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Clever girls! I expect they were complaining ‘you just can’t get the staff nowadays, can you?”

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Great idea!

Technology has its own language nowadays. The young woman who submitted the tech support message below (about her relationship to her husband) presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a reply from Tech Support that was way too good to keep to herself. The query: Dear Tech Support, Last year I...

Dispensing! Used to be part of the sign over most chemists, eg Boots, at least up to the 1970s when she was little. ‘Disappearing’ was actually a pretty good guess, phonetically, she got the first and last syllable and the important P in the middle. It shows how much of our reading is contextual...

It starts early, when small children are learning to read. Our daughter was puzzled by the sign saying Disappearing Chemist.

I hope you’re feeling better today, Icemaiden! I’m sure he understood, in those circumstances.

Interesting idea, Icemaiden, you’ve got me worried now! I think your idea of sterilising them is very good, and probably necessary - I wonder whether the oystershell on sale might pose a risk of bird flu, I bet they don’t treat it as you suggest, to kill off possible infection. Maybe it’s the...

Well, this IS a poultry forum!

Hooray! We both bought each other a nice big box of alcoholic chocolates!

Hi Hootyup, and welcome to the Forum. I haven’t got much experience with Silkies, but I’m sure yours will be lovely, however many toes he/she has! What brooder setup have you got? I wonder if the fact that the Orps are so much bigger breed than the Silkie, plus being nearly a week older, might...

Creative.

Caption competition!

I confess, I frequently go round each room in my house praying for a cleaner.

First impression was of a four-legged chicken!

I thought it’d be nice to have a Pets thread on here, any species. Well, we collected Pippin two days ago, and he was very good in the car on the long motorway journey from Stafford to Whitchurch, Hants. He’s 9 weeks old today, eating well, sleeping all night and dry in the morning, and...

Yes - we’re staying at our daughter’s house near Lichfield tonight, to collect him tomorrow morning. It’s been really funny, telling friends and neighbours about us getting a puppy. They divide into two camps - those who are enthusiastic and say things like ‘Lucky you! When can I see him?’ And...

Settled down to do the RSPB Birdwatch. Turned out to be Ratwatch. Poppy wouldn’t have stood for it! 14 species this year, including a sparrowhawk.

These two are my favourites!

I’ve been having a similar problem, apparently it’s common if you use BTinternet. I found that my sent emails were just piling up in the Outbox, (along with my letter of complaint to a firm that hadn’t solved my delivery problem!) I solved it by opening a Webmail account from the app shop...