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  1. Bear with me, I'm catching up... Loobie, I hope you are OK For the Badger fans (needs sound) kittycat97, my sister had that problem and found that one of her kids had been stuffing unwanted food (sprouts, etc) into an air vent/air brick thing in the wall. I'm sure I've missed something
  2. Congrats Sam Squigg I thought it was an exception, and that it's OK to use '2' after 'to' or 'too', I don't have my grammar books here to check though
  3. Damn I was worried that something like that could happen It's too late for me to go back tonight, it's too dark, I would never find it, but I will phone the park rangers tomorrow and also go back and check the area feels cold.
  4. Today I have been mostly gardening, clearing brambles and pruning, so I am all scratched and battered but glad it's done . Then me and OH took Sully for a walk in the woods at the back of the park. Kids had made a bonfire inside an old tree, and it's ankle deep in dry leaves up there. We dithered a bit about calling the fire brigade, but I had no reception on my phone, and I couldn't even describe where the tree is, it's a wood, it all looks the same, so we threw our cola and water on it and then piled wet soil on top of that, and cleared a circle around it so there were no leaves immediately round it. The kids who did it were still hanging round though so I am still fretting about it. It doesn't merit a 999 call, but I don't know who else to tell
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    Cartrophen Injections

    Sully had them and in all honesty they have been a miracle. He was on max dose of Rimadyl before that for about a year, but they weren't working well enough, so we tried the injections. He had to come off the Rioamdyl before he started the jabs so he got worse first, and there was no improvement for ages Then after the 3rd one I was thinking maybe he was a little better, but the vet was talking about putting him back on the Rimadyl because he was really struggling, but he just suddenly started responding and we've not looked back since. He's off the Rimadyl completely at the moment (he still has his joint supplements, etc), I was toying putting him back on a low dose the last few weeks cos it has been so cold and he has been feeling it, but I didn't in the end. He is still better than he ever was on the Rimadyl. He had the last one a couple of months ago, and we will start another course in a month (3 months is the soonest he can have more). After that he should be able to wait 6 months for the next ones. And just so I know I am not imagining it, over Christmas he managed to jump up on his hind lings to steal a joint of gammon he'd never have been able to do that before hand. But, on the other hand I don't want to get your hopes up too much, the vet said he had responded amazingly well to them, and he hadn't expected such a good response. He said about 50% of dogs do well on them, 30% have a slight improvement and 20% no difference. But with minimal side effects it's got to be worth the risk.
  6. I came across this news story today and thought of this thread.
  7. It could be a blocked salivary (spl?) gland, that can look very similar to the start of mumps.
  8. nooo not at all. Arrgh I obviously couldn't have expressed that worse. A group of us would go out on Sat/Sun afternoons, and R (an older lady with down syndrome) would often come too, as my sister was her live in carer. We only went locally, as R preferred to be able to walk, but also had limited mobility. So we were fairly well known in the local pubs and cafes. Normally there was no problem, and we were never ever asked to leave anywhere, but then we never allowed that situation to happen either. R usually used to loved being out, and she would go to the pub as often as you would let her. But occasionally it wouldn't work out like that. So if we were in a pub say and R started shouting or trying to run about, my sister would take her straight home. Not because we were embarrased, but because it was unfair on the other people in there to let her tip tables up or spill drinks down them, and because it was unfair to her to expect her to continue to stay there when she was obviously bored, stressed, whatever, just because we wanted to stay longer. So sis would take her home, and we would finish our drinks and follow later. The point being, that it was often inconvenient for my sis to have to cut her night short, or leave her drink/meal unfinished, but it was better for everyone else (inc R) so she would leave without hesitation. If she hadn't done that, I have no doubt we would have soon been barred from all our usual haunts, and nobody inc R would have benefited from that. The issue of paying never came into it, but sis would never take R to a restaurant on her own, because she knew there was a slight possibility that they would have to leave before the end of the meal. If there was no-one with her, there was no-one else to leave behind to pay the bill. It's not a question of being happy about it or otherwise, it's about everyone compromising so that as many people as possible can enjoy their free time without unduly impacting on one another.
  9. I was never 'appalled' when we were asked to keep the noise down when out with people with down syndrome. Why would I be? We expected to be treated the same then, and I continue to treat people the same now. Prejudice is the arrogance and patronising idea that someone who is disabled is the equivalent of a child. Wouldn't you want to know if you were disrupting someone else's meal? Wouldn't you want the opportunity to curb your behaviour? There is nothing more offensive than assuming that someone is less capable of understanding or curbing their behaviour, just because they have a disability.
