Oh you ARE naughty...

Am just feeling silly because I'm feeling like a naughty little girl this morning (putting dep in at GH)!

Sorry .

Don't be sorry

Just had the most awkward and irritating arguement with my boyfriends mum. AAAAAARGH.

Still have major PC problems .

Spent hours in the middle of the night with Virgin trying to do things and apparently the connection speed is very slow.

Lucky to have made it on to here briefly.

*wails*

Just as I wa sleaving for church , a wood pigeon (a big fella) flew into our lounge window, and lay stunned on our front lawn. What would you have done ?
Well I was a bit tight for time so I left it, as I thought it might have recovered. But I'd forgotten about the local feline population. Of course when I got back it was dead with its neck almost severed

Of course then I had to deal with it !

I would be tempted to do the same to the cat...

W

I'm afraid I did that and it didn't work. so I went back in the afternoon armed with a tool box. By holding the key to one side I was able to see that a piece of metal seemed to have fallen and blocked the key. That meant a dreadfull aaaagghh as there was no way to move it.I couldn't take the lock off because even unscrewed the key was still jammed.

I had to ring the teacher concerned and tell her that on Monday she wouldn't be able to get into her classroom. She was very kind and said she would send her long suffering husband to see if he could do anything. Meanwhile my weekend has been spoilt as I feel terribly guilty - though I don't think it is actually my fault that the lock seems to have broken. Just my fault that I decided to lock the door.

Gelignite? There is an article in this week's Radio Times describing how to blow the lock of a safe without damaging the door or the contents....

Sorry, couldn't resist . It doesn't sound as if it was your fault, and at least you have had time to warn the people concerned. If you had done it in the middle of a school day you might have locked in an essential briefcase or something.

To say nothing of an essential pupil! Oh yes, I could have done with some gelegnite!!

My aaaargh is a letter from my GP saying that my Gamma GT is raised.

Worried.

Sorry to hear that Misterioso

Hope it is good news.
I had two raised liver values on a blood test once, but my GP said in my case there was nothing to worry about (the blood test was for something else - when he had the results on screen he didn't say anything about the numbers in red, so I asked why he didn't mind those being out of range! In my case there was a pefectly reasonably [and, I expect, common] explanation)

Hugs to you until you get to see your GP and find out what it's all about

Somebody smashed my bedroom window last night - very frightened by the experience.

Sounds quite scary.

Gosh I can imagine. Hope you are OK

take care tetrachord

I'm OK at the moment. Have called the agency and they said they'd sent someone round to check the damage. Really hope this gets sorted soon...

Aaaaagh

I've been asked to judge a competition in a field fraught with fragile egos and trophy hunters.

Some of these people have known me for a long time too!!!


I've always turned down judging requests over the years but this time it seems churlish to refuse

How nasty Hope you're OK...

That must have been very scary. Was it accidental or deliberate? Hope you're okay.

Thanks for all the support and sympathy. I was asleep when it happened (2.45 am) and I was completely shocked and scared. I think it was just a random act of vandalism - well, that's certainly what I hope as I don't want to go through this again! The glaziers have put up some sheet tape stuff to cover the hole in the window and they're going to replace the pane tomorrow, so on a practical level things are getting sorted. I think it'll take me much longer to feel safe in my flat again though...

I'm sorry to hear this happened to you. Anything that affects the secure space where you live is very upsetting

Have you reported it to the police?

I did call the police straight away. They took my details and said they'd check the CCTV footage and have a look round the area but they weren't too sure they'd be able to catch who did it.

Does it involve baking and cup-cakes? If so, Good Luck!

I have a computer aaagh. for some reason I don't seem able any more to register PDF files I have downloaded. I haven't done this for some time so either I am a nitwit and have forgotten how to do it or something has gone wrong somewhere.

I tried to register a download from the Susan Paradis site - Ive got quite few fo her pieces on my computer so it has worked in the past. But having brought the file up I can't find any register button on my Google browser and when I right click I don't get any menu offering register.

Can any one who is good at computers help please?

The Board really ought to stick to its own rules.

OK. Beat this. My cat has just nearly set my house on fire by peeing into an multi-socket extension lead....FLAMES, the works. Cue Bag in rubber gloves. Plug was so welded to the socket I had to turn the power off and cut through the lead to get it all out.

