Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

[staffordjas]

8am trip to town , for as soon as the store opened, to get the security tag removed from my christmas present, clutching the crumpled receipt and expensive jumper myself incase he bloody lost them as well . Hubby insisted on coming with me , then I turned around as I entered the shop doors to find him stood back across the other side of the road incase the alarms started going off! (Which they didn't)
Whilst in there he bought my birthday presents......... told him to check , check and check again at the till before stuff went in the bag this time, and hang onto receipts incase he manages to miss another bloody great big knobbly thing attached to anything.

 

[Gramaisc]

Whilst I was doing a job that involved having the Shed door open for a while, 'my' cat volunteered to stand guard diligently on the step, to ensure that there was no rodent incursion.

 

[proactive]

Whilst I was doing a job that involved having the Shed door open for a while, 'my' cat volunteered to stand guard diligently on the step, to ensure that there was no rodent incursion.

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If looks could kill...

 

[staffordjas]

Tried assembling the leaf hoover/blower/mulcher son bought me .... now piled back into the box awaiting his expertise when he comes next (can't even get it back into the box properly ) . At least it's a change from my usual "Will you look at my phone/laptop next time you come"

Got to add the magnetic photo frames , that have just arrived ,onto his list of jobs as well. We can't figure out how to get the photos inside them either

Daren't even attempt having a go with hubbys Wireless Ear Endoscope present ....... (not off me I might add.) A good weapon for when he starts snoring after his whisky

 

[Gadget]

Trying to be interesting with food, made OH breakfast burritos with some beans to dip. He smears them all over with fruity sauce then goes, oh I don't have a knife and fork. No shute Sherlock! They are burritos Now he's annoyed cause they are falling apart on his fork as he tries to eat them and dip them. They were for biting into I often wonder why I bother.

 

[staffordjas]

Trying to be interesting with food, made OH breakfast burritos with some beans to dip. He smears them all over with fruity sauce then goes, oh I don't have a knife and fork. No shute Sherlock! They are burritos Now he's annoyed cause they are falling apart on his fork as he tries to eat them and dip them. They were for biting into I often wonder why I bother.

Mine always fall apart anyway as I must stuff them with too much ,so always eat mine spread out on the plate with knife & fork in the end .
Thats why we rarely have them. Hubby is disappointed each time after imagining them being presented like he sees on telly

 

[kyoto49]

Just walked in to town to support our shops. Excellent experience in the running shop on North Walls that used to be run and ride, and daughter now has some very posh runners for her half marathon training. Great customer service in there. Followed by ordering of new shades from Specsavers, a weeks fruit and veg from the Veg shop and some bits in the charity shops. Nice morning but realised we eat huge amounts of fruit and veg and carrying it home was a bit of a slog! 8 avocado's, 15 large cox's, carrots, broccoli, mandarins, bluebz, a massive bag of mushrooms to name just a bit of it! Good quality fresh produce in there though so worth the effort!

 

[staffordjas]

Bus into town , half price cards & paper bought for next xmas.
Now doing our bit to keep the pubs running.
And just had to send hubby to the loos to change his top round the right way. Got it on back to front

 

[Gadget]

Dad's back in New Cross. Best place for him and I'm hoping he goes from there to a care bed somewhere away from the 'tender mercies' of my Mom. She can't cope, doesn't want to do it anymore and was just being generally horrible and rather neglectful to him. He's hallucinating now bless him and has taken to trying to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, which just means he falls or traps himself in places. We don't let animals suffer like this

 

[littleme]

Hopefully he's in the best place now, is mum able to look after herself?

 

[staffordjas]

Dad's back in New Cross. Best place for him and I'm hoping he goes from there to a care bed somewhere away from the 'tender mercies' of my Mom. She can't cope, doesn't want to do it anymore and was just being generally horrible and rather neglectful to him. He's hallucinating now bless him and has taken to trying to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, which just means he falls or traps himself in places. We don't let animals suffer like this

Most worrying for you all @Gadget . Glad he's going to get some attention in hospital to take some pressure off you all.

A mate tried to look after her husband at home when he got dementia ( ex- police sergeant, nicest bloke you could have known and scary how it suddenly affected him). She coped for a while but had to put him in a nursing home when he tried pushing her down the stairs)

Hope your mum is coping OK for herself now as well.

 

[Gadget]

Hopefully he's in the best place now, is mum able to look after herself?

Yes, she'll be fine. She can make herself food and drink, can internet shop like it's going out of fashion and she can drive. She has friends and other relatives than us. Dad looked after her for years because that's how she wanted it. The times Dad has been in hospital, she proved she could manage just fine. For all her protestations she's more able than my OH. She just might get a bit lonely at times, she does still have the dog and can phone someone.

Please note, I do love her very much but I'm not overly fond of the slightly selfish person she has become. Hopefully now the burden thinking she must care for dad has gone she might chill with the diva martyr routine she's honed into an art form the last few years.

 

[Mudgie]

Dad's back in New Cross. Best place for him and I'm hoping he goes from there to a care bed somewhere away from the 'tender mercies' of my Mom. She can't cope, doesn't want to do it anymore and was just being generally horrible and rather neglectful to him. He's hallucinating now bless him and has taken to trying to get out of bed and go to the bathroom, which just means he falls or traps himself in places. We don't let animals suffer like this

I thought New Cross was good. Hopefully it still is.

 

[Gramaisc]

I laid a trap to alert me me, should a potential event occur, and I was tipped off, so I attended it tonight.

A top-notch session.

The chap in the cap* in the far corner is quite a 'name' in the trad world, and had popped home to see his brother (in the glasses in the bottom left corner). It was a truly excellent event, well worth braving the damp evening.

* For a couple of decades, he was a missionary in the Amazon, then he decided that he'd done his bit and returned back home.

My attendance at this event was all the more 'special', as I thought yesterday was Wednesday and I had guessed right, although it seems to have been Thursday and I was still right...

 

[Theresa Green]

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/police-hunt-wanted-stafford-teen-7978227

 

[Mudgie]

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/police-hunt-wanted-stafford-teen-7978227

He probably now realises that that tattoo was a mistake.

 

[PeterD]

I collect postcards. Very specific postcards, only related to Butlins Skegness. Not Skegness, not broadly butlins. Regardless, the last one I bought was from the 1960s and to a couple from Meadow Road Stafford. First addressed to anyone in Stafford I have bought.

 

[BobClay]

I hadn't even heard of Andrew Tate until he appeared all over the news today. (The story does tell you something about the downside of the Internet.)

Now I've heard of the tw@t I've already formulated an opinion:

Out back, brick wall, extremely cobby velociraptor who hasn't eaten for a week.

 

[Trumpet]

Gurly and Gurly in Law were laid up on boxing day and 27th with some lurgy that's apparently 'going about' Mrs T has been ill since the 27th, all have tested neg for Covid. Looks like I'm joining them, been awake most of last night with hot and cold sweats, headache etc. Supposed to have been going to Cheltenham today but looks like that's scuppered.

 

[Glam]

Gurly and Gurly in Law were laid up on boxing day and 27th with some lurgy that's apparently 'going about' Mrs T has been ill since the 27th, all have tested neg for Covid. Looks like I'm joining them, been awake most of last night with hot and cold sweats, headache etc. Supposed to have been going to Cheltenham today but looks like that's scuppered.

I'm just at the backend of it, been over a month now. Still got a bit of a cough.