Chook n Boo Mum Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 I am so excited as I am waiting for my old school friend (of 47 years!) from the cotswolds to arrive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 Have a lovely time . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 Had a great time However the time passed all too quickly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Time with friends always does pass too quickly ...glad you had a good time tho...get planning the next gathering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Hope you'll forgive me some proud mum boasting . ES was 7th and first student over the line at the Dumyat Hill Race at Stirling Uni on Wednesday. He even got interviewed and a photo taken for the Uni sports news page. He then got an email saying there's a chance of being selected to run for Scotland (he's been doing really well in a lot of races recently) . He'll need to do a trial first though. He's already running for the East of Scotland in a few weeks' time in Yorkshire . YS was 22nd out of more than 250 runners and poor old OH was 48th (he never gets a look in these days ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Well done that lad! there comes a time when it's worth all that smelly sports kit and giant trainers left around the house.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Congratulations all ANH Men! ....and all proud mummy moments are to be shared Hunny xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LolaLayla Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 ...get planning the next gathering There's a thought Hope you'll forgive me some proud mum boasting . Of course you must share. They are doing so well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 I've had one of those Good Grief days.. all to do with chickens - bear with the slightly long story... The first is a quicker one; I turned up at the local supplier today to pick up some feed and heard that someone had dumped a chicken in a box and gone off - this hen was pretty poorly with a very advanced state of peritonitis and some half-wit had obviously decided that they didn't want to pay the vet bills or have it put down. I had to despatch the poor thing as she was obviously suffering - at least she had a peaceful passing. Why on earth do people take on animals if they're not prepared to accept and deal with the consequences?! 2nd instance; I hear that a man and his wife bought some chickens (coop, and all the bits) earlier in the week, and now want to return them as.... 'they've not bonded with them' The last act of idiocy relates to the bloke living in the street backing onto us, who has a flock of hens and a cockerel. Now I wouldn't even think about having a cock in such a closely populated area this bird has been getting gradually louder as it got older, and as I predicted, was soon crowing at the top of its lungs at 4am every morning... there have been mutterings about both that and the fact that this bloke's chickens are always escaping into neighbouring gardens. Just had a call from my neighbour who backs onto the chicken keeper; it turns out that the bloke who keeps them is badly paranoid schizophrenic and has decided that he can no longer keep them, so has let them loose to fend for themselves (as you do!). The chicken keeper's lodger has caught the hens and bunged them in a wheelie bin! And the cock is somewhere at large in the vicinity. I have told the neighbour to call the RSPCA, and am about to head out to see if I can net the cockerel I hear that they are infested with lice and mites, so I shan't be offering to rehome any of them!!!! Heavens to Murgatroyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Oh no DM what a day you have had. It does make you wonder about some people. Did you manage to catch the cockerel? Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 No, nowhere to be seen I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 Words fail me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Just proves that we should spend more time with our animals and less with our own species. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Just proves that we should spend more time with our animals and less with our own species. That's something I often ponder on Liz, especially when looking at my happy boy Cyrus - the Simple Lad lives from one day to the next, wagging his tail and loving everyone.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted May 13, 2013 Author Share Posted May 13, 2013 Just proves that we should spend more time with our animals and less with our own species. That would suit me down to the ground I'm never happier than when I'm enjoying the great outdoors with a dog or a horse, or sat with a chook on my knee. These are life's great de-stressers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Sounds like my lovely but dim black and white cat, Scamp, all it takes is food warmth and love and she is a happy mog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Hope you'll forgive me some proud mum boasting . ES was 7th and first student over the line at the Dumyat Hill Race at Stirling Uni on Wednesday. He even got interviewed and a photo taken for the Uni sports news page. He then got an email saying there's a chance of being selected to run for Scotland (he's been doing really well in a lot of races recently) . He'll need to do a trial first though. He's already running for the East of Scotland in a few weeks' time in Yorkshire . YS was 22nd out of more than 250 runners and poor old OH was 48th (he never gets a look in these days ). Wow that is a real acheivement, well done him. Isn't it great to have somewhere to share these things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 Wow that is a real acheivement, well done him. Isn't it great to have somewhere to share these things Thanks . You're so right, sometimes you can't boast too much in front of "actual" friends, especially if they have kids the same age . I tried to tell my colleagues at work today - before I'd even stopped talking, a colleague (who I do like very much) immediately launched into a tale about how her daughter had come 3rd in an athletics race . Don't mind that obviously, but "Ooops, word censored!"ody even had a chance to respond to me . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 I've dropped my lovely Samsung tablet into a sink of washing up I know I shoudn't have had it near water but I was doing a mountain of washing up and I was bored and I wanted to catch up on some telly I had missed the other night. OH was very pragmatic about it as he tried to dry it out. However it seems to be totally, completely and utterly defunct. I am so cross with myself. I don't really do gadgets but this was fabulous and I loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that Goosey Girl, what a pain. Do you have a birthday coming up soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 No birthday for a few months but some extra days work may be in the pipeline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Just heard that one of the ex's dogs has been hit by a car after it ran into the road after a deer; that dog was particularly wilful, but it could happen to anyone. The dog was very badly injured and had to be PTS, understandably the ex is devastated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 That is so sad. Neela nearly ran out in front of a car on Sunday when she spotted a dead hedgehog in the middle of the road. Thankfully her lead was short at that moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 What a shame, poor doggy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
