What's the difference between ignorance and indifference?
I don't know and I don't care...
I don't know and I don't care...
The Grumpy Old Women Thread... (Part 17)
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Originally Posted by handymelon:
“What's the difference between ignorance and indifference?
I don't know and I don't care...
”
“What's the difference between ignorance and indifference?
I don't know and I don't care...
”
Steven Wright jokes.
http://www.myths.com/pub/humor/misc/wright.html
Just a quick hello to let you all know that LittlePlum and I are fine 
After some drama of the very dramatic kind, we finally made the move on Sunday afternoon. We are still living out of boxes but the rooms are starting to look good. I was a bit worried about DestructoPup as she became very quiet, subdued and somewhat good! Fortunately, she has reverted to kind now and is back to running off with things. Yesterday she stole the painter's roller brush and some sandpaper and today she had a mad fit running round and round the house.... she isn't even supposed to be in the house at all
Hopefully, we'll have cured that little habit before my lovely landlady returns!
LittlePlum and I haven't laughed so much in ages. We've barely had tv on, not done any reading and til today we didn't have any internet!
We had an exciting incident on our first night here.... I had been to the loo (I won't go into any detail) and I noticed something odd in the corner but didn't think too much about it as I had loads of other things cluttering up my brain. Anyway, a while later LittlePlum went to the loo (once again, I won't go into detail) and suddenly she came running out, "Mum, I think there's a snake in the loo!" EEEEP!! That made sense of the thing that I had seen but not thought about! I asked her how she knew for sure, and she said "because I prodded it and it hissed...." "What did you prod it with?" asks I, "my finger" she replied - eeeeep! We needed to have a mummy/daughter don't touch anything you think might be a snake conversation! (No rude comments please
). I then found a proddling implement of the long variety, strangely enough it had a little hand on the end! I went in and prodded the little curled up brown thing... (sounds gross eh!) anyway, it lifted it's head and hissed at me, so I retreated somewhat hastily!
Anyway, I had no clue what to do ... .so I messaged a friend in Brisbane to ask her to look up snake catchers on the internet, but they were going to charge a fortune! So with LittlePlum being all worried about spending the night with a snake on the loose. I girded my loins and went into battle armed with a vegetable chopping board (red) and a plastic box marked with the words "Mum's - Do not eat". It seems that the apostrophe on that is quite important, I am glad as a mum that I shouldn't be eaten. Back to the battleground..... I put on my hoodie so that I was in stealth mode and obviously then couldn't be detected by the snake and tiptoed in to the toilet (room, not the toilet itself - eeep!), as I was saying, I tiptoed in somewhat gingerly, although can a brunette gone grey tiptoe in gingerly? Handy you are our redhead aren't you? Your thoughts on this would be appreciated! Well, back to my tiptoe-ing, I approached the snake and with a quick slide, scoop and cover motion I trapped the snake!
Trouble then was that I was in the toilet with a snake trapped between a veggie board and a plastic box and no way to answer the door! LittlePlum had retreated to a distance that was so safe that it was beyond safe and I had to bellow loudly for her to come and rescue me! We then took it out the front door, went for a walk up the road and set it free by a lovely big tree! It was almost certainly a sleepy little tree snake, so that seems fitting! It was all done with much giggling and much suspicion that it wasn't necessarily the wisest thing to do but the thought of sleeping the night in the house with a snake that could wander anywhere was more than I could stand!
I'll save my internet drama for another post
Hope everyone is doing well! I'll be back again soon!
After some drama of the very dramatic kind, we finally made the move on Sunday afternoon. We are still living out of boxes but the rooms are starting to look good. I was a bit worried about DestructoPup as she became very quiet, subdued and somewhat good! Fortunately, she has reverted to kind now and is back to running off with things. Yesterday she stole the painter's roller brush and some sandpaper and today she had a mad fit running round and round the house.... she isn't even supposed to be in the house at all
Hopefully, we'll have cured that little habit before my lovely landlady returns!LittlePlum and I haven't laughed so much in ages. We've barely had tv on, not done any reading and til today we didn't have any internet!
