What made your day a crap one??

The weird thing is he's a bit like Nanny from Peter Pan otherwise. Checks on the kids through the night, gets unsettled when they aren't there, sits up with them when they are poorly. Cara reckoned he bit her because she was still up an hour after her bedtime...
 
Just back from the vet, dog cut a pad on her paw on Saturday. Little sleep for two nights now as she's been having enforced rest in the house since then and is used to minimum two hours a day running free. She's climbing the wallsand so am I. Just to add to my delights the results of her full blood tests have returned and she's allergic to beef, turkey, chicken, rabbit, white fish and salmon. So she's on a diet of venison or lamb. Gonna be a long week until she can exercise again !

JohnnyO. o/
 
Just back from the vet, dog cut a pad on her paw on Saturday. Little sleep for two nights now as she's been having enforced rest in the house since then and is used to minimum two hours a day running free. She's climbing the wallsand so am I. Just to add to my delights the results of her full blood tests have returned and she's allergic to beef, turkey, chicken, rabbit, white fish and salmon. So she's on a diet of venison or lamb. Gonna be a long week until she can exercise again !

JohnnyO. o/
Sorry to hear about your dogs problems, Taz cut his pad on glass and had enforced rest, not easy....have a look at John Welbeloved lamb dog food, not cheap but good stuff, that's what I feed Taz on but he has the fish. I hope she is fit and well soon.
 
Thanks Monkey, i've always fed the dogs on Nature's Best meat nuggets, so I'm using their frozen lamb or venison at the moment. One of the challenges is well meaning people insisting on trying to give her small treats, assuring me, " oh, it's just a wee taste, won't do her any harm. ". When I know that even a little of the forbidden meats causes probs and adds to sensitising her even further. I sometimes feel I've lapsed into speaking Swahili from the way they just ignore what I'm saying as they scatter beef or fish treats around with gay abandon ! Hope Taz is ok.

JohnnyO. o/
 
Thanks Monkey, i've always fed the dogs on Nature's Best meat nuggets, so I'm using their frozen lamb or venison at the moment. One of the challenges is well meaning people insisting on trying to give her small treats, assuring me, " oh, it's just a wee taste, won't do her any harm. ". When I know that even a little of the forbidden meats causes probs and adds to sensitising her even further. I sometimes feel I've lapsed into speaking Swahili from the way they just ignore what I'm saying as they scatter beef or fish treats around with gay abandon ! Hope Taz is ok.

JohnnyO. o/
Yea, it hacks me off no end when my house mate feeds Taz crap after me telling her time and time again, some people just won't listen!
Yes , Taz is well thanks, he's 8 years old in a few weeks but still going strong. :)
 
In the local M&S car park I was almost run over by a guy reversing out of his parking space. He then jumps out of his car and starts shouting at me. He was rather tall and muscular - threatened to hit me in the face, calling my a c***. He was leaning towards me, rocking to and fro, almost foaming at the mouth (have you ever seen 'Sexy Beast'? - like Ben Kingsley in that movie). I asked him rather politely to calm down, he then accused me of being a Labour voter and that he'd beat me up. I felt that pointing out that I'm not a British citizen and therefore not entitled to vote Labour would have been a grave mistake. I retreated into my car, getting ready to call the police in case the verbal attacks would get worse or escalate into a physical attack. I managed to escape while the hate speech rant continuing behind me..
I've seen this kind of behaviour increase over the last years (normally by teenagers, not middle aged men), but never before directed at me without provocation. I was left rather shaken by the whole experience.
Recently, I've caught myself thinking more and more often about my own personal Brexit strategy.
 
Aww Andreas, nasty one and incidents like that do shake you up for a while. Unfortunately I don't believe they're as unusual as we'd like to think if they're not common in our usual circles. Street altercations are something I see a fair amount of as I toddle about, it's just so upsetting when you find yourself the innocent vicim.

