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

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Betsy said:
No wonder a lot of young girls (and women) have a complex about their size. These are 2 pairs of shorts both from Next, both size 14 and bought 3 years apart!

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This was same with my DP shorts I ordered. Same as my other ones bought about 3 years ago but the new size 14 were about 2inches smaller in waist than my old ones.

This is what puts me off some shops.
 
Being an avid charity-shopper I have some menswear and the pockets are soooo useful. Lady size 16 is approx man size XL (or even XXL!) to accommodate hips so I have to take the waists in a bit but the baggier fit is dead useful for gardening or camping as you don't get a massive wedgie every time you bend over! And the fabric is often heavier weight and more 'rugged' so I feel like I'm getting value for money.

Have to be a bit careful though - I tried on a pair of dungarees thinking, "Hey there, foxy Cowgirl!" but in truth I just looked like Mr Tumble...
 
Free Ranger said:
Being an avid charity-shopper I have some menswear and the pockets are soooo useful. Lady size 16 is approx man size XL (or even XXL!) to accommodate hips so I have to take the waists in a bit but the baggier fit is dead useful for gardening or camping as you don't get a massive wedgie every time you bend over! And the fabric is often heavier weight and more 'rugged' so I feel like I'm getting value for money.

Have to be a bit careful though - I tried on a pair of dungarees thinking, "Hey there, foxy Cowgirl!" but in truth I just looked like Mr Tumble...
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I wear a 2XL shirt, I *think* my jeans are a 40/S. It's been forever since I've checked because I nearly always buy the same brand of jeans anyway lol. They are too big, but that's what a belt is for.

Every wash I do for my own stuff once a week has either 7 or 8 pairs of socks in it. If the socks have been on the washing line they're usually the last to come off. I've given up bringing the bag back out just for socks. So I have 7 or 8 pairs of socks and the pegs for them in my pockets walking back into the house lol.

Or a tennis ball, a can of Coke, a phone, a wallet, keys, pens, vape, multitool, a pack of sweets (lol). I do love some pockets.
 
So it's been chucking it down all day. What does that mean? You guessed it, Operation Snail Rescue! Already lifted two to slightly safer places, and two larger ones to much safer places (ie, not the path or my flagstones). One of which had to be turned around a second time because it chose to try and get back on the flags. Not on my watch!

Sadly it's now raining too hard to do anything more. Hopefully they stay out of the danger zone, it's getting dark and I hate standing on snails.
 
OH and I were doing some gardening tonight as the garden bin is collected on Thursdays. We were just clearing up and brushing/sweeping up all the clippings when a mossie decided I was rather tasty. It was there for all of 5 seconds but I have a nasty red lump on my arm. Luckily I take antihistimines every day anyway which is probably why it's not itching too badly. I'll be putting on the 1% hydrocortisone cream that my OH was given by the Pharmacist when the bite he got on the back of his leg went all nasty to try and stop it getting even nastier and prevent the need for antibiotics which it did.
 
I hope it clears up quickly @Betsy . I have 3 very itchy mossie bites on my arm at the moment, they have blistered that hydrocortisone cream is good.
 
I'm lying wide awake even though the toddler is asleep. She woke up briefly at 4:30. By the time I got back to bed and started drifting off the dog decided he needed to go back at the back door. I've had a few mins snoozing here and there but 4:30 is definitely not an acceptable morning start
 
I had to use scissors to get past a childproof cap earlier. I suspect even a child would've needed scissors to get past this one.
 
This is one of those "push down and turn to break seal" ones except it wouldn't actually turn and break. Ended up using the scissors as a lever to separate the cap from that bottom seal instead. I'm all from keeping nicotine away from young people - but not only do I still want to use it myself but the stupid thing had no nicotine even in it. :td: The bottle with the nicotine came apart as planned. 🤷‍♂️
 
How do you lose a massive tub of Doublebase with a plunger cap? Because I can't find mine anywhere, and the next best thing I have is after sun. It's a very poor substitute.
 
Lorcan said:
How do you lose a massive tub of Doublebase with a plunger cap? Because I can't find mine anywhere, and the next best thing I have is after sun. It's a very poor substitute.
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How did you manage to lose that? My son used to have Diprobase with plunger cap and it's really big! Are you sure it hasn't disappeared with Ser Spider?
 
Betsy said:
How did you manage to lose that? My son used to have Diprobase with plunger cap and it's really big! Are you sure it hasn't disappeared with Ser Spider?
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I know! I'm genuinely confused. And I don't want to have to ask the GP for another.
 
Haven't had a bad bake in a long time so I was probably due.

Having friends over tomorrow so decided to bake mini lemon drizzles and brownies. Brownies look fab, very pleased. Lemon drizzles can be bounced off the walls - they're terrible. No idea what went wrong.

I'm just a bit disappointed as we have a friend with a few dietary needs and they would have been ok for her. We've got plenty of food so I'm not going to try again and we other options that she can have. But just not something I've baked.

Never mind :(
 
CV26 said:
Haven't had a bad bake in a long time so I was probably due.

Having friends over tomorrow so decided to bake mini lemon drizzles and brownies. Brownies look fab, very pleased. Lemon drizzles can be bounced off the walls - they're terrible. No idea what went wrong.

I'm just a bit disappointed as we have a friend with a few dietary needs and they would have been ok for her. We've got plenty of food so I'm not going to try again and we other options that she can have. But just not something I've baked.

