just been to see my GP about my new tablet. She’s still not happy to put it on repeat prescription but is apparently sending me a prescription for it across to the pharmacy as I’m about to run out. She told me to make another appointment for 4 weeks time to see how I’m getting on.

Anyway, when I went to make the appointment, the receptionist told me there’s no appointments available. She managed to make me one in 5 weeks time but I’m going to run out of tablets by then as I only have a 4 weeks worth 🙄
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Sorry you are going through this Claire. I've just had a similar experience. We can only book 2 weeks in advance and if the appointments are available. I've been trying to book for 6 weeks and ran out of tablets. The receptionist eventually asked another Dr. to write me a prescription without seeing me as I'd had no tablets for a week and my Dr. was on holiday! I managed to see my Dr. this week and he has now put my tablets on a repeat prescription so this doesn't happen again.
 
piggieminder said:
Sorry you are going through this Claire. I've just had a similar experience. We can only book 2 weeks in advance and if the appointments are available. I've been trying to book for 6 weeks and ran out of tablets. The receptionist eventually asked another Dr. to write me a prescription without seeing me as I'd had no tablets for a week and my Dr. was on holiday! I managed to see my Dr. this week and he has now put my tablets on a repeat prescription so this doesn't happen again.
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Thank you. It’s ridiculous isn’t it? I’m sorry for the hassle you’ve been going through too. I’m glad your doctor has put your tablets on prescription now. I’m hoping they’ll do the same for me next time round
 
Lorcan said:
Not that I know of. I've had nasty allergic reactions before, this was more like my skin feels with a bad psoriasis flare.
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Psoriasis? Now that can be really painful! Thankfully I've not had to suffer from that but I know people who have. My sympathies if it's that!
 
Betsy said:
Psoriasis? Now that can be really painful! Thankfully I've not had to suffer from that but I know people who have. My sympathies if it's that!
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I mean I really hope it isn't. I have a bad flare up on my chest, scalp, and upper left thigh atm. Scalp's easy-ish to hide with long hair (hooray for not getting it cut lol), same for the chest, but my thigh is being horrendous. And it's an awkward place to need to constantly scratch, heh.
 
Lorcan said:
I mean I really hope it isn't. I have a bad flare up on my chest, scalp, and upper left thigh atm. Scalp's easy-ish to hide with long hair (hooray for not getting it cut lol), same for the chest, but my thigh is being horrendous. And it's an awkward place to need to constantly scratch, heh.
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Have you got creams to lessen the inflamation and itchiness?
 
I have stuff for the chest, but the thigh is an awkward place to have to repeatedly apply cream to, and cream's of sod all use on the scalp honestly.
 
Memory Loss - at least I'm blaming that rather than general dimness!

Trotting up to school garden on Thursday and notice quite a lot of people have got their bins out. Feeling slightly smug because bins would have been put back one day because of the bank holiday on Monday. Sometimes people just put them out and leave them out because they can't work out which day the collection will be, or they're off for the weekend or something.
Got to garden and mentioned it to my friend and she said Monday wasn't a bank holiday (although it was in Scotland apparently). I said, "it was - hubs took the day off!" Turns out it wasn't, of course it wasn't, and hubs (who works from home) had just taken my word for it and hadn't turned up and NOBODY had said anything to him! One bloke had apparently sent him a mail in the afternoon about something and he thought "he's keen, working on a bank holiday…" but now he looks like one of those contractors who just doesn't turn up sometimes. Son hadn't bothered with gym because it would be shut on a bank holiday. I'm the spreader of fake news! And worse than that I hadn't put my bins out and they stink!
Luckily my chortling friend was able to rush me back home in her car - got stuck 50 yards up road in a jam - she looks out and says "It's the bin lorry!" and I make a break for it and hurtle down the street racing those pacy bin boys. Just made it and came wheezing out the house with the pink sacks in time to meet the lorry. A narrow escape.
A very elderly lady in town that afternoon said, "Well there did used to be a bank holiday at the beginning of August" so now I don't know whether I just got mixed up with May or am remembering something from waaaaaay back. It's a sign of 'old' either way!
 
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Free Ranger said:
Memory Loss - at least I'm blaming that rather than general dimness!

Trotting up to school garden on Thursday and notice quite a lot of people have got their bins out. Feeling slightly smug because bins would have been put back one day because of the bank holiday on Monday. Sometimes people just put them out and leave them out because they can't work out which day the collection will be, or they're off for the weekend or something.
Got to garden and mentioned it to my friend and she said Monday wasn't a bank holiday (although it was in Scotland apparently). I said, "it was - hubs took the day off!" Turns out it wasn't, of course it wasn't, and hubs (who works from home) had just taken my word for it and hadn't turned up and NOBODY had said anything to him! One bloke had apparently sent him a mail in the afternoon about something and he thought "he's keen, working on a bank holiday…" but now he looks like one of those contractors who just doesn't turn up sometimes. Son hadn't bothered with gym because it would be shut on a bank holiday. I'm the spreader of fake news! And worse than that I hadn't put my bins out and they stink!
Luckily my chortling friend was able to rush me back home in her car - got stuck 50 yards up road in a jam - she looks out and says "It's the bin lorry!" and I make a break for it and hurtle down the street racing those pacy bin boys. Just made it and came wheezing out the house with the pink sacks in time to meet the lorry. A narrow escape.
A very elderly lady in town that afternoon said, "Well there did used to be a bank holiday at the beginning of August" so now I don't know whether I just got mixed up with May or am remembering something from waaaaaay back. It's a sign of 'old' either way!
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That was lucky! I also thought Monday was a bank holiday but obviously I got it confused. It was in Scotland…🙄
 
