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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (2)

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Just doing some 3am spam vigilante work. It would be easier if the damn wifi would stop dropping out all the time though :s superfast fibre connection and a shiny new router and it can't even transmit upstairs reliably. I have a head torch and a book in case I need to fall back on analogue entertainment. Old school B)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    We went to the German Market in Birmingham a few years ago.  Fortunately, we had an overnight stay in a central hotel because by about 1pm it was impossible to move in the market.  We were also basically being swept along with the crowd and it was not a pleasant experience.  We went back to the hotel and then returned to the market in the evening when things had quietened down a bit.  We also went out at soon as the market opened on the Sunday morning and got about an hour in before the hordes descended and it was chaos again.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    On the subject of funerals I really couldn't care less what happens to me when I die as I believe that when you're dead you're dead and that's it.  I don't just have no religious beliefs, I'm anti religion.  Nevertheless I have discussed it with my wife as it wouldn't be fair on her to have to make arrangements and not know what was wanted.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think having the discussion is the key thing KT. I no longer have a partner, and don't intend having another, so it'll probably fall to my daughters to make arrangements.
    We regularly joke about it and they know my thoughts, and that I'll have a list of songs to be played. It will include a Dylan song of course,  and everyone has to sing along doing their best impersonation. I shall be lurking in the nether world having a r*ddy good laugh  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Why is it that the seagulls always poop on the windows soon after the window cleaner has been ... why don’t they do it the day before he’s due ... and how do they know?  :s

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited December 2018
    Why is it that the seagulls always poop on the windows soon after the window cleaner has been ... why don’t they do it the day before he’s due ... and how do they know?  :s
    They're in cahoots I expect. It stops you noticing any little smudges if there's a massive splodge down the middle. He probably pays them in chips
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Near here, there's a row of street lights arched over a slow-moving approach to a junction.
    Each light can accommodate four pigeons or seagulls -usually the latter. 
    🐦🐦🐦🐦
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Gah. After a week of the baby being ill and 2 nights of him running a high temperature and refusing to sleep if it wasn't on someone, I finally managed to put him down to sleep in his bed at 4am last night and crept off for some much needed sleep. An hour later a cat walked past the patio doors and sent the dog into a frenzy of barking and everyone woke up again. Sadly I didn't see who's cat it was or I might go and ring their doorbell at 3am tonight. :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Can you close the curtains on your patio doors, WE?  Might be better for neighbourly relations...  or blindfold the dog??
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    The neighbours have embraced the flashing Christmas outside lights with gusto. There is one house (fortunately out of sight unless l go outside), that had presumably had them going all night, as they were flashing away at 6.45am. However, my curmudgeonly heart was melted just a little when one neighbour took her 3 year old son to look at them last night. His little face !
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