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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on November 22, 2012, 10:54:08 am
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:gloomy: It's dark, wet and windy. We have a dead hen. Smokey is lame and Bugsy doesn't look too chipper (Smokey demolished the field gate the other night and Bug spent the night on the grass which is verboten for him). The guy who is supposed to be putting a concrete floor in the field shelter is like the bl**dy Scarlet Pimpernel. The timber merchant left the timber delivery in the access to the barn and I need to get hay delivered, so I'm going out in the p*ssing rain to move the wood.
And I ate the last of the chocolates last night so no solace there.
Oh, and the bank rubbered a cheque. Hate banks. :rant:
Now I know in the whole scheme of things, it's not that bad - no-one's shelled Carnoustie overnight (although I think the Army MAY be shelling at the Buddon) - but I'M P*SSED OFF.
And now my tea is cold. Going to move wood. :gloomy:
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:love: :hug:
Feel better now?
It's peeing down her too, and I had plans. No scent in weather like this so dogs will just pootle about while I get wet. Even they didn't want to go out for a pee this morning. But lets just pause and think of the shelling you mention that has stopped (for the moment, but who knows........ ) and the flooding in Englandshire, both of which are causing so much more heartache than you and I are suffering.
Cheer up, Rosie, here's a bunch of flowers for you :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet:
Can't find an icon for a box of chocolates - oh Daaaaaaannnnnnn :innocent: :innocent: :innocent: :innocent:
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:gloomy: :gloomy: oh no that is all just too much all coming together :-((( and the weather is so crappy too :raining: :raining: I suggest an emergency chocs procurement exercise is justified.
And we all know lami prone ponies are like sheep, they are driven to harm themselves, you just have to make best efforts to stop them, which you do :trophy: :bouquet:
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:hug: :-* :wave: :bouquet:
Lots of love and hugs from over the border. Very windy and attempting to rain here - I think it'll succeed soon, better go and finish my outside work while it's less unpleasant.
Hope the ponies are ok :love: :horse: :hshoe:
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ly sympathise, my car pooped a drive shaft last night, i cant get the part till tomorrow, to get the right part number i need to 'count the splines on the drive shaft' and have it ordered by 1 its blowing a gale rain lashing down and i havent got the right socket to get the wheel nut off, so im tryiing to get a lift into trurpo to buy all the bits. its a freakin nightmare. £20 taxi to and from school. aarfgh!!
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BUT MY TAS T SHIRT JUST ARRIVED YAY!! thank you!!!!
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I can sypathise with the disapearing trades men (or women) it is a pain to get any work done .....lets hope we do not get a freezing bad winter, at least wet is not so bad!
On the positive side, I felt all cosy and not much to do so I sat in a hot bath, the first I have had for ages and ages and ages!!!! and....I ate our chocolate last night as well but a strong coffee will do the trick for me!!!!
I suppose there are a lot of people far worse off but still, sometimes we just need to let off steam!! :wave:
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50-60 mph winds gusting much more . Branches flying everywhere . Monsoon type rain at times , it is evil . Got to go to the land now .
My luck i will bump into the bunny boiler today ! The cold weather is set to hit at the weekend !
The end is nigh !
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50-60 mph winds gusting much more . Branches flying everywhere........... it is evil .
The end is nigh !
Feels that way here too, big :hug: Rosemary crap always happens all at once, so big breath dig in and then treat yourself to a big foamy bath, glass of wine and something yummy and repeat i am worth it a la cheryl!
mandy :pig:
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Not good Rosemary :bouquet:
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well end of world is due in less than a month now (21st Dec ... the day before my Wedding!) so keep eating the chocolate!!!!
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It will be fine, by the way, I had that hot bath and chocolate (found some) Hope you have shifted those logs now and resting infront of the screne!!!!! As I get older the more I do the more I injure myself!!!!!
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:hug: :hug: :hug:
The rain here is making me a bit :gloomy: too.
Chin up mrs, it'll be better soon :-*
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Gosh, what a rotten morning for you. :bouquet:
Mind you we probably all have a bit of the blues today due to the weather. :gloomy:
Some sun would go a long way to cheering us all up. :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:
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Thank you :love:
Timber all moved (Dan came out and gave me a hand :-* ), cleared out the barn with one hand while finishing slapping wood preservative on one of the the empty poultry houses. Moved the old rubber matting into the barn and threw down some straw and some Hemcore - the barn is now ready for the ponies to come in tonight.
Bugsy happily eating hay and whickering to me; saw Smokey cantering about the field, bucking and farting.
Phoned Gary, who's just finished a brilliant job on a path and fence in the front garden and he's going to give me a price for the field shelter.