We had an exciting incident on our first night here.... I had been to the loo (I won't go into any detail) and I noticed something odd in the corner but didn't think too much about it as I had loads of other things cluttering up my brain. Anyway, a while later LittlePlum went to the loo (once again, I won't go into detail) and suddenly she came running out, "Mum, I think there's a snake in the loo!" EEEEP!! That made sense of the thing that I had seen but not thought about! I asked her how she knew for sure, and she said "because I prodded it and it hissed...." "What did you prod it with?" asks I, "my finger" she replied - eeeeep! We needed to have a mummy/daughter don't touch anything you think might be a snake conversation! (No rude comments please
). I then found a proddling implement of the long variety, strangely enough it had a little hand on the end! I went in and prodded the little curled up brown thing... (sounds gross eh!) anyway, it lifted it's head and hissed at me, so I retreated somewhat hastily! Anyway, I had no clue what to do ... .so I messaged a friend in Brisbane to ask her to look up snake catchers on the internet, but they were going to charge a fortune! So with LittlePlum being all worried about spending the night with a snake on the loose. I girded my loins and went into battle armed with a vegetable chopping board (red) and a plastic box marked with the words "Mum's - Do not eat". It seems that the apostrophe on that is quite important, I am glad as a mum that I shouldn't be eaten. Back to the battleground..... I put on my hoodie so that I was in stealth mode and obviously then couldn't be detected by the snake and tiptoed in to the toilet (room, not the toilet itself - eeep!), as I was saying, I tiptoed in somewhat gingerly, although can a brunette gone grey tiptoe in gingerly? Handy you are our redhead aren't you? Your thoughts on this would be appreciated! Well, back to my tiptoe-ing, I approached the snake and with a quick slide, scoop and cover motion I trapped the snake!
Trouble then was that I was in the toilet with a snake trapped between a veggie board and a plastic box and no way to answer the door! LittlePlum had retreated to a distance that was so safe that it was beyond safe and I had to bellow loudly for her to come and rescue me! We then took it out the front door, went for a walk up the road and set it free by a lovely big tree! It was almost certainly a sleepy little tree snake, so that seems fitting! It was all done with much giggling and much suspicion that it wasn't necessarily the wisest thing to do but the thought of sleeping the night in the house with a snake that could wander anywhere was more than I could stand!
I'll save my internet drama for another post
Hope everyone is doing well! I'll be back again soon!
Plums, there are so many ways I love you that I can't fit them all into one post!
So glad it's all going well
I'm no use to you re "gingerly" as (a) I'm also going grey and (b) I very rarely exercise caution...
Hugs to you and Little Plum!
Here, it's absolutely piddling down and i'm up to my eyes in paperwork as usual. Ack!
So glad it's all going well
I'm no use to you re "gingerly" as (a) I'm also going grey and (b) I very rarely exercise caution...
Hugs to you and Little Plum!
Here, it's absolutely piddling down and i'm up to my eyes in paperwork as usual. Ack!
Originally Posted by handymelon:
“Plums, there are so many ways I love you that I can't fit them all into one post!”
“Plums, there are so many ways I love you that I can't fit them all into one post!
”
Gerroff, she's mine!
Plumster. You can write. A talent, you haz it.
Originally Posted by handymelon:
“Plums, there are so many ways I love you that I can't fit them all into one post!
So glad it's all going well
I'm no use to you re "gingerly" as (a) I'm also going grey and (b) I very rarely exercise caution...
Hugs to you and Little Plum!
Here, it's absolutely piddling down and i'm up to my eyes in paperwork as usual. Ack!”
“Plums, there are so many ways I love you that I can't fit them all into one post!
So glad it's all going well
I'm no use to you re "gingerly" as (a) I'm also going grey and (b) I very rarely exercise caution...
Hugs to you and Little Plum!
Here, it's absolutely piddling down and i'm up to my eyes in paperwork as usual. Ack!
”
Better than being up to your eyes in piddle and it's raining paperwork.
Originally Posted by KJ44:
“
Plumster. You can write. A talent, you haz it.”
“
Plumster. You can write. A talent, you haz it.”
Yes indeed! I don't usually have patience to read long posts, but that had me hanging on every word.
Originally Posted by handymelon:
“Here, it's absolutely piddling down and i'm up to my eyes in paperwork as usual. Ack!”
“Here, it's absolutely piddling down and i'm up to my eyes in paperwork as usual. Ack!
”
"What would Plum do?"
Make a papier māche baseball bat from soggy papers and beat the sh*t out of a passing croc. Grrrl.
