The good morning thread
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zagatoes30
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Morning all, lovely day for a day trip up North in the Spyder. Better than staying here as the village is full of Grockles
GeoffCapes
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Morning all. After a very successful trip up to Liverpool yesterday I'm office bound today.
Needing to catch up with yesterdays work, and have to do all the stuff from the meeting. (who'd work for themselves eh?).
Seriously need to think about taking on some admin staff.
Have a good day all. Looks like a scorcher!
Needing to catch up with yesterdays work, and have to do all the stuff from the meeting. (who'd work for themselves eh?).
Seriously need to think about taking on some admin staff.
Have a good day all. Looks like a scorcher!
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Sorry to hear about the funeral C
Something from an old friend to think about while taking the cat to the vets:
45 mph in a Ferrari 308 GT4......
....with a cat that doesn't want to be there.....
Yearly booster time for the furry killing machine that I call a cat.
Joy.
So. Find the cat.
Find the catbox.
Find the cat again.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box quietly (this should have been a warning to me)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat mieows.
Select reverse.
Cat explodes from catbox like that thing from Alien.
Cat runs around car shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes.
Go into house and find parcel tape.
Tape box up securely.
Find the cat again.
Catch cat.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box with a **** of a struggle.
Tape up wounds in hands.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to driver's side, jump in (engine is still running).
Select reverse and get the car off the drive.
Cat rips through parcel tape like the hulk, scaring the **** out of me.
Cat runs around the car in a panic drooling and shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes. Again.
Go into house and find elephant tape. (I've used this stuff to stop kayaks leaking on white water)
Tape box up securely. Then use more tape.
Then think "sod it" and use the whole roll.
Find cat again.
Tempt cat using favorite treats.
Pretty much have to saw the cat's legs off in an attempt to get him into the accursed box.
Take off gardening gloves (learning from my mistakes)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to driver's side, jump in (engine has now burnt half a tank of fuel).
Get the car turned around.
Cat still in box, meiowing pathetically.
Comfort cat while driving.
Get halfway to vet.
Pointy eared escape artist does it again. This time at 40mph.
Cat runs around the car in a blind panic drooling and shedding fur.
Avoid crashing the car by about 3mm. This is not good.
Options. Stop, open door to get out and lose cat.
Or, keep driving and risk cat scratching eyes out.
Elect to take the eye scratching option. Glasses should prevent serious injury.
Cat runs around car shedding unbelieveable amounts of fur.
People giving me really funny looks.
Furry Fangio ends up sitting on my lap with two paws on the steering wheel looking out of the front window.
I'd have taken pictures, but I was rather busy at the time.
People now giving me *really* funny looks.
5 minutes pass.
Get to the vet.
Park the car.
Somehow get the cat back into the box.
Get into vets rather harassed.
Nice vet takes 2 minutes to check and inject the cat.
She then spends 5 minutes helping me reinforce the cat box to get home again.
Takes 2 of us to get the cat back in the box.
Get the bill.
Stop laughing and ask for the real bill.
Get the same bill.
Pick myself up from the floor.
Pay a ton of cash for the privilege of the cat being injected.
Return to car.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to driver's side, jump in and start engine.
Cat is silent.
Think uh-oh.
Leave vet.
Cat is silent.
Get halfway home.
Cat is silent.
Worry that cat is dead.
Get home safely.
Cat is silent.
Now really worried. Has cat escaped silently? Is cat plotting revenge?
Get catbox out of car.
Open cat box.
Cat saunters out, give me a "What?" look and wanders off.
I stand there like a gibbering idiot.
Cat lies in sun.
Open beer.
Drink.
Open second beer.
Get vacuum cleaner out.
Open third beer.
Clean cat hair out of car......
He's now next to me on the sofa with his feet in the air snoring contentedly.
As much as I love him, sometimes I wish he was a goldfish.
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DO you need worming, C?