Our niece and nephew (sister in laws children) are staying with us for a week from tomorrow. We're currenty feeding next doors cat until Tuesday. She's a timmid house cat but tries to get out the front door so we're having to go in very carefully. I politely suggested to hub that may be niece who's nearly 15 and nephew who's 4 should stay here while we go round and feed the cat. He said we can't do that to them as niece especially is a cat lover and will want to play with the cat (even though we have 3 of our own she can play with) I could just do without the added stress of trying to get them through the front door while not letting Mya (the cat) out and them scaring her as she isn't used to children. It has of course already caused an argument before they've even arrived :( Am I being too harsh?
 
Lorcan said:
No, she's not your cat. If you had someone pet sitting would you want them to bring random family and friends over when they're looking after your pets?
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Thank you. That’s what I’ve said. Of course, I wouldn’t leave a 4 year old alone in the house but niece is more than capable to watch him for the 10 minutes it takes us to pop next door and feed / clean Mya’s litter tray :(
 
When I asked a friend to do pigs some years back she asked permission for her daughter to come round and help which was fine as they also had pets. I said I would rather no lap-cuddling but to sit on the floor holding the piggy if that was what she wanted. I know they respected my wishes because I found the odd poop on the hearthrug! If I'd have found out afterwards I would have felt uncomfortable that an assumption had been made even if no harm was done.
The neighbour hasn't given consent for anyone else to enter her house even if it'd be 'nice' for the kids. What would Judge Judy say! And tbh some cats just don't like children - and the cat's already having a hard enough time wondering where the owner has gone. But even if it loves kids and the kids would love the cat and everyone would have a great time there's still been no consent given. You can't really get past that.
 
Free Ranger said:
When I asked a friend to do pigs some years back she asked permission for her daughter to come round and help which was fine as they also had pets. I said I would rather no lap-cuddling but to sit on the floor holding the piggy if that was what she wanted. I know they respected my wishes because I found the odd poop on the hearthrug! If I'd have found out afterwards I would have felt uncomfortable that an assumption had been made even if no harm was done.
The neighbour hasn't given consent for anyone else to enter her house even if it'd be 'nice' for the kids. What would Judge Judy say! And tbh some cats just don't like children - and the cat's already having a hard enough time wondering where the owner has gone. But even if it loves kids and the kids would love the cat and everyone would have a great time there's still been no consent given. You can't really get past that.
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Thank you. Hub did tell the owner that we would have the children and he doesn't mind them entering his house but he said nothing about them playing with the cat. It's just I'm already finding it stressful worrying that Mya will get out without having to take the kids in with us. I just don't see why they have to come too but you're right and consent hasn't been given for them to play with her
 
Had an episode of acid reflux at 1am this morning. It scared me silly, didn't know what to do so diagnosed myself with google. Then I propped myself up in bed with cushions and leant towards my left side. Within an hour I just had a mild discomfort at my stomach area ish. Didn't sleep much for rest of the night and now wondering why it happened and how to stop it happening again.

There is always something ☹
 
Sar said:
Had an episode of acid reflux at 1am this morning. It scared me silly, didn't know what to do so diagnosed myself with google. Then I propped myself up in bed with cushions and leant towards my left side. Within an hour I just had a mild discomfort at my stomach area ish. Didn't sleep much for rest of the night and now wondering why it happened and how to stop it happening again.

There is always something ☹
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My dad suffers from acid reflux. He finds sucking a mint helps
 
Betsy said:
We went to the evening do of a wedding last night. There was a free bar! :beer:I pulled the short straw so I was on water. 😫:dri:
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I'm sorry for laughing. One of the perks of not having a driving licence is I always get to drink, lol.
 
My top oven has decided that it will only work on the grill not the top oven. The same oven knob does both. There is a button inside that when the door is closed, the grill turns off and the top oven turns on. Luckily I took out five year warranty on it but only because it was £100 and I got 5 free yearly oven cleans with that so I knew I'd more than get my money's worth out of it. I phoned up the repair line and booked a repair for Wednesday 17 August. I get a text to confirm the appointment as Friday 12th August. I told the person on the other end of the line that this date wasn't suitable ...... so I had to phone them again and get the appointment changed to 17 August. How come nobody can do their job properly these days?!?
 
Claire W said:
My dad suffers from acid reflux. He finds sucking a mint helps
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Oooh I hadn't thought of things like that. I've spent some time looking at info about it and everything seems so conflicting! I can't even say what set it off as it was a whole new thing for me. It could be another sleepless night but this time through worry.....
 
@Sar, it's apparently not supposed to work, but mine eases with a small glass of milk. Has to be blue top, though.
 
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