Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Thehooperman

Thehooperman

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staffordjas said:
Getting scared now! Sleeping with all the lights on tonight 😂

After last nights strange noises thinking someone was in the house in the early hours , just heard a noise in the conservatory . A decoration has just jumped onto the floor by itself :mystery::mystery:
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Did you a Jacob Marley by any chance?
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
So, when we originally decided to go to the Deep South for the Christmas Hols, it was going to be me, the current Mrs p, jr and the dogs. Then the current Mrs p decided she wouldn't be able to come out until next tuesday because of work. So she would come with her parents. No problems. jr and I would do the journey in one hit.

Then my parents decided they would come after all. So there then ensued a bit of argy bargy about how much luggage my mum could bring bearing she had all she needs when we reach out destination and the fact that if she brought what she was proposing there would be no room for the dogs.

That sorted, we then had to stop over a night as neither mum or dad would be able to tolerate a 950 mile journey in one hit at there age. No problem there as I know a lovely hotel in Macon with great food and wine. So we could have a latish start tomorrow and get to our destination after stopping for lunch somewhere. No problem.

When we got to Macon about 2 hours ago we all went for a drink in the bar and mum announces that she'd had a call off one of her cronies last week and had agreed to pay a visit to her in Grenoble on the way down to our destination!

That has not gone down well as that adds an extra 175 miles to our journey tomorrow, taking us to a location famous for its utterly crap EV charging and means that we have to make a tedious visit and we'll probably end up arriving at our destination at about teatime instead.

Not happy and made it clear I'm not. Dad (who knew nothing about it either) has bought me a very nice bottle of red to drink tonight in order to ease the pain...
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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proactive said:
So, when we originally decided to go to the Deep South for the Christmas Hols, it was going to be me, the current Mrs p, jr and the dogs. Then the current Mrs p decided she wouldn't be able to come out until next tuesday because of work. So she would come with her parents. No problems. jr and I would do the journey in one hit.

Then my parents decided they would come after all. So there then ensued a bit of argy bargy about how much luggage my mum could bring bearing she had all she needs when we reach out destination and the fact that if she brought what she was proposing there would be no room for the dogs.

That sorted, we then had to stop over a night as neither mum or dad would be able to tolerate a 950 mile journey in one hit at there age. No problem there as I know a lovely hotel in Macon with great food and wine. So we could have a latish start tomorrow and get to our destination after stopping for lunch somewhere. No problem.

When we got to Macon about 2 hours ago we all went for a drink in the bar and mum announces that she'd had a call off one of her cronies last week and had agreed to pay a visit to her in Grenoble on the way down to our destination!

That has not gone down well as that adds an extra 175 miles to our journey tomorrow, taking us to a location famous for its utterly crap EV charging and means that we have to make a tedious visit and we'll probably end up arriving at our destination at about teatime instead.

Not happy and made it clear I'm not. Dad (who knew nothing about it either) has bought me a very nice bottle of red to drink tonight in order to ease the pain...
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We feel your pain.

if that helps...
 
Glam

Glam

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Lucy said:
It's the work Christmas do tonight. I have massive fomo from not going but it wasn't worth risking covid before I go away.
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Don't blame you. It's our ward Christmas meal tonight, they've all trouped The Dog & Doublet. I wasn't going, apart from it's the eldests 40th, can't afford it. But also don't want to risk catching Covid, again, just before Christmas.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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I headed out on a circuitous route, to do a sequence of things in one round trip. The roads were all passable, but there were some slidey bits.

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The Christmassy nature of the environment led me to consider upgrading my meagre tinsel supplies, but I doubt that a containerful would be enough to outdo the free displays around the place.

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staffordjas

staffordjas

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Now know that I'm not just imagining hearing things , as suggested by hubby! :roll: 😂

After previous night's ' noises' downstairs , I was awake at 3.30am this morning hearing a loud humming/ droning noise for hours, . Louder when opening the window and sticking my head out , couldn't see anything but noise deffo outside. Woke hubby..." no, can't hear anything, you're hearing things". (Like a washing machine about to start spinning but going really slow ).
Yay, Im not going crazy! Lots of posts locally today asking about the strange loud humming/ droning noise which woke them 2-3am and lasted for hours.

That's shut hubby up, I'm not going daft after all 😁
 
littleme

littleme

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Can ANYONE tell me when things get better? At what age does you life become normal? No dramas, no crisis, no illness...

Just when we think our life us reasonable and our pets are ok.. .we find blood all over the kitchen floor...no sign of any injury on all 3 cats.....boy cat has suffered with blocked urine tubes for the last 5 years and is now in the last chance saloon after 2 infections in november......there's never been blood before....
 
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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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At great personal risk, I ventured out to the pub, in the promise of some decent entertainment.

Some sisters from up the road, who turned out to be truly marvellous.

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I did consider suggesting a whip-round, so they could get some new trousers.

The landlord joined in on occasion, on banjo and fiddle.

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staffordjas

staffordjas

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littleme said:
Can ANYONE tell me when things get better? At what age does you life become normal? No dramas, no crisis, no illness...

Just when we think our life us reasonable and our pets are ok.. .we find blood all over the kitchen floor...no sign of any injury on all 3 cats.....boy cat has suffered with blocked urine tubes for the last 5 years and is now in the last chance saloon after 2 infections in november......there's never been blood before....
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WEll , I'm a few weeks off 67 now and things still keep going not normal.

Hope poor puss cat is ok @littleme . Big :hug:to boy cat and hope it's nothing serious.
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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Gramaisc said:
At great personal risk, I ventured out to the pub, in the promise of some decent entertainment.

Some sisters from up the road, who turned out to be truly marvellous.

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I did consider suggesting a whip-round, so they could get some new trousers.

The landlord joined in on occasion, on banjo and fiddle.

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If that had been taken around these parts , I'd have sworn that was our son in the top photo (the bloke with the beard , not the long haired sisters 😂)

Looks like a great atmosphere in your locals :)
 
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