Mundane News

[Paulus]

The cat has just lost another collar and disc, that make three this week.🐱

 

[Threevok]

Are you one of those annoying people who start drinking on the train?

Heaven Forbid

You have to wait for the train to reach Caerphilly, before you are allowed alcohol

 

[Threevok]

The cat has just lost another collar and disc, that make three this week.🐱

Keep your eye out. When that started happening to ours, it was a neighbor who was removing them, shortly before she stole our cat

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Keep your eye out. When that started happening to ours, it was a neighbor who was removing them, shortly before she stole our cat

Can you steal a cat? Our daughter has one that rarely come home now, but only because he's decided to live elsewhere, he's also almost doubled in size, which we suspect is the reason he doesn't come home.

 

[Threevok]

Can you steal a cat? Our daughter has one that rarely come home now, but only because he's decided to live elsewhere, he's also almost doubled in size, which we suspect is the reason he doesn't come home.

Legally, i'm not sure

However, after three missing collars, the cat failed to come home.

Three years later, i'm sat outside the house, when an elderly lady (four doors up) opens her front door to answer it - and out follows our cat

A few years later, our next door neighbor had her white Persian go missing. Three months later, he can been seen sitting in the old lady's front window.

Unlike me, the matter was perused and she got the cat back

 

[Speicher]

There is something hiding in my garden, under a pyracantha. It is dark behind a low wall, and probs now quite damp. The hider makes a noise like bib bib bib beep...…(pause) bib dib peep.

Is that a frog? or a bihernating frog?

 

[Illaveago]

There is something hiding in my garden, under a pyracantha. It is dark behind a low wall, and probs now quite damp. The hider makes a noise like bib bib bib beep...…(pause) bib dib peep.

Is that a frog? or a bihernating frog?

A Morse toad ?

Couldn't help myself !

Sorry !

 

[Threevok]

A Morse toad ?

Couldn't help myself !

Sorry !

If you can't see it, perhaps it has a croaking device

 

[Andy in Germany]

Some possible employers want me to have a 'trainers certificate' which is issued by that august body the "Industrie und Handwerkkammer"; which translates very roughly as the "Trade and Industry association".

I don't need one because my qualification covers everything they teach. However, the TIA doesn't like this, which is is why it has just taken a week of grumpy phone calls to get them to even send the form.

Officially because they "want to keep standards high" but cynics may suggest it's because the course costs upwards of a thousand Euros and the certificate costs 25 €.

They have already said I'm not going to get a trainers certificate, even if I can prove that I'm already qualified. Instead, I they will possibly issue me with a certificate to say that I don't need the certificate. (because otherwise I need the certificate).

I am not making this up, it is a "Befreiungsschein", literally a "certificate of release or exemption".

In other words they aren't going to admit I'm qualified, but instead they'll graciously send me a certificate that 'exempts' me from the usual requirement.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Very similar in the UK, I went on the Part P electrical course a few years ago, it was nothing about being able to do the job, it was all about filling the forms in correctly & signing you up to the insurance scheme.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Some possible employers want me to have a 'trainers certificate' which is issued by that august body the "Industrie und Handwerkkammer"; which translates very roughly as the "Trade and Industry association".

I don't need one because my qualification covers everything they teach. However, the TIA doesn't like this sort of thing. This is is nwhy it has just taken a week of grumpy phone calls to get them to even send the form.

Officially because they "want to keep standards high" but cynics may suggest it's because the course costs upwards of a thousand Euros and the certificate costs 25 €.

They have already said I'm not going to get a trainers certificate, even if I can prove that I'm already qualified. Instead, I they will possibly issue me with a certificate to say that I don't need the certificate. (because otherwise I need the certificate).

I am not making this up, it is a "Befreiungsschein", literally a "certificate of release or exemption".

In other words they aren't going to admit I'm qualified, but instead they'll graciously send me a certificate that exempts me from the usual requirement.

If you tried yourself, you couldn’t make up something so daft. Bureaucracy at its best.

 

[classic33]

There is something hiding in my garden, under a pyracantha. It is dark behind a low wall, and probs now quite damp. The hider makes a noise like bib bib bib beep...…(pause) bib dib peep.

Is that a frog? or a bihernating frog?

Might just be waiting to hop it elsewhere.

 

[Reynard]

Did my CP volunteering this morning. Got to cuddle some fabulous blue and tortie kittens.

Had a lovely walk in the community orchard afterwards, and picked some more Green Harvey and Cockett's Red apples. Also picked some meddlars.

Time for lunch, bbl xxx

 

[Andy in Germany]

Might just be waiting to hop it elsewhere.

I wonder what further terrible jokes this event will spawn.

 

[PeteXXX]

There is something hiding in my garden, under a pyracantha. It is dark behind a low wall, and probs now quite damp. The hider makes a noise like bib bib bib beep...…(pause) bib dib peep.

Is that a frog? or a bihernating frog?

Is it a jabberwocky? 🤔