The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[TheGreenAnger]

Ice on the windscreen, fog in the air, winter's arrived, it's still dark out there!

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Monday morning rolls by again on the empty Rolodex of life.

Tea is needed, I think, before this blank contact expires for the want of refreshment.

[Wodrick]

Good Moaning All,
Mostly blue just a little high haze 17c -> 23c
*Ibbieville* shining over the bay.

Nothing to report, thanks for all the wishes in advance. Appointment 12.30

[Hydromet]

Still blowing a gale here, we lost power for a couple of hours. The company did well to get it back on so quickly, as there weree outages in small patches everywhere.
Quietly watching TV about half an hour ago (2100 hrs) when there was an almighty crash out the front. A large dead branch had fallen from the gum tree in front of the neighbour's property. This happens with monotonous regularity, as the council will not send an arborist to tidy up the dead branches. They came a couple of weeks ago in response to neighbour's complaint, and took photos, but so far no action.

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Another hot one. Thunderstorms around but still had to water today. Rain forecast for the foreseeable future but we will see. Had to run the genny to filter the pool.

Keep reading about problems with hospital and GP appointments in the UK. I could book to see a GP tomorrow and this is a third world country. OK it would be a private appointment but even so. Our GP is outstanding and cheaper than my hairdresser. Keep meaning to tell her this. Money grabbing little so and so.

[OFSO]

I would not even need to book to see my GP. Just walk in, nod to Helga, who gets my file out, and take a seat. Christian calls patients from the reception area and observes them walk the corridor to his office. By the time they get there he's made his diagnosis.....

[ricardian]

Thanks for the Punto messages, 'fraid that tomorrow will be his last, he has liver cancer and a tumour on what can't be seen.
He is getting that he can't lie comfortably.
SM is the problem she always pushes these things too far.

So sorry to hear that - a peaceful, pain-free exit is the greatest gift that we can give to a pet but it's the most difficult of gifts to give.

[limeygal]

Wods-So sorry to hear that you are losing your friend today.

[Ex-Ascot]

Wods-So sorry to hear that you are losing your friend today.

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Two pelicans out front.

[G-CPTN]

Elderly neighbour had to say goodbye to her dog a couple of days ago - a dog that I have known all its life - a dog that always showed affection whenever we met. Dog had an operation a couple of months ago to remove cancerous bits and she responded positively until a week ago when she lost all interest in everything - wouldn't eat or drink or get off the couch to go walkies.

[Ex-Ascot]

Thunderstorm. Pissing it down which is good of course but I have to go out and lock up. Probably a strip off, get soaked and towel down job.

[tango15]

Pets are family members and it's always difficult to part with them, whatever the circumstances. Condolences, Wodders

[Wodrick]

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Punto on his way now.

[OFSO]

Sorry. The OFSOs.

[TheGreenAnger]

Sorry to hear this sad news Wodrick.

To lose a dog is to lose one's best friend!



I have always liked this poem about the loss of his dog by Pablo Naruda...

A Dog Has Died
BY PABLO NERUDA
TRANSLATED BY ALFRED YANKAUER

My dog has died.
I buried him in the garden
next to a rusted old machine.

Some day I'll join him right there,
but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,
his bad manners and his cold nose,
and I, the materialist, who never believed
in any promised heaven in the sky
for any human being,
I believe in a heaven I'll never enter.
Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom
where my dog waits for my arrival
waving his fan-like tail in friendship.

Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth,
of having lost a companion
who was never servile.
His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine
withholding its authority,
was the friendship of a star, aloof,
with no more intimacy than was called for,
with no exaggerations:
he never climbed all over my clothes
filling me full of his hair or his mange,
he never rubbed up against my knee
like other dogs obsessed with sex.

No, my dog used to gaze at me,
paying me the attention I need,
the attention required
to make a vain person like me understand
that, being a dog, he was wasting time,
but, with those eyes so much purer than mine,
he'd keep on gazing at me
with a look that reserved for me alone
all his sweet and shaggy life,
always near me, never troubling me,
and asking nothing.

Ai, how many times have I envied his tail
as we walked together on the shores of the sea
in the lonely winter of Isla Negra
where the wintering birds filled the sky
and my hairy dog was jumping about
full of the voltage of the sea's movement:
my wandering dog, sniffing away
with his golden tail held high,
face to face with the ocean's spray.

Joyful, joyful, joyful,
as only dogs know how to be happy
with only the autonomy
of their shameless spirit.

There are no good-byes for my dog who has died,
and we don't now and never did lie to each other.

So now he's gone and I buried him,
and that's all there is to it.

[Karearea]

“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.”

Kind thoughts to the Wodricks.

[reddo]

RIP Punto. Over the Rainbow Bridge.

[Hydromet]

Very sorry, Woderick. They are family members and loving companions.

[bob2s]

Sorry for your loss Wodrick, Punto will be waiting at the Rainbow Bridge and your memories of him will never die.

[TheGreenAnger]

“A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way.”

Kind thoughts to the Wodricks.

Our lurchers were "very bad dogs!"

As you shouted "stay" they would accelerate, usually in pursuit of deer. We dearly loved them, and now miss both of them dearly too.

[OFSO]

It is raining. Very very hard. Pouring! Also beginning of Tramontana. Cats vanished. They know.