Food and Drink #60 Make Way For Ducklings

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Lazarus said:
Ok, that’s good to know.
these were £16 including buyer protection and postage from Vinted. Brand new, with tags, honestly they are such beautiful leather. I’ll take your advice. There’s someone who does leather alterations in town, so I’ll go to her. She’s expensive but I don’t mind given how nice the trousers are. Thank you xx

Hotes, just seen your comment. I have a really good alterations lady round the corner from me who I use regularly but I don’t know if she’ll do leather and she’s only open Tues-Thurs and I’m in the office all week so can’t check.
The women I mentioned ^^ in my comment to Holllaaaaaa is just off Dale St, coincidentally on Leather Lane! I’ll try her as it’s on my way from the station to my office 🍉
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A beautiful find! Congratulations on your new leather pants
 
Witchfinder Sargeant said:
I'd pay someone to do that for you. Leather needs a special needle, and you can't unpick if you make a mistake, so you need someone who knows what they're doing.
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You can do temporary hemming with glue, which I think is how the pros tack leather. Depending on the weight, it might need hammering on the seams to lie flat as well.

Dressmaking and sewing have a reputation of being all kindly aunties and pretty fabrics, but there's a fair bit of edge weaponry and violence involved as well. Weaving is the same.
 
mchops said:
People always do this. Oh mchops does stuff, I'll chuck him under a bus . Please don't do this to your friends.
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I hear you. degree in computer science, people hear IT and it’s “Becca will do it it’ll only take a few minutes” and it never does..

My mums friends daughter lost her PhD, early days windows and totally lost her mind we are talking A&E sort of crisis and my mum goes “she will sort it out, definitely no problem phone at x” so of course she rang and was in a total state begging and pleading etc and I kept saying no guarantees because this was decades before autosave was a thing and i was on a phone and laptops weren’t a thing either unless you had thousands. Took hours. I did it, it was a nightmare because of course I needed to explain what she needed to do and she had no idea at all. She was screaming in delight and, then proceeded to tell EVERYONE 🙄 sometimes failing isn’t such a bad thing!

Ive done a few scarily impressive programs, sort of thing employers would back away slowly and say remind me never to fire you sort of stuff. I’m good at ancient programming languages, hacking windows all sorts. But again it became a case of “Becca will do it…“ and I don’t mean work stuff either.

Eventually I grew to hate IT.
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My neighbours broken electric bike, in bits with leaking battery, is now blocking my door 😡 landlord sent text and I quote “not my problem have a nice night”. Someone turned up with food and my meds and I can’t get to the door. The bike is a massive electric one. It sounds like someone trying to break in when they’re there and obviously with neighbour setting me into a spin.

But my stuff there, as in paperwork, is why landlord is evicting me.
 
Some fresh Susan, loafing about on my dressing gown all smugly.
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Hooray to fresh Susan. Is it bricks or bees to the right? Shes not happy at someone!

I put a note on the bike. It’s a massive electric one and there’s no way I can get past. That was one of the ‘good things’ about a hoard outside I didn’t have people blocking me in with their crap. It takes up even more room than my stuff did. theres a tiny space between my door and stairs and it’s blocked me in, half of corridor AND stairs. The lights don’t work properly so it’s really dangerous. I did also think it was neighbour trying to get in again, police did tell me to ring them if I ever heard anyone by door.

I also missed a welfare check, so can expect plod to turn up sometime as well, phone signals being really bad. The wind, dare I say it, seems to be a bit calmer. It’s been so bad the police have put out a social media post about checking on vulnerable people as the electric company haven’t bothered… there’s people here who have been told they’ll be at least 13 more hours without power, people are posting who have disability equipment that relies on electric and have none and no help at all. I’m lucky in that there’s a small hospital not far and they use the same grid but even so we have had outages since around 6am off and on. At a risk of sounding awful it’s got to be REALLY bad for the police to offer to visit friends/family in area who no one’s heard from.
 
