Good news thread..

[Wellyboot]

17 minutes ago, zeppelin said:

You joke, but we kinda do that. Although in part just to wind Mum up 🙂. And we haven't had it confirmed but we're 99% the names come from Bruce (Springsteen) and Roxy (Music). 

I think I've always grown up with cats that were siblings. Other than when my Dad brought a kitten back from work that needed a home. He ended up growing up alongside a puppy and in some ways acted like one 😂

Aww that's adorable! Well thank you for saving him, you're a good person. 

I have too, always grown up with cats.. well a cat! We got Christopher when i was 2 and he died when he was 19 so I'd had him alllll my life. Was devastated and then Dennis was born and needed a home so was perfect! 

So, we're all gonna need to see Bruce and Roxy in the near future please and thanks 😊 

[stuartbert two hats]

15 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

Apart from the pigeon ... what on earth is going on in with that photo  

Looks like your everyday tear in the space time continuum. What's the problem?

[squirrelarmy]

5 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

Sell em ...  that’s valuable glastonbury bar money ... I’ve not slept out of concern for that pigeon ... poor  bird 🐦 

 

5 hours ago, Wellyboot said:

get um sold!! If you're never gonna wear them you might as well get the money 💰 

I’ve just found out a similar pair sold for charity last year for £56k. I might see if I can do something similar with these. 

[Crazyfool01]

1 minute ago, squirrelarmy said:

 

I’ve just found out a similar pair sold for charity last year for £56k. I might see if I can do something similar with these. 

wow ... are they gold plated ?   ... my friend has a pair of psb limited edition shoes that sit in his garage because hes afraid to tell his wife how much they cost ... I keep telling him there is no point owning them if they aren't at least on display .... good luck .... hope you can raise a decent amount 

[fred quimby]

7 hours ago, Wellyboot said:

So BLH update..

@Yoghurt on a Stick was right! (Not that i ever doubted you of course!) There's some poos. But not loads so quite a polite guest which is nice. 

Hes wandering around, I had the shed door open but he didn't leave and isn't looking like he's ready to fly. He hasn't eaten anything not sure if he's had a drink or not cos I was snoozing (tho I did keep waking up thinking shall I go and see, so you weren't on your own @crazyfool1)

So I've shut the door again for now and let Dennis play out. When he comes home for some grub I'll try pigey again.

I'm just really, REALLY glad he's alive!! 

That is one empty shed

[Losing my hair]

2 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

 

I’ve just found out a similar pair sold for charity last year for £56k. I might see if I can do something similar with these. 

And you could use the money to set up a sanctuary for injured pigeons.

[Crazyfool01]

8 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

And you could use the money to set up a sanctuary for injured pigeons.

Too late ... that’s in existence already ... hotel de wellyboot 

[Losing my hair]

7 hours ago, Wellyboot said:

So BLH update..

@Yoghurt on a Stick was right! (Not that i ever doubted you of course!) There's some poos. But not loads so quite a polite guest which is nice. 

Hes wandering around, I had the shed door open but he didn't leave and isn't looking like he's ready to fly. He hasn't eaten anything not sure if he's had a drink or not cos I was snoozing (tho I did keep waking up thinking shall I go and see, so you weren't on your own @crazyfool1)

So I've shut the door again for now and let Dennis play out. When he comes home for some grub I'll try pigey again.

I'm just really, REALLY glad he's alive!! 

That's a remarkably empty shed.

[Quark]

4 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

That's a remarkably empty shed.

Unnatural innit?

[Wellyboot]

45 minutes ago, fred quimby said:

That is one empty shed

 

9 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

That's a remarkably empty shed.

 

4 minutes ago, Quark said:

Unnatural innit?

Its a new shed! All the crap is still in the old one not been shifted over yet 😂

RIGHT am just gunna show u the old one. Hold the line caller/s

Edited August 20, 2020 by Wellyboot
Old FULL shed

[Ayrshire Chris]

Just logged on to check the pigeon post. How is it? Not trying for oneupmanship  here but I seem to have a woodpecker in the garden, just landed on the bird feeder

i would post a picture of my shed but that would be showing off

 

Edited August 20, 2020 by Ayrshire Chris

[Wellyboot]

Just now, Ayrshire Chris said:

Just logged on to check the pigeon post. How is it? 

I went and bought some wild bird seeds. And hes eaten loads of them. And hes had bread and waffles and a chip. Water in there too. And shit everywhere. 

I opened the shed door and sat round the side on Dennis watch. He made no effort to leave, he's been stomping around tho, very heavy footed for a little bird. Going to keep trying today, if he doesn't leave on his own I'll have to phone someone to see what i can do/where I can take him. 

Hoping hes just a bit sore and needs a little time to sort himself out before leaving. 

When I was trying to catch him yesterday I noticed a mark on his side, not sure if its a bite or scratch. But not too near his wing so hopefully he'll be ok and didn't look deep and wasn't bleeding. 

... im just winging it (HA getit) but I couldn't have left him out to get 'got' again last night 

[Crazyfool01]

11 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Just logged on to check the pigeon post. How is it? Not trying for oneupmanship  here but I seem to have a woodpecker in the garden, just landed on the bird feeder

i would post a picture of my shed but that would be showing off

 

Greater spotted ?  

[Ayrshire Chris]

13 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

Greater spotted ?  

Yes, become a regular visitor. Seems to prefer the fat balls 

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Wellyboot said:

 

 

Its a new shed! All the crap is still in the old one not been shifted over yet 😂

RIGHT am just gunna show u the old one. Hold the line caller/s

More like it.

