Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Gramaisc said:

Is this better?

This will go big enough to read.

Celestial Chart Poster Wrap

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Cheers @Gramaisc

Never knew anything about the Celestial Chart before . Never want to see it again after this

staffordjas said:

Cheers @Gramaisc

Never knew anything about the Celestial Chart before . Never want to see it again after this

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You should have checked your horoscope before you started - your future is in the stars.

Papa John's pizza

I quite liked it for once.....new crispy cheese base, BBQ meats. Very nice, no horrible doughy bready base.

littleme said:

Papa John's pizza

I quite liked it for once.....new crispy cheese base, BBQ meats. Very nice, no horrible doughy bready base.

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By far my favourite take away pizza but always have thin crust for that same reason.

Yes same as @tek-monkey for the reasons he states. In order of Pizza it’s Asda then Papa Johns for me.

PeterD said:

Yes same as @tek-monkey for the reasons he states. In order of Pizza it’s Asda then Papa Johns for me.

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Oh god yes, much prefer asda ones! Done on a stone, 11 mins at 200, perfect every time. Only when they make them though, never seem to enjoy the pre packaged ones as much.

Chilli cheese
Diced chorizo
Spicy beef
Spicy chicken

Grab a bag of pre sliced red onions for 25p (not paying for a veg topping when I can have meat!), redistribute contents when home with a fork as always a lot and the middle wont cook as well, add the onions and a little garlic mayo. 2 pizzas and a bottle of pop for £6, and you get a movie rental too but I've never used that!

In comparison even with a 50% off voucher Papa Johns would be nearly a tenner for 1 pizza, I can't imagine people paying full price but apparently some do! If anyone doesn't have access to 50% off let me know



EDIT: As I'm still at the PC, look here:


Basically its a perk of compare the market, or rather their meerkat meals thingy. Buy any policy to qualify for a year, cheapest is usually a 1 day travel insurance within the UK, I just did a quick check and can get it for a quid by selecting the lowest amounts of cover for a 1 day trip on Wednesday:



You then need to go into your account on compare the market, go to my rewards, and validate your purchase.

I went out out last night. A rare adulting occasion. We went to see my Brother's band at The Robin as It's only 5mins down the road from us these days. Not our favourite genre of music but still enjoyable. They put on one hell of a performance. https://souldoutuk.com/

One jigsaw re-assembled and back in the frame....Now who's going to be the brave person to point out it's not central ? It's going to have to stay like that , I'm going no-where near it again!




Now for a long soak in a hot bath to sooth my knackered back , after crawling around the floor for hours

Had to take hubby to docs....apart from all the other cuts & grazes from the ladders slipping whilst cutting trees, got a branch stuck in his back & gone infected.
Had to draw a line in ink around redness and rush him back if gets bigger during antibiotics....

Pint in the Paul Pry now is the best medicine before he starts his medicine...

Edited....looks like no pint after all..doc seems to have had a word either all the pubs.. all closed

I have had a stressful day, mostly dealing with personnel management issues.

The starlings who live on the back corner of the house have taken to abusing me when I water the pots on the patio. They shout at me until I go away. I found myself shouting at them this morning, "If you want to farking live here, then you fit in with me or piss off!" I thought this was a reasonable position to take, but it confused the unseen visitor who arrived round the corner of the house at that point, not remembering ever having proposed to move in here.

Then, I had to have words with the cat. She generally does an hour's security work in the late morning, and has kept house and shed rodent-free for 18 months now. For this, she gets a couple of biscuits when our paths cross. She does also train the birds in escape and evasion techniques - it's largely only the sparrows that go along with that and one of them failed to pass a continuous assessment test this morning - as a result, no biscuits were issued. The robin takes no part in this and the cat does not seem to consider herself up to training the crows or even the blackbirds or thrushes - and the wagtails just ignore her, as they do me.

One of the young robins seems to have been detailed to investigate the shed and so I had to remove him - I now have to keep the door shut, which is a nuisance, but I'm not going through the 'creche phase' again.

Keeping the door shut does also stop the swallows from whizzing round inside it - although, only one of them seemed to stop and inspect a potential nest site so far.

I heard a couple.motion yesterday morning

staffordjas said:

I heard a couple.motion yesterday morning

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Er, you heard a couple having sex? Or you heard a couple having a serious case of Montezuma's Revenge?

Gramaisc said:

I have had a stressful day, mostly dealing with personnel management issues.

The starlings who live on the back corner of the house have taken to abusing me when I water the pots on the patio. They shout at me until I go away. I found myself shouting at them this morning, "If you want to farking live here, then you fit in with me or piss off!" I thought this was a reasonable position to take, but it confused the unseen visitor who arrived round the corner of the house at that point, not remembering ever having proposed to move in here.

