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Post by jenny on Nov 11, 2024 19:21:50 GMT
Most of which cheerful old men will resolutely refuse to talk about their actual military experience. According to anything my dad ever said about his time in east Africa during the war as part of the Royal Artillery, as a gunnery instructor for what were then called 'the native troops'. all he ever did was play piano in the mess in return for free gin and limes.
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Post by jenny on Nov 11, 2024 19:29:28 GMT
As for my day it was marked by stupidity on my part. I went swimming this morning, and when I got changed I took care to remove my hearing aids and leave them in my locker with my clothes. Later I had a shower, washed my hair, got dressed and gathered my things. I don't replace my hearing aids when my hair is wet, as it was when I left the swimming pool. After I got home I went to dry my hair and suddenly realised that I had no idea where my hearing aids were. I searched my swimming bag and my jeans pockets and they were not there. Damn, I thought, I've left them at the pool. So I got back in the car and shot back to the pool to make sure I got there before lap swimming finished. No hearing aids in the locker. No, they hadn't been handed in at the front desk. At this point I am cursing myself - those things cost me $1600. So I started walking out to the car, at which point I put my hand in my coat pocket for a tissue and...guess what was lurking under the tissue? You're absolutely correct - the hearing aids. Now this is good news in that I just avoided spending another $1600, but I can't believe I was so dumb as not to check my coat pockets as well as everywhere else. Duh!
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Post by amanda on Nov 11, 2024 21:38:25 GMT
Yesterday I planned to return a pair of shoes to a store for the refund as the shoes are too high on my foot.
Grabbed the receipt, got all the way to the shopping centre, (having to put up with 40 school girls on the train as well) to be told 'these shoes are the Anko brand, not ours'.
Anko is Kmart here, I hoped I had that receipt at home and had to travel all the way back home to find out.
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Post by crissdee on Nov 12, 2024 10:08:29 GMT
No internet this morning, called the supplier.
"Have you connected your new router?"
"I didn't know I had one!"
Went outside, looked in my parcel box, router-sized cardboard box is there. Might have been nice if the postman/woman/person had rung the bell or something to let me know they had been...
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Post by tetsabb on Nov 12, 2024 10:29:01 GMT
As for my day it was marked by stupidity on my part. I went swimming this morning, and when I got changed I took care to remove my hearing aids and leave them in my locker with my clothes. Later I had a shower, washed my hair, got dressed and gathered my things. I don't replace my hearing aids when my hair is wet, as it was when I left the swimming pool. After I got home I went to dry my hair and suddenly realised that I had no idea where my hearing aids were. I searched my swimming bag and my jeans pockets and they were not there. Damn, I thought, I've left them at the pool. So I got back in the car and shot back to the pool to make sure I got there before lap swimming finished. No hearing aids in the locker. No, they hadn't been handed in at the front desk. At this point I am cursing myself - those things cost me $1600. So I started walking out to the car, at which point I put my hand in my coat pocket for a tissue and...guess what was lurking under the tissue? You're absolutely correct - the hearing aids. Now this is good news in that I just avoided spending another $1600, but I can't believe I was so dumb as not to check my coat pockets as well as everywhere else. Duh! This reminds me of an evening when we were going to go out. Wendy had undressed, put on her dressing gown, and gone for a bath. She got out, and went to get dressed. I was in the bathroom having a wash. There came a plaintive cry of "I can't find my fags" I looked around the bathroom and assured her they were not there. There ensued several minutes of her going round the house, getting ever more frantic, getting to the sanity-doubting phase. I quietly said, "Dressing gown pocket?" I heard her go back in the bedroom and, shortly afterwards, the click of a lighter... |
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Post by jenny on Nov 12, 2024 15:32:47 GMT
I could have done with you here yesterday, tets, as Woodsman was out.
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Post by tetsabb on Nov 12, 2024 17:32:21 GMT
I could have done with you here yesterday, tets, as Woodsman was out. Oo-er, missus! 😉 |
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Post by bigmartin on Nov 13, 2024 9:31:41 GMT
Nice sunny start to today. TOIL and I are a bit over the stress of assorted "can you help" phone calls of yesterday. We had planned a trip to Stroud to pick up her prescriptions, but they seemed to have cocked it up (again!). She will ring again later, but it looks like it's going to be Friday now.
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Post by amanda on Nov 13, 2024 10:38:31 GMT
Tackled the plastic ten-drawer set in the loungeroom today, filled two small boxes with papers no longer needed (how did all that accumulate in the six years I've been here?) and put them in the bin that is emptied tomorrow.
Also catalogued some of the music items for that library, some were a bit tricky as this catalogue program doesn't allow a full delete of items no longer needed so I had to have the old and new ready, to do a complete edit/change over.
Still to confirm with my assistant if he will come on Friday (or even if I will go, so far no one has requested any music) and I have some more items to catalogue.
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Post by tetsabb on Nov 13, 2024 11:24:37 GMT
Flying skillsOur village hall had another visit from the www.owlandraptorcentre.co.uk/Liam, Grace and Dan displayed half a dozen of their owls to an audience of about a hundred people. As Liam talks about each one the others walk around tge room, flying each from one to the other bringing them close to the audience members. He is able to talk fluently, with great knowledge, and yet with terrific humour non-sstop for an hour and a half. I doubt there is anything I could talk about for so long, and retain people's interest. Hhighlights included one of them displaying her flying skills, by flying the length of the hall and flitting between two volunteers standing less than a metre apart. Then, one of the larger ones demonstrated how quiet their flight is. We all kept quiet and closed our eyes. Apart from a cry from his mouth, nothing could be heard as he flew from one end to the other, just the backdrop as he flew by Many photographs. I will try to link to some later.
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Post by bigmartin on Nov 13, 2024 15:24:24 GMT
We managed to get the important item of TOIL's prescription transferred to be picked up in the local Boots. The rest can wait until a trip to Stroud on Friday.
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