My youngest daughter came to visit on New Year's Day. Since the we have been finding very small plastic ducks all over the house. (About 19mm tall, various colours, some glow-in-the-dark.) We managed to collar her and ask how many. She told us there are 90 in total. So far we have found 63!
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13-01-25 20:23Ha ha ha that's brilliant, I love stuff like that...I think being a child keeps me going in truth and I decided with someone who shares my attitude that anyone who has issue with it has a problem not us
We have a couple of Christmas decorations which are elves and we put them round the house in mischievous places; I polished off a bottle of whisky just before Christmas so I had a mess around with them
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Community Manager13-01-25 21:32Fantastic work by your daughter @Rolebama. I particularly appreciate the planning that she would've had to put into it.
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15-01-25 15:40When my eldest granddaughter was at the infants school she was reluctant to write.
She lived over 200 miles away, I found an image on the internet of a blue cat (looks like a childish drawing), Blue Cat was born.
She would write messages for Blue Cat he of course replied, and they swapped tales about their life, Blue Cat's handwriting was almost as bad as granddads!
Blue cat (having a shorter life span than humans) went to university to read Catastrophe Theory, about the time she went to big school.
I thought Blue Cat was long forgotten, she got her degree this year, and at Christmas sent me a framed picture of Blue Cat!Last edited by olduser; 15-01-25 at 15:46.
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16-01-25 05:06It sounds like your daughter has quite the sense of humor and creativity! With 63 ducks found, that leaves 27 more to discover. You might want to check those tricky spots like inside shoes, behind cushions, or even in the fridge. Happy hunting! Subway BOGO Code
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Community Manager16-01-25 22:22@Rolebama if it were me, I’d have hidden 89 and told you there were 90 😂
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23-01-25 09:11Just rearranged my whisky shelves
I didn't realise the miniature was there but someone pointed out maybe he's happy because there's a barrel of Irish whiskey next to him, not because he's about to get into the Mustang
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21-02-25 13:36I have the shakes. All my friends and relatives are aware of this, I was diagnosed with it in early 2000s. The fiddlier the thing I have to do, the worse they are. My youngest daughter has an evil sense of humour, so gave me a Lego set as a present. A Speed Champion Ferrari, with a high percentage of tiny little pieces. Well, I finally finished it all but putting the transfers/stickers on. Her husband has volunteered to do this for me.
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23-02-25 13:31Sounds good though, "I bought my dad a Ferrari".
Loss of dexterity, strength and control is a problem as we age.
I bought a wheel chair for my wife to use when we were in Norfolk, the care home have been using it.
I asked, "where is it?" It eventually returned and I noticed the brakes were loose, so I think, I'll fix that.
But, if I sit in a chair, I can't see the brake assembly clamp, if I stand up and bend down I fall over, I might sit on the floor but how can I get back up?
The job would be easy if I take the wheels off but I cannot press the wheel locks in hard enough to unlock them.
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01-03-25 15:38The ducks - update.
My daughter visited this morning. She was here for a while with her husband, and my grandson by my other daughter. We had left the pot of currently collected ducks on the side. After they left, my wife went up to the toilet. She came down with one she found up there. Went to put it in the pot with the others, only the pot is now empty. I can see three from here, so only another 86 to bury in the garden. -
02-03-25 13:36Oh don't do that!
I can visualise a neighbour, thinking, 'what's he dug a hole for?'
By the time it has done the rounds, it will become, ' he dug a hole, and poured bits in, must be body parts!'
The police turnup, 'have you been digging holes sir?', 'well yes but it's my garden', 'have you been getting rid of a body sir?', 'err yes, several if you must know'.😀
