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

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I don't mind neighbour parcels to an extent, and next door has taken in parcels for me before (and actually when I wasn't up at the crack of dawn for a hay delivery once, I got downstairs at 8.30am to a card telling me my hay was at the house at the end of the row, haha), but it's like...I'm here, I just can't hear the door lol.

It's not even anything immediately urgent, but there's a glass for a vape tank in it. The one I have at the minute is on the teetering edge of usable, especially after I managed to kick my PC by accident yesterday, that jolted the desk, which jolted the vapes on the desk, and the device in question bounced through the cable tidy to the undershelf of the desk onto the floor. I couldn't have managed it if I'd tried. I'd hoped to swap the glass out today when I needed to change the coil anyway, it'll have to wait now.
 
Today has been rather....interesting. My lovely neighbor dropped off some flowers that she picked from her garden. My youngest child made a beeline to the vase and knocked it over spilling the water everywhere and he had a grand time spreading the water more places. I picked him up and moved him to the rug before he got wet so I could get all the flowers collected and back into the vase (it didn't break which was a miracle!). He decided to rip his clothes off and pee on the rug. :no: So now, I had the mess with the flowers to clean up and then the pee on the rug. Cleaned up the child first, flower water, and then the pee. He did decide that he had to pee on the couch right when dad came through the door so that needed to be cleaned too. Mind you, I am TRYING to cook dinner during all of this as we had to leave pretty quickly. Then at swim lessons, he did have to do one last thing as a farewell to swim lessons. Took his swim suit off in front of everyone so he could try to pee into the pool. Thankfully the teacher and I got him out of there before anyone noticed.

Someday this child will be potty trained, but today sure wasn't it. Thankfully I can laugh about it now, but I really wasn't in the mood earlier today.
 
Other people's dogs and their owners! ! I don't mind a dog coming over to say hello and wanting a bit of fuss but it's just when the dogs come over to you and start to lick your legs and the owner doesn't stop them that I object to. This particular owner didn't apologise just said something along the lines of "you must have walked somewhere tasty!" I had a shower this morning as I didn't anticipate having to wash my legs to get all the dried on dog saliva off them.:vom:
 
A dog came pelting towards me the other afternoon, I could see it was going to jump all over me and I hate that. As it got to me I yelled "sit" and it did so I gave it a scratch between the ears and made a fuss of it, I don't mind well behaved dogs. When the owner eventually caught up she said "goodness she's far better behaved for you than she is for me"! No answer to that really is there?!
 
"We couldn't deliver your parcel because the driver couldn't find your address." I mean, just admit you didn't bother trying, it'd make more sense. Apparently he'll come back with it around 6pm. Is it normal to assume I don't have anything better to do than kick around at my front doorstep? I'll take a chance with Royal Mail next time, strikes be damned. It'd probably still get here quicker.
 
DPD used to be the best delivery firm round here, always reliable, then it all changed! For the last three months my Hay Box order has been getting split (3boxes). I get a message in the morning saying my delivery will be at whatever time. Fine, I can work my day round that and go out after it turns up. The delivery comes with some missing and the driver says the rest will be along later. All very well but not very convenient.
 
Back ache. Spent half the week cleaning/moving furnitute so I think its posture related but what do I do... stretch it out, hunch up. Lay on the floor up or stand up...
 
Got COVID and it's made my joint pain a lot worse. It's at the point that communicating is becoming an issue. Feel like someone's bashed all my joints with a hammer. I already suffer with joint issues so why you do this COVID?! My joints don't need any help hurting!
 
Engel said:
Got COVID and it's made my joint pain a lot worse. It's at the point that communicating is becoming an issue. Feel like someone's bashed all my joints with a hammer. I already suffer with joint issues so why you do this COVID?! My joints don't need any help hurting!
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I’m sorry. Hope you are feeling better very soon. ❤️
 
weepweeps said:
I’m sorry. Hope you are feeling better very soon. ❤️
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Thank you. I've had symptoms for 5 days yet tests kept coming up negative. I was convinced I had it so refused to leave the house and was masked and gloved up to protect others in the house. I know that by law I can still go out and carry on as normal but that seems really irresponsible.

The piggies will need to bare with me for the next few days. I managed to do a hay top up and water this morning. Going to try and spot clean tonight. Tomorrow is hay tray clean out so we'll see how that goes.
 
Had a "hate being female" weekend. Things going on at home, things have changed at work for me, so much I could & should do when I'm at home (but I don't) .... questioning some of my life choices right now & not quite sure how to shake myself out of this feeling....

Pointless rant. Sorry.
 
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DPD used to be the best delivery firm round here, always reliable, then it all changed! For the last three months my Hay Box order has been getting split (3boxes). I get a message in the morning saying my delivery will be at whatever time. Fine, I can work my day round that and go out after it turns up. The delivery comes with some missing and the driver says the rest will be along later. All very well but not very convenient.
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My Happy Hay boxes come via DHL. Aside from them delivering so early in the morning, DHL haven't given me trouble on it yet. But who wants to be getting deliveries before 8am?!
 