Never mind :(
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Perhaps you could turn the lemon drizzles into a mini trifles with a bit of fruit and cream on top?

When I was a teenager, I could never get fatless sponges, which my mum made regularly with no problem, to rise at all. So I used to break them up and make a fruit trifle instead. I like a good trifle! 😋
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sigh. Found the Doublebase.

Turns out that while I checked on the sofa, underneath the stuff on the sofa, on the chair, underneath the stuff on the chair, in the kitchen, in bags and under other stuff in the bedroom, in the bathroom, even the goblin room, on window sills, and so on, I didn't check under the chair. :doh:
 
We have family round for the first time in about a year. We were enjoying a nice peaceful afternoon outside in the sun then we hear a petrol motor start up. It turns out the neighbours have got someone in to jet wash their lovely new patio while they have bu88ered off somewhere! It's so noisy we have had to come inside. It's OK for them they can't hear it! We are not very happy about it. A Bank Holiday weekend on a Sunday and we shouldn't have to put up with that racket! The neighbours didn't even warn us it was going to happen. My OH is fuming to put it mildly. He will be having words!
 
Betsy said:
We have family round for the first time in about a year. We were enjoying a nice peaceful afternoon outside in the sun then we hear a petrol motor start up. It turns out the neighbours have got someone in to jet wash their lovely new patio while they have bu88ered off somewhere! It's so noisy we have had to come inside. It's OK for them they can't hear it! We are not very happy about it. A Bank Holiday weekend on a Sunday and we shouldn't have to put up with that racket! The neighbours didn't even warn us it was going to happen. My OH is fuming to put it mildly. He will be having words!
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Good on him! I feel your anger 😡 hope you can still enjoy the visit though.
 
Some of my summer bedding plants are starting to look past their best now. I've had some since April so definitely got my moneys worth out of them but it makes me sad to think of the garden not being colourful
 
I shut myself out of my bathroom this morning. I had put a clothes horse (folded) into my bathroom last night, and my bathroom has a sliding door. At some point the clothes horse fell into a gap and it meant my door couldn't slide open. There I was, busting for the loo, and trying to work out how I would explain having to break the door down to the HA and the letting agents. I did eventually get back in and everything stayed intact, but that was a long few minutes lol.
 
My DPD driver has been delayed. Clearly this is not his fault. But my anxiety is through the roof for unrelated reasons and I have to actually be downstairs to hear the door. This, incidentally, means no distractions because they're all upstairs.

And of course DPD is still saying they're sorry for delay but we'll be with you by 14:46. Just update already ffs.
 
Hope they’re there soon. Sorry your anxiety is high. Hugs
 
I had one little filling a couple years ago - and it had to be redone this year because there was decay behind it which seemed a bit weird but apparently it happens. It's now a bit bigger but not massive. So I got offered the nhs one or a private white one which was well over £100 and I thought I'd go for the white one as I could remember being a kid and having a couple of silver ones in my baby teeth and whenever I put a metal spoon in there everything sang a bit. It was fine for a few months and then started to be a bit achy and there's an unpleasant taste. So I went back and she hit it with a little hammer and was surprised it wasn't painful - I said no probs with hot/cold drinks etc but it just grumbled most of the time and there's this taste... and she said there was a tiny cavity starting in the tooth behind and maybe it was that so I had that one done - also white and expensive - no problems with it but it wasn't that and I guess in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't because I can feel it exactly where the other filling is. But when they drill out a filling to replace it of course they have to take a little bit of the tooth out too so the cavity gets bigger and bigger so I didn't want to do anything on the off chance.

But I think I'm going to have to go and get this original filling re-done which will be another £100 plus and part of me is thinking, "If I'd have had NHS I'd only have paid for the first one as it's all part of the same course of treatment" and actually I'm wondering whether to go back to the NHS filling in case this just drags on and on. It's annoying but my dentist is a love, and sometimes these things just happen, but it hurts to part with the dosh more than the grumbling filling! If it has to be redone every couple years until someone mentions the dreaded "root canal" - well, it's really going to add up.

And just as I'm contemplating future finances Louise decided to chew a small slice of carrot in a very weird slow way with lots of mouth stretching and pauses, while the other two just hammered through theirs and I said to hubs, "Oh no! I think Louise might be having trouble eating!" and he rolled eyes and said "Really? Just look at the bl**dy size of her!" so maybe I'm just seeing tooth issues everywhere now. She's incredibly fat and fluffy again at the minute, and was determined not to be weighed: she crammed her bulk into the haybox and braced herself inside with all 4 feet splayed so it was impossible to extract her! 🤣
 
Sigh. 21:39, and DPD have finally let me know my parcel won't arrive tonight. Even Sherlock Holmes would have trouble with that one :roll: I don't mind the wait, I mind the serious lack of communication. I hate babysitting my front door. On the bright side, with it due to arrive tomorrow, it means I can skip a video appointment and hopefully move it to a phonecall instead. I can't find my webcam, and any excuse is better than none :))
 
I take in a lot of neighbour-parcels which I don't mind doing but yesterday was super busy and I was waiting eagerly for new crocs to arrive (purple this time!) and the world and his wife all had one dropped off - then called round to collect them - before my own parcel arrived at tea-time. Every time there was a knock I was "Yay!" then a minute later felt a bit disappointed, then another knock and "Yay!" and so on, and so on...
But they are very fetching 😜
 
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