Author Topic: What are you doing right now? (Read 2459581 times)

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #22800 on:** 16 November, 2019, 06:22:36 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:16:21 pm

Hoots mon!

Yes, its nose isn't nearly pointy enough to be a shrew.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/common-shrew

rafletcher · « **Reply #22801 on:** 16 November, 2019, 06:23:59 pm »

What’s amazing is that when they’re moving they look 6-7cm long, and stopped and feeding about 2-3cm. And the one this morning was getting under the door when I caught it (in a tea towel) and that gap can’t be more than 8mm!!

rafletcher · « **Reply #22802 on:** 16 November, 2019, 06:25:29 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:22:36 pm

Quote from: Pingu on 16 November, 2019, 06:16:21 pm
Hoots mon!

Yes, its nose isn't nearly pointy enough to be a shrew.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/mammals/common-shrew

Yep, got confused. It’s got (visible) ears so a (field) mouse, not a shrew.

Kim · « **Reply #22803 on:** 16 November, 2019, 06:49:24 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:23:59 pm

What’s amazing is that when they’re moving they look 6-7cm long, and stopped and feeding about 2-3cm. And the one this morning was getting under the door when I caught it (in a tea towel) and that gap can’t be more than 8mm!!

I've seen mice squeeze under doors that were a struggle to pass a cat5 cable under. That's what, 6mm? Plus a bit so the cable doesn't immediately get shredded.

(Cat5 cable appears ineffective at deterring meece.)

Pingu · « **Reply #22804 on:** 16 November, 2019, 11:48:58 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 16 November, 2019, 05:17:10 pm

Quote from: Jaded on 16 November, 2019, 05:03:18 pm
It’s reached 100%!

In order to complete installation, Stained Glass Windows needs to reboot your church.

Reboot Church Ask me again in 1 hour

Arf

Jaded · « **Reply #22805 on:** 17 November, 2019, 12:07:02 am »

Yes!

Although the Hockney window beat any by Gates!

T42 · « **Reply #22806 on:** 17 November, 2019, 08:34:59 am »

Quote from: rafletcher on 16 November, 2019, 06:08:44 pm

Setting mousetraps in the lounge and kitchen. I caught one mouse in the kitchen this morning. Just seen another in the lounge, don’t know how long it’s been in here. Wish the damned cat would eat them

Ah ha! Caught it . Humanely of course. Off to the (neighbours) garden with it

Actually I think this one is a shrew.

Shrew by Richard Fletcher, on Flickr

Heh. The other evening MrsT shook out the blanket we put over the parrot at night and sent a mouse flying across the kitchen. Poor wee bugger made a 4-point landing and ran off under a cupboard.

I must have a look for traps like yours. We used poison when we had a mass invasion >10 years ago, but we were between dogs at the time. Don't want poisonous dead mice lying around for a gluttonous Lab to find.

rafletcher · « **Reply #22807 on:** 17 November, 2019, 08:47:05 am »

Do you think the French will do non-lethal traps?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #22808 on:** 17 November, 2019, 10:30:52 am »

Wondering where my cup of tea went. I had no recollection of drinking it, but, knowing which type of mug I used, and also knowing that we have only 4 like that and they are all accounted for, somebody did.

I have just poured myself another, in a clean mug. You can't be too careful.

Kim · « **Reply #22809 on:** 17 November, 2019, 10:32:33 am »

Waiting for the workman to turn up and tile our bathroom. Apparently he's going to be late because his boss promised to obtain tiles then didn't, and the shops don't open until 10. I'm also betting that his mate will have failed to return his tile cutter in a timely manner...

ETA: He bought a shiny new tile cutter, but no grout...

T42 · « **Reply #22810 on:** 17 November, 2019, 01:17:43 pm »

Quote from: rafletcher on 17 November, 2019, 08:47:05 am

Do you think the French will do non-lethal traps?

When did you start working for the Daily Mail?

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #22811 on:** 18 November, 2019, 09:43:14 am »

Yawning prodigiously while waiting for the postman. Miss von Brandenburg had her copy of the limited vinyl edition of the mighty Amplifier's magnum opus The Octopus delivered on Friday so I have had to get up early as there are many stairs betwixt bed and front door even if the doorbell succeeds in waking me up chiz.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #22812 on:** 18 November, 2019, 10:09:46 am »

Looking at a book I've been threatening to re-read for years. Now I actually have some enforced leisure time, I might just pick it up.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #22813 on:** 19 November, 2019, 10:18:42 am »

I think the mail room at Ampcorp Industries are posting people's Octopuses in alphabetical order and have Miss von Brandenburg filed under "B".

(Applies matchsticks to eyelids)

ian · « **Reply #22814 on:** 19 November, 2019, 08:13:23 pm »

Scranton. It's like a mildly exotic Didcot.

andrewc · « **Reply #22815 on:** 20 November, 2019, 09:51:01 am »

Quote from: ian on 19 November, 2019, 08:13:23 pm

Scranton. It's like a mildly exotic Didcot.

It's still there ? I remember it flying away in my early teens... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight

T42 · « **Reply #22816 on:** 20 November, 2019, 01:24:04 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 20 November, 2019, 09:51:01 am

Quote from: ian on 19 November, 2019, 08:13:23 pm
Scranton. It's like a mildly exotic Didcot.

It's still there ? I remember it flying away in my early teens... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight

Making it a mildly exotic divot?

T42 · « **Reply #22817 on:** 22 November, 2019, 10:00:08 am »

Just back from picking up our 20-year-old A4 from its Contrôle Technique. Was determined to junk it if anything major was wrong - it's only worth around 700€ - but they had no quibbles so it's free to chug around for another 2 years. Glad of that: I don't fancy hauling dogs to the vet's in the A5.

andrewc · « **Reply #22818 on:** 28 November, 2019, 09:52:27 pm »

It’s my little sisters birthday, so a couple of bottles of red & one of fizz were consumed.
I’m now inna pubbe, with a pint of decent stout to decompress. Families can be hard work.

telstarbox · « **Reply #22819 on:** 30 November, 2019, 05:50:44 pm »

Made a vegan sticky toffee pudding and it's finishing in the oven now. Rachmaninov on the sound system as well. Luxury all round.

Feanor · « **Reply #22820 on:** 30 November, 2019, 05:59:18 pm »

Spent the day helping out setting up the CX course at Knockburn Loch for tomorrow's CX event. A cold day! Shoved about one million stakes in the hard ground, and run enough plastic barrier tape between them to run to the moon and back.

Back tomorrow for marshalling duties.

Ham · « **Reply #22821 on:** 01 December, 2019, 03:25:41 pm »

Contemplating what I might have forgotten, in the hour before some dozen people descend on Ham Hall, to do the dirty to turkey etc

Worryingly everything seems to be running on task at the moment. That increases the likelihood that the people will end up being an hour or more late. I think a beer is in order.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #22822 on:** 02 December, 2019, 07:42:08 am »

Waiting for the man from BT to install some piece of internet gubbins while wondering whether Nice Man Mike from Andrews & Arnold really meant "Monday" or "December 4" in the e-mail confirming the date

Which discrepancy I only noticed at 11 pm yesterday chiz.

T42 · « **Reply #22823 on:** 02 December, 2019, 07:55:29 am »

Advancing the date on my watch to 2nd December. Thx Mr. L for the nudge.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #22824 on:** 03 December, 2019, 11:32:15 am »

Yesterday's utter vacuum of BT technicians has led me to the conclusion that Nice Man Mike at A&A did mean the 4th. Since I get charged seventy quid if they show up and there's no-one in, I am already preparing my invoice, just in case.