MrsDoyle

Taps aff!

Ha ha, that’s my one too - tell us what these bloody things are for!!

My old greyhound was not very bright at all, but he often had a Cunning Plan.

Example: On a walk near home he found a forbidden item. He knew I’d take it off him but he wanted to keep it. Cunning Plan time. He ran home, knowing I would never keep up. In your face, slow poke! I strolled back and there he was, waiting to be let in the gate. The look on his face was priceless, lol.

My old dog went through the same thing - turned out his teeth were bad. Prior to that discovery one thing that worked for keeping his weight up was to cook his food myself. He liked chicken (necks are cheap and the bones aren’t dangerous) stewed up with pasta, rice or potatoes, and veg like peas and carrots; mincemeat ditto, with a bit of liver; ox heart and/or tongue also good but a bit gross. Offal is offally cheap, usually.

Important: Don’t use onion or garlic! They’re toxic for dogs.

I wish my windows worked like that!

Edit: And my DOORS!

North Korea has just built a beach resort. https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2025/jul/07/kim-jong-un-opens-beach-resort-north-korea-in-pictures

Vanuatu 🇻🇺

It’s got a boar’s tusk on it.

https://youtu.be/0Wf5nFbA_YM

Bluey! It’s a kiddie cartoon about a dog family. If I’ve read or watched anything too heavy I’ll watch a couple of Bluey eps to chill before sleep.

https://youtu.be/kPFHL0R0oIU

A fair old chunk of the crowd were in bright red frocks and silly hats.

A scientist. It’s never going to happen because I’m 72. At school I was pushed into languages, history etc because I wasn’t good at maths. I was good at general science though, especially chemistry, and I enjoyed it.

After I retired I took up beekeeping and have lately rediscovered my love of science. I have two microscopes and am studying bee anatomy and pollen identification. There’s an exam later in the year for a certificate that will open further areas of study, but I doubt my skills are up to the challenge (eg dissecting a bee in front of the examiner). However, I am really enjoying the whole process of making slides and examining them. I would have loved doing this as a job.

Oh I’m sorry, did I break your concentration?

Aw man, I shot Marvin in the face.

You know what they call a quarter pounder in Paris?

And you will know that I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

Planning what will probably be my last ever trip to NZ to visit family, with a stopover in Japan on the way back. Happening in Oct/Nov.

I don’t know about the States, but in the UK dog-walking can be a lucrative business.

I used to drag my clothes into bed with me in winter when I was a kid. No central heating, no double glazing, no insulation, no carpets. Might as well have been living in a tent.

UK: I don’t know if it’s produced domestically, but pasta is dirt cheap. Own brand spaghetti can be under 60p a kilo. Tinned tomatoes are also cheap, so there you go - dinner.

Potatoes and brown onions are fairly cheap, ditto carrots.

Eggs, of course. £2.70 ($3.50) a dozen, medium free range.

Same! Passionfruit also. Mmmm.

I have two feeds: one is “subscribed” for all the stuff I’m actually interested in, and the other is “all”, for when I’m up for a bit of US politics, Reddit-bashing and weird German memes…

I wear a cheapish waterproof one while swimming. The pool has a clock but I can’t see it without my specs.

He’s only 60 - I thought he was much older than that.