and today i have mostly been...

[Welly]

Bugger, and look at the cheap fuel prices right now - you'd get many more mile-per-pound.

What say the fuel prices start to increase at the same rate as we all go back to 'normal'

[steve_earwig]

I'm having trouble telling if that's sarcasm or not

[Doggy]

Not
Petrol 99.7 Diesel 104.7 p/l locally

[steve_earwig]

That doesn't look so cheap, a couple of weeks back I paid 7.53Kn/l (about 88p) which is the cheapest I've paid in years (bearing in mind the price of fuel here is, if anything, slightly more than the UK). Supply and demand innit, nobody's going anywhere so nobody's buying and we recently had the weirdness of the price of oil going negative (mostly nowhere to store it). Of course, the gubbermints still want their cut (which, deviously, is a price rather than a percent) and then there's processing, storage, overheads of running service stations, toenail tax etc. so we didn't see that much of a benefit sadly. It's already back to 8.11/l (99p) here but, burger me, it cost me less than 400 squirrels to fill the yoyo, my ghast was well and truly flabbered

[Welly]

Yes it's cheap right now but most of your money is paying that Tax.

Hope we don't all get batches of 'gone off' Pez, or Pez with water in it I've already seen our Toyoyo here at work coughing on a slug of water lodged in the fuel rail from a recent fill-up at a supermarket forecourt.

The pez in the Twingo has been in the tank for about 3 months

[steve_earwig]

Get some fuel stabiliser perhaps? No idea if it helps or anything mind, and I suspect it's more targeted21q (cat attack!) at lawnmowers...

Hope we don't all get batches of 'gone off' Pez, or Pez with water in it

That's a bloody good point, I'll bet that's in the, err, pipeline someday soon.

[steve_earwig]

Uuuh, headaches every day, I think I need new glasses

Thought: When this is all over I think the NHS needs a serious overhaul, cull 99% of the not medically qualified management (n.b. clubs are cheaper than shotgun cartridges) and pay rises for the rest to reflect how actually vital they all are. Maybe even reservists, like the TA. And if any politician even thinks about reducing funding or flogging bits off to his mates, we should be allowed to march on parliament and kick them so hard in the goolies they'll need a hat.

[Doggy]

I got new glasses, still got headaches. Seems to be related to time spent using display equipment in my case.

Now the peak of the epidemic is allegedly over, the emphasis is definitely in the direction of getting the masses back to work, floating ideas on tax rises, cuts in public spending et al.

Hope to be proved wrong, but I can see cuts in NHS funding 'justified' since the service has never been so well provided for etc.
The potential of huge numbers of emergency volunteers to do stuff for nowt won't have missed their attention either
Just consider the sincere assurances people are getting that it's perfectly safe to reopen schools with no means of controlling or monitoring the spread of infection....

[Welly]

the emphasis is definitely in the direction of getting the masses back to work

...in order for us to pay back the money the gubbermint laid out in furlough payments.

I guess we're in for price rises, greater taxation and a property flop

And you just know that once this is all over the poor NHS nurses who do all the grafting will get forgotten about again......those Thursday night claps will drop off rapidly, last week we forgot to do it....until a firework went off and one of the cats went into meltdown.

[steve_earwig]

allegedly

Oh yes, and don't discount the second peak (which, for the Spanish* flu, was far more deadly).

I dunno, I guess I may as well hope for that idiot Cummings to be publicly flogged...

I got new glasses, still got headaches. Seems to be related to time spent using display equipment in my case.

I've been wondering about that, so I've moved the monitor 18" further away and today no headache I'll still get the glasses sorted as I've been noticing a drop off in their effectiveness...

Meanwhile, guess who's at the vet's getting, ahem, behavioural modification surgery right now?

[steve_earwig]

Update: Mirela just called - the deed is done. She didn't do his eye, she reckons it wasn't bad enough to need surgery (I guess we'll see) but she had one of his pre-molars out 'cos it was rotten. Hopefully that's the reason he's been having trouble eating (drops half of it) and now he can start putting some weight on. I need to pick him up in 2 hours, I hope he's in not too bad a state.

[Doggy]

Sounds positive, I've a feeling he'll bounce back PDQ

[steve_earwig]

Hopefully, then we can start on his other issues, for a start he's a mass of fur balls just now.

I was a bit early at the vet's, they usually like them to wake up and make sure they're ok before releasing them, so I had to hang about for a bit. No problems though, he didn't even throw up. I got him home, up to the cat room and let him out: his first thought was escape but he got half way to the door and collapsed, the poor old feller. He's back Thursday morning for a repeat of the antibiotics, I'll probably keep him in until then.

Apparently the sinus-clearing odour will clear after a day or so but the pissing all over the furniture thing will take a deal longer c ccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc thank you Charles

[Welly]

Hope he continues to recover mate

We spotted a 'tick' on one of our cats at the weekend and it appears the best advice is to leave it be? it'll drop off by itself? never had this before but he's been sleeping in our hedgerow laid with bark chippings; might have come from there.

Any advice welcome though as its very close to his eye

[steve_earwig]

Cheers bud, me too. I took some water up a while ago and he's moved, now laying on towel but still looking right sorry for himself. Welcome to retirement mate!

So, the tick drops off and then where does it go? Once full of blood females will also lay their eggs I pull the ticks off of all our animals, I've even had to pull one off myself, they can carry diseases that are bad news for humans (and dogs) so it's best gone. I grab them as close to the animal's skin as possible with my fingernails, give them an anticlockwise twist and pull. There are tools... hold on... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071FJHC3D?ta ... th=1&psc=1 I don't know how good they are as I've never used one.

They're getting loads just now (mild winter), including a small one on Archie about an hour ago. We've not long ampuled them but it looks like I need to do them again ($$$ )

Yes, anticlockwise, Mirela said so. Although if it really is that close to the cat's eye it might be a job for a vet (also $$$ )