The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: ppd on November 23, 2012, 10:42:21 pm
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My OH is away :'( and I have spent a bit of the evenings looking through the forums and I am AMAZED at you!!! :o
I have dipped into the dog bit (have dogs, but never find the time to look) and jokes and coffee lounge and members only and of course pigs, sometimes sheep and poultry.
So many people have a wide ranging knowledge of so many things (I forgot crafts) and answer or take part in many discussions and share their wealth of knowledge with others.
I know if I have asked something I am guaranteed an answer very promptly - and I can take ages to read what is happening ::)
So my conclusion is you are obvoiusly super human and my time management is sh*t :roflanim:
But a big thanks anyway :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Pauline
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:-J they juggle.. :innocent:
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:-J they juggle.. :innocent:
Well I seem to keep dropping my balls :innocent:
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Personally I always wear my pants outside my trousers :excited:
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Sounds like u need a bit of chill time PPD... I'm Layin in the bath scrolling through... You must be a busy bee
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:-J they juggle.. :innocent:
Well I seem to keep dropping my balls :innocent:
Personally I always wear my pants outside my trousers :excited:
Does that stop you balls dropping ?
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Carl, a word of warning -DON'T drop whatever you are scrolling with in the bath, or you won't be juggling for a very long time ::)
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I don't do a lot really. Goats don't take up a lot of my time.
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Carl, a word of warning -DON'T drop whatever you are scrolling with in the bath, or you won't be juggling for a very long time ::)
:roflanim: :roflanim:
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How to keep up:
1. Neglect housework
2. Multi-task - I come online when I am eating or having a cuppa, which is when I sit down
Seriously, you can't keep up and you have to be prepared to do a few posts and mark the rest as read, or you'd never have a life.
Interestingly, it seems there was a Daily Mail ( ::)) article that made out women (not men, watching the footy or on the XBox of course) were neglecting their kids by being online. I read some of the (very funny) reactions.
But there were folk who were a bit thoughtful about it and wondered if they were a bit hooked on the Internet.
I certainly feel like I'd be more on top of my life, house and farm if I didn't come online as much. But then I'd 'talk' to no-one and I can't be chasing around all the time.
Better not try catching up on posts in the shower I don't think ;)
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How to keep up:
1. Neglect housework
2. Multi-task - I come online when I am eating or having a cuppa, which is when I sit down
yep, my rules too! :)
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I have my FB and TAS time while I sort soap orders/wrap soap/ eat breakfast/have coffeebreaks/and once the kids are in bed ;D
In between FB and TAS I look after animals and children. Simples.
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I just have lots of tea and coffee breaks, I do spend a lot of time cleaning due to the B&B, but I love to keep going as sitting infront of the TV gets me fidgeting...always has.
My brother lives alone and certainly does no cleaning :innocent: but he E Mails me at least twice a day with very interesting and informative E Mails, news, the environment, nature, IT etc etc, I have a job to say much in reply, all I do is, walk the dogs, clean, shop and eat!!! then there is FB and this again!!!!
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Same as jaykay :wave:
I'd get more spinning and knitting done if I didn't TAS and Ravel - but then I'd know a lot less stuff (and a lot less people too) and need more external social interaction.
TAS has come up with the goods for me several times, makes me laugh daily; Ravelry and TAS (and TAS folk) have taught me much of what I know about spinning... it seems like a fair balance to me. But then, we do have some fastidious relatives won't come inside the house... :-J
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I am just going to say that I am Superwoman and leave it at that :-J :innocent:
Sally
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Sometimes I just have a quick look through TAS when I'm checking emails, other times I might look more deeply, but I never read everything. At the moment I'm just skimming 'new messages' for any which catch my eye. I don't do facebook or any other forum or I wouldn't have a life.
I think it is perfectly possible to become addicted to the internet, or at least this type of forum, because we can meet people here in lives which might otherwise be quite cut off from human contact. Maybe though if you find yourself reading here when there's people with you to talk to, or work to be done, you should cut down a bit. 'scuse me while I go and cook the dinner.......... :eyelashes:
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You can get up at 4.15am :(
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Dear insomniacs,
who knew they even made a 4:15???? its dark o'clock still as it is.
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You can get up at 4.15am :(
On a sunday? ???
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Hot flush, couldn't get back to sleep. Emptied the washing machine and the dishwasher, laid out breakfast, did all my paperwork, drank tea.Took tea to Dan at 7, got into bed to drink mine and fell asleep. Woke with a bump at 8.45. Now feeling well fuzzy ;D
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Don't worry, Rosemary. It passes in time for the early signs of dementia to take over seamlessly... :-J Oh! Or is that just me? :o
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What's a hot flush? :eyelashes: :innocent:
Sorry, I DO sympathise, really I do, :love: but I was lucky - only ever had three :excited:
I do 'middleofthenight.com' browsing occasionally too :gloomy:
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You can get up at 4.15am :(
On a sunday? ???
