An AnonyMouse Note is Seemingly Not Enough!

According to the RSPCA ....

Thoughtless owners have left nearly 1,000 suffering dogs trapped, during the recent hot spells.
Staff have been called out to 968 dogs and 281 other pets which have been left in hot cars or buildings this MONTH alone!  Three of these animals actually died, but there could have been more.  They ended their report with ..."Dont leave your dog alone in a car. It's not enough to keep a window open."

This message just isn't strong enough! 

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE STUPID PEOPLE!!!!!

Mouse x

Wedding Fever

WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY FOR A WEDDING!  And a Royal Wedding t'boot!  lol

Oh, and didnt Kate look beautiful ... elegant ... and regal!  Her dress was, oh so .... *sigh*
Every inch a princess.
It was truly a day to lift the spirits of the British people.  No-one quite does a day like this, than the Brits!

Proud to be British, people!

May I wish the happy couple, the most glorious and happiest of lives together.

Mouse x

Testing! Testing!

Hmmmm .... that last post was a tad unreadable - hence the testing, testing now .... :)

Wonder if it had anything to do with adding the link .... (talking to myself again! lol)

Listen to Mr Angry on the Radio

As heard on the Jonathan Vernon Smith Show : Three Counties Radio today : 28.4.11

Listen to Melvin's call going viral around the world!

http://search.twitter.com/search?had_popular=true&q=melvin&result_type=recent

It is SO FUNNY but .... I found the presenter laughing even MORE funny!  lol  What do you think?

Support for Cameron

Oh, for heavens sake!  Have the people in Parliament completely lost their sense of humour!!??
Can't they see that Cameron was quoting from the Michael Winner commercials, when using the
"Calm down, Dear" phrase?  I thought it was FUNNY!

..... Oh, well, just me then.

Mouse x

Weird Weather

OMG!  What happened to the weather!!!???

Got the Mouse shorts out ... only to put 'em away again!   Brrrrr!   Really, really want to put the heating on, but no, I WILL resist ....

Busy Doin' Nothing

Anyone doing anything for the Royal Wedding on Friday?

Nah ... me neither ... phew! ... and that's a sigh of relief - not disappointment!  Ha!

Grumpy Mouse x

It's Only a Name ... or is it?

Each to their own and live and let live and all that .... but I was wondering .... why would a Catherine call herself Kate? (See Middleton) Surely it's more obvious to be called Cath, therefore a Katherine or a Kathleen would adopt the name Kate/Katie. 
In the same vein, (and in the Mouse book) a Rosemary should be called Rose and not Ros; otherwise it's a COMPLETE change of name!  How bizarre; and why is a William,  Bill?  And why is Prince Harry called Henry?  If you wanted to call him Harry ... CALL HIM HARRY!  Derrr!

Sorry ... soapbox was calling whilst reading the papers this morning!  haha

Moments to Cherish - Part 1

She came ....
.... we laughed;
We drank tea ....
....we laughed;
we drank more tea ....
.... we laughed;
We drank even MORE tea ....
.... and still we laughed;
We shared an evening meal ....
.... and we laughed some more;
No Mum!   I JUST CAN'T DRINK ANY MORE TEA!!!!
(Heavens above! What IS this woman putting in our tea!)  haha

But what a lovely afternoon we had - my Mum and me!
Thank you, Mum .... Love you!   Happy Easter!

Mouse x

The AnonyMouse Note

If you've not had the pleasure of receiving one, believe me, you are most fortunate.

I dished one out today, the first of the season ... and who to, you may very well ask?

Well, I dont actually know them personally, but it was to someone one who would wrongly claim to be an animal lover.  Their name or gender matters not a jot!
Said note was firmly placed on the windscreen of their car, which was parked in a multi-storey carpark i happen to frequent from time-to-time; and it pointed out in no uncertain terms my disgust that they had left their poor yelping dog in the back of their car in the sweltering heat!

How utterly cruel!  Do they not read the papers and hear of other hapless animals that have actually DIED by being left in the heat like that!!!!  Christ!  I was hot enough in a t/shirt with the aircon. on let alone wearing a FUR COAT!

Makes my blood boil!  Not only was this poor animal in the back of the car, it was in a metal cage which was so small there wasn't even enough room for it to stand up!   There was one window open about 2.5cm - big bl**dy deal!
I checked their parking ticket and there was still another hour to go before it ran out!!!

Why take a dog to town anyway, if you're not going to put it on a lead and take it with you!
SO unfair!  So not right!  I am livid and very upset! (as you can tell.)  :(

So apart from heaving a brick through the car window which I seriously contemplated doing, the only thing I could really do was leave one of my AnonyMouse notes  (this isn't the first time, as you now know - in fact whilst away on holiday once,  i actually called the RSPCA out! Spoilt my r*ddy holiday too!)

