Well I've turned a section of the garden over to a kiddy play area bright plastic toys where my plants used to take pride of place. I took great care to make it all safe and fun but the little bugger still tripped over the safety mats and cut his lip open within 10 minutes. The dog has moved into the wendy house though and seems very pleased with the view.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Why do you need a safety mat on grass?  Possum always bounced until she got too tall and by then she had control of her feet.
We don't have a doghouse - sofas and baskets for them - but I think I may need one for Minstrel pussy. She can jump on my keyboard and hit the right sequence to turn my screen sideways. Nice trick!
My ex hubby actually spent a night in our wendy house after a night out. He thought the house door was locked [it wasn't] and he 'couldn't find' his keys. Oh how we laughed.....well, I did anyway....Â
My gripe today is, why are instructions and illustrations so useless? I bought a hose reel thingy for putting on a wall. It's as if the instructions have been translated from Double Dutch into Chinese, then Afrikaans before finally into English. The little drawings are lovely, but the vital bits you need to see are hopelessly small and inadequate. Maybe I'm just getting old.Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've moved the toys onto the decking for now. I'm trying to level and patch the holes in the lawn after years of rabbits digging holes in it so I'm trying to keep him off there until the grass grows back a bit.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My gripe today is, why are instructions and illustrations so useless? I bought a hose reel thingy for putting on a wall. It's as if the instructions have been translated from Double Dutch into Chinese, then Afrikaans before finally into English. The little drawings are lovely, but the vital bits you need to see are hopelessly small and inadequate. Maybe I'm just getting old.Â
My washing machine stopped working yesterday with the error code 5UD. I got the manual out and read it cover to cover but that code isn't mentioned. I had to go online to find out it means 'suds' are not draining away properly due to a blockage. Why have an error code if you're not going to tell people what to do about it? Â The blockage was caused by a sock getting stuck in the door seal which happens all the time because the machine is badly designed. I'm trying to work out if I can get my money back just because the machine is terrible. It's not broken but it leaks around the door seal, small items have to go in mesh bags or they clog it up (which means they don't wash properly), and it destroys clothes. Everything seems to end up frayed or full of holes.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
 Why have an error code if you're not going to tell people what to do about it?  Â
It's the same with the ones on modern cars Mine got serviced the other day and I told them the [stupid] warning light for informing me of an overtaking car ['cos I clearly can't cope with looking in a wing mirror] was coming on willy nilly.  It's not even that that's the problem. It's those ruddy women at the front desk who look at you as if you're a complete numpty. 'You can turn it off ' they said. She wasn't thrilled when I said that it comes on when I go round corners, or when there's no one on the road but me, so I'd like the damn thing sorted or disconnected. What I really wanted to say was 'don't patronise me , you over made up tw*t'. Turns out it was showing a fault with the computer code. I could have told them that an' all.
Lyn said : We’ve all been there at some time  Â
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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We don't have a doghouse - sofas and baskets for them - but I think I may need one for Minstrel pussy. She can jump on my keyboard and hit the right sequence to turn my screen sideways. Nice trick!
He thought the house door was locked [it wasn't] and he 'couldn't find' his keys.Â
Oh how we laughed.....well, I did anyway....Â
My gripe today is, why are instructions and illustrations so useless? I bought a hose reel thingy for putting on a wall. It's as if the instructions have been translated from Double Dutch into Chinese, then Afrikaans before finally into English. The little drawings are lovely, but the vital bits you need to see are hopelessly small and inadequate.
Maybe I'm just getting old.Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mine got serviced the other day and I told them the [stupid] warning light for informing me of an overtaking car ['cos I clearly can't cope with looking in a wing mirror] was coming on willy nilly. Â
It's not even that that's the problem. It's those ruddy women at the front desk who look at you as if you're a complete numpty. 'You can turn it off ' they said. She wasn't thrilled when I said that it comes on when I go round corners, or when there's no one on the road but me, so I'd like the damn thing sorted or disconnected. What I really wanted to say was 'don't patronise me , you over made up tw*t'.Â
Turns out it was showing a fault with the computer code. I could have told them that an' all.
Lyn said :
We’ve all been there at some timeÂ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...