One of the best jobs I ever had was relief milking weekends. They started milking at 3am - it took me an hour to get there - so you can imagine what time I got up! In time to see all those drunks staggering home from the pub... ;D
I've always liked to be up at odd times, or work nights at the lambing etc.
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:raining: foul weather doesn't help by adding to the workload and things like mucking out take twice as long, but have you considered that maybe the superhuman image for some is actually a clever illusion? :hug:
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i have to confess i do most of my TASing at work, i have it on in the background of my puter and dip in and out all morning, if i'm on in the evening its because OH has gone to bed to watch telly (which is where he is now!), just let the dog out and its pishing down so we're all fed, watered and cabined up for the night so plenty of time to peruse now.
mandy :pig:
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I have internet on my phone, so occasionally I will be posting from my landrover on lunch or whatever.
I used to work nights ant my bodyclock is permanently messed up, so I'm awake at all kinds of funny hours.
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tas and fb get opened at 7am whilst i drink coffee, i dont have land so i only have children and pets to get in my way (and a job sometimes) i scan read the topics in areas i care about... which is most of them...
anything i'm particularly interested in i bookmark to remember to check back on...
on days i'm at work i still check in from the blackberry during tea and lunch :-)
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i work from home so am always popping back in for stuff, i leave the pc on standby, until bed at 1030 ish
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yup i didnt make that bit clear the pooter is usually on till about 10pm and tas is always in a window somewhere!!!
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I could have not wasted time talking on TAS today about scoffing Xmas biccies. I might,just might :thinking: have thought about dinner.
Instead we got back late from school concert at 6.45 with not a clue what to feed everyone. Ho hum...they're all still alive as I write. Who needs a balanced meal everyday anyway???
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I don't keep up! But I'm in hospital so got a bit of time for a catch up.
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I don't keep up! But I'm in hospital so got a bit of time for a catch up.
Oh no, hope it's nothing too serious SF :hug:
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For those who believe in intelligent design rather than evolution all I can say that it didn't work here :gloomy:
A sequence of a mango-sized chondroma, gall stones, dodgy prostate and inguinal hernia seems instead to be nature's way of telling me to slow down. Hopefully when the stitches heal all will be well, but I'm royally fed up with the last five years.
Mind you it still isn't the done thing to talk about gentlemen's illnesses. So my apologies to anyone offended. I'll blame it on the morphine. :furious:
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Mind you it still isn't the done thing to talk about gentlemen's illnesses. So my apologies to anyone offended. I'll blame it on the morphine. :furious:
Absolute nonsense, you shout away, you'll feel much better having shared your troubles. Hope you are feeling better soon, that's a lot to contend with. :bouquet:
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Yep, SF - you go ahead and tell us about it - all my best wishes for your recovery!
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:bouquet: hope you feel better soon sf.
i dont always keep up i just dont have the time with real life etc so i usually skim through a couple of areas and read the odd topic.
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It's refreshing to see a man will talk about men's health issues, SF - so you shout away! In fact, it being Movember, you jolly well should be shouting away!
BH ridiculed Michael Owen's moustache; somehow he couldn't see why Mike Owen sporting a ridiculous moustache should remind him to go and check his testicles... :D
All the best for a good recovery, SF.
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Hope you feel better soon SF :fc: and totallt agree that men should talk about health issues :thumbsup:
Bloomer, how do you bookmark? That would be handy to know ;D
Mrs snoodles, I do exactly the same, come on here for a quick look and and hour later.........still here :innocent:
and I am supposed to be doing some house work now but oh well it can wait for a bit ;D ;D
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i just use my chrome browser and have a folder on the top bar called TAS i save threads in there and when they no longer interest me delete them...
particularly if they are more obscure threads that won't receive responses immediately.
its also where i park quick links to threads i need to refer back to regularly, (shortbread recipe springs to mind)
for most threads just using the unread posts button at the top of the page is enough to keep up with what's going on!!!
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:wave: Thanks bloomer
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Everyday it feels like someone keeps adding balls to my juggling set but somedays it feels like someone has set them on fire! Small holding is really hardworking but do you wonder if we would be happy spending weekends wondering around shopping centres or in Welles fighting with barb wire and stock fencing? I know which I prefer ;D
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I've just had the New Normal hospital experience where you go in, get sliced up, and thrown out the same day. Except they ran late so kept me waiting for 4 hrs while sharpening the carving knife and then I failed to wake up properly afterwards so had to be kept in.
The great thing about this approach is that you arrive home before the bruising really kicks-in so you're telling everyone you're a bit sore but feeling optimistic. Then your abdomen and nuts go black and you feel like sh*t. Still I apparently was very entertaining while enjoying the morphine and talking total gibberish to the family.
I remember the surgeon visiting after the op but I have no recollection of what he said. Why do they do that?