I really thought we were in trouble - that Maddie's habits were moving off into (more) dangerous waters. Richard came in with a cheque he found in the garden. It was the dog walker's, for the week's walking.
My mind reeled. Had Maddie picked Laura's pocket? Was she intending splashing out on a fondue set for the next party under the dining table?
A bit of research revealed - no. Laura had dropped it. Phew!
19 November 2012
Puppy party?
It occurs to me that with all this ranting about Maddie's light-fingered habits, I may be missing the point.
On Saturday night, when I got up to tell them off for barking at the cat in the garden (at 1.30am) and then discovered Murphy chewing on the packet of the wraps (it's anyone's guess who ate them although I think we can all guess who stole them off the counter) AND THEN found the empty tin of coasted peanuts sitting in the middle of Maddie's crate - I also found an unopened pack of avocados under the dining room table.
Have they in fact been having parties once we go to bed? Very middle class ones, with guacamole and nibbles? After all, they did have the French bread and the cheese a wee while ago - and not just cheddar, oh no, it was Pecarino Romano!
This requires looking into. And locking up the Pimms!
On Saturday night, when I got up to tell them off for barking at the cat in the garden (at 1.30am) and then discovered Murphy chewing on the packet of the wraps (it's anyone's guess who ate them although I think we can all guess who stole them off the counter) AND THEN found the empty tin of coasted peanuts sitting in the middle of Maddie's crate - I also found an unopened pack of avocados under the dining room table.
Have they in fact been having parties once we go to bed? Very middle class ones, with guacamole and nibbles? After all, they did have the French bread and the cheese a wee while ago - and not just cheddar, oh no, it was Pecarino Romano!
This requires looking into. And locking up the Pimms!
17 November 2012
The downside
As well as winning the cup for Mhairi to take home and polish for another year, we also all got a wee packet of chocolates. I got a box of After Eights, which I brought home triumphantly and shared with the others (as well as showing off our unbeatable knowledge on scientists' pictures and sports in general - take that, Nick!).
Ended up polishing off half the chocolates. Luckily, as it turned out. At 4.30am I suddenly woke up and realised I couldn't remember where I'd left them! So I crept downstairs and snuck around, peering while the dogs woke up and watched me in bewilderment. No sign of the fated After Eights...
Finally, in desperation, I checked Maddie's crate. Aaahhhh. There it was-
Ended up polishing off half the chocolates. Luckily, as it turned out. At 4.30am I suddenly woke up and realised I couldn't remember where I'd left them! So I crept downstairs and snuck around, peering while the dogs woke up and watched me in bewilderment. No sign of the fated After Eights...
Finally, in desperation, I checked Maddie's crate. Aaahhhh. There it was-
Championes!
Well, in the end Sally got sick (poor Sally, our thoughts are with you and hope you're feeling better) so wasn't able to come to the Librarian's quiz after all. So we soldiered on on our own, with a late addition of Alison's sister Susan. We brought the (pretty awesome) cup along with us which Mhairi has been polishing all year and prepared to hand it over graciously. (we were the only team not to have a bloke so we weren't looking forward to the sports round!)
Here we are posing with the cup from last year -
However, to our great surprise, we were among the top teams, led after 4 or 5 rounds, dropped down on the penultimate round then STORMED to victory after the sports round!!!
So here we are posing with the cup from this year! (less me who was taking the picture)-
Here we are posing with the cup from last year -
However, to our great surprise, we were among the top teams, led after 4 or 5 rounds, dropped down on the penultimate round then STORMED to victory after the sports round!!!
So here we are posing with the cup from this year! (less me who was taking the picture)-
13 November 2012
Visit to the dentist..
..or "I'm not a wimp, really"
Off to the dentist for about the fourth time in the last six months, sigh.
To set the scene -
I went for my last six monthly checkup in about June (and got the all-clear). Two days later (holiday) I was eating a slice of toast and marmalade and *crunch* part of my tooth came away.
It wasn't sore so I left it about two months then finally got round to going back, a couple of days before we headed off to the States. On the journey, guess what? Yup - the wee filling came out!
This time I could only wait about 6 weeks as it started hurting, so finally (after waiting for a vet visit-free week) I finally made it back again.
Action -
He decided to drill round the existing filling a wee bit to make it hold better so I went for the no-jags option (hate the after-effects). The dentist said to let him know if it hurt and he'd stop and put a jag in. So it started, and *argh!* Sore!
The dentist stopped and looked worried. "Did that hurt?" he asked "I hadn't started yet, that was just the water dripping on it..."
Off to the dentist for about the fourth time in the last six months, sigh.
