The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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caseydog said:
We got a very nice rain today. Around and inch fell in one hour. That is a rare and pleasant surprise for us in mid August.

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Last night TVC checked the weather maps and BBC, no rain coming our way so I hung my washing out-got up this morning and the washing had been rained on over night...:(
 
I sorted everything out for the trip to Serbia in Sept. We will stay in Višegrad Bosnia for the first night. Mrs B remembers the town for being beautiful and on a river like Chester. I booked this Hotel because of this picture I like a chef who smokes a spliff whilst cooking ★★★ Hotel Višegrad, Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Mountain Cat said:
Send good thoughts towards Serenity. She's now dipping into further kidney failure, although she still will eat. (She is the front cat in my avatar photo.) Over the weekend she acted weird (well, not her usual self). And now she is incontinent. Her urine accidents do not smell like anything other than water. She will be visiting the vet this week, but I doubt there is much if anything they can do. She is already on the Kidney Disease diet.

She may not make it to twenty years. (That would be November 11th.)

Note, she's been around here longer than most marriages last. But she still wants to eat, and she still wants to be with me.
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Very sorry to hear that, it's heart breaking.

Recently, our cat lost half her body weight and had diarrhea for about a month. At one point we were taking her to the vet every day, for an infusion. She was badly dehydrated too. We thought we might lose her.
At home I would feed her recovery liquid via a syringe.
She eventually recovered, but her spine was very visible, hips too. He body consumed her muscles. Her normally muscular thighs were like chicken flats. With help she recovered.

Let me grab a picture.....

Her name is Gamsey, we got her when she was about five. Her owner didn't have long to live, so we took her in. Best decision ever.

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Many years ago, 1980 probably, my wife, daughter (2) and son (4) and I had booked an apartment in La Rochelle (France) to which we intended to drive.

At the time we had just bid for a massive project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and questions for clarification were coming in thick and fast.

Two days before we were due to set off I explained to my wife about the problem and suggested that she drive down to La Rochelle with the kids (via the ferry of course) and I'll find my own way there later.

"You must be seriously taking the pish!" she said.

I rang my MD and reiterated her response to which he replied "And I seriously agree with her".

It was all sorted in the end - the apartment complex had a fax machine so all the responses were covered that way.

It was quite amusing really because their fax machine did not have an automatic paper cutter so 20 page faxes were filling the office floor.
 
Lullabelle said:
Last night TVC checked the weather maps and BBC, no rain coming our way so I hung my washing out-got up this morning and the washing had been rained on over night...:(
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That is so typical in the UK. As a rule we never ever hung our washing out overnight period. But then I grew up in some of the wetter parts of the UK.

Even here in Australia, I don't leave my washing out overnight in the summer. Birds fly around at night as well and what they do by day, they also do by night... plus inn the summer the UV damage to the fabric is huge if it's left out any longer than necessary and rain or unexpected thunderstorms always seem to arrive at exactly the same time of night in summer, spring, autumn and winter... about an hour or two after dark.
 
Yorky said:
Many years ago, 1980 probably, my wife, daughter (2) and son (4) and I had booked an apartment in La Rochelle (France) to which we intended to drive.

At the time we had just bid for a massive project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and questions for clarification were coming in thick and fast.

Two days before we were due to set off I explained to my wife about the problem and suggested that she drive down to La Rochelle with the kids (via the ferry of course) and I'll find my own way there later.

"You must be seriously taking the pish!" she said.

I rang my MD and reiterated her response to which he replied "And I seriously agree with her".

It was all sorted in the end - the apartment complex had a fax machine so all the responses were covered that way.

It was quite amusing really because their fax machine did not have an automatic paper cutter so 20 page faxes were filling the office floor.
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One of my favorite train trips mate was from La Rochelle to Paris. It runs through the Loire valley. The food on French trains then (80s) was amazing. If you time it right in the summer you sit down for dinner as the sun is setting. Everything on the menu was cooked fresh in the galley.
 
It's rained off and on for three days now, but nice gentle rains, the kind that make you think, "Oh, it's barely misting, I'll just run out to the curb to collect the trash bins," and when you get back 60 seconds later, you're fairly soaked through.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
That is so typical in the UK. As a rule we never ever hung our washing out overnight period. But then I grew up in some of the wetter parts of the UK.

Even here in Australia, I don't leave my washing out overnight in the summer. Birds fly around at night as well and what they do by day, they also do by night... plus inn the summer the UV damage to the fabric is huge if it's left out any longer than necessary and rain or unexpected thunderstorms always seem to arrive at exactly the same time of night in summer, spring, autumn and winter... about an hour or two after dark.
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I regularly leave ours out overnight, it is just that this time the weather folks got it a bit wrong.
 
TastyReuben said:
It's rained off and on for three days now, but nice gentle rains, the kind that make you think, "Oh, it's barely misting, I'll just run out to the curb to collect the trash bins," and when you get back 60 seconds later, you're fairly soaked through.
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It has rained for three days here, too, but heavy rains. Not constant, but heavy. It rained about 6AM today. This is very unusual for North Texas in August.

The rain is gone now, and the weekend is forecast to be hot and humid, with a heat index as high as 107F/42C due to the humidity from all this rain. :heat:

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