I have two small dogs, both of whom are very soppy and friendly, but one loves chasing bikes and the other is bad-tempered when he feels threatened. He does not bite but no one would be likely to believe it when he shows his teeth. It means that we dare not let them off the lead unless we are a long way off the road. We don't use extendable leads because of the dangers mentioned in earlier posts and we are pretty responsible about picking up poo, etc. What we can't control, though, is the occasional unpredictable moment when the escape artiste gets away (the bike chaser) as we put her in the car or the nervous one (the growler) gets spooked by someone's loud voice or fast approach. Little dogs just are yappy at times. However, if one bit, I'm afraid he would be down the vet's for the lethal shot, though I'd be heartbroken. There is no excuse for a dog bite, unless violent aggression was used against the dog first. No matter how much one loves a dog, we have to live in society and behave decently towards humans first.
Karma has been in action today. Yesterday I had a TGB steal a car battery from my front step (Rozzers been around and taken stills from the CCTV, lovely clear pictures of the bloke walking off with MY battery). Today I had a bloke in a much nicer van deliver my a lovely new TV that I've won in an internet competition. So to everyone who thinks they're a scam, someone does win them, and very, very occaisonally it's me.
So I think that's a fair exchange, a goosed battery for a brand new telly. Still hope they get a bum full of shot just to even things up a little bit more.
On the theme of theft, I received an email the other day purporting to be from Paypal. It said that a payment of £39 had been made to Skype. There was a link to click on if I wanted to dispute that I had authorised thhis payment. I clicked on the link, but something told me not to try to log in to Paypal. Instead I found Paypal through a search engine and signed in to query this. They replied that no such payment had been made and this was a phishing email. I was to change my Paypal password immediately and run a virus scan on my computer.
I must be the luckiest person alive, i have won millions in lottery prizes every week pretty much for years and I don't even bother buying a ticket anymore. These days i don't bother claiming as it is such a pain having to rearrange the furniture to make way for yet another lottery win.
I did try forwarding the claim forms to Enda kenny so he could pay of the national debt rather than introduce further pay cuts and increased taxation. but he said something about an institution but haven't we given those bankers enough.
GG-Me too! Why do you need a bus pass when you're only 27...
The postage is always the hitch on these freebies isn't it? No such thing as a free lunch is there!
Blackest..I thought I was the only one who'd won all that money...
Had to phone council cos they took money for council tax from my account..for the house I moved out of. Partly their fault as some tw*t didn't update my details -what a surprise- but mainly because the b****y landlord didn't contact them till 2 days ago. I've been spitting feathers so often in the last two weeks you'd think I'd eaten a flock of geese. I dropped them in it -told council they weren't fit to be landlords-which they aren't. The form I sent to the council to register here should also have included one to inform them that my daughter is a student but I didn't get that -again, surprise surprise-even though I told the man I spoke to, so I've been charged the full amount and now they have to send me that and it'll be God knows how long...The only thing that altered on my details was the address- same situation, same c tax band etc but do they look at your account? Do they ****.
I must have a target painted on my back...
At least I got a result with Barclaycard.
Up the workers!!!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
mummy.. she has a great fear of dogs now.. but is getting better.. doesnt like ones that bark at her or jump up at her.. she is getting there thank god..as i love dogs.. and woul dhave some if my boy wasnt ellergic to them.. i think i am doomed never to have a dog for at lest the next 10 years.. shame
thanks for the useful info on how to tell if a dog is happy or feels threatened.. that is good to tell her.
as for winning the TV well done... i win nothing never have.. i have negative energy i think as i have lot of static and our electrical items break all the time.. drives me mad... i dunno how to revert it to postive energy thou..
GG.. thanks for the warning.. i never do anything with my pay-pal without loggin into them first.. but my bro in law got caught out with it last year.. they told him they never send emails to the email addi about account details or asking for info about the account.. they always do it through their own webiste.. so always log in and check first.
Fairy.. nightmare council tac it.. they dont know wht one hand is doing from the other most of the time.