I'd never had anything delivered by DPD until last week. Daughter getting i-phone as (very) early B-day pres and super-excited as old phone can't make calls any more and school starts this week. Due to arrive Friday last. I went out for 1/2 hour to get prescription knowing both teens were downstairs on the alert - son wants a look too and she'd actually set an alarm so she wouldn't miss her parcel. Son nips upstairs for a minute, guy suddenly hammers on door like house is on fire, daughter still in nighty shrieks for big brother who gallops back down but too late and he opens door and literally chases guy up the street but he hops into his van and he's off! Whyyyyyyyy!
Then hubs gets a text saying 'parcel will be delivered between 10.05 and 11.05am' and calls me because it's actually 10.06 and I rush home to poor emotional girl in tears on the stairs. It's not a great first impression I have to say.
Hopefully phone will arrive today - Monday - without incident. We shall see!
 
I can well believe it @Free Ranger. I'm grateful it's not just my local depot though. But I feel bad for customer services, it's not their fault but they're the ones having to deal with the customers, it's not like you can rant at the depot instead.
 
Phone arrived! We're just trying to choose a jolly ringtone for when I call her.
My mum can't quite believe how expensive this was compared to her phone but I pointed out it's an investment. You know how folks persuade their kids to train as hairdressers or dentists so they can get their hair or their teeth done? Well I just don't want a smartphone but d'you know they are quite useful sometimes...
 
1 - the online plant pot shop I got my small pots from seems to have disappeared. The ones I bought last year currently have plants in and I need to source some more.

2 - my camera is definitely on the blink. It's auto focus seems to have gone and the majority of photos seem to be blurred. Where do you even buy a normal camera (just a point and shoot one) from nowadays? Mines a canon and although it must be around 12 years old (its been everywhere and could probably tell some tales!) I'd like one of similar quality...

3 - the Markles. Did they not quit Royal life, then both start mouthing off? Why are they on my tv with some pretend royal tour?
 
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the Markles. Did they not quit Royal life, then both start mouthing off? Why are they on my tv with some pretend royal tour?
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They annoy me too! The quit Royal life but want special protection while they are in the UK! Why? they aren't Royal anymore. They have quite the Royal lifestyle so doesn't that mean that they are just some regular Joe like you and me?
 
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It’s not quite that simple Harry is 6th in line to the throne so he should be protected.
I wouldn’t believe everything you read in the press or see on tv . Just saying
 
I've got absolutely no time for them, if I see a headline about them I scroll on past quickly, don't want to see or hear about them. For two people who left the Country because they wanted to be private and live a normal life they are putting themselves in the lime light an awful lot.
 
The upstairs fire alarm just went off. Again. My door's closed, there's no chance it was the vapour set it off. Can't have been. But after I get it switched off and try to get back inside my room the brush handle falls into my door's hinges so I can't close it, have to go back out into the hall to remove it to close it. Which means even more vapour escaping into the hall.

I've genuinely had it with these alarms. The upstairs one can't be functioning properly, why else would it go off?
 
Why is everything so difficult? I have a service plan with Currys which means I get a free oven clean for 5 years. For the last 3 years I've just phoned up and booked it. I phoned them up, after going through about 3 million options, I was told to go to a website and "choose valet service and just fill in the form" I went to the website I was told to go to and the webpage was down. I did live chat where I spoke to a very nice young man who had to ask his Manager and the nice young man said that at the bottom of the webpage there was a section called "existing customers" which he couldn't find! He did, however, find another Customer Services number which he gave to me. I phoned this new number and was told to go the the same website as I had before. So I again tried this website again and it was up and running this time. I went to the bottom of the page and there was "existing customers" which I pressed on and then "book a valet service" magically appeared! I would never have been able to find this if the nice young man hadn't let me know about the "existing customers" bit as on the phone the message never said anything about that important bit of information. Now I have to wait for the valet company to phone me instead of just booking it over the phone!
 
I've just finished making some plum jam with plums from my garden. The recipe said 2kg of plums, 2kg of sugar and 200ml water would make 3 x 450g jars.
I've got only smaller 340g jars so I prepped 4 of them. Then the 4 jars used up scarcely half of what was in the pan, so now I've got a pan of jam sitting on my kitchen table as it's too hot to go in the fridge and I'm about to go to bed...
Something went wrong somewhere 🤔
 
... So I double checked my recipe and my jars. Not sure of the weight in my jars originally as I was given them with the labels removed, but they hold 300ml of water. The recipe actually says it makes 3x450ml, not 450g, and I guess the 2 don't necessarily match, but even so, that would mean I need 5x300ml jars according to the recipe whereas there is at least 4 jars' worth of jam still in the pan.

I guess I'll just have to clean some more jars in the morning and pot the rest up then, and hope it doesn't cause problems :mal::doh:
 
Some pig keeps peeing in the hardest to reach spot of his new home, no where else.
The alternative is the pads aren’t absorbing. Arghh. I have changed the big one in that spot (yes he soaked through that too!) & the small one at least once every day. Was supposed to be doing less washing, not more.

Maybe I should be doing positive thinking…. And the boys have toilet trained themselves! 🤣
 
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