The Mock Turtle

nineseven wrote: ↑Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:31 am The first time I encountered a gecko making noises (in a hotel room in Bali) I thought it was a hiding monkey

I was the same with kookaburras when I first moved here. I kept mentioning the “monkey birds” to MrE

MAGGOT TRIGGER WARNING

Thankfully nowhere near as bad as smal’s indoor bin situation, but I went out to our food wheelie bin earlier and didn’t even get as far as opening the lid as there were so many of them writhing out the gaps in the top I had JUST been telling C about smal’s bin (which is what prompted me to pre-emptively take the half full caddy out) and had to retreat back inside to tell him.* He was all billy big baws as well, chuffing “huh, it’s hardly the first time!” and taking the caddy out himself, only to then spend 15 minutes hosing everything down and then another 5 washing his hands inside while conceding yes, that was much worse than it’s ever been.

I’m not really sure yet what we can do besides that, as it’s so warm outside and we currently have an unavoidable increase of food waste due to Hop. It absolutely poured overnight and loads this morning too so I’m not sure hosing it down will help? I boiled the kettle but he turned it off while still in the chuffing stage, and I’m not getting directly involved if I can help it

*The only good to come out of this is the opportunity to hiss: “Maggots, Michael, you’re eating maggots how do they taste?”

Oh god

We do not have a food caddy thing because it’s all too gross anyway and I am very thankful. Ugh!

What do you do with unavoidable food scraps in that case? Ours was in constant use anyway with day to day stuff like banana peels or onion skins etc, does it all get whisked straight outside?

I'm ashamed to say I bin my scraps. In my flat, the council there wouldn't collect the food waste bin for months on end, and it scarred me for life.

I just bin them too

We recycle everything else possible so I can’t make myself give too much of a shit about that.

I'm not sure what happens with our food recycling.

About a year ago the council declared it was fine to put it into plastic bags, so I'm not entirely sure it doesn't just get incinerated of landfilled anyway.

I was just thinking I'm going to get rid of my food caddy as it's bringing in flies. I have a compost bin and it's hardly a chore to carry out peelings. Having said that, I'm mildly terrified of my compost bin anyway. So many flies! Plus a friend of mine got a wasps nest in hers.

I like geckos, there were tiny ones in the house on our last holiday in La Palma and one kept getting in my shoes. I had to be very careful.

I like that the main kitchen bin now doesn't smell as all the food waste goes into the food bin, which then gets frequently emptied.

My FML is that my husband's colleagues heard me yelling 'I'M ON THE TOILET!!!!!!!' in full fishwife mode at my children who were kicking off in the garden and shouting for me :shame: And he was all like 'don't worry, they don't mind' :woteva: I MIND THOUGH!!

Oh God, PD. that’s happened here too if it makes you feel any better.

Oh no, pd .

Oh no, pd.

I just remembered I stripped all the beds this morning.

Ismee wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 7:14 pm Oh no, pd.

I just remembered I stripped all the beds this morning.

This is THE WORST.

Poor you, pd

Oh, pd!

purple_dress wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 6:50 pm My FML is that my husband's colleagues heard me yelling 'I'M ON THE TOILET!!!!!!!' in full fishwife mode at my children who were kicking off in the garden and shouting for me :shame: And he was all like 'don't worry, they don't mind' :woteva: I MIND THOUGH!!

I bet they didn't mind. I'd love that if it happened on a chat I was in, as long as it wasn't me saying it.

My FML is that I oiled myself and then leaned across to shut a window, pressing myself against the wall without thinking - and now there is a horribly clear imprint of my right bosom on my wall in oil. How the bloody hell do you get body oil off a wall? I read somewhere that you can iron it off using kitchen towel, but that hasn't worked so far.

that's like when I used to do prints of my bum in talc in the bathroom wall as a child.

Try Fairy liquid, Lils!

Ken!

Beatrix