Good news thread..

[Crazyfool01]

5 minutes ago, CharlotteB said:

2 more days of work before I break up for Xmas. I can almost taste the eggnog 🥂 

Worst 3 days of the year to come for me but then an easier day and 2 days off . 
 

please be nice to people in retail and hospitality over next few days everyone 🙂 

[Someoni]

This little one went missing for a total of 12 hours. He's only 5 months old and darted out the back door at 6am. A neighbour has brought him back from 20 doors or so down the road, he's very wet, very hungry. 

 

What a nightmare 12 hours that was. He is now sporting an Airtag collar. 

 

I'll stick to my labrador thanks

 

[Ayrshire Chris]

46 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Worst 3 days of the year to come for me but then an easier day and 2 days off . 
 

please be nice to people in retail and hospitality over next few days everyone 🙂 

In fact be nice to them all year round. 

[Skip997]

10 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

In fact be nice to them all year round. 

I always make a point of engaging in conversation. Not sure it’s always welcome though

 

”why is that old duffer talking to me?”

[Crazyfool01]

18 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

In fact be nice to them all year round. 

Very true . 

[Crazyfool01]

6 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

I always make a point of engaging in conversation. Not sure it’s always welcome though

 

”why is that old duffer talking to me?”

May well be being pushed by the organisation to meet targets . Keep it up . Some will appreciate 

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

In fact be nice to them all year round. 

This

 

Edit: be nice to everyone all the time. Unless they're c**ts. In which case f**k 'em

Edited December 18 by Quark

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Skip997 said:

I always make a point of engaging in conversation. Not sure it’s always welcome though

 

”why is that old duffer talking to me?”

That's what we're all thinking most of the time 😉

 

[ukmountie]

5 hours ago, Someoni said:

This little one went missing for a total of 12 hours. He's only 5 months old and darted out the back door at 6am. A neighbour has brought him back from 20 doors or so down the road, he's very wet, very hungry. 

 

What a nightmare 12 hours that was. He is now sporting an Airtag collar. 

 

I'll stick to my labrador thanks

 

Lovely. Maine Coon? Mine is an indoor cat and I had about 10 minutes today when I left a door open and thought she might have gotten out. I can't imagine 12 hours.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

10 hours ago, Skip997 said:

Mines a converted Transit Luton.

 

It’s such a relief. What a year! Clutch went in February and then the turbo on the way back from Glastonbury. It seems that new turbos for this model no longer exist. Eventually a friend took it out, had it rebuilt and put it back in.

 

The van has effectively been laid up for nearly six months. 

 

Congratulations to your mate for sorting that out. I had to get the clutch on my car renewed a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't so much the cost of the renewal (although that did smart) but the whole day around getting it to a particular garage (miles away) and back. It was very close to the film falling down - except I was more and more bemused as time went on as opposed to getting angrier and angrier.

 

PS - I have a campervan that last operated just before the covid outbreak. Then it sat for a few years on a SORN. I am (slowly) trying to get it back on the road. It is very much an uphill struggle.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

10 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Don’t mess with that hard looking squad.😊😉

 

Pussycats. Every one of them - myself included. 

 

The above said I did entitle the photo 'The Wild Bunch'. A sort of distant homage to the western film of the same name.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

7 hours ago, Quark said:

That's what we're all thinking most of the time 😉

 

 

You're on fire Quark! 

Edited Thursday at 03:14 AM by Yoghurt on a Stick

[BlueJeansAndWhiteTshirts]

On 12/17/2024 at 4:35 PM, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

No, I appreciate that you have pointed it out. I shall have another go.

 

Has this worked;

 

 

 

Yog, can I make a guess that you're the one in the black hat? 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, BlueJeansAndWhiteTshirts said:

Yog, can I make a guess that you're the one in the black hat? 

 

Afraid not. That's my mate Bill - a friend since secondary school and in later life my brother in law. I'm in the black jumper. I used to dress conservatively in those days.

[Ayrshire Chris]

Annie Lennox and Eurythmics night on bbc 2 this evening. My dream legend or Glastonbury headliner.

[philipsteak]

I'm an insomniac. 

Pretty much all the time. 

Then every now and then I go through a REALLY bad patch where even for me it's bad. The upside is after one of these spells I'm usually so exhausted my insomnia just goes f**k it and gives me a night off and I have something approaching a normal night's sleep.

Last night was one of those nights. I realise that this is just how non insomniacs feel normally but i feel like I've got a f**king superpower today.

Edited Sunday at 04:18 PM by philipsteak

[Euphoricape]

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

6 hours ago, philipsteak said:

I'm an insomniac. 

Pretty much all the time. 

Then every now and then I go through a REALLY bad patch where even for me it's bad. The upside is after one of these spells I'm usually so exhausted my insomnia just goes f**k it and gives me a night off and I have something approaching a normal night's sleep.

Last night was one of those nights. I realise that this is just how non insomniacs feel normally but i feel like I've got a f**king superpower today.

 

i know exactly how you feel. Not because I suffer from it, but because I used to suffer from it. I'd get to Tuesday at work and think to myself 'I've already kind of done 4 shifts, because I've had two shifts of no sleeping. 

 

With me it was that my mind would just not stop 'thinking'. There was no respite for many a year. I wish I could tell you what I did to stop it from happening, but the truth of the matter is that I made no conscious decision to try to stop it. I mean, I did get a load of over the counter remedies, and even had an infused with lilac pillow, at one Point. They worked to some degree, and a surprising degree at that, but it wasn't the end solution. I have no, current, idea what that solution was. I only know that it came along. Hope it does for you too.

[CharlotteB]

6 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 

i know exactly how you feel. Not because I suffer from it, but because I used to suffer from it. I'd get to Tuesday at work and think to myself 'I've already kind of done 4 shifts, because I've had two shifts of no sleeping. 

 

With me it was that my mind would just not stop 'thinking'. There was no respite for many a year. I wish I could tell you what I did to stop it from happening, but the truth of the matter is that I made no conscious decision to try to stop it. I mean, I did get a load of over the counter remedies, and even had an infused with lilac pillow, at one Point. They worked to some degree, and a surprising degree at that, but it wasn't the end solution. I have no, current, idea what that solution was. I only know that it came along. Hope it does for you too.

 

I'm not an insomniac (it would be an insult to a real insomniac to say that, because I know they can really suffer) but I'm certainly a poor sleeper, so I can relate a little bit. It's awful to face a whole day knowing you haven't rested properly.

[Ben7amin_]