Thread 7 - TalkLair: “In fact it’s an oblate spheroid”

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 6).
The new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey; we have truly settled here. Outside, the garden is blooming with spring flowers. Inside, the hearth is glowing, pictures are up on the walls, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

a favourite of mine

Same here, seen it loads of times!

Ah, those days of rope swings, dens and tree houses. It all seems a very long time ago. Do kids still jump off garage roofs or is that a thing of the past now?

An enterprising cat burglar a few posts down: www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4798250-what-ate-our-cat-food

A friend of mine had a very greedy cat, and came down to find her trying to drag next door's defrosting, frozen chicken through the catflap

@Tricyrtis2022

Sorry to hear of your horsefly woes, they're horrid buggers. I had one on the back of my hand and it swelled up like a pudding.

Thanks, Sinner, the swelling has gone down somewhat now so I don't look as lopsided as earlier. The glands in my neck swelled up a bit too, so my immune system must have been busy.

I have over 1,000 DVDs but have never seen (or even heard of) Pleasantville. Now ordered.

I used to get the train in to London on my own at 11 and travel on the tube to my uncle's house.

But we were semi feral.

It's a cracker. I'm sure (well, fairly sure!) you'll enjoy it, bnbn.

It looks right up my street, can't believe I've never seen it. One to watch with the kids, I reckon.

Sounds like someone’s hoovering in the woods. It definitely isn’t a chain saw, a strimmer or a brush cutter. Could be a leaf blower, but leaves are allowed in woodland, surely?

Glad to hear about the swelling, Tri it may be an allergic thing. It is with me, as Piriton helps.

@MavisMcMinty Sounds like someone’s hoovering in the woods.

Houseproud hedgehogs? Moley, spring-cleaning?

Heh, it’ll be the angry farmer who owns that bit of woodland. He was making an ever stranger noise last week that would have puzzled me to my grave, until macman said it sounded like a hydraulic fence post hole digger/banger in.

Notifications are a bit random here - just got one about Mouse Minge replying to me 2 weeks ago!

Yes, I think it's a sensitivity to whatever the disgusting creatures inject while they're sawing. Piriton used to be okay for me, but these days it gives me a headache after the first dose, so I use one with Loratadine. It works well and doesn't make me too sleepy, which is a bonus. Anyway, daily Smidge from now till late autumn it is, Smidge is brilliant stuff. Next will come gnats and mozzies, then more gnats later in the year. And ants, of course. The earliest I've been bitten was an absolutely freezing cold day at the beginning of February - outrageous.

<Googles Smidge>

I wonder if it'll work against Malaysian mozzies 🤔

In London there's always loads of schoolkids taking the train/tube to school. We have friends who live in Central London and their DC have done this since the start of secondary, quite a long commute in fact.

@Kucinghitam for me it works for everything, so very much worth trying. Every biting insect on the planet loves me so this stuff is life changing.

I got the bus or walked to school on my own from quite young (maybe 6 or 7, at a guess) and secondary school was a bus and tube ride away.

I remember my sister’s instructions on how to get to secondary school were basically when you come out of the tube station turn right and follow the crowd. Confusingly, the crowd turned left but I made it to school.

In TV news, following an infrequent dip into the old place, I watched Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World, on recommendation from poster darkhorse, one of the few I really miss. I guess I'm as much of a hip-hop fan as any old white man can be, but I wouldn't go so far as to claim that it's been an unalloyed force for good. Nevertheless, it's a cracking docu (I'm only half-way through), and of course it has very much an American perspective. Just made me think, oh for simpler times, when everyone seemed to pulling in the same direction.

I can't believe that Rodney King was over twenty years ago!

We watched that recently - agree it's an excellent documentary (and I have no particular interest in hip hop).

Fight the Power was great but if I remember correctly I was disappointed by the lack of mention of Jurassic 5 who I love to the moon and back. Well, at least halfway to the moon at least.

Re travelling social as a child in London. Primary school was mostly a school bus because we were a little bit away from the school due to being cat licks so primary school was further away than it would have been if we'd been "normal". Secondary school was by myself from the moment I started. My baby brother was out without parents from age eight because he could go places with me. Weekends when I was 11 until I became too much of a bratty teen to want to take the little fucker anywhere were generally us getting a Red Rover and going to places like the V&A, National History and the Science museum which was often because they are all more or less next to each other. If I wasn't looking after him it was the Red Rover with friends. I think there's a lot more pressure on parents of children these days to keep them shackled until they're much older than was normal when I was younger.

I was disappointed by the lack of mention for Southern hip-hop, but yes, it was excellent overall.

Good reading room, unfortunate typo in the description: https://www.propertypal.com/60-crossbane-road-derrynoose/8167561o