If you don't enter a competition, you're certain not to win it. If you do, especially an internet comp, your chances of winning are small - but someone's got to win it. I don't pay to enter competitions, I only do the free ones on the internet - what's on TV, Womans own, Woman and Woman's weekly, click on competitions, sign up (make sure you do or don't check the box so they can't pass your details on), click on prize draws, answer the question (normally dead obvious, in the blurb next to the picture of what you'll win, if you get it wrong, you can enter the next day knowing the answer) they are all multiple-guess questions (as my English teacher put it), you've got a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right, for the TV I had to know what the capital of Finland was, the choices were Abu Dhabi, Helsinki or Paris. Don't have to be brain of Britain to know that one.
I think it's because I have ME, in between housework or looking after tiny terrors, I have to take regular breaks to make sure my energy lasts the day, so instead of rotting my brain with Cbeebies, I pick up the laptop and do them 10 at a time (you get 25 entries per website per day). I don't always get the full compliment done, but I'd say I do at least 50 (two websites' worth a day), so I'll have a good few entries for each competition (sometimes they cheat and share competition prizes between websites). I have been quite lucky this year, last year I won £100 of M&S vouchers, a Tomato apron and a board game - all year!! This year I've won a mahoosive bag of products of the year (and the bag is really useful when I do a top up shop), plus yesterday's telly. So this year much better than last year already.
Oh, and I always do the Gardener's world website ones, not won anything from that yet!
I did, however, get another thrifty tip published in this month's magazine - not had my £10 NGC voucher yet though - hope the postman's not nicked it again.
We were on hol in our caravan last week. When we packed up and took down our awning, there was a dog turd near where it had been. It wasn't our dogs (they didn't get the chance) and I left it there. I was stewing about people who don't supervise their dogs. I don't mind picking up poo from my own dogs but I don't fancy handling poo from anyone else's, even through a plastic bag!
FG, I am only 27, of course, but because I look mature I decided to con the council out of a bus pass.
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MMP, once again, I love your spirit!
I have two small dogs, both of whom are very soppy and friendly, but one loves chasing bikes and the other is bad-tempered when he feels threatened. He does not bite but no one would be likely to believe it when he shows his teeth. It means that we dare not let them off the lead unless we are a long way off the road. We don't use extendable leads because of the dangers mentioned in earlier posts and we are pretty responsible about picking up poo, etc. What we can't control, though, is the occasional unpredictable moment when the escape artiste gets away (the bike chaser) as we put her in the car or the nervous one (the growler) gets spooked by someone's loud voice or fast approach. Little dogs just are yappy at times. However, if one bit, I'm afraid he would be down the vet's for the lethal shot, though I'd be heartbroken. There is no excuse for a dog bite, unless violent aggression was used against the dog first. No matter how much one loves a dog, we have to live in society and behave decently towards humans first.
Karma has been in action today. Yesterday I had a TGB steal a car battery from my front step (Rozzers been around and taken stills from the CCTV, lovely clear pictures of the bloke walking off with MY battery). Today I had a bloke in a much nicer van deliver my a lovely new TV that I've won in an internet competition. So to everyone who thinks they're a scam, someone does win them, and very, very occaisonally it's me.
So I think that's a fair exchange, a goosed battery for a brand new telly. Still hope they get a bum full of shot just to even things up a little bit more.
Congratulations MMP!!!
On the theme of theft, I received an email the other day purporting to be from Paypal. It said that a payment of £39 had been made to Skype. There was a link to click on if I wanted to dispute that I had authorised thhis payment. I clicked on the link, but something told me not to try to log in to Paypal. Instead I found Paypal through a search engine and signed in to query this. They replied that no such payment had been made and this was a phishing email. I was to change my Paypal password immediately and run a virus scan on my computer.
Just posting this as a warning to others.
I must be the luckiest person alive, i have won millions in lottery prizes every week pretty much for years and I don't even bother buying a ticket anymore. These days i don't bother claiming as it is such a pain having to rearrange the furniture to make way for yet another lottery win.
