Making extra work

my pc crashed yesterday
Jalima; Sorry to hear that! Women drivers! Get back behind the wheel as soon as you can to regain confidence and look at that URL. It's like extended family for Aussie connections. Good Luck and don't emulate the Prince again!

I'm not risking it Rufus
my pc crashed yesterday and I am treating it with the utmost care

Australian magpies are not the same as British magpies
Jalima; take a look at www.the magpiewhisperer.com/videos
Hope this works!
OoRoo

DON'T feed the maggies (magpies?) Rufus
Elegran; Sorry I can't help it! Arose this morning to find, joy of joys, it was raining, but as I sat at my kitchen bench facing the window, my family of maggies, all bedraggled,
came and perched on the window-sill looking straight in at me. I couldn't enjoy eating brekkie in front of an audience so I shared my full English breakfast with them, which they enjoyed immensely. Imagine that! Aussie maggies dining on English grub!
Reminded me of that little anecdote I told recently where a lady said her husband appeared depressed because it had been raining solid for 3 days and he was staring through the window, but if it was still raining tomorrow she'd have to let him in!
I can't do that with my maggies; that would really be like making work!
OoRoo

Meanwhile you and Maw can be grsnsnet resident poet
Iam64: What on earth has come over you? That would be even more terrible! Or there again, another masochist could set it to music to be sung sotto voce in the shower!

Oi! You're supposed to read the blue bits. grin
Gonegirl; Oi! 2U2 Yes teacher! To borrow from "Minder", "She who must be obeyed" becomes "She who must be ignored". And you're not allowed to inflict corporal punishment these days, are you?

Ooh Jalima be careful, a post like that could invoke he who must not be named!

DH has finally learnt The Last Word (s)

They are 'Yes dear'

Although he uses them very rarely

Pardon, Chewbacca? Didn't quite catch that

<pokes head round the door and shouts> LAST WORD!

Oh, I dimly remember privileges! Sadly...............

PS we could be put on the naughty step by GNHQ for deviating from the thread topic!

He’s lucky to be still getting regular privileges Kitty

Well, dd2 and co are coming to stay tomorrow and I have, recklessly, changed the bed. DH has promised to not sleep in it tonight - on pain of withdrawal of privileges!!

hang on my dad always referred to me as "last word X"

No Hatpev you can’t as I want the very last word.

My cats make extra work with their wet muddy paws when it's been raining.

One is male, one female.

No gender bias on making extra work in the Phoenix household!

" the very last word ". You'll be lucky hatpev.

Willa45. - so sorry if you felt I was accusing you of being passive aggressive. Your post brought some light relief to me - thanks
Terribull I think the post of poet laureate may be open before long. Meanwhile you and Maw can be grsnsnet resident poet

As the person who started this thread please can I have
the
very
last
word
and let you all go back to your normal happy lives? I would never have posted anything if I had realised what was going to happen.

PS the bed has still to be changed but I must have stopped snoring because it hasn’t been used since.

That's OK Willa, No-one thought you were doing either of those.

Iam64......Wanted to add some light humor and realized (after I hit send) that there was a confrontation between the genders. My post could be construed as a passive aggressive dig or an attempt to stir the pot even further. That's not who I am.

and clean up their mess!!

Rufus can feed them then!

Australian magpies are not the same as British magpies, Elegran - although they are black and white,
It's a passerine rather than a corvid

The male can be a bit vicious when defending its territory but generally they are much nicer and make a lovely carolling sound rather than a harsh screech.

DON'T feed the maggies (magpies?) Rufus They are perfectly able to feed themselves (mostly on small mammals and the eggs and chicks of other birds - which they will continue to predate on after they eaten the hors d'oevres that you give them)

It is just possible that they may eat slightly fewer songbird chicks if you are feeding them, but more likely that they will produce more young themselves and so cause even more losses to the familes of the smaller birds.

Have you noticed how the small birds join together to mob them to try to chase them off?