To Kick These People Out #2

[FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse]

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Summary anyone? :)

Yoshi, xpost. Yes I do! Well, it's not mine, but I have been using it. Love the idea of jumping on the boxes.

Dh held the bag for me and then soothingly gave me faces to picture on said bag. I hit it until it had a great big indentation

The image is probably made slightly less butch if I throw in the fact that I was wearing fluffy pyjamas and wooly slippers alongside my boxing gloves

Actually, I think that you should practice your primal screaming at carefully timed intervals... that conveniently coincide with certain hairy fourlegged things that are in your field being 'done'. Might speed things up a bit

I don't suppose there's been any further progress on that front yet? less than 8 wks now - and less because they said they'd get them out sooner if they didn't put the electric fence up...

Mistle, dh sent an email yesterday asking when it was going to be done, as if it's not in the next fortnight we want electric fencing put up. No reply as yet.

Ah the punchbag sounds very theraputic! I am in awe of you doing your poetry at an event. Mind you the poem you wrote on here was great so you have a talent!

Glad she's shifting the horsebox etc... a v good sign.

That cheat's cheesecake sounds brilliant! I WILL try it. Might try a slimming world version with low fat fromage frais, sweetener and stuff which may suck all the joy out of it or may make something fabulous. I will experiment!

Bonzo, you'll have to report back on the cheesecake. Don't be too in awe, I have plenty of time to chicken out between now and then. It's something I've wanted to do for years and now it's being offered to me on a plate. I'd be mad not to do it :) (although this thread isn't a huge amount of evidence that I'm entirely sane)

Hello! I'm illing, bloody sinusitis again. But I know this thread would cheer me up!

Love the punchbag FYC. I have a funny story about a punch bag. It was on of the ball on a stick punchbag. It had a plate at the bottom to stand on so it didn't cowp over when you hit it.

I gloved up, did a few jabs to test myself, the threw the biggest right hook I could. You know how them sciencey types say every action has an equal and opposite reaction? This is true, very true! The bag sprung back whacked me in the face. I stupidly left my specs on, they were mortaled. But my nose bore the worst. It exploded, actually exploded. Blood everywhere. You would think this was the worst bit! Oh no! The worst bit was in was in a garage, with all doors closed, wearing boxing gloves, unable to see and slowly choking on my own blood. I couldn't get the gloves off (more out of panic, there was a Velcro fastening, I just needed to get my teeth round it), the door handle was a ball handle rather than a lever, so I couldn't open it. And the whole time I was very aware I may be bleeding to death.

My neighbour heard me shouting and came to see what's the fuss was. I think he thought I'd been attacked as she was speaking about calling the police. It took me a while to explain exactly what happened. I think the a&e staff. Got a giggle from what happened.

I don't know what they wrote on my notes, probably punched self in face!

I don't box now!!

Primal screaming sounds considerably safer than punching anything! Also, it's longer range!

Glaikit that's horrendous! You poor thing, I was so worried it was going to get worse and worse, nose explodes, punches self in face trying to get gloves off, garage door collapses onto you! Thank god for your neighbour! (That's not to say that what happened wasn't bad enough)

Renter I might try some nice gentle... Crocheting? Can I hurt myself doing that. ( bearing in mind I don't know how to do that!)

Punchbag sounds far too fraught with self harm danger.
I have a cheap and easy therapy, possibly best if you have a big garden or a detached home.
Loud music of choice and a tambourine, a real musician's tambourine. I suppose the battering of instrument is equal to the punchbag, but the music choices can be happy and uplifting, so you get a dual effect.
Trust me it's good fun and the little ones can join in too.

Am getting worried about the weather for the IFYF, we should lay plans to roof the field if it doesn't let up.

Hmm. Egyptian mummification priests had to hook the brains out of the nose with something. Might have been a crochet hook.

Renter you try to find a gentle pastime and someone comes along and uses your things to smoosh mummy brains.

Enrique, I will have to get a tambourine. Would an Irish drum do?

I think you're right about the rain. It's never ending. A big enough tarp and we can cover the whole thing. We could get mners to sit on the edges to weigh it all down :)

Damn! NC fail

And back to me...

Nose wasn't broken. But the whole thing does get a laugh down the pub nowadays! I was called biffer for a while.

I have a tambourine. I can give lessons is it correct usage! Banging a tambourine on the wrong bit of anatomy can result in bruising (got that tee shirt too!)

Crochet, gentle? How can you say that about the pastime which is a close cousin of Madame Defarge's vicious guillotine knitting?!

Extra-posh luxury turdises are ready and waiting - just tell us where and when

Alpaca :) great stuff. We'll all have to dress appropriately for the posh turdises.

Renter you're quite right. I'll go back to my gentle chainsawing.

Glaikit, I broke my nose a few years ago funnily enough I'd just met dh but had barely said two words to him as yet. He admits to seeking me out when he saw the damage to my face, to nose (!) about why, because (and I quote) "you looked so cute with your black eyes and little plaster".

I still have a good scar from the stitches.

I don't sound like I should be a pushover, do I? :)

Reply from UW, lots of unnecessary excuses and then a "should be able to let you know a move date tomorrow".

We've said if they're not gone by the 22nd of this month then they need to put up an electric fence. I'm hoping the cost of that will push them to get it done sooner :)

OMG Glakit! Laughing but cringing too.

they'll let you know?!?... fuck THAT right up the arse.

eagerly awaiting the update in which Mr FYC gives the what for...

Chris, she is manoeuvring you... Don't let it happen - and electric fencing- is she putting a generator in the field or hoping to hook it up to your house?

Electric fencing isn't ideal anyway, mind yourself. To me it is a little permanent and she could argue its fine now whilst she " looks" for somewhere. She can use it to stay longer.

Personally I would write back and say very formally, ignoring all the excuses and emotion- x is the final date. You must have vacated by then. No please.

If you have sent the email re electric fence, resend another saying on discussion with a professional regarding safety round electric fencing round horses and your children/ you you cannot allow it, and they must be gone by x. Who is liable if the horse panics and runs through it or you get a shock and its turned up too high?

electric fence can run on a battery, no need to hook up to mains.

All the best Chris, stand firm and rev up that chain saw.

Lavender - electric fence in this case would be very temporary - you can set one up on those posts with curly tops that have insulators on, and run it across the field on those posts, then simply connect a portable battery one end - very common useage in horse fields to divide fields up so that they graze one bit then another.

There was one visit to the horse that I rode for a friend (for contribution towards shoeing and insurance) when he didn't come to the gate when I called - I struck out across the field to find out what was wrong and found him standing VERY still with his front legs on one side of the electric fence and his back legs on the other. He was standing still for obvious reasons!!! I'm not sure how he got like that!

My horse used to jump electric fences out of spite and because he could. I remember trying to herd him into a different bit of the field using the fence tape and the wee bastard jumping back and forth over the tape with his tail in the air, all smug.

I think any response from your DH should call them out on their vagueness and remind them your schedule is not negotiable. There is a final date for them to vacate, and electric fencing MUST be in place by the 22nd. It's all a bit 'jam tomorrow' from UW isn't it?