I tried to ring a local oil place to get a 20l drum but customer services was out of office until Monday.
You’re right so It’s not all bad - my other half reminded me of the electric emersion option for hot water.
We’ve got a little fireplace in the living room so I picked up some coal and chopped some more wood for that (we just finished the lot I cut up in autumn).
Praise the MASSIVE conifers we cut down a few years back.
Youngest is projectile vomiting every 10 minutes and I’m running out of clean bed sheets and the house smells like warm sick everywhere
Warm sick hahaha
My grandparent’s (long gone) old cottage was gutted by fire the night before last. They spent around 50 years living there before leaving it to my uncle who spent 25 years there raising his family.
The village is hugely sentimental in our family, it’s a tiny village, grandparents are in the graveyard next door and our old family pub is opposite in the square.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1083013623864927&id=100064688978727
Thats awful. Hopefully somthing can be salvaged from inside.
Unfortunately its always a risk with thatched roofs. When they rethatch a roof now they have to put fire boards in. Which should slow the spread of a blaze. However, its sometimes cheaper just to put a fresh coat of reeds on top of the old roof.
Back when i was doing it i was tasked with putting some fire retardent on enough reed for a full rethatch. Took days and i bet it was really bad for my health. No idea if that stuff worked or if they still use it.
Just spent half an hour clearing up glass from the park. Someone had deliberately broken bottles on/in front of every obstacle - I managed to scoop up a lot with a broken board, the rest I’ve just had to push into a corner.
Not sure its a ‘likable’ post. My lad fell on some yesterday at Stoke Plaza, thankfully not cut but he wasn’t pleased. I pushed it as far into the steps as possible. It seems like the locals try to keep on top of it and only small bits remain.
Me and the Mrs both ended up vomiting last night. Our 2 year old was sick last week as well
Travellers have moved back into the car park of my long distance local, Exeter Arena just in time for the Easter hols.
When they were their last year there was conflict with the local estate kids and on their way out they dug out the landscaping around the park and covered the park in it and gravel 
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Shit kicked off in the school mums WhatsApp group today. The group nut case (I’m sure each school group has one) has been whipping everyone up about some pretty mundane stuff like inconsistent spelling tests, etc. My wife is involved with the school governors, and mention in a constructive way to the head that we love the teacher but she and some of the parents had some feedback. The head says, is nutcase behind this, wife said no comment, head teacher tries to slag nutcase off but wife changes the subject. Head says she’s on it, all good. The school then calls nutcase out of the blue and say they’ve heard she’s got some concerns (side note - she’s well know to the school and is apparently on the brink of being band). Nutcase asked who said that but school wouldn’t say. Nutcase takes to the WhatsApp group with multiple aggressive essays, not naming names but insinuating my wife is a grass, saying the sanctity of the group has been breached, etc. Now my wife has got to try and unwind the situation that has been created by one parent acting like a dick all the time and a school that has stitched her right up. I sympathise with the school having to deal with people like that but fuck, they’ve really made that all-class birthday party on Sunday awkward now.
Start a new group without her. Slag her off.
Someone already did that last year.
Parent WhatsApp groups sound like pure hell
I’m in a few for school and sports and I just can’t mute them quick enough.
I can’t think of anything worse than interacting with other parents. Every morning it’s a social gathhering for some people, all standing in the busiest most awkaward spots. I mean, some people actually need this ineteraction to keep sane, it’s good in many ways but I don’t need it personally so they can all fuck off while I drop my boys off and then go to work.
The shit people chat about…
If I have a concern i’ll go right to the source rather than discussing it with loads of crazies.
You are interacting with other parents here.
yep, but surely I don’t have to explain why this is very different to a parent whatsapp group?
Imagine doing it for a living.
we’re not regular parents, we’re cool parents.