Still gloomy outside but the wild has died down and the rain's gone off a bit. Going out to finish the treating the poultry runs.
Your hugs made me feel better :thumbsup:
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Some sun would go a long way to cheering us all up. :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine: :sunshine:
Supposed to be sunny tomorrow!
I'm just holed up for today. All my trees (in containers!) have blown over again. No use going out there now...
Hope everybody will be feeling better soon! :wave:
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Changed the day around here, stewed the rose hips first and now in bag straining, rain gone off a bit so dogs in the car ready to go out. TTFN :wave:
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Glad your bad lucks are turning face and running, Rosemary.
I missed it this morning, Internet malfunctioned, then just sat in the bath after dropping kids off when phone call that oldest is vomiting in class :tired: . Spent the rest of today cleaning up after him :rant:
Very wet and windy here now but at least Internet is on so I can have a TAS fix and find my day isn't anywhere near as bad as some of you :hug:
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Sorry to hear you're having a sh*tty day Rosemary, but glad it's getting better.
It could have been worse. You could be one of our bull calves. Now they've had a really sh*tty day. It's gale force winds & lashing it down with sleet, hail stones & heavy rain. The poor boys have been de-balled & de-horned (first time we've had that done & I don't like it at all!) & then given a fluke jab for good measure. The plan was to wean the today as well, but they were looking so sorry for themselves that we'll put that off for a little while.
Still, the good news is that all 8 passed their TB tests & all 3 cows are confirmed in calf - so despite the weather, the fact that I've been out getting soaked all morning & that the road is impassable due to volume of water (looks like a white water rafting course) - it's a GOOD day! For me anyway!
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im glad your day has turned for ther better rosemary.
ive managed to borrow a van yay! and got the parts ordered, only downside is its both cv joints not one, but still, garage quoted nearly 800 to do the job, i should be able to do it for 200. still lost a days pay but i get to drive around in a battered old transit again !!
weathers gotten worse.
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Hope the day got better for you, Rosemary. :bouquet: :bouquet: :bouquet: :hug: :hug: :hug:
Blowing a gale here. I reckon it travelled down from your direction as it wasn't here this morning - just windy. I'm staying in until it clears, apart from brief venture out to do goats this evening.
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Glad people's days are improving, well except for those with vomiting kids :tired:
Yeh, those calves sound like they need their mummies at the moment Nickie :cow:
Good news on van Dave :thumbsup:
Weather stupendously dreadful here, flooded roads, sheets of water, very high winds. I'm done outside and I'm afraid the goats have had their light switched off early so I don't have to go back out. Not getting much from Rowan anymore so going to leave it til the morning now.
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My wellies got stuck in the mud this morning whilst I was carrying a bucket in each hand. Why didn't I drop the buckets ??? ??? :dunce: instead of going face first in the mud!! Could be something to do with the price of feed? :-\
Surely this weather can't stay for much longer :gloomy: :gloomy:
I too try to think of others. Folk living in cardboard boxes or shop doorways, folk who would be glad to swap their lives for mine, mud, s**t and all :tree:
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It isn't always easy to 'count your blessings' when things are rotten and miserable, and it's good to come and have a whinge and get some sympathetic understanding too.
But yes, counting my blessings, muddy, messy and difficult though some of them are ;) always makes me feel better when I get round to it.
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Wind has dropped and the rain has stopped. Those are blessings to be counted.
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Beautiful here this morning. Hope the sun is shining all over the country :thumbsup:
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beautiful sunny day here too! bonus!!!
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Same here - kicked the cat out and picked up my fruit trees! ;D
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Bright here too :sunshine: :thumbsup: Long may it continue !
It's amazing how a few kind words, a good nights sleep and a bit of sun can make such a difference to how you feel (or how I feel) ;) :-*
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The sun may be out, but it's markedly colder today.... Brrrrrrrrrrrr. Feet are lumps of ice.
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Lovely and sunny :sunshine: here this morning but clouded over at lunch time.
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Cold but DRY wouls suit me fine, Ina :fc: :fc:
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Yes we all have s**t days but I have been having a s**t 2 months . 3 urine infections and now swollen sore feet I am getting a bit grumpy animals have to be seen to and work must go on, hay who's complaining.e
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Sounds like you're run down, BC, to keep getting problems. Have you seen your GP?
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Yes I've seen the doc loads of times infact seeing him tommorrow expecting a dinner invitation any time. Appointment made end of December at hospital I am never not well so this is getting me down big time
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I can understand that but at least you're doing the right thing by getting checked out. Hope it's something that can be sorted quickly. :hug:
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Not having a good day >:( accountant rung and he wants the books soon :o so i know what i'll be doing tonight!! :'(
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Not good.