This week I are mostly...

Sporky · June 2023

Brio said:

I'm [snip] trying to decide what to do with a lambs neck and a couple of oxtails

Costume party!

hollywoodrox · June 2023

Sporky said:

roberty said:

Enjoy your time off. I am thinking of taking a week off work for hobbies which seems a bit mad but I usually lose days by not taking them in a year

I missed this, sorry.

Having a week off to just do hobbies and have afternoon tea and so on is brilliant.

All the awesome of not being at work, without the stress and hassle and disruption of going away and not having your cuddly dinosaur* whenever you need him.

*other fine animals exist

Chop is 28 years old

Offset · June 2023

Pickle goes to the vet today for the first of her monthly injections to replace her daily dose of Metacam. Mrs O will be taking her and I wish her the best of luck in persuading the old girl to leave the safety of the car boot when they arrive.

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bertie · June 2023

paws crossed for Pickle - is that the Labrawhatsitcalled ?

Winnie was on that but after two, we stopped to see if it was having any effect, and luckily - at £130 a shot, a month - it didnt really - so she's back on Metacam as and when. We had a tanker load delivered last week. £21 for the prescription, £27 for 180ml - the vet charges £80

TTony · June 2023

bertie said:

paws crossed for Pickle - is that the Labrawhatsitcalled ?

Winnie was on that but after two, we stopped to see if it was having any effect, and luckily - at £130 a shot, a month - it didnt really - so she's back on Metacam as and when. We had a tanker load delivered last week. £21 for the prescription, £27 for 180ml - the vet charges £80

Librella?

Offset · June 2023

bertie said:

paws crossed for Pickle - is that the Labrawhatsitcalled ?

Winnie was on that but after two, we stopped to see if it was having any effect, and luckily - at £130 a shot, a month - it didnt really - so she's back on Metacam as and when. We had a tanker load delivered last week. £21 for the prescription, £27 for 180ml - the vet charges £80

Thanks Bertie. The lab is Ozzy :-)

Mercifully Pet Plan pay her med and vet bills. Which is just as well as her prescription diet costs us £65 a bag :-(

She's been on Metacam for a couple of years and we've been advised to take her off it as it can cause liver damage.

bertie · June 2023

Offset said:

bertie said:

paws crossed for Pickle - is that the Labrawhatsitcalled ?

Winnie was on that but after two, we stopped to see if it was having any effect, and luckily - at £130 a shot, a month - it didnt really - so she's back on Metacam as and when. We had a tanker load delivered last week. £21 for the prescription, £27 for 180ml - the vet charges £80

Thanks Bertie. The lab is Ozzy :-)

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no the injection !!! LOL

@ttony - aiye that's the stuff

none of the insurance's weve ever had would cover long term/regular meds, at lest not without making the premiums so high it just wasnt worth it.

Luckily - Win doest seem to need the pain relief/NSAID as much as before - so we're hoping it'll be OK

Offset · June 2023

bertie said:

Offset said:

bertie said:

paws crossed for Pickle - is that the Labrawhatsitcalled ?

Winnie was on that but after two, we stopped to see if it was having any effect, and luckily - at £130 a shot, a month - it didnt really - so she's back on Metacam as and when. We had a tanker load delivered last week. £21 for the prescription, £27 for 180ml - the vet charges £80

Thanks Bertie. The lab is Ozzy :-)

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no the injection !!! LOL

@ttony - aiye that's the stuff

none of the insurance's weve ever had would cover long term/regular meds, at lest not without making the premiums so high it just wasnt worth it.

Luckily - Win doest seem to need the pain relief/NSAID as much as before - so we're hoping it'll be OK

Paws crossed here too for Win. I'll find out what the injection is!!!

Our premiums are fecking ridiculous - about £2500 pa for the both of them.

Jalapeno · June 2023

Put up picture, to align perfectly with furniture dimensions underneath. I did so, got told it was skew-whiff, her indoors got the tape measure out today while I was out, and has (sort of) apologised

Put up 2 mirrors - delaying that as long as I can (see above).