Then, I had to have words with the cat. She generally does an hour's security work in the late morning, and has kept house and shed rodent-free for 18 months now. For this, she gets a couple of biscuits when our paths cross. She does also train the birds in escape and evasion techniques - it's largely only the sparrows that go along with that and one of them failed to pass a continuous assessment test this morning - as a result, no biscuits were issued. The robin takes no part in this and the cat does not seem to consider herself up to training the crows or even the blackbirds or thrushes - and the wagtails just ignore her, as they do me.

One of the young robins seems to have been detailed to investigate the shed and so I had to remove him - I now have to keep the door shut, which is a nuisance, but I'm not going through the 'creche phase' again.

Keeping the door shut does also stop the swallows from whizzing round inside it - although, only one of them seemed to stop and inspect a potential nest site so far.

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It's not summer till the carer gets shat on by a bird.....it's usually at the seaside, but yesterday it was the swifts in the back garden.....


Yes folks, summer is officially here!

proactive said:

Er, you heard a couple having sex? Or you heard a couple having a serious case of Montezuma's Revenge?

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Those couple of Hogans must have been strong , or laced with something last night. Don't know what I was on about

Had a great weekend in Shrewsbury. I am from Shropshire originally and have spent so many days and nights in Shrewsbury, but havent been there for well over a decade. This visit coincided with the sunshine so it was spent walking through the quarry, past the bridges, both english and welsh and having a few pints along the way. Fantastic.

Outside of that I am trying to get all of my chores done prior to a visit across the border on Friday for a wedding on the banks of Loch Lomond. The main chore is getting my car cleaned in Stafford after 5.30pm. I can get it washed, cleaned is a different matter.

Bad head again had enough now.

Took the folks for a mini-break to Liverpool this week, had terrible luck whilst we were there!

The plan for Monday was to stop off at the Walker Art Gallery cafe, go to see the Titanic stuff at the Maritime Museum and then go on a ferry across the Mersey before going for our tea at my favourite restaurant there but it turns out the free museums are all closed on Mondays, the restaurant was fully booked and then our ferry was suspended for the day! We had a nice walk along the docks and dad suggested going on the Wheel of Liverpool but then discovered exactly how scared of heights he is (not helped by the strong wind that caused the Ferry to be suspended, those pods don't half wobble!), he almost had a full-blown panic attack.

The next day we hopped across to New Brighton on the train, partly to go on a tour of Fort Perch Rock as dad really loves forts, only to turn up and find it's closed for refurbishments despite it saying "open" on Google. Luckily the cafe was open and the trip to the toilets allowed you to see a bit of the inside of the fort.

It wasn't all bad, though. I rejigged our Tuesday plans so that we'd have time to go to the Maritime Museum in the afternoon before heading back, which they both enjoyed, then dad saw a pocket watch in the gift shop that he really liked so I've bought it him for Father's Day. Weather was very sunny, too and we enjoyed the all-you-can-eat breakfast at Premier Inn.... I had a Pain Au Chocolat, a Blueberry Muffin, a bowl of Coco Pops and two pancakes with summer fruits on them.

My body was not impressed by the meagre bowl of Weetabix offered to it this morning.

Gramaisc said:

I have averted the potential for doing all that again^

A chap in the pub asked me to look at a couple of clocks for him. That was some weeks ago, but he is a rather laid-back person.

A few days ago, I found two clocks in a bag at the back door. I had a quick investigation and came to some conclusions.

I happened to see him in the pub last night and mentioned that we should get the small one going, but the bigger one is probably a bit too far gone.

He responded by saying that he will drop them off in the next few days.

These clocks are not his and I now don't have even a vaguely plausible suspect for the real owner...

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The owner of these clocks has just revealed his identity to me. If I had attempted to make a list of suspects, it would have been a long time before I added him onto it...

I think it was actually four weeks ago last Sunday that they appeared.


I still don't have the ones from the bloke I thought it was, but I am no longer taking anything for granted and will not be assuming they're his, if I don't receive them in person...

Sat down the garden & planted some seeds in pots today using a desert spoon & the silver mixing bowl from the kitchen (no one tell the carer, they were fiddly little pots, & that compact compost you have to add water to before using), courgette, onion & aubergine, probably way to late, but giving the late spring, worth a go

Had a horrible sleepless night after panic of doorbell ringing after midnight. Son's in Portugal so knew it wasn't him . Leant out the bedroom window in the pitch black asking who was there. Delivery driver with food and our address on the order. 2nd time its happened this month ( 1st time was a tea time though) .
Rang doorbell again after insisting it was us. Messaged son ( waking him up as he has his phone set to just accept our calls & messages when he's asleep) to make sure he hadn't ordered us something. But he hadn't.

Son said they should have contact details on order, but to ask if it has been paid for next time , to find out if someone pratting around if its not.

( years ago we had to get a place in Mill Street/ Mill Bank area to block orders quoting our landline number. Had about 10 different late night calls from their food delivery drivers sitting in Castle Street looking for a house number which didn't exist with 'pay on delivery' orders. Someone being prats using our number for a non- existant address)