I did try forwarding the claim forms to Enda kenny so he could pay of the national debt rather than introduce further pay cuts and increased taxation. but he said something about an institution but haven't we given those bankers enough.
I NEVER win the lottery. But then, I never buy a ticket.
GG-Me too! Why do you need a bus pass when you're only 27...
The postage is always the hitch on these freebies isn't it? No such thing as a free lunch is there!
Blackest..I thought I was the only one who'd won all that money...
Had to phone council cos they took money for council tax from my account..for the house I moved out of.
Partly their fault as some tw*t didn't update my details -what a surprise- but mainly because the b****y landlord didn't contact them till 2 days ago. I've been spitting feathers so often in the last two weeks you'd think I'd eaten a flock of geese. I dropped them in it -told council they weren't fit to be landlords-which they aren't. The form I sent to the council to register here should also have included one to inform them that my daughter is a student but I didn't get that -again, surprise surprise-even though I told the man I spoke to, so I've been charged the full amount and now they have to send me that and it'll be God knows how long...The only thing that altered on my details was the address- same situation, same c tax band etc but do they look at your account? Do they ****.
I must have a target painted on my back...
At least I got a result with Barclaycard.
Up the workers!!!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
mummy.. she has a great fear of dogs now.. but is getting better.. doesnt like ones that bark at her or jump up at her.. she is getting there thank god..as i love dogs.. and woul dhave some if my boy wasnt ellergic to them.. i think i am doomed never to have a dog for at lest the next 10 years.. shame
thanks for the useful info on how to tell if a dog is happy or feels threatened.. that is good to tell her.
as for winning the TV well done... i win nothing never have.. i have negative energy i think as i have lot of static and our electrical items break all the time.. drives me mad... i dunno how to revert it to postive energy thou..
GG.. thanks for the warning.. i never do anything with my pay-pal without loggin into them first.. but my bro in law got caught out with it last year.. they told him they never send emails to the email addi about account details or asking for info about the account.. they always do it through their own webiste.. so always log in and check first.
Fairy.. nightmare council tac it.. they dont know wht one hand is doing from the other most of the time.
If you don't enter a competition, you're certain not to win it. If you do, especially an internet comp, your chances of winning are small - but someone's got to win it. I don't pay to enter competitions, I only do the free ones on the internet - what's on TV, Womans own, Woman and Woman's weekly, click on competitions, sign up (make sure you do or don't check the box so they can't pass your details on), click on prize draws, answer the question (normally dead obvious, in the blurb next to the picture of what you'll win, if you get it wrong, you can enter the next day knowing the answer) they are all multiple-guess questions (as my English teacher put it), you've got a 1 in 3 chance of getting it right, for the TV I had to know what the capital of Finland was, the choices were Abu Dhabi, Helsinki or Paris. Don't have to be brain of Britain to know that one.
I think it's because I have ME, in between housework or looking after tiny terrors, I have to take regular breaks to make sure my energy lasts the day, so instead of rotting my brain with Cbeebies, I pick up the laptop and do them 10 at a time (you get 25 entries per website per day). I don't always get the full compliment done, but I'd say I do at least 50 (two websites' worth a day), so I'll have a good few entries for each competition (sometimes they cheat and share competition prizes between websites). I have been quite lucky this year, last year I won £100 of M&S vouchers, a Tomato apron and a board game - all year!! This year I've won a mahoosive bag of products of the year (and the bag is really useful when I do a top up shop), plus yesterday's telly. So this year much better than last year already.
Oh, and I always do the Gardener's world website ones, not won anything from that yet!
I did, however, get another thrifty tip published in this month's magazine - not had my £10 NGC voucher yet though - hope the postman's not nicked it again.
We were on hol in our caravan last week. When we packed up and took down our awning, there was a dog turd near where it had been. It wasn't our dogs (they didn't get the chance) and I left it there. I was stewing about people who don't supervise their dogs.
I don't mind picking up poo from my own dogs but I don't fancy handling poo from anyone else's, even through a plastic bag!
FG, I am only 27, of course, but because I look mature I decided to con the council out of a bus pass.