Morning, all. Office this morning for a flurry of calls, lunch, then home. That's the plan, anyway.
Drew - I have every sympathy for your friend.
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Morning everyone, and we're back to glorious sunshine here.
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Had a similare experiance Drew, Ill give you the condensed version.
Going on holiday, had to drop cat at cattery
Put cat in the cat box
Put cat in the passenger footwell (Alfa GTV)
Start car
Reverse off drive
Cat meows pathetically
Cat starts whining
Cat puts paw through the wire door of the cat box
Cats claws come out
Cat embeds said claws in Momo front leather seat base
Cat drags paw
B@st*&£d!!!!!!
Vowed never to put that cat in my car again!
Had to pick up said cat from cattery
Put cat in the cat box
Put cat in the passenger footwell (facing other way into the footwell)
Start car
Reverse off drive
Cat meows pathetically
Cat starts whining
Cat brakes out of cat box and runs round the car whining
Cat finds the best place it can to whine and cry....under the pedals!!!
Have to brake for roundabout.....look over at the passenger seat he messed up earlier, hum!!!!!
Depress brake
Cat squeals and launches
Cat settles on the rear parcel shelf
Arrive home
Open the door
Cat stays in the car on the parcel shelf sunning himself
B@st*&£d!!!!!!
Going on holiday, had to drop cat at cattery
Put cat in the cat box
Put cat in the passenger footwell (Alfa GTV)
Start car
Reverse off drive
Cat meows pathetically
Cat starts whining
Cat puts paw through the wire door of the cat box
Cats claws come out
Cat embeds said claws in Momo front leather seat base
Cat drags paw
B@st*&£d!!!!!!
Vowed never to put that cat in my car again!
Had to pick up said cat from cattery
Put cat in the cat box
Put cat in the passenger footwell (facing other way into the footwell)
Start car
Reverse off drive
Cat meows pathetically
Cat starts whining
Cat brakes out of cat box and runs round the car whining
Cat finds the best place it can to whine and cry....under the pedals!!!
Have to brake for roundabout.....look over at the passenger seat he messed up earlier, hum!!!!!
Depress brake
Cat squeals and launches
Cat settles on the rear parcel shelf
Arrive home
Open the door
Cat stays in the car on the parcel shelf sunning himself
B@st*&£d!!!!!!
conaero
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I never saw them when we came round on the ****???...did you lock them away, very wise.
GeoffCapes
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Just took the O/H to the station as she's on a booze cruise down the Thames today. Well that's what I call it, she calls it a corporate day.
Decided on the way back that the Alfa GT was filthy and needed a wash. Wasn't going to let the Bosnians do it, it has enough scratches as it is!
So in my wisdom, I figured I'd wash it, before the sun got on it (black cars and dried suds isn't a good look).
I've just washed it in record time before the sun hit it, which is about 10am.
However, the downside is, I'm now sweating like a good un from all the effort, sitting in my 24 degree office, with a tower fan pathetically attempting to cool me down, wondering what is it about cars that makes a normally sane person do such things when it could have waited until tomorrow or Saturday??
Decided on the way back that the Alfa GT was filthy and needed a wash. Wasn't going to let the Bosnians do it, it has enough scratches as it is!
So in my wisdom, I figured I'd wash it, before the sun got on it (black cars and dried suds isn't a good look).
I've just washed it in record time before the sun hit it, which is about 10am.
However, the downside is, I'm now sweating like a good un from all the effort, sitting in my 24 degree office, with a tower fan pathetically attempting to cool me down, wondering what is it about cars that makes a normally sane person do such things when it could have waited until tomorrow or Saturday??
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No, I've had plenty of worms, thanks.
In fact she was pretty OK. No Cr*p but plenty of p**. And not as noisy as expected.
Vet is happy with her progress so 6 months before next time
C
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gave them enough food to last 24 hrs!! then kicked them out into the garden....
conaero
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Shame you can't do that with Wives hey?