Originally Posted by ImaPlum:
“Just a quick hello to let you all know that LittlePlum and I are fine
After some drama of the very dramatic kind, we finally made the move on Sunday afternoon. We are still living out of boxes but the rooms are starting to look good. I was a bit worried about DestructoPup as she became very quiet, subdued and somewhat good! Fortunately, she has reverted to kind now and is back to running off with things. Yesterday she stole the painter's roller brush and some sandpaper and today she had a mad fit running round and round the house.... she isn't even supposed to be in the house at all Hopefully, we'll have cured that little habit before my lovely landlady returns!
LittlePlum and I haven't laughed so much in ages. We've barely had tv on, not done any reading and til today we didn't have any internet!
We had an exciting incident on our first night here.... I had been to the loo (I won't go into any detail) and I noticed something odd in the corner but didn't think too much about it as I had loads of other things cluttering up my brain. Anyway, a while later LittlePlum went to the loo (once again, I won't go into detail) and suddenly she came running out, "Mum, I think there's a snake in the loo!" EEEEP!! That made sense of the thing that I had seen but not thought about! I asked her how she knew for sure, and she said "because I prodded it and it hissed...." "What did you prod it with?" asks I, "my finger" she replied - eeeeep! We needed to have a mummy/daughter don't touch anything you think might be a snake conversation! (No rude comments please ). I then found a proddling implement of the long variety, strangely enough it had a little hand on the end! I went in and prodded the little curled up brown thing... (sounds gross eh!) anyway, it lifted it's head and hissed at me, so I retreated somewhat hastily!
Anyway, I had no clue what to do ... .so I messaged a friend in Brisbane to ask her to look up snake catchers on the internet, but they were going to charge a fortune! So with LittlePlum being all worried about spending the night with a snake on the loose. I girded my loins and went into battle armed with a vegetable chopping board (red) and a plastic box marked with the words "Mum's - Do not eat". It seems that the apostrophe on that is quite important, I am glad as a mum that I shouldn't be eaten. Back to the battleground..... I put on my hoodie so that I was in stealth mode and obviously then couldn't be detected by the snake and tiptoed in to the toilet (room, not the toilet itself - eeep!), as I was saying, I tiptoed in somewhat gingerly, although can a brunette gone grey tiptoe in gingerly? Handy you are our redhead aren't you? Your thoughts on this would be appreciated! Well, back to my tiptoe-ing, I approached the snake and with a quick slide, scoop and cover motion I trapped the snake!
Trouble then was that I was in the toilet with a snake trapped between a veggie board and a plastic box and no way to answer the door! LittlePlum had retreated to a distance that was so safe that it was beyond safe and I had to bellow loudly for her to come and rescue me! We then took it out the front door, went for a walk up the road and set it free by a lovely big tree! It was almost certainly a sleepy little tree snake, so that seems fitting! It was all done with much giggling and much suspicion that it wasn't necessarily the wisest thing to do but the thought of sleeping the night in the house with a snake that could wander anywhere was more than I could stand!
I'll save my internet drama for another post
Hope everyone is doing well! I'll be back again soon!”
“Just a quick hello to let you all know that LittlePlum and I are fine
After some drama of the very dramatic kind, we finally made the move on Sunday afternoon. We are still living out of boxes but the rooms are starting to look good. I was a bit worried about DestructoPup as she became very quiet, subdued and somewhat good! Fortunately, she has reverted to kind now and is back to running off with things. Yesterday she stole the painter's roller brush and some sandpaper and today she had a mad fit running round and round the house.... she isn't even supposed to be in the house at all
Hopefully, we'll have cured that little habit before my lovely landlady returns!LittlePlum and I haven't laughed so much in ages. We've barely had tv on, not done any reading and til today we didn't have any internet!
