Our house is about 150 years old and we dug down to the dirt floor in one of the downstairs rooms. We found suspicious white bits, and had to send a sample off. Luckily it came back clear. It was unlikely anyway, as asbestos wasn’t in widespread use here in the 19th century.
However, we do have corrugated asbestos roofing on our “scullery” but it’s in one piece so can be left until we renovate that part, then disposed of safely. It’s pretty common to find it on sheds and outbuildings here.
I have everything I need for a Nadja of Antipaxos costume, but I don’t think we’re going anywhere.
She sounds wonderful, I’m so happy she found a home with you!
I would always adopt an adult rather than a kitten. We’ve had a kitten and he was hard work!
Our orange cat was 2 when we had him from the shelter. He was found on the street with cat flu. They treated this, but he was still very skinny when we adopted him, with rough fur and cracked paw pads.
We’ve had him just over a year and he gained a lot of weight at first, but now he trusts that there’s always going to be dinner for him. His fur is glossy and bright, and his paws are healthy. He’s incredibly loving, even with children, and loves sitting near us when we’re working.
I’m glad we got him. Even our other cat (also adopted, but from a friend) is slowly warming to him!
When I worked in retail, I had this wanker of a middle manager who would ask how I was getting on, and when I said fine, he’d always say “It’s not rocket science, is it?”
He was mid twenties and only a few years older than me. He used to call female employees “babe”.
One time I watched him get a withering telling off from a customer. The customer wasn’t in the right, but it felt like a little bit of retribution for all us “babes”.
We did it :)
Just voted for Labour. Need to get out the Tory MP who was sycophantic in her defence of Boris partying.
Steven Pacey reading Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series is outstanding. The books themselves are among my favourites, but Steven makes them even more special. He has different voices (and accents) for the characters and manages to stay consistent with them. His pacing is also excellent.
Yeah, I was quite surprised by this as I’m so used to how capitalism ruins everything.
https://adirondackgirlatheart.com/feed-sack-fabric/
This is what I read and it was a shock to me that companies not only improved the quality of the cloth when they realised people made garments from sacks, but also strove to provide fashionable designs and wash-off labels. There are some really gorgeous prints on here.
Nowadays, it feels like they would make the original packaging more coarse, then sell the product with nicer packaging at a premium, whilst making sure their logo was indelible.
Thank you for sending me down a delightful little rabbit hole looking into this
Oh wow, this is my orange doing the same thing! It’s his preferred position.
Thank you for sharing.
Childbirth, but my son’s birth, not mine. Lost a lot of blood and had to have meds to slow it, surgery to stop it, and a transfusion to replace it.
I don’t think anything would have got me before then, but I’m vaccinated, so who knows?
I thought someone might have already shared this…
It was in the comments on another post a few weeks ago and I ended up watching the whole thing.
There is also a good You’re Wrong About podcast episode on this.
Of course it’s in Scunthorpe.
“Remember, in the scheme of things, your life just doesn’t count!”
I met a cat in a chip shop, rubbing against everyone’s legs. Apparently he was in there often and the delivery driver would drop him home.
Someone I know was working with a person who has a therapy dog. Apparently the dog is trained to understand when they become overwhelmed and just sit on them. It sounds like it has a similar mechanism to these techniques.