  10. That may have been the title, but the thread has evolved a long way since then.
  11. I don't read the thread that way at all HLGS, most people (including myself) have quite explicitly stated that they don't object to well behaved children, but that we do have a problem with ones who are allowed to run around (which is dangerous as well as annoying) or to scream and shout unchecked for the whole evening. I still don't see what there is to object to in that.
  12. I've had a meal disrupted by a 'disabled' group, in this case most of them were deaf, but they were very very noisy and it was impossible for us to have a conversation. I (politely) spoke to one of the group who could hear, and explained the problem. They kept the noise down after that. I had no problem with that, and I would do exactly the same if my meal was being disrupted by kids, mentally disabled adults or pissed up yobs. If it continued I would expect the management to deal with it. If they wouldn't I would leave, paying whatver I thought the meal up to then had been worth (if anything) and I wouldn't go back. Of course it is all relative. I wouldn't complain about children in a family orientated restaurant, or about a group of drunks in a pub. Years ago my sister was the live in carer for an older downs syndrome lady. We used to take her to lots of places, cafes, pubs, church, and for the most part there was no problem. But if she did start shouting or messign round, she'd be taken straight home, while I (and/or whoever else we were with) were left to finish our drinks/meal and pay the bill. Equally, if I were out in a group that was being too loud, or disruptive and someone asked us to cool it, I would be mortified that I hadn't realised we were upsetting people, and I would do everything I could to make sure it didn't happen again. I'm respectful of other people, and I am more than happy to compromise. I don't get any pleasure out of ruining someone else's night, not even if they are a piss-head or a snob If other people accorded me the same respect I wouldn't have a problem.
  13. I generally try to avoid places where there will be kids eating, because there are too many parents who are happy to let their kids run riot. I've got no problem with well behaved kids, or even with a kid that has started misbehaving and the parents are trying to deal with it. It's the ones that either throw a temper tantrum at every opportunity and the ones that are allowed to run around, that get to me. (If the argument is that they 'need to learn' how to behave, then surely the parent should at least be making some effort to teach them). Is it selfish of me to want to be able to enjoy my meal, whilst being able to hear what the person next to me is saying without having to spend the whole evening shouting over the noise of a screaming child? Or to not have a child playing tic thumping into me and/or the table, spilling food and drink everywhere as they run past? Maybe it is, but how selfish of the parents to allow their child to ruin other people's night like that. Yes I was a child once, but I was *not* allowed to behave like that, and as an adult I would never allow a child I was responsible for to behave like that either. Aside from the effects on other people, it's not fair on the child either. Kids misbehave in restaurants for 3 main reasons, they are usually either bored, tired or hungry. If you have a child that usually eats their dinner at 5.30 and is in bed by 8.30, then to drag them to a restaurant hungry and tired at 8pm is asking for trouble. Even if the parents don't give a damn about anyone else, they should at least be putting the child's needs first. Surely that is the point of being a parent? We seem to keep coming back to dogs, so here is my analogy, I would never intentionally put my dog in a situation that he couldn't cope with. If I misjudged it and found myself in that situation by accident, I would get him out of there as quickly as possible. Regardless of how inconvenient that was for me. I wouldn't just sit it out, letting him get more and more stressed on the grounds that 'he has to learn'. That would be no way to teach him anything.
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    Words

    Not a real word, but in chat recently someone (nat maybe?) was talking about a chunky dog and called it a Flabrador I woke myself up laughing at that in my sleep the other night. Also, those little rubber thimbles you put on your finger when you are flicking through papers (if you aren't an office slave you probably have no idea what I am on about), they are called condoms. I tend to absentmindly fiddle with them, (chew them, poke my biro through them, impale them on cocktail sticks etc) and every time I have to go and ask for a new condom from stationery it just cracks me up. I am so infantile.
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    Fairoaks

    We stayed at this B&B in Boston Fairoaks The cottage was beautiful and Kate, the owner has the sweetest rough collies. She was incredibly helpful and accomodating, and great with Sully. It's an easy drive to Skegness and the pub down the road does good food and will let you take dogs into the beer garden.
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