We had an exciting incident on our first night here.... I had been to the loo (I won't go into any detail) and I noticed something odd in the corner but didn't think too much about it as I had loads of other things cluttering up my brain. Anyway, a while later LittlePlum went to the loo (once again, I won't go into detail) and suddenly she came running out, "Mum, I think there's a snake in the loo!" EEEEP!! That made sense of the thing that I had seen but not thought about! I asked her how she knew for sure, and she said "because I prodded it and it hissed...." "What did you prod it with?" asks I, "my finger" she replied - eeeeep! We needed to have a mummy/daughter don't touch anything you think might be a snake conversation! (No rude comments please
). I then found a proddling implement of the long variety, strangely enough it had a little hand on the end! I went in and prodded the little curled up brown thing... (sounds gross eh!) anyway, it lifted it's head and hissed at me, so I retreated somewhat hastily! Anyway, I had no clue what to do ... .so I messaged a friend in Brisbane to ask her to look up snake catchers on the internet, but they were going to charge a fortune! So with LittlePlum being all worried about spending the night with a snake on the loose. I girded my loins and went into battle armed with a vegetable chopping board (red) and a plastic box marked with the words "Mum's - Do not eat". It seems that the apostrophe on that is quite important, I am glad as a mum that I shouldn't be eaten. Back to the battleground..... I put on my hoodie so that I was in stealth mode and obviously then couldn't be detected by the snake and tiptoed in to the toilet (room, not the toilet itself - eeep!), as I was saying, I tiptoed in somewhat gingerly, although can a brunette gone grey tiptoe in gingerly? Handy you are our redhead aren't you? Your thoughts on this would be appreciated! Well, back to my tiptoe-ing, I approached the snake and with a quick slide, scoop and cover motion I trapped the snake!
Trouble then was that I was in the toilet with a snake trapped between a veggie board and a plastic box and no way to answer the door! LittlePlum had retreated to a distance that was so safe that it was beyond safe and I had to bellow loudly for her to come and rescue me! We then took it out the front door, went for a walk up the road and set it free by a lovely big tree! It was almost certainly a sleepy little tree snake, so that seems fitting! It was all done with much giggling and much suspicion that it wasn't necessarily the wisest thing to do but the thought of sleeping the night in the house with a snake that could wander anywhere was more than I could stand!
I'll save my internet drama for another post
Hope everyone is doing well! I'll be back again soon!”
That makes me glad I live in the UK. Snakes are not exactly my favourite type of animal. :shudders:
=
We have the 'equivalent of' Steven Wright in the UK.
Tim Vine Live At The Apollo EXTENDED Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Odr7E4klE
Tim Vine Live At The Apollo EXTENDED Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjtWONm_QI
Originally Posted by snowy ghost:
“Plum you are soooooooooooo brave
”
“Plum you are soooooooooooo brave
”
Abso - bloody -lutely.
I am in awe - I would have run a mile!
Snakes are cool. Plum is right to be wary in Oz where even Teddy Bears have a nasty bite, but other than adders, here in Blighty I'd invite a snake in.
No way letting a python near a guinea pig though.
No way letting a python near a guinea pig though.
Awww you lot are all too nice to me I'm not brave at all - I'm a big clucking chicken with an additional yellow stripe down my back for good measure! The only reasons I caught the snake were (a) I was fairly convinced it wasn't a venomous snake, my reasoning being unclear for this conclusion and (b) because LittlePlum would have gone on and on and on and on at me. Some have said I was being a protective mother .... pfffffft to that, it was purely self-interest I can't stand people going on at me
I didn't tell you the part where I told her if I screeched and fell over that she should call 000 and the little devil had to think about it before she agreed she would, she was weighing up the advantages and disadvantages - a real chip off the old block
No great dramas here thank heavens for the last few days. I have heaps of mundane housework to do. Doing some daytime shifts is really screwing up my routine and I suppose I don't really have a routine since we moved. All I know is that the ironing mountain is fast becoming too high to scale without oxygen equipment!
I was going to post a photo of the view from my front door, but I've temporarily lost all the cables to connect phone or camera to my laptop. They are probably in the huge box marked "Scarey". It has all the bits and pieces that couldn't be neatly packed in it and now it has transmuted into the box that has all the bits and pieces that can't be neatly unpacked! I need a cupboard, you know the sort that most houses have to stuff away things that you need/use but just need to be out of sight because they are messy. Until I have one, scarey box will have to sit in the corner glaring at me - I might actually go draw some eyes on it, that can be this mornings little project! Oh what a hectic life I lead!
Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
I'm not brave at all - I'm a big clucking chicken with an additional yellow stripe down my back for good measure! The only reasons I caught the snake were (a) I was fairly convinced it wasn't a venomous snake, my reasoning being unclear for this conclusion and (b) because LittlePlum would have gone on and on and on and on at me. Some have said I was being a protective mother .... pfffffft to that, it was purely self-interest I can't stand people going on at me I didn't tell you the part where I told her if I screeched and fell over that she should call 000 and the little devil had to think about it before she agreed she would, she was weighing up the advantages and disadvantages - a real chip off the old block
No great dramas here thank heavens for the last few days. I have heaps of mundane housework to do. Doing some daytime shifts is really screwing up my routine and I suppose I don't really have a routine since we moved. All I know is that the ironing mountain is fast becoming too high to scale without oxygen equipment!
I was going to post a photo of the view from my front door, but I've temporarily lost all the cables to connect phone or camera to my laptop. They are probably in the huge box marked "Scarey". It has all the bits and pieces that couldn't be neatly packed in it
and now it has transmuted into the box that has all the bits and pieces that can't be neatly unpacked! I need a cupboard, you know the sort that most houses have to stuff away things that you need/use but just need to be out of sight because they are messy. Until I have one, scarey box will have to sit in the corner glaring at me - I might actually go draw some eyes on it, that can be this mornings little project! Oh what a hectic life I lead!Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
Not too bad so far Plummy, but you've got me thinking of my own boxes that need sorting. Maybe tomorrow...
Wish it was here. Am stuck in writing reports - trying to say what I think without actually saying it - and it's such a tedious way to do it. Much prefer a face to face conversation.
Can't wait to finish them and have some free time to myself.
Enjoy your sunshine snoWy.
As for sorting boxes - that's definitely a rainy day job
Can't wait to finish them and have some free time to myself.
Enjoy your sunshine snoWy.
As for sorting boxes - that's definitely a rainy day job
One wedding,one engagement party, and a washing mountain... that sums up my weekend, really. Oh, and being a taxi. 
The box sorting is scheduled for the summer holidays
Plumster - it's fab to hear from you again
The box sorting is scheduled for the summer holidays
Plumster - it's fab to hear from you again
Originally Posted by Amica:
“
As for sorting boxes - that's definitely a rainy day job”
“
As for sorting boxes - that's definitely a rainy day job”
Originally Posted by Sadperson:
“
The box sorting is scheduled for the summer holidays
”
“
The box sorting is scheduled for the summer holidays
”
Well you two are writing exactly what I want to read! It might be ages til we have a rainy day, weeks away in fact! I love winter! And as for the summer holidays, they don't start til December - wooop!!
Trouble is, the cardboard boxes are large, our two rooms are not that big, so I suspect that I'm going to have to be brave and tackle them sooner! I was trying to get LittlePlum to sort her stuff out, but really hell will genuinely freeze over before she is likely to do that without my intervention. I might make a brave start on her room today. Mine is looking ok apart from the one HUGE box of random stuff.
I lost my book the day before yesterday and couldn't find it anywhere. I was pretty sure that the last time I had had it was in the house but it was nowhere to be found. I looked in all the usual places, I even started looking in the unusual places in case I had been wandering around with it but no joy! Then I had a fit of domesticity and went to put a load of washing on and there it was, inside the cupboard with the washing liquid and stuff. No idea why or how it got there! Marbles seem well and truly on the decline.
I was also attacked by a killer frying pan. Actually, I'm being slightly unfair to the frying pan, it was the cooker that put it up to it. I had forgotten that my lovely landlady had warned me that the front ring on the hob sometimes goes bananas and only acknowledges one heat - HOT! So I had put oil on in a frying pan to heat, plonked some sausages in after a little while and whoosssssssssssssh a massive jet of hot oil came spitting out and up the inside of my arm! I have a join the dots of blisters up my arm, actually it really looks like a small slug like creature leaving a trail of droppings behind it
Work was pleasant in the evening. One of the witches has turned out to be a lovely lady and was very caring about my situation. I was quite taken aback. Anyway, I must shuffle off it's time to kick YoungPlum up the bum to get ready for school!
Sleep well my grumpyones when you go to bed!
Originally Posted by batgirl:
“You too Plum!.
Morning. The sun is out, the sky is blue, I have lots of paperwork to dooo ooo...”
“You too Plum!.
Morning.
The sun is out, the sky is blue, I have lots of paperwork to dooo ooo...”
Yep. Tis nice weather. For a change. I was beginning to think summer was cancelled, although technically it doesn't start for another 3 days.
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