So I'm sorry if anyone felt a little leftout at that beginning and wondered why they hadnt received one of Mouse's 'special ' notes  - I'm telling you now - you.do.not.want to!

Mouse x

The Alternative Voting Thingy *yawn*

Now... if I've got this right (and believe me, I quite often get it wrong!) this AV thing that's coming up .... you vote for people in the order of which you want them to win! (haha! that sounded so much better in my head!) teehee.

Its going to be the same system as they use in Formula 1 racing, isnt it, if so ... I say NO!!!

I VOTE  for the person I want to WIN!   That's how its always been, otherwise what's the point? 

You run the race to WIN!
You cross the line first - you WIN!
You get the most votes - you WIN!

You dont get as many points as you can for coming 2nd, 3rd & 4th and ... hey presto!  You've won! Not in my book you dont, anyway!  lol  

Feel free to put me right if I've missed something ......  :)

Mouse x

That cant be right, surely?

It seems .... that it's ok to collect someone-elses parcel or package from your local Post Office Sorting Office, so long as YOU produce THEIR Passport, Driving Licence or Bank Card ..... all because (in the name of anti-fraud) the name on the ID MUST match the name on the parcel/package.
Surely that cant be right! 

So, with or without the other person's permission ....wouldnt I have just fraudulently claimed a parcel/package using that person's ID?

It CAN'T be right ....  can it??

Text Talk

Years ago, I held a 90wpm certificate for writing shorthand, which in those days wasn't actually considered THAT fast, but if i did it now I expect i could impress a few people ..... but I cant!  The skill has long gone; and yet I'm using a form of shorthand when I text.

So the question I'm asking, has to be: when is it ok to use text talk and when isn't it?

I must confess, I have to keep myself in check when I send emails , and resist the temptation to use the simplist text talk like ... lol ... gr8 ... 2moro!  Jimmy Young on radio 2 many moons ago, used to sign off with TTF (ta ta for now) - I wonder if he realised how soon the world would follow?  haha

Newspaper reports have revealed that kids are using the abbreviations in their school work (much to the annoyance of the teachers!).  Now this i can understand isn't probably the right place, but I can see a time when its commonplace to use it in letters & reports.  So long as we all understand it ... what's the problem!?

So ... C U 2moro wiv my nxt blg thn!  lol

It's still a memory problem

It seems there was nothing wrong with my password after all.

No.

There wasnt enough money in the bank to pay the bill!  Haha

(Note to self:  put money in ... to take money out!)

Simples!

Memory ....

.... I wish I had one ....

Just went to pay a bill on-line and forgot the 'new' last digit/letter that they recently asked me to add!!

Damn,blast and ****!   Now I'll have to go to the bank tomorrow morning to sort it out!

I'll remember THAT, wont I ...  she says ... 'coz it's such an obvious addition.

.... obviously not.   :(

A whole new world

Having volunteered to get my daughter somewhere for 7.30am (YES! I DID say 7.30am!) this morning, I decided to make use of the early start by picking up a couple of bits at my local Sainsburys.  Unbeknown to me (as 7.30am doesnt really exist in Mouse world!) the supermarket didn't open 'til 8am.  So I sat and waited in the car ....
By the time the doors were ready to be unlocked, six men had independantly gathered outside (I'm guessing it was for cigs and a paper) but this in itself was a fascinating sight to me; but then ..... walking like zombies in the Stepford Wives film came couples, some pushing trollies, slowly gliding across the tarmac from all angles, having been sitting in their cars also, waiting for the grand opening of Sainsburys on a Saturday morning! 

Open.the.doors.and.they.will.come .....

Mouse x

Jordan ... or alternatively read ... Get that ruddy woman off the front of my newspaper!

I cant believe that once .... yes, once ....  I actually admired Jordan.  She was a self-promoted business woman, married with 3 children and appeared (at the time) to be able to turn her alter ego, Jordan, on and off, as required.  There were publicity shots of Jordan, as you would expect a glamour model to look and then the stay at home, Katie Price, who wanted nothing more than to curl up of an evening with her hubby, her kids and the dogs and watch a DVD.
How ideallic.
Now I shout, almost every morning ..."Get that ruddy woman off the front of my paper!"  It drives me MAD!  She's everywhere!  Does she really sell THAT many papers by being plastered all over the front page headlines!  Keep her to the pages of HEAT and all the other celeb. mags - not my paper!

