As my first Father in law used to say " The only cure is a lead injection behind the ear!!!"
What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?
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What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?
The Panda Nut
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Dont forget VAT on bullets must be paid before you shoot yourself.As my first Father in law used to say " The only cure is a lead injection behind the ear!!!"
Ha,ha!
On a different note.
Am I the only one getting pissed off by having to react to this every five minutes in recent weeks on Forum?
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Probably Isofix etc. It makes life easier as my youngest daughter has found , but as you say they soon out grow them so the bills keep coming in.
It makes me wonder how I managed to provide for five with just my wage, especially when they bring out the costs that it takes for one child till 18 etc. Mine are still costing me now and all over 30! Still wouldn't throw them back , only the mother.
Some of it is plain mental we bought a reasonably priced travel system for the 1st one...
I'd literally paid less for an MOT'd running car...of course this seat is 4/5ths of the price of that travel system and still more than said car..and is just a fricking seat.
If anything I feel like there is an entire industry dedicated to profiting from sleep deprivation and fear. "Child wont sleep don't worry our 500 quid crib will rock them to sleep for you! Buy our white noise generator...this thing that sounds an alarm if your baby stops breathing (which I get might be useful in a medical context but if your wife insists on it then the baby insists on sleeping at the bottom of the mattress horizontally then no one is sleeping for long).
Then of course when you get to the business end of things and very little of this **** is actually necessary a lot of it plain doesn't work and things like travel systems are only useful if you go against medical advice and keep a baby in a car seat for more than 2 hours at a time. Strangely enough this time round we are indeed buying very little.
Although of course the older one is growing through clothes at a rate...and no longer qualifies for free entry for anywhere and eats his own body weight most days.
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fortunately having a fully qualified and seasoned children’s doctor at home meant that a lot of the crap was avoided and on the occasions her irrational thoughts kicked in I was there to veto any crap.
Even then we still ended up with a metric f@@@ ton of stuff we didn’t need from recommendations from friends family and colleagues
To be fair we don't have a huge amount of it the Cot alarm was probably the only thing that was a bit overkill but at the very least placated the irrational thoughts...
Both of these do the same thing.
But one of them won't fit in a C3... because it needs...I repeat needs to spin. So cannot be against the seat top and bottom. One of them was part of a 500 quid travel system and came with a full buggy and all sorts the other is 400 quid on it's own.
I repeat needs to spin....
The baby industry is big business and knows how to play on the new parents fears.
It makes you wonder how we all survived without all that crap in the past, for thousands of years.
The oldest would sleep very quietly to the point I would put my finger just below her nose to feel her breathing, there was no monitor/baby cam stuff then and she survived, currently 43 years old.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
When I click the link I get thisHa,ha!
On a different note.
Am I the only one getting pissed off by having to react to this every five minutes in recent weeks on Forum?
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Its clear THEY are out to get me.
Its worth the cost of dumping the adverts from the site Every single penny.
I just resent the fact businesses are buying Google services to try and stitch us up with crap we don't want, even on the Forum we use to offer and receive help with no thought of financial benefit.
The oldest would sleep very quietly to the point I would put my finger just below her nose to feel her breathing, there was no monitor/baby cam stuff then and she survived, currently 43 years old.
My oldest it was entirely unnecessary on the basis he never slept until he was 18 months old..
The youngest two are twins so one would wake, get fed and changed , then the other one and by that time the first was ready for another feed etc. On draught, so I could only do the changing bit
At 38 then I could really understand that sleep deprivation could be used as a form of torture, especially as I would then have to go and do a full days work to provide for all seven of us at my small garage business.
The youngest two are twins so one would wake, get fed and changed , then the other one and by that time the first was ready for another feed etc. On draught, so I could only do the changing bit
At 38 then I could really understand that sleep deprivation could be used as a form of torture, especially as I would then have to go and do a full days work to provide for all seven of us at my small garage business.
Well...
Without going into the full saga...I had to stay awake for every feed, he was feeding every 2 hours. I was basically dead as far as I could tell but she had the absolute fear of falling asleep and dropping him or rolling over and suffocating him (which given she's dealt with all of those and more at work isn't irrational).
This was the period I would regularly turn up to work with clothes on backwards, inside out or with mismatched shoes.
To me where it all became worthwhile was on Christmas Day when all five children came and sat on our double bed to open their stockings of presents.Mind you , it was probably 5:30 am.
Oh I wouldn't swap him for anything...
Even if this morning I woke up at 1:40 to "These scars won't define us"..
Included...
Because he has his mother's taste in music.
He's 6...
Even if this morning I woke up at 1:40 to "These scars won't define us"..
Included...
Because he has his mother's taste in music.
He's 6...
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Mine too.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Wiring. The last fitting on the ring is under the flat roof, but someone already took a,square out of the ceiling so moving it 2 feet into the centre was just a case of shoving my arm in further. The cable is 2 and earth so still good. The next one back is the back room, previously the back corner room before it was extended, so wiring is accessible. There is a two gang switch. So I decide to earth the switch box and use 1core of the 4 available as an earth jumping power acrsoss the switch common lives. Having established which switch wire was which, I used 12v to work out which way to wire, so both are on when down. On 12v all is as expected. So I wire the mains, no bulb or holder, as I want the power for fancy fittings. I need the wire only pushed through from above and temporary bulb holder fitted last. I check its switching ok and, in spite of my best efforts it will not go dead when the light is switched off. It remains live. I use a new temp switch wire, no change, and test the switch with a multimeter - all ok and is still the same. I try another new switch to no avail. Eventually I recheck with 12v
All is still good, exactly as expected. The wire is dead with the switch off. In the end I decide to add the bulb holder and see of it is working, or if it will trip off Well blow me, with a bulb in it works and the switched line goes dead when the switch is off. Remove the bulb though and the wire is live according to my neon screw driver and probe tester. I am none the wiser. I know the wiring is right. Why??? It all works as expected apart from this. Very odd. What wizardry escapes me.
All is still good, exactly as expected. The wire is dead with the switch off. In the end I decide to add the bulb holder and see of it is working, or if it will trip off Well blow me, with a bulb in it works and the switched line goes dead when the switch is off. Remove the bulb though and the wire is live according to my neon screw driver and probe tester. I am none the wiser. I know the wiring is right. Why??? It all works as expected apart from this. Very odd. What wizardry escapes me.
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It doesn’t go through a transformer to LEDs does it…or is it a blind alley, finding lots of those ‘no need to remove old wiring, I’ll just add another’
Probably find a neighbour has cut into it to keep his bill down.
The best-selling car in Europe in 2024 is a Dacia - not Tesla
Given the January-November 2024 trend, it is difficult for the Volkswagen Golf to recover. Meanwhile, the Model Y is sixth.
uk.motor1.com
Interesting reading, mainly as there's one dedicated electric car in the top 10...yes you can get an electric 208 I suppose but everything else doesn't have an electric option.
Possibly a poor time to be selling 40k+ electric cars..