JohnnyO. o/
 
In the local M&S car park I was almost run over by a guy reversing out of his parking space. He then jumps out of his car and starts shouting at me. He was rather tall and muscular - threatened to hit me in the face, calling my a c***. He was leaning towards me, rocking to and fro, almost foaming at the mouth (have you ever seen 'Sexy Beast'? - like Ben Kingsley in that movie). I asked him rather politely to calm down, he then accused me of being a Labour voter and that he'd beat me up. I felt that pointing out that I'm not a British citizen and therefore not entitled to vote Labour would have been a grave mistake. I retreated into my car, getting ready to call the police in case the verbal attacks would get worse or escalate into a physical attack. I managed to escape while the hate speech rant continuing behind me..
I've seen this kind of behaviour increase over the last years (normally by teenagers, not middle aged men), but never before directed at me without provocation. I was left rather shaken by the whole experience.
Recently, I've caught myself thinking more and more often about my own personal Brexit strategy.
This type of incedent increased in the late 80s or 90s when the mental institutions were closed down and the Government of the time let everybody out and started somthing called " care in the community " it for the most part didn't work but the government saved money so who cares! I'm sorry to hear of your altercation but it is all too common these days.
 
This type of incedent increased in the late 80s or 90s when the mental institutions were closed down and the Government of the time let everybody out and started somthing called " care in the community " it for the most part didn't work but the government saved money so who cares! I'm sorry to hear of your altercation but it is all too common these days.
I've been in the UK for well over 20 years now and have only noticed a marked brutalisation of society in the last 5 years or so. Maybe it's a London thing. The guy was driving a bit fat Merc, I don't think he got that from mental health benefits, more likely from drug dealing. SWMBO tells me that his wife in the passenger seat looked very embarrassed. She has the crappy end of the stick, living with a violent moron... I feel sorry for her.
 
I've been in the UK for well over 20 years now and have only noticed a marked brutalisation of society in the last 5 years or so. Maybe it's a London thing. The guy was driving a bit fat Merc, I don't think he got that from mental health benefits, more likely from drug dealing. SWMBO tells me that his wife in the passenger seat looked very embarrassed. She has the crappy end of the stick, living with a violent moron... I feel sorry for her.
Yea, probably off his face on some shit, you should have got a straight razor from your back pocket and..... No best not go down that road. :) at least you were sensible enough to know when to walk away, just keep an eye out for his car and if nobody is about shit on his windscreen! :)
 
I've been in the UK for well over 20 years now and have only noticed a marked brutalisation of society in the last 5 years or so. Maybe it's a London thing. The guy was driving a bit fat Merc, I don't think he got that from mental health benefits, more likely from drug dealing. SWMBO tells me that his wife in the passenger seat looked very embarrassed. She has the crappy end of the stick, living with a violent moron... I feel sorry for her.
I had an altercation not too long ago with someone who was driving on the phone - I gesticulated for them to put it down and they chased me down my road until I pulled over, at which point they ground to a halt in the middle of the road, blocking all traffic, while they threatened to beat me up etc. and called me a 'mummys boy' and all manner of other things. I was happy to let it slide while I calmly sat in my car until the perp threw a handful of coins at myself and my car. I phoned the police and chased it up as an aggressive behaviour, as well as speeding, using the phone while driving etc... The police chased it up and ultimately couldn't do anything because the chap in question was in a rental car.
Long story short, there's definitely more people 'out there' currently who are either looking for a fight or cannot let things go. I've had three recent incidents (within circa 1 year) with phone users (two whilst driving and another at a petrol station) who cannot be told that they're in the wrong. My younger brother had an incident about a year ago where a van swerved towards him and shouted abuse when he told them to put the phone down whilst driving, with their OH and children in the van.
There are some anuses out there. It doesn't help that so much of tabloid news is aimed at 'terrorist' this and 'immigrant' that. Claims in the Sun of refugees also being illegal immigrants as well as claiming benefits and working while not paying taxes and living in 6 bedroom houses... unfortunately some people are simply too impressionable.
Thankfully, the number is relatively few and most days we go without issue/confrontation. Hope you're feeling better after that ordeal Andreas.
 
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