Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles - Thread 2

[Kucingsparkles]

Continuation of previous thread.

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

You have no idea how Diesel has cheered me up - and I didn't even know I needed cheering! I just want to scrabbage his lovely little face!

Diesel is lovely.

Hello @dollymixedup!

Can’t work out if I have the beginnings of a cold or if my allergies have made it to the next level, either way I feel terrible. Fortunately I’ve completed all my assignments for this year now so can coast into Christmas

£10 a minute Dolly?! Are you firing customers through with an air cannon, or just putting them on skateboards?

I went up to the high street in the snow and it was lovely. The roads are a bit traitorous looking thobut. My friend Snoop is supposed to be coming to help me get piles and piles of books to charity shops tomorrow but I've told her to check with me because I've a feeling it's going to be all black ice tomorrow.

Currently almost toasty and eating a custard donut.

I'm feeling properly Christmassy after the weekend - we got a wreath for the front door, decorated the tree and mantelpiece, and the DC's school carol service was last night (they sing in the choir) followed by mulled wine and mince pies. Didn't get home until quite late, which is probably not the best idea for a Sunday night when there's work and school the next day.

Then this morning, we were all sitting groggily around the breakfast table ... an enormous cellar spider (the sort with the small shiny body and really long skinny legs) lowered itself on a string of silk in a stately way from the ceiling right down to the middle of the table... where my mug of tea was... I've probably never moved a full hot drink so fast in my life! Naturally it was down to me to capture the beast (it was almost as big as my palm when its delicate long legs were stretched out) whilst everyone else debated where we should put it - in the end I offered it a corner of the downstairs loo.

My daughter is a veteran rescuer of spiders. She knows that cellar spiders go in the garage.

Anyway, as I'd dreaded, there is black ice everywhere. Our refugee lad fell heavily, stepping off the path to the pavement, but he's OK. Horrible thud as he landed on his elbow.

I was walking like a sailor, with the dog. She skidded loads and was having a pee when she started a slow slide, eventually coming to a halt facing uphill. She never stopped peeing, but had a befuddled expression.

Crossing the side road at the bottom was fun, as we both staggered and slid across. Halfway over, I realised that a 4 WD was coming and it didn't look like stopping. I braced for impact as she laid on the horn.

She leant out of the window and bawled, "I'm a car!" I said, "I'm struggling to stand up." She just shouted, "I'm a fucking car!" I think that she has an identity crisis.

At the top of our street, there's a smashed up bus, no windscreen, front bodywork bashed in, with a bent door.

So much excitement in just 15 minutes!

She leant out of the window and bawled, "I'm a car!" I said, "I'm struggling to stand up." She just shouted, "I'm a fucking car!" I think that she has an identity crisis.

Hilarious, but also infuriating. Hasn't she heard that pedestrians have right of way crossing side roads?

Kucingsparkles · Today 09:25

Hilarious, but also infuriating. Hasn't she heard that pedestrians have right of way crossing side roads?

Probably, but loads of drivers take no notice of it.

'kinell Sinner, hope you're OK and all injured are soon on the mend. Just had a similar experience myself (sans fall, thankfully). I would run out of cat food for the first time in yonks on the coldest, iciest, slip and break yer f*cking neck-iest morning in years, swear to god on my way to the shop I saw some bint in a blue dress, standing with a snowman and singing about letting it go.

Anyway, the cats are now fed but it wont be forgotten, no doubt it will be the main topic of discussion when they do my monthly appraisal.

Thanks, Pike. The lad came back in for a few minutes, but then went off to school. No other falls, just skitin' aboot! Ms. Identity Crisis stopped short of me.

I’m nearly out of cat bics but have enough wet food for them. No way I could drive up the hill, and I’d need to be out of baccy to WALK to the shop 3 miles away. The ice is so crunchy, must be a very bad time for burglars. You can even hear the cats’ footsteps when they go outside!

some bint in a blue dress

In the words of the immortal Shaggy, wasn't me. It's a thermal trousers day here.

So far it's still dry underfoot here. The ramp to the door that I put in when converting the place for the APs turns into a lethal slip hazard if it gets wet and freezes. I must check whether the Yaktrax-alikes I bought about a decade ago after the last big freeze are still functional.

Elderberry can you fix something like chicken wire to the ramp? That would help.

ps, Deisel is adorable, very like Hector the dog RIP (not to be confused with Hector the cat RIP).

Chicken wire exists somewhere round the place, but I'm not sure whether I'd be able to fasten it. Will think. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have snow and no trains. Which is a bit pathetic.

I know there’s nothing more boring than hearing about other people’s dreams, but last night I dreamt that I killed 3 neighbours over the course of a few days, and woke up worried about the light switch I’d left my fingerprints on. Can’t now remember how I killed them or why, but I got macman to help me cover it up. At one point the owner of the house came back but luckily didn’t notice any of the bodies except for the dead cat that had nothing to do with me.

I was on your side until the dead cat.

It wasn’t me who killed the cat though!

Hmm...🕵

That’s a brilliant dream! I hope you get away with it.

It was one of those dreams you briefly wake up from, think “oh thank god, it was just a dream”, before going back to sleep, straight back into the same dream.

Snow here (and trains, I think, as my brother seems to be on one on his way back to Birmingham). I don’t need to leave the house but the road is mostly clear though the pavement is still snowy.

I have ventured out into the garden but I think that’s it for the day. As the garden is looking vaguely festive, maybe I’ll get round to putting the tree up later.

Ugh, I've had those in the past and they're horrible.

There was one I had years ago, which was about The End of Life on Earth, where the planet was heating up from beneath the ground and the roads were starting to melt and smoke. Everyone else was going to die horribly, but somehow I was being rescued. I woke up and returned to that dream three times before deciding to stay awake. It was so vivid I had to get up and look out of the window to make sure it wasn't real.