New unexpected job as of last night - I was not in the lounge, but heard a crash and the bloody curtain rail had fallen down, pulled the screws out of the wall ! So now need to drill bigger holes in the wall, for bigger plugs, for longer screws (for which I need to make the bracket holes bigger). <grrrr>

VimFuego · June 2023

today I mostly dusted off my classical and steel string and took them to a tech for a set up. Decided I'm gonna have another go at this guitar lark after a loooooong lay off. The steel string will deffo benefit from a set up the tech said, so hopefully that'll help with arthriticy hands.

Sporky · June 2023

For reference, this is the dog who was only an hour or so earlier described as "quite the most charming dog I've ever met".

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Offset · June 2023

^^ He still looks pretty good to me :-)

Sporky · June 2023

Nozzle is a ladydog! How very dare you!

Roland · June 2023

Morning in the garden. This year the beans are cursed with black fly. Afternoon in the workshop. Two walnut crotches turned out to be mainly sap wood, with not to have much dark wood. Disappointing. Unpacked a Hawthorn crotch that I rough turned in April to find that it has cracked in drying. More disappointment. So I centred up a piece of Rowan that has some beautiful grain … and the screw chuck snapped, leaving the screw buried in the wood. All in all a disappointing day.

Nitefly · June 2023

I installed a new toilet seat as the grandchildren had broken the orevious one.

I got quite confused looking at the pictures and reading the text in the destructions, until I realised that the text described the picture below, not the picture above. Is it me? Text below illustration, surely?

Anyway, it's installed, and it works.

Sporky · June 2023

I want to replace my toilet seats. One isn't soft-close, and I forget, and the mouse is terrifying. The other is soft close but very light and flimsy-feeling.

Both work though, so it seems silly to landfill them.

TTony · June 2023

Sporky said:
Both work though, so it seems silly to landfill them.

Sell them on eBay.

People will pay good money ....

Emp_Fab · June 2023

This week I are mostly taking it easy. Last week I was mostly off my tits and using a petrol chainsaw wearing nothing more than flipflops.

Offset · June 2023

TTony said:

bertie said:

paws crossed for Pickle - is that the Labrawhatsitcalled ?

Winnie was on that but after two, we stopped to see if it was having any effect, and luckily - at £130 a shot, a month - it didnt really - so she's back on Metacam as and when. We had a tanker load delivered last week. £21 for the prescription, £27 for 180ml - the vet charges £80
Librella?

Yep, that's the badger!

Sporky · June 2023

Emp_Fab said:

This week I are mostly taking it easy. Last week I was mostly off my tits and using a petrol chainsaw wearing nothing more than flipflops.

I was about to have lunch but seem to have lost my appetite.

This morning we walked the dogs and I played Mars First Logistics, which looks like Sable, but is more like Trailmakers. At one point I dropped an oxygen cylinder in a particularly gnarly bit of terrain, and rather than reset the mission I built a series of little rovers to retrieve it. Take that, Mars.

Sporky · June 2023

I have completed bag one (of four) of my Lego Formula 1 car. Push-rod suspension!

Emp_Fab · June 2023

Sporky said:

Emp_Fab said:

This week I are mostly taking it easy. Last week I was mostly off my tits and using a petrol chainsaw wearing nothing more than flipflops.

I was about to have lunch but seem to have lost my appetite.

I'm ashamed to confess that this wasn't an attempt at a joke, it was the truth.

Sporky · September 2023

I have another week off.

I cleared and tidied the workshop at the weekend, and then added bracing to the loom bench I made for Lady BMcH - it was a bit wobbly, and is now rock-solid.

This morning I went to Surrey Timbers and bought a big of cherry for Bix-making, and some rough sawn Ash to make Lady BMcH a storage thing for the loom room.

I am also building the Lego Technic ATV, which didn't get great reviews, but was on double offer. It's rather good - very feature-dense.

Sporky · September 2023

Ooh - and I got some black palmira, which is very odd looking.

Tannin · September 2023

TTony said:

Sporky said:
Both work though, so it seems silly to landfill them.

Sell them on eBay.

People will pay good money ....

The toilet seats?

Or the children?

stickyfiddle · September 2023

Today I am WFH but mostly because I'm feeling dizzy and have a sore throat. I am 80% through a kitchen renovation and the new counter arrives on Friday, which is excellent and LONG AWAITED...

I am also awaiting next week's birthday with trepidation because its the last one before I hit a Big Number and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

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