Re: Another rat hunt (not too OT)
- From: "meee" <pleaseaskfirst@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:05:35 GMT
"Christina Websell" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It was necessary to have another rat hunt yesterday morning. This time
three men came with 3 terriers (one 18 weeks old just to observe)
The rules were the same. Shut all the chickens up and keep the cats
inside from the previous night, in case the terriers catch them and they
might well do, as they get very revved up during a rat hunt.
So I shut the door firmly at 10 pm, with both cats safe inside and a
temporary litter box made from an old turkey roasting tin filled with
earth in the kitchen. They were snoozing by the fire and everything was
hunky-dory when I went to bed.
I'd only just dropped off to sleep when Boyfriend woke me at about 12.30
a.m. by meowing very loudly outside the bedroom door to advise me that I
had forgotten to leave the back door open so he could get out. I ignored
him and he went back downstairs. Twenty minutes later he was back and
said it must have been an oversight on my part, and could I possibly get
up and let him out as he needed a wee. I ignored him again, and he went
away for ten minutes. He could not believe that I didn't hear his pleas
so he came back every few minutes to meow louder and louder ALL NIGHT!
When I got up, having had practically no sleep at all, the litterbox
appeared unused, but when I had to nip back to the house for my rat
thwacking stick after the rat team had been here a while, I caught the
poor lad unawares with his nether regions over the box for at least 3
minutes with a look of great relief on his face.
After that, he retired upstairs to sleep on the spare bed and didn't get
up until 4 pm.
I have to go on strike tomorrow, I work in local government and they are
trying to alter our pension scheme (I pay about 80 pounds a month for it
and have done for 17 years) so we have to work longer, in some cases until
we are 70.
I can ill afford to lose the days pay but hey. Public service is fairly
badly paid but the one thing we could look forward to was a reasonable
pension in our old age, and now they want to save money by not giving it
to us at the proper retirement age. I have been in full time work since I
was 15 and paid what is called "full stamp" all the time and I still
cannot retire until 62.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall at work tomorrow. In a building that
normally has around 250 workers in lots of different departments, I doubt
more than a dozen will be in, and those will be picketed.
Tweed
That's really shocking !!!! Good luck with the picketing, no-one should be
forced to work until 70. And good luck with the rat elimination.
.
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