yeah I spoke too soon about the weather yesterday, oops

hasn't stopped raining or blowing since, it's foul out there

I'm also just fed up, tbh. I feel vaguely poorly, didn't sleep at all last night and I'm not even tired now, just grumpy

but I can tell you all something nice. there's a couple of girls in our complex who we don't even know but who send xmas cards to everyone here and they have a little girl who we suspect has been posting pebbles into our letterbox

just to be clear, the postboxes are outside, in the courtyard. we're not getting pebbles through the front door

we just think it's kinda cute 🥺

eta, ofc we send one back. mr kcc's a stickler for etiquette and he has lovely handwriting
 
Dog and I are awake. I can’t decide if the dog woke me up farting or I woke her up coughing.

It’s totally foul here too, wind, rain, grossness. I think I’m going to get the laptop out and put a film on.

Pebbles are very cute. There’s a girl near us who hangs laminated eggs from her hedge with messages on at Easter. It started during Covid but she does it every year now. Kids can be so sweet.
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MaineCoonMama said:
Some fresh Susan, loafing about on my dressing gown all smugly.
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I’m not sure smug is the right word here, MCM.

If I was doing Alt text, I’d describe Susan as plotting someone’s demise in some way, maybe after having consumed a large meal of prawns and witchety grubs.
 
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So my emergency light clicked on but all my sockets worked. Everything fine, literally only mine, no elec issues on fire alarm all good. Five minutes later all power off, like everything gone and car accident outside. I’d no idea that could happen, is my light psychic? Luckily everything else let go as I went to ring handyman so theres a reason. Bloody light dies after six hours plus it’s pitch dark now so no way I could get to the bloody door. Had text from plod. They ain’t happy I didnt let them in.

Checked Online, no power outage where I live… but everything’s gone.

At least the storm was over 13 hours ago...

We are I’m far too reliant upon electricity. Never thought I’d say this but am actually grateful for all of the OVO threats to cut me off as it means I was prepared for this, so camping heater, head torch, mobile charged and off when not being used etc.
 
kachoochoo said:
yeah I spoke too soon about the weather yesterday, oops

hasn't stopped raining or blowing since, it's foul out there

I'm also just fed up, tbh. I feel vaguely poorly, didn't sleep at all last night and I'm not even tired now, just grumpy

but I can tell you all something nice. there's a couple of girls in our complex who we don't even know but who send xmas cards to everyone here and they have a little girl who we suspect has been posting pebbles into our letterbox

just to be clear, the postboxes are outside, in the courtyard. we're not getting pebbles through the front door

we just think it's kinda cute 🥺

eta, ofc we send one back. mr kcc's a stickler for etiquette and he has lovely handwriting
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Omg you have to draw on the pebbles!
 
Bloody drunks messing around in road. It’s pitch dark. I could hear my neighbour telling them to get out of the bloody road or they’ll get killed. It’s the only road passable here now. rang police and got the sodding answerphone again And 999 so emailed. I left messages warning them of the danger.

am really pissed with my neighbour though. If there is a serious issue here tonight I’m trapped.

Time it’s due back is now 18 hours away. Need to preserve battery.
 
becca7721 said:
Bloody drunks messing around in road. It’s pitch dark. I could hear my neighbour telling them to get out of the bloody road or they’ll get killed. It’s the only road passable here now. rang police and got the sodding answerphone again And 999 so emailed. I left messages warning them of the danger.

am really pissed with my neighbour though. If there is a serious issue here tonight I’m trapped.

Time it’s due back is now 18 hours away. Need to preserve battery.
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Take care and check in when you can so we know you’ve not blown away!
 
All I can hear is VVVVRRRRRRR and WHOOOOO from the wind blowing through the gaps in the window. I really hope there won't be a power cut because I'm reliant on electricity-based distractions to stop anxiety. I hope everyone else is doing okay. I know there are people much worse off during these storms. 💙

MCM, Susan is living my dream life. 😂 What a bundle of squishy comfort.

HotesTilaire said:
Omg you have to draw on the pebbles!
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Googly eyes at the ready! :P
 
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