Ha yes it possibly does look a touch stalkery! Aparently folk in that there London aren’t right romantic tho and the other stuff seems to have gone down very well! Hmm….
*Opens biscuits myself and puts kettle on*

Hot water bottles and rubber bath mats. Chewing and sniffing of said items. She used to carry around a square of hot water bottle rubber for emergencies….

That’s brilliant!!!

Any time I want. It’s soul destroying.

Thanks :)

Its just that i have been give a notice alongside the permanent staff and wonder if its right or not!Contract is only for 18 months

Thanks thats what i thought.

Cheers, I’m going to try occ health tomorrow, it might be that they can take the response element of my job away for a little while or something. I don’t want to go into meltdown at a job ;-)

Money saving is a tough one, job requires i live in vaguely this area which is quite expensive, don’t have sky or meals out or anything, just a matter of getting back on top somehow then it won’t be as bad I hope. If it gets worse and has to go the CSA and legal route then I’ll have to move back in with my parents I suppose. Not really the plan at 35 with a half decent job and little girl but there we are I suppose.

Daft, 1 text from the mrs even tho it wasn’t nice particularly and I feel better. WTF is with that. I want to be angry with her and hate her for taking my baby away. I just worry about her instead :(

Cycle scheme opens at work in September might give that a go,
I’m 3 months off the fags, and strangely all this is making me more determined. Feels like one thing (probably the only thing!) I actually have a bit of control over.

Vickypea – I agree with you tbh, she won’t hear of it tho, despite the pre natal stuff and having had severe depression in the past. It’s all my fault according to her and I don’t think anything will change that now :(

And Murf, that’s a lovely thought. I’m only 5’6″ tho…..

Thanks again folks, daft when they’re only 30 miles away but it may as well be the moon I feel so lonely without them. Nice to know there are people I can talk to.

You’re all lovely people. I suppose a trip to the dr is probably the only solution.

I think what frightens me is never seeing an end. I will always have a daughter and will always be there dad. Double edged sword, nothing will change that regardless of me and the OH, but at the moment I feel like I have a lifetime of regret and missing out and if I try and move on or even think of it it’s like I’m abandoning my baby to a future without her dad there all the time and I set my self off again :(

Selfish I spose, if it’s better for her to be with a happy mummy I should suck it up but it’s pretty unmanageable at the moment :(

Thanks for all the positive thoughts tho x

esselgruntfuttock, I did the Prison Me No Way thing today with work, ever done it? Unrelated to topic totally but fascinating.

Guy murdered his wife with a hammer a few years ago while their son slept upstairs. Police had to wake him up and tell him. And that’s in Swaledale!

A fire officer also has the power to close any class of road independently of the Police should they so decide, so in effect they sort of make you stop :)

Cracking, thanks all. It will sadly be the fairly bog standard version but it looks like most who’ve had one liked it! Is there anyway of detecting problems with the timing chain while on the forecourt?!

Nice one, it’s only the 1.2 I’m after so the ragging potential should be fairly limited!

I saw Paul Daniels and the lovely Debbie McGee filling up their Discovery at Scotch Corner once. Diesel. I liked it. Though not a lot…

A mate dived several 100m out of an underwater cave to freedom with a broken jaw, ribs, arm, a severed bicep and smashed teeth with exposed nerves. That rated quite high on the pain scale I’m told, although he still had the prescence of mind to tell the irate farmer who’s permission he hadn’t asked that he’d “tripped over a stile”….

I had something similar with my Stihl. It would rev up no problem but as soon as you let it idle or started cutting it died. After much eBay searching I replaced the carburetor and tweaked the screws a bit and it’s good as new (25 years old anyway!)

It’s all perfectly legit folks don’t worry, part of my role is that I’m emailed regarding ongoing jobs as well as paged so I have it set up on personal phone as well as work one to make sure I don’t miss them.

Ah ok thanks folks. It’s local government (fire service) so will probably have to wait until tomorrow. No worries, cheers all.

Yep it’ll probably come to that I was just hoping for an easy way of salvaging it this evening. I’m sure I didn’t have to put anything special in before! Strange!

My 16 month old daughters giggle. Sadly I don’t get to hear it anymore.

I live close enough to Tan Hill to be a local at top of Arkengarthdale, and most of that was a load of rubbish. It doesn’t snow that much, and that daft landlady or whatever she reckons to be now hasn’t seen it snow properly yet! Load of patronising horse plop.

Would be a good drinking game to do a shot everytime Henson says “gods own country” whilst gazing whist fully into the distance tho….

Cheers Welshfarmer, although there’s really not as much to the underwater potholing as people think. And “underwater potholing” is very much what it is in the dales, it’s caving underwater rather than the cracking stuff you see in Florida etc.

Most of the things that are going to do you a nasty michief whilst diving are fairly foreseeable, probably more so than in MTB!

FFJA

Cave diving on Flickr
Popples Cave Dentdale
Underground on Ingleborough

Not sure what I did last time, hopefull these links will work if nowt else! FFJA

Yours’s truly…..

I have a Little Life cross country. Admittedly I’ve never used anything else, but it seems a winner to me on 1-2 hour walks in the sales with the dog and the 16 month old.

Christmas tree. Big end first….

Maccruisekeen – You’re lucky! I once got a BA crew to smash a door down to gain access to a house to check that after it was rung in as a roof on fire….

If I get the going and potted up and anyone would like one feel free to pick one up if you’re passing Swaledale in the future!

It’s coming up like cress now!

An update if anyone’s interested… After a year in a mix of grit and wool bracken compost mine have just germinated on a heated potting bench. Fingers crossed!

My miniature daschund is called Dave. Seems to suit him somehow. The collies are Max and Roy.

It’s fremington edge but closer to the Reeth end than Storthwaite

^ Correct. It is off piste on a local grouse moor tho so do treat it a bit sensibly during August – December and in nesting season :-)
FFJA

Preloved/Gumtree etc. I’d say rehome one but if you mention the “C” word they’re generally fairly negative in my experience

Or laptop chargers/e-cigarette chargers, hair straighteners, cookers, saucepans, electrical equipment, matches, cigarettes, all of which cause far more property fires than “litres and litres of fuel…”

I’m glad we can buy fuel, my chainsaw and lawnmower don’t work without it!

Wasn’t a gamekeeper or farmer in this case.

+1 for silky saw. When I took down the huge yews outside my house it was all done by Silky saw, it saw a lot of use when I was gardening proffesionaly