Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles - Thread 2

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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.

I've just realised that I'm hungry which is probably because I haven't eaten anything yet today. I think I'm going to get a warm pastie of some sort from the village bakery.

I had a bacon and egg muffin for breakfast, then a ham and pease pudding sandwich, with a bit of Stilton, some olives and a couple of black tomatoes, for lunch.

Please don't stone me! I promise I didn't say Jehovah! Oh shit, I said it.

Heh! That film is a classic. Along with Blues Brothers and Blazing Saddles, one of my favourites.

@IReallyLikeCrows The Traitor thread(s) here on Mumsnet have been great obvs not as great as our BB threads at the old place in their heyday but still great.

I popped into Lidl earlier and parsnips were reduced from 62p to 19p. It's a sign, I tells ya! 😀So they're boiling now. Surprised they are worth digging out of the ground at those prices, though.

I am not a stout fan although I love parsnips, and you make parsnip stout sound very appealing. Can smell it from here.

Boo. £450 has been paid to the London Borough of Camden from my account - I do not live in Camden or use any services provided by Camden Council. Looks like my bank card has been cloned.

Ouch! That's a PITA, especially at this time of year.

Moto - nice one!

Winterborne, we had a spate of credit cards being cloned a couple of years ago and the bank are better at alerting us to potential dodgy transactions these day, though we also check the statements more carefully ourselves. The first time it came up was when someone tried to buy tickets to Australia and the card was refused.

Good luck with the rest of the packing, @IReallyLikeCrows - am glad you have some help and some company and avoided being scammed.

I have another migraine, triggered by going out last night for dinner with my team. No booze, fresh Thai food.

I worked out I have had migraines on 75 days this year which is over 20%. Feels unfair.

Hi bignose, yes patterdales embody the best and worst of terrierdom. I like to compare Diesel with Christian Romero at Spurs. Harsh but fair.

Feels unfair.

It definitely is. How frustrating and draining.

Good luck to all the movers and migrainers. xx

I stayed up all night to watch Happy Valley and Harry’n’Meghan’s Netflix doc, then read (re-read) half of Stephen King’s The Waste Lands, Volume 3 of his Dark Tower series, went to bed at 07.00 and woke up at 17.00 with terrible back ache.

BinkerTell

Poor you, I do sympathise and hope you get through Christmas and New Year without another one.

borborygmi

Hi bignose, yes patterdales embody the best and worst of terrierdom.

My dad's neighbour on his allotment had chickens, which kept declining in number. One day, another allotment owner saw the next neighbour of chicken man had a Patterdale and observed it grab a chicken, which poked its head through a little hole in the fence.

The cheeky fucker just pocketed it!

Arf (appropriately) at the naughty chicken-rustling Patterdale.

I had my Visa credit card details nicked via an otherwise innocent online site and found out when the twat used it (also online) to buy about £150 worth of printer ink cartridges, all magenta! I mean, WTAF? I found out when the ink company emailed me to confirm the date and address (somewhere near Heathrow) of delivery. Visa refunded me without question, but the fraud people were disappointing. I'd had a vain hope that they'd send someone round to nab the culprit, what with having his address and phone number from the email. Not worth their while, obviously, but it would have been satisfying.

Heh, someone told me a while back (possibly in the Old Place) that some years back they had started off with a similar terrier/ cross to ours and a dozen or so chickens and then after a while they just had a dog. We have about a dozen chickens in a fenced off area in our back garden - Gizmo is not allowed anywhere in that garden off the lead, based on her implicit promises of action when she gets anywhere near their zone.

I had two 'requests for payment' from PayPal for $699 each this morning, which I of course denied and blocked the sender. There's a lot of scammery around at this time of years.

I had someone steal my details to order a load of catalogue items many years ago when she moved into a rented house I'd just moved out of. Can't remember how I found out tbh, but I called the local police station to report fraud. Happily an ex who I was still in contact with lived across the road, and apparently they went round there at about 6am on a Sunday morning to speak to her (or caution her, no idea of the details).

Oh, and re discussion about reducing days worked - early 2020 I agreed with my manager to do a 4 day week, but with the same hours. He took a bit of convincing (he's German, and they're a bit funny over working long hours - at least officially), but agreed to a trial which turned into long term.

Works brilliantly for me - I was usually doing way over my hours before, so this way I get every Friday off without much change to the hours I was working on the other 4 days anyway. Made no difference to my reviews either.

I used Morrison's car park but shopped in independents today - grocer, butcher and baker.
All I missed was the candlestick maker.
And I paid cash, not card.

Let's take back the high street, a pound of carrots at a time! 😆

I've started doing that again, mach. The person on the till often looks surprised at being offered cash rather than a card.

Yeah, I get that reaction in most places. The grocer and baker weren't fazed. The butcher told me that each card transaction costs him 25p and pulled a figure of 30,000 transactions out of the air for the year. So around £7500 per year in card fees.

But better a card transaction that none. I wanted a book that neither Amazon nor any of the this end of Ireland shops had, so contacted a small town bookshop in Northern Ireland - success - it's in the post.

Do you know what, I never really thought about that. Doh. Okay, cash is king in small shops from now on.

I’ve found myself gradually widening my horizons on here, watching a couple more threads at a time (generally but not only in the feminism: sex & gender folder) and it’s just a breath of fresh air. I really want this here thread to continue because it connects me to people I know, and also the general women’s rights thread for the same reason and also because it’s just a good idea in and of itself - but the fact that new threads keep popping up on specific stories on the gender wars issues is just amazing for something that should be entirely unremarkable.

Great bunch of lasses over here even though - shock, horror - I don’t agree with all of them about everything.

So around £7500 per year in card fees.

Wow, that is a lot.