Sense-of-Humour-Failure-Bag x

Er, wow. I gotta admit that takes some doing. Hope you're all OK now.

I'm SO sorry but I had to laugh at this. I know it's wicked but it reminds me of a book I just read where a ghastly uncle died in a freak accident by doing something similar on a live power line, and is how the narrator got left a lucky bottle in his will......

I hope you don't have any permanent damage after this, honest. I just need to go and get another tissue....

eeeeeeek ! have to admit I'm laughing too. What a pickle!

Seriously, am really glad it wasn't any worse!

Dare I ask what has happened to the cat?

And is no-one going to comment on my post about the Board flagrantly disregarding its own instructions?

I daresay the cat is missing some fur from it's rear end.

I did wonder but was waiting for someone else to ask what you meant.

I wondered too, but was just about to start teaching so switched focus. What have they been up to - changed the order of your candidates?

Arrive at exam centre exactly on time (i.e. ten minutes before exam); no sign of steward; go to loo; exit loo to sight of steward ushering in candidate after me; ask steward what's going on; steward says, "You weren't here"; reply, "Yes I was, but you weren't"; steward looks sheepish; sit in waiting room quietly seething and getting nervous for 20 minutes; spend afternoon rushing around having left exam centre later than expected.

Joking aside, if the cat escaped with just some singed fur I'd say it was quite lucky.

Well you could have just told us in the first place, couldn't you!

Yes Id have thought the cat was injured. Theres is YOUTUBE video of a guy out in the country and he pees on an electrified fence. As it was filmed I suppose he must have done it deliberately, but didnt realise what the consequences would be !

Bad form. S'pose every organization has it's Jobsworths. It sounds like you were the one taking the exam?

I'm sure Bagpuss would have mentioned a fried cat if that had been the upshot. Probably bad enough having a nasty smell and a lot of melted plastic to deal with.

I could, but it would have been less fun that way!

Ewwwwww. Poor Bag. Not good.

I'm sorry but ... ... me too!
Good one after the pee-in-shoes show at Cyrilla's. Are you sure your OH isn't a cartoonist and called Simon?
(Hoping your usually unassailable Bag-Humour is back in action by now and you've recovered from the shock! )

My dad is now in hospital with low sodium levels due to something to do with kidneys that can harm liver?? Been looking up on the internet and it sounds very serious. He's meant to be starting an alcohol detox programme today. Apprantely doctors have said if he carries on misusing his body like this he'll have about two years.

Hope this is the wake up call he needs.

Just got home from the Lowry in Salford - my first visit. Went to see Ruddigore and I paid GBP55 for best seats - centre of front row of circle. That's 57 miles and 90 minutes each way.

Seems they sold some seats twice.... including mine.

Since I was on my own (already seated) and the others were a party of four, I relinguished my seat.

The usher got me a seat 9 rows back and off to one side... not what I paid for.

I have just e-mailed my complaint...

I feel rather let down: I paid a premium price and had a second rate experience.

I'm so sorry, Pixie*Porsche.

Alcoholism is a dreadful thing, and I do hope your Dad has the will to beat it. I think you posted earlier about the person himself having to want to kick the habit; this just might be the warning that makes him want to,


Oh dear! All that way to be disappointed. They really should give you a partial refund if the seat you ended up with was not in the same price bracket as the one you booked. Was the performance good?

for both of you!! to Pixie, hope your Dad starts taking care of himself x

Both the production and the perfromance were good.

Trivial compared to other matters, but it was on top of the previous day I was at home all day for a delivery which didn't materialise... one that I had three e-mails confirming the date...

Customer service?

Naughty, naughty cat. I hope you told the cat what's what...



Excessive alcohol consumption will damage more than your liver Hope your Dad has a full recovery.

Fingers crossed it's what he needs to sort himself out. Personally, I think he needs a hobby that isn't going down the pub ... and to take some responsibility and get a job to pay for it. He's 60 though, so whilst it'd be great if he sorts himself out I'm not quite sure how he will do this.

I asked him what he is interested in (because honestly, I don't have a clue!) which came down to riding motorbikes which he can't do due to hip problems and going to the pub / drinking at home. Somehow he's managed to run up personal debts of over ?20,000 which he has spent on nothing useful, either.

My mum works six days a week so can't be there to watch him 24/7!