I think @Chris should start a new thread with a weekly update on his skip diving finds as it looks like he's of to a good start.
Bins. Thursday! Bin out first job of the day. Weekly drive way rumble. Do it now put the wrong colour out and peak through the curtains to watch the neighbours looking unsure if they have the right bin this week. Pure excitement. Highlight of the week! Thank Dusty for bins
Going for my monthly sports massage in the next hour, and then we’re off to meet my brother in law and his wife for breakfast in Diggle
Currently sat in a Nero's having dropped the car off for new front discs and pads. Consumed a cheese & ham toastie in seconds and now relaxing with a large mug of coffee. Probably in town for a couple of hours so might do a bit of window shopping ..... or might just sit here and have another coffee Andy
Everest for windows. Pig to get into the car. I adopted a Dolphin from the WWF £5 a month. Damn thing never shut up in the shower. £5 doesn’t buy a lot of fish! Literalism gets you into all sorts off problems.
Fed cat some catnip favoured treats. Think it's seeing yellow spiders as it's running round very wide eyed chasing things I can't see..
How does that manifest? Nurse Kenny - as in the film with Rosalind Russell - described Polio rigidity as spasms so rapid that it just seemed like rigidity; and I think that's the root of my lower back pain (not rigidity but not obviously spasming, either), because when it 'goes', if I don't take anything, it takes three days laying down to recover. If I take excess dihydrocodeine it only takes one day. The reasoning there is, first that you can take large amounts of that opioid - the main risk is addiction. The prescribed dose only reduces the pain a tiny amount, whereas if you take it until the pain goes away, recovery is much sooner, which seems to me explained as the pain being the involuntary tensing because of the pain; a cycle broken by taking the pain away. On the other hand, twenty years ago I couldn't look over my right shoulder for a couple of years. Then it just went away (for two years I had to do the Lifesaver looking over my left). But neither condition felt like what I'd have thought of as 'spasm' before seeing 'Sister Kenny'. I rarely think about it any more, but I do have an underlying, ever-present fear of the neck/shoulder problem coming back.
I'll not deny it. Lucky ol' cats, eh? If only humans had something so much fun and grew like a weed! Or like fungi.
Picked my car up, drove off the garage forecourt and drive straight back in. Brake pedal is soft, a lot of travel which went away if you pumped the pedal. Turns out, replacing worn brake pads doesn't include a brake system bleed, that is an extra cost option Sod 'em, I'll do it myself. Andy
No way. Change pads, clean callipers and check brakes are effective! Almost swore when I read that. Pads worn usually needs top up of fluid and simple check if the system needs bleeding. Let the customer set off with ineffective brakes! Never. I will swear gadzooks. Name and shame!
Took Kestrel to have her beak trimmed at WildWings https://www.facebook.com/WildWingsBirds/ They are a charity based in Warrington and well worth a visit(Friday-Sunday), run by two great people. Oh, and they are short of volunteers to(To far for me unfortunately). Cleaned out the Barn Owl aviary, if you have seen the film Alien, when it melts a hole through the ship, that's Owl poo that is, it burns your eyes like a nuclear onion. But for stink, Tawny Owls will test your gag limit to extremes.
I was a volunteer at a small local Owl sanctuary for several years, the proprietors passed away within weeks of each other, left us with sixty birds to re home, not all were able to be re homed so myself along with another volunteer took on the remainder
I have a dog! Another exception that proofs the rule just brought Betty Black bin back in. Trundle trundle. Off for a nap now.