Now, I'm the first to admit that I DO read a rather down market paper.  It's good enough to get the gist of what's going on out there, whilst standing with a mug o'tea in one hand and a slice of toast in t'other, of a morning, because that's all I want from a paper.   David Cameron ... yeah, yeah ... man beats up Coronation Street star ... yeah, yeah ... 9pm Waking the Dead ... oh good, a bit of decent telly!

I did have a 'proper' paper for about a week, but there was SO much in it I found I hadnt had time to read it all before the next one arrived!  haha

So if i really want to flick through early morning, worldwide trivia ... then I guess I'll have to put up with Jordan too.   :(

Mouse x

Impatience at a click of a button

I never used to be impatient ....

Now I live in a world where I, along with everyone else, expects everything to happen instantaneously!

For instance:
* when nothing happens, for all of a nanno-second, when i click my mouse (hello beloved mouse *hug*) I feel rising anger!  How is that?

* when the TV remote button clicks and the TV doesnt respond IMMEDIATELY!

* when the washing machine cycle has finished and you have to wait 90 SECONDS before you can open the s *dding door!

* when you've keyed in your credit card number over the phone and you have to wait listening to something they call 'music' while they verify your details

* when you've used the car door remote in the pouring rain, and you violently tug on the door handle .... only to find you've opened the boot instead!  hahaha

Calm Mouse, calm ....

Mouse x

Summer Duty

Summer is on its way! 
But it doesnt really matter what the weather will be like, because I will be on duty for other people's KIDS!!  
Needless to say i dont get any thanks, in fact they dont even know i DO it! I try not to, but i just cant help it!

On the beach:  I'm the one who wants to know why that child is on its own?  Who'se it with?  Is it lost?  And so I put down my book, and from my comfy deckchair, I survey from a distance, the crying child wandering along the sand.  It's parents have allowed it to go down to the waters edge, but dont seem to realise that children never come back up the sand from the same place they went down, which equals disorientated child.  Why do I know THAT and they dont?
Mum is dozing, 'catching the rays'; Dad is reading the paper; child is left to their own devices and WHAMO!  The child is lost.  I've been off to get ice creams before now, and come back and found it hard to locate our little beach settlement; so what's it like for a youngster?

At the boating lake/river:  I'm the one biting my knuckles, praying that the 3 year old doesnt fall in the water! Oh, yes, the parents are there shouting at little Charlie "Dont go near the water!" "Come back, come back!"  But the child shouldnt be allowed to go there in the first place! They should be holding an adult's hand or holding onto the buggy/pram? They give the child the responsiblity of looking after itself and quite frankly they are too young to do so.

And, and .... I'm even on duty in the car too!  Ever watchful of the little children who are allowed to run on ahead of their parents on the pavements!  There's too big a gap to save them when they fall; children are unpredictable and they will suddenly turn on their heel - straight into the road.  Some children have obviously been told to stop at the road, which they duly do, but with their toes hanging over the edge of the kerb!  So close to being sucked into the path of a passing car or scooped up by a piece of clothing ... oh, i cant go on ... it makes me feel sick at the very thought.

Oh, and another thing!  What about the 6, 7, 8 year old who is left in charge of a 2, 3, 4 years old!  Beggers belief!  My Mouselets werent allowed out on their own at those ages, let alone look after a little person even younger!

Parents - take responsibility for your own kids! The Mouse cant be on duty EVERYWHERE!

Mouse x

Well, Have They?

One of my greatest loves is ... diving my car!

Doesnt matter how great or small the journey is - I Love it!  The feeling of real independance is like no other ... BUT ... (there's always a but, isnt there!) what I've noticed, and it riles me EVERY time, is other people's lack of using their indicators!

My car is only 6 years old and has indicators - do newer cars not have them any more?  Have owners of older cars had them removed? Or What?

Senario:  You're sitting at a roundabout waiting to go, and somone else comes round the roundabout on your right (this is driving in the UK)) and they are not indicating, but they arent in a position that tells you if they are turning left off the roundabout, or going all the way round to exits 2. 3 or 4 (or whatever)  either! It drives me INSANE!!!

So, if you've ever heard the sound of muffled yelling as you nonchalently drive on by in your own little world, where YOU know where you're going .... and I bl**dy dont .... that'll be ME!!! 

Mouse x

What's the big Deal?

I AM an 'old school' Mouse, granted, but hey, that shouldn't make any difference! 

What I'd like to know is:  why cant men & women be called Manager & Manageress respectively? 
Now, you're going to tell me its all part of the equality thingy, arent you; but if that's so, then why adopt the the masculine term 'Manager' for both ... Men 1 v. Women O.

Mouse x