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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Lily beetles eggs are a nice bright orange so you can easily rub them off.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Too late. They'd hatched in their pile of 💩
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh lovely and the bigger they get, the more do do they wrap themselves in, I find a tissue is the best to wipe off and squash. It’s one of those things I just cannot touch with bare hands. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I felt like that to start with and then thought bugger this for a game of soldiers😠 . It's amazing what you can get used to. Still its better than dealing with baby or pet poo. Not so smelly and less of it 😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Don't get me started on pet and baby poo. There's more coming out than going in I'm sure. And how do they manage to time waking up crying with dinner being set down on the table? Cold dinner again for me tonight :(
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    At least with a baby, you know where it's going to land. With a pup, it could be anywhere. We had pups and kittens first. A baby was a walk in the park without the danger of treading in anything😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    At least with a baby, you know where it's going to land.
    Don't give them ideas :#
    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
    B3 said:
    At least with a baby, you know where it's going to land.
    I wouldn't be so certain about that.  An episode which I thankfully didn't witness was told to me by my sister-in-law.  Her baby son clearly had some form of bowel over activity as, when she went to change him and took his babygrow off, he had it everywhere - including in his hair!

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yuk😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Those Bumbo seats that are popular for babies who can't quite sit up yet are lethal for redirecting poopsplosions upwards. :|  I've got some trauma shears by the changing table to cut babies out of clothes when nappies have spectacularly failed. :#
    Anyway... grump of the moment is alcohol minimum pricing. I'm not a big drinker but my xmas bottle of whisky has finally run out and I thought I'd restock while the fathers' day offers are on. It turns out cheap whisky is no longer cheap though and we pay several quid more per bottle than the English. I thought this law was supposed to stop kids drinking cider in the park but the kids I see are taking drugs and inhaling NOS instead while the rest of us are getting ripped off on real ale and red wine.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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