Uncanny. I had the Easter week off to redecorate my office, which culminated in building a modular storage unit from Ikea. My office layout also includes an L-shaped desk, and I also had no room once the majority of the unit was put together. The hours of blood sweat and tears, the pulsing thunderous rage that built over the same period...Wrathbone wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:26 pmI think the closest I've come to that level of assembly disaster was at the start of the pandemic where I decided to reorganise the second bedroom as proper office / entertainment room. It's a tiny room, but there wasn't room to do DIY anywhere else upstairs so I ended up putting together two 6ft bookcases and a big L-shaped corner desk in less space than you could swing a rat. Much swearing ensued over several hours, culminating in me having put most of the desk's metal frame together, which had backed me against the wall. As I carefully tried to navigate over it (with zero room for maneuver), I completely stacked it, belly-first, arms flailing for anything to break the fall. I ended up bruising my torso from where it landed on a metal bar, and I'd managed to topple one of the empty bookcases on top of myself. Took a while to untangle myself from that, then discovered I'd cut my arm open and was bleeding everywhere.
I have owned several rodents over the years when I was younger. My girlfriend and I had one named Billy who would answer to his name, and spent a lot of time out of his cage with us. He would happily sit on shoulders and laps, perfectly happy to be stroked and petted, and was a genuinely lovely-natured creature.
We also have local FB groups and like Raid's they are a hotbed of middle-class hand-wringing. From idiotic requests that could easily be answered using Google ("What time does Morrisons close today?") to 'hilarious' running jokes ("What? Another Turkish barbers/coffee shop opening in town???" - always followed by "It's disgusting, they are just money-laundering!"), whining about dog turds, someone parking slightly outside a marked bay, honestly first world problems doesn't cut it, these are just first world dribblings by people who have nothing worth talking about.
But yeah, rats are fine, especially in a rural setting. You aren't gonna win so just leave them be.
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Useless bastards! They are doing all this and not even fixing the bloody potholes that are way more prevalent than they were. Up the side of the Mitchell Library they have added speed bumps and litteral inches from these new speed bumps are potholes which they could have used the bloody speedbump to cover if they just moved it a bit! 
) but will avoid lots of roads that I know invite dangerous overtakes.
