Topic: What are you doing right now?

[6pairsofshoes]

Jeez, Goldie, that looks like a pretty substantial fall.  I hope the bruises are mending and that you are recovering.

xtopave, a long bath sounds like a good way to relax.  I'm getting ready to read a little Game of Thrones before I turn in for the night.

[goldshirt*9]

Other than the bone hurting when i knock it, I'm getting there 
I am although suffering from sleep deprivation  .

[xtopave]

Today in the u.k, an anti-alcohol pill was made available on the NHS to help people cut back on their drinking.

I hope they don't have an expiry date.

Link

Quote from that link:

Men would qualify to receive the treatment if they consume 7.5 units of alcohol per day - around three to four pints of standard strength lager.

It would be offered to women who consume five units a day, which amounts to around half a bottle of wine.

Quote from Wikipedia:

Side effects
    Common: drowsiness, hypertension, tachycardia, dizziness, nausea, vomiting
    Occasional: fever, hypotension, vasodilatation, chills, headache
    Rare: agitation, arrhythmia, bradycardia, confusion, hallucinations, myoclonus, itching

Half a bottle of wine a day looks way less harmful than all that! 

I'm kidding, of course it's more complicated than that. I didn't know this drug existed. Interesting.

[goldshirt*9]

so agree Xtopave, drink looks better for you,
as I'm off to have a bottle of Marstons Old Rodger ale at 7.4%
 

[xtopave]

I've beated a new record. I sanded and varnished the wooden garage door in 2 hours! I'm going to hate my back and shoulders tonight.

[smokester]

I've beated a new record. I sanded and varnished the wooden garage door in 2 hours! I'm going to hate my back and shoulders tonight.

That is worryingly quick.

When you say 'sanded', do you mean you needed to roughen it up to create a key for the top coat of varnish?

[xtopave]

When you say 'sanded', do you mean you needed to roughen it up to create a key for the top coat of varnish?

Oh, indeed I meant that! Although the lower quarter was starting to suffer so I had to work a bit more on it. It was pretty quick anyway, wasn't it?
There are a lot of unfinished stuff in my house yet I have to work on things I've already done some months ago?!?!
Run, rabbit run. Dig that hole, forget the sun. And when at last the work is done
don't sit down, it's time to dig another one. 

[smokester]

I take one child to drama school at 10am, then I rush home to take the other to ballet/modern/tap lessons.  It isn't until this time in the day when I can sit down with tea and a flapjack and watch a bit of sport.

Unless my daughter is watching Doc McStuffins - like she is now...

Roll on bedtime.

[goldshirt*9]

  it slows down when they get older, then you cannot get them out of their bedrooms 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-29518975
reading this and thinking what a quirky country we live in.

[smokester]

it slows down when they get older, then you cannot get them out of their bedrooms 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-29518975
reading this and thinking what a quirky country we live in.

When we were kids we used to go to speakers corner to take the piss out of the "nutters". When I was a teenager I used to pass it and slow down to listen a little but always had to rush off to a better things. As a young man they just used to piss me off with their radical opinions so I didn't hang around for long enough to get angry.

Now that I'd probably be calm and mature enough to listen and debate, I don't have the time to get up there.

[goldshirt*9]

the 3 ages of man 

[smokester]

Sitting down. I'm mentioning this as it is the first time I've been able to all day.

[xtopave]

Trying to figure out what to do with a sick (dying?) bird in my back yard. Last night I found it in the threshold of my back door. It didn't look that bad so I let it be. When I woke up, the 1st thing I saw when I looked out the window was another hornero kicking the poo out of it! It was attacking the sick one with its beak and feet. When I got outside the bird was already hiding in a corner. Now it's in really bad shape. I laid some breadcrumbs near the bird but that's how far I went.

[smokester]

Trying to figure out what to do with a sick (dying?) bird in my back yard. Last night I found it in the threshold of my back door. It didn't look that bad so I let it be. When I woke up, the 1st thing I saw when I looked out the window was another hornero kicking the poo out of it! It was attacking the sick one with its beak and feet. When I got outside the bird was already hiding in a corner. Now it's in really bad shape. I laid some breadcrumbs near the bird but that's how far I went.

It sounds like it's in shock and hasn't got long left. I have tried to save 3 or 4 birds that have mysteriously appeared in my back garden in bad shape, I've even built a sanctuary type bird house in the tree there and placed them in that with food and water.

By morning they have always perished.  I think once they've given up, they've given up.

[xtopave]

It sounds like it's in shock and hasn't got long left. I have tried to save 3 or 4 birds that have mysteriously appeared in my back garden in bad shape, I've even built a sanctuary type bird house in the tree there and placed them in that with food and water.

By morning they have always perished.  I think once they've given up, they've given up.

On top of all it rained this afternoon. The bird is nowhere to be seen. In the morning I'll do the sensible thing: I'll send someone else to look for it.