To set the scene -
I went for my last six monthly checkup in about June (and got the all-clear). Two days later (holiday) I was eating a slice of toast and marmalade and *crunch* part of my tooth came away.
It wasn't sore so I left it about two months then finally got round to going back, a couple of days before we headed off to the States. On the journey, guess what? Yup - the wee filling came out!
This time I could only wait about 6 weeks as it started hurting, so finally (after waiting for a vet visit-free week) I finally made it back again.
Action -
He decided to drill round the existing filling a wee bit to make it hold better so I went for the no-jags option (hate the after-effects). The dentist said to let him know if it hurt and he'd stop and put a jag in. So it started, and *argh!* Sore!
The dentist stopped and looked worried. "Did that hurt?" he asked "I hadn't started yet, that was just the water dripping on it..."
12 November 2012
Pros and cons of a blog
A blog's supposed to be an electronic version of a diary, right? So how come the only time I've actually wanted to look it up to find some information about something that happened a year ago, I haven't written about it at all. Very annoying.
We've got the CILIPS pub quiz, which we won last year (Alison, Mhairi, Cathy, me and Richard) and we've got the rerun this year. Slight change of team - Richard says he's not doing it cos we're all too clever for him so I'm bringing out the big guns - Sally! She won us the work quiz at the beginning of the year (well we were second but there were hunnerds of teams so we did well)
Tune in next week.
We've got the CILIPS pub quiz, which we won last year (Alison, Mhairi, Cathy, me and Richard) and we've got the rerun this year. Slight change of team - Richard says he's not doing it cos we're all too clever for him so I'm bringing out the big guns - Sally! She won us the work quiz at the beginning of the year (well we were second but there were hunnerds of teams so we did well)
Tune in next week.
06 November 2012
technology and me
Have I ever mentioned that I am death to technology? Well I am. Other people seem to be able to daunder along, with phones, laptops, game consoles etc all wokring as they should with no problems. Me, however...
I had problems with my laptop about a year ago so I paid quite a bit of money to get it cleaned and loads more memory added. that certainly speeded it all up, for a while.
Then it started telling me it didn't have enough memory to do anything. What?! So Husband had a look at it and said I'd clogged it all up with photos. OK, so I took alll the photos off and put them on a hard drive.
It clearly didn't like that, as immediately it started losing all the photos I uploaded from my iPhone. Last week I finally googled the problem and it appears that something has gone wrong. No!
so - when photos are uploaded to your laptop etc they are supposed to be automatically converted to jpgs - from the ithmb files they're saved as on your phone. But mine aren't - they're uploading as these ithmb files which are not recognised by my laptop. So I can't get them back.
So I can't upload any photos any more. Now I got a great video of the dogs in the garden playfighting at lunchtime today, but I've hit the ultimate problem. I can't upload it to my laptop to put on here - for obvious reasons. I tried sneakily uploading it to my work computer, thence to put it up here, but no - there apparently is something wrong with it that stops it uploading.
OK, I thought - I know you can blog from your phone. I tried to register a couple of years ago but it never worked but hey! I've got an almost up to date phone now, should work, right?
Wrong! It won't let me do that (apparently it's a problem with my "carrier"). Result? Still no video up on here. And now I'm really pissed off.
And I don't know if it's the phone, or the laptop! AAAAARRRRGHGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I had problems with my laptop about a year ago so I paid quite a bit of money to get it cleaned and loads more memory added. that certainly speeded it all up, for a while.
Then it started telling me it didn't have enough memory to do anything. What?! So Husband had a look at it and said I'd clogged it all up with photos. OK, so I took alll the photos off and put them on a hard drive.
It clearly didn't like that, as immediately it started losing all the photos I uploaded from my iPhone. Last week I finally googled the problem and it appears that something has gone wrong. No!
so - when photos are uploaded to your laptop etc they are supposed to be automatically converted to jpgs - from the ithmb files they're saved as on your phone. But mine aren't - they're uploading as these ithmb files which are not recognised by my laptop. So I can't get them back.
So I can't upload any photos any more. Now I got a great video of the dogs in the garden playfighting at lunchtime today, but I've hit the ultimate problem. I can't upload it to my laptop to put on here - for obvious reasons. I tried sneakily uploading it to my work computer, thence to put it up here, but no - there apparently is something wrong with it that stops it uploading.
OK, I thought - I know you can blog from your phone. I tried to register a couple of years ago but it never worked but hey! I've got an almost up to date phone now, should work, right?
Wrong! It won't let me do that (apparently it's a problem with my "carrier"). Result? Still no video up on here. And now I'm really pissed off.
And I don't know if it's the phone, or the laptop! AAAAARRRRGHGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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