The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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@SatNavSaysStraightOn - you just detailed why we don't live like that.

It's trendy right now (has been for a few years) for suburban families to play-act at home farming. They get a few chickens in the back yard, hang their clothes out on a line, and imagine themselves as Pioneers For A New Age, in their little print dresses and fashionable bucket hats.

Then the reality sets in of 24/7 work, even if all you're doing is raising five chickens and trying to grow some heirloom tomatoes, and then the few thousand dollars they laid out for a twee little coop looks pretty stupid. :D
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
thank you, and boring as hell, I know. But people have no idea what is actually involved in looking after livestock well, but I won't lecture, I'm not that kind of vegan (though I know I do eat eggs from only my own chooks and I guess if I had bees I may eat some of their honey as well, but I don't (yet - hubby isn't reading is he?) so I don't (yet...))….
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No, like I said, I enjoyed it. It is great getting to know what your life is like bit by bit. I think this is great for me because the only time I leave the house is to go to the doctors. I will never get to see how the rest of the world lives.

About the bees, they were in part of DH boat in the back yard (in 20 years, has never been repaired so we could use it, but that's another story lol) Long story short, the honey got wasted in his attempt to move the bees. What a shame.
 
Has anyone in the UK seen a cauliflower in the last week or two? I understand that a whole crop of Lincolnshire caulis were wiped out by the rain we've been having this year.
 
Conversation with the wife this morning:

Wife: For our flight from Dayton to Atlanta, do you want the bulkhead?

Me: Yeah, sure. No one in front of me.

W: Well, I like having the space under the seat in front of me for a bag, so I put us in the second row.

M (to myself): Why did you even ask?:banghead:
 
Took kids to swimming lessons and man are they good. Miss 10 and mr 8 doing breaststroke and backstroke. I can't swim to save myself, but these kids are good. My wife's family swum for their club as kids so it must be from her side. I'm really impressed at their skills. Netball practise tomorrow for miss 10. I guess I'll watch from the car.
It's a chore here feeding 3 animals twice a day, with food and additives. One cat follows me everywhere and I guess as I feed he wants to be near me,poor dog gets a swipe from the cat if he tries to get to close to me,lol.

Russ
 
I have to ask myself yet again, why did I even consider the fact that my family might just not let me down for once. OK, I knew that the back of my head it was never ever going to happen, I had even agreed with hubby that we'd give them roughly half of what it would cost us to hire a car for 2 weeks, plus cover the extra in insurance. 24 hours before we fly, I'm informed that they can't loan us their 2nd car because she has changed jobs. Why when last week we gave them our driving licence details didn't they say something? (brother 1 and his partner)
Yes, my sister has said that she may be able to help us with loaning us her car but only on a day to day basis because she works from home some days of the week, but I can't talk with her because by the time I found out, she'd already gone to bed.

So 24hrs before we fly, I'm now trying to sort out car hire for companies in the UK who's business hours mean that they are now closed and I need answers now because I have been let down yet again by my family... One day, just one day, my family are actually going to surprise me and I'll die from the shock.

GRRRR

The good news is that I managed to get the chicken, (not yet named) dry (well 99% dry) last night just before dusk, so I was able to put her out with the others in the close to home chicken coop (called Winterfowl by the previous owners complete with name plate)… She had found the seed that I put down for her to eat so was well fed in the mud room (in the dog cage) but hadn't found the water (which I was pretty sure she hadn't), so wanted to get her out so she could drink before roosting. She was OK when we checked before bed last night (9pm hubby was told to go and check on her (he had said he would, he just needed the reminder)) so it was good to see her this morning. I've left it a couple of hours (mostly to go from freezing to only mildly freezing outside) before transferring her up to the main coop where she normally lives.

Right back to sorting car hire out and then onto packing hubby's suitcase so he can lie to customs officials when he is asked if he packed it...
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I have to ask myself yet again, why did I even consider the fact that my family might just not let me down for once. OK, I knew that the back of my head it was never ever going to happen, I had even agreed with hubby that we'd give them roughly half of what it would cost us to hire a car for 2 weeks, plus cover the extra in insurance. 24 hours before we fly, I'm informed that they can't loan us their 2nd car because she has changed jobs. Why when last week we gave them our driving licence details didn't they say something? (brother 1 and his partner)
Yes, my sister has said that she may be able to help us with loaning us her car but only on a day to day basis because she works from home some days of the week, but I can't talk with her because by the time I found out, she'd already gone to bed.

So 24hrs before we fly, I'm now trying to sort out car hire for companies in the UK who's business hours mean that they are now closed and I need answers now because I have been let down yet again by my family... One day, just one day, my family are actually going to surprise me and I'll die from the shock.

GRRRR

The good news is that I managed to get the chicken, (not yet named) dry (well 99% dry) last night just before dusk, so I was able to put her out with the others in the close to home chicken coop (called Winterfowl by the previous owners complete with name plate)… She had found the seed that I put down for her to eat so was well fed in the mud room (in the dog cage) but hadn't found the water (which I was pretty sure she hadn't), so wanted to get her out so she could drink before roosting. She was OK when we checked before bed last night (9pm hubby was told to go and check on her (he had said he would, he just needed the reminder)) so it was good to see her this morning. I've left it a couple of hours (mostly to go from freezing to only mildly freezing outside) before transferring her up to the main coop where she normally lives.

Right back to sorting car hire out and then onto packing hubby's suitcase so he can lie to customs officials when he is asked if he packed it...
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I don't rely on people, I always book rentals from home if going overseas. Avis has always been good to me, even in the uk I got a wee escort that was great to get around in. Only fault was the special lock nut on the wheels. Not good if you get a puncture out in the sticks. ( boondocks?

Russ
 
@SatNavSaysStraightOn - sorry you're going through all that. International travel is a pain at the best of times, and getting handed extra crap at the last second is infuriating.

My wife and I like to think we're both fairly considerate people, especially where family are concerned, and we're both repeatedly disappointed in the behavior of ours.

Anyway, we usually fly into Heathrow and have had really good luck with Enterprise. We haven't tried a last-minute rental, though. Folks are really nice there, though.

I hope you get it sorted.
 
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