If I run a reverse image search and find you've just pulled that from t'interwebs to keep us quiet I am going to be VERY disappointed in you Welly

[Losing my hair]

44 minutes ago, Wellyboot said:

I went and bought some wild bird seeds. And hes eaten loads of them. And hes had bread and waffles and a chip. Water in there too. And shit everywhere. 

I opened the shed door and sat round the side on Dennis watch. He made no effort to leave, he's been stomping around tho, very heavy footed for a little bird. Going to keep trying today, if he doesn't leave on his own I'll have to phone someone to see what i can do/where I can take him. 

Hoping hes just a bit sore and needs a little time to sort himself out before leaving. 

When I was trying to catch him yesterday I noticed a mark on his side, not sure if its a bite or scratch. But not too near his wing so hopefully he'll be ok and didn't look deep and wasn't bleeding. 

... im just winging it (HA getit) but I couldn't have left him out to get 'got' again last night 

I know somebody who had an injured duck in their garden. They rang a local vet who put them in touch with a guy who rescues birds and he took him in. As my friend lives in Woolwich this is probably of no use to you.

[Losing my hair]

1 hour ago, Wellyboot said:

 

 

Its a new shed! All the crap is still in the old one not been shifted over yet 😂

RIGHT am just gunna show u the old one. Hold the line caller/s

That's just a picture of somebody's skip.

[Wellyboot]

16 minutes ago, Quark said:

More like it.

If I run a reverse image search and find you've just pulled that from t'interwebs to keep us quiet I am going to be VERY disappointed in you Welly

 

12 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

That's just a picture of somebody's skip.

I promise its mine 😂 I took it just before I posted it 😁

14 minutes ago, Losing my hair said:

I know somebody who had an injured duck in their garden. They rang a local vet who put them in touch with a guy who rescues birds and he took him in. As my friend lives in Woolwich this is probably of no use to you.

Maybe i can try phone the vets, they might know where to send me then!! Thank you 😊

[Crazyfool01]

Just now, Wellyboot said:

 

I promise its mine 😂 I took it just before I posted it 😁

Maybe i can try phone the vets, they might know where to send me then!! Thank you 😊

RSPCA ..... is our local centre for rescued animals .... not relevant but they take in seals from oil slicks and are often in the news ... 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 hours ago, Wellyboot said:

 

That is very much an improvement on the (almost) empty shed that you have. That said, if I was actually forced to be critical it would be to suggest that some of those items look like they may be in working order, and actually of some use. However, it is still within 'the rules' that some items may fall into this category, so your OK if the Shed Police ever call around for an impromptu inspection. Whatever you do, do not show them the empty shed, because you'll get quite a stretch if you do.

I've just remembered that in my last house I had a chimney breast with a hole in it, which I intended to put an air brick cover over, but never got around to doing. Anyway, at one point a tallboy was positioned so that the hole could not be seen. Then one night I thought that I heard a cooing noise coming from the tallboy area, but thought nothing more of it. Then two nights later, my wife said she thought she'd heard a noise coming from the tallboy area. We decided to leave it and investigate in the morning. When morning came I shone a torch into the hole in the chimney breast and there was an alive pure white dove. How the fuck a pure white dove managed to get itself down my chimney and get stuck in the aperture where an old fireplace would be is beyond me. Now I knew that a not too far off neighbour had a load of white doves, as I'd see them flying around every now and again. So, I deduced that it was one of his, and that maybe other birds had attacked it and it somehow went down my chimney.

Now the problem that I faced was how to get the dove out of the chimney, through the little hole in the chimney breast and outside into the open. Fortunately a mate called around and said that he was prepared to put his hand in through the hole, grab the dove, pull it out, and put it in to a black bin bag that I would be holding. Then I would run downstairs with the bin bag into the rear garden and open the bag and get it to fly out of the bag. In fact, this is exactly what happened. Only it fluttered out of the bag rather than flew. Then it did not go 'home' to my distant neighbours, but fluttered onto the roof of my single storey extension. It wouldn't leave the roof for a good while, so we went back into the house. I guess it was re familiarising itself / getting back its bearings as to where it was. Anyway, we went out some time later and it was on the roof no more.

The thing that I don't get about the above is how a pure white dove can travel down a soot lined chimney, and drop into a dirty aperture where an old fireplace would be,stay there for days, and still be pristine white when we took it out. It was indeed the 'dove from above' experience.

[BlueDaze]

On 8/19/2020 at 9:40 PM, funkychick2007 said:

Yoghurt on a stick! Your stories do make me smile!!  I have to make a cup of tea before sitting down to read them!! It’s become a tradition! 

sometimes you need a flask....

 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

13 minutes ago, BlueDaze said:

sometimes you need a flask....

 

And a catheter, in some instances. 

[guypjfreak]

We need a bad day or bad news thread.. 

Good news baby Eliza is trying to walk.. She won't but her mind knows her legs have to move.. So when you pick her her little thin legs are going up and down like Flipping pistons lo

 

In other news 

Went fishing again.. Nothing lol son in law got 3..really nice tho 

[Losing my hair]

7 hours ago, guypjfreak said:

We need a bad day or bad news thread.. 

Good news baby Eliza is trying to walk.. She won't but her mind knows her legs have to move.. So when you pick her her little thin legs are going up and down like Flipping pistons lo

 

In other news 

Went fishing again.. Nothing lol son in law got 3..really nice tho 

The fish must love it when they see you turn up 😀

[fred quimby]

17 hours ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Yes, become a regular visitor. Seems to prefer the fat balls 

We get one in our Garden after the Peanuts.

Odd thing a few years back - I woke up came downstairs and into the Kitchen looked out the window and there is the Garden was the weirdest alien thing I have seen wondering around. Quite tall for a bird and real pale all over. Very freaky looking. worked out it must be a baby or albino woodpecker, I had just woken up. Very odd