Be Excellent To Each Other

Good ol' KV was right. Noticing when you're happy is important, I reckon.

A couple of years ago I bought 2 small grape vines for £5 at Tesco

Stuck them in large pots in my greenhouse, the first year vines grow and put lots of leaves out but no grapes.

After this first growth you cut everything off and just leave the main plant

This year I got leaves again and little bunches of grapes everywhere, as they were in pots I cut all but 2 bunches off each vine

So finally after letting them ripen for a few more days in the heatwave last week I have these

Really sweet and nice, also got white ones which were nice, but not as many or as good

My son is loving it as we bought some tomato plants which he has helps me water etc. Now he thinks all fruit and veg is his, so he is eating "his grapes" as I type watching TV

Pleased with myself as I've always wanted to grow these.

Wine next, then.

Really well done! What a fab way of encouraging your boy to eat fruit and veg, and understand where his food comes from
And why it's important not to waste it, etc.

Great work

Brilliant work but make sure you cut the grapes up if a young un is eating them.

They're the perfect size to get lodged in the throat.

Doing that to make sure he doesn't choke and also these have seeds in them !

Good work. My nephew had a grape stuck in his throat and luckily, as his dad ran outside to get help, his neighbour managed to slap his back to get it out.

That's some pretty shitty parenting on behalf of the dad. Dealing with choking isn't something you should need to fetch someone else for.

It's a time when you're legally obliged to beat your child. We live for these days.

Inverted back slap is The Move Of Champions.

MrsA got some baby first aid chick around to teach us stuff. She had nice boobs.

I see what you mean, but it was likely panic rather than an actual want to fetch someone else. I thought Darwin was choking once (I think, in hindsight, he was just super-gagging on my awesome cooking) but one second he was choking/gagging, the next perfectly fine, sitting on my lap. Afterwards, I could kind of picture me removing him from his high chair, turning him upside down and slapping his back as he coughed and brought the food out, but I don't know if I remember this or have just pictured it. I was on total autopilot and had sorted it before my concours brain had caught up. I think some people have the same brain paralysis but without the automatic action, and so they run to alert others. I've seen the same happen after accidents: I run towards any injured to help, others run to shout to the air or to find help, others stand motionless.

Then the babies came along and ruined them, right?

40th birthday present to myself in a few years.

Totally agree with you. I did a first aid course at work which told me what to do if a child was choking and I had to use it once on my youngest. I'm not saying that she'd have come a cropper without my training, but it most definitely did the job.

You're Han to her Chewie, now.

Plan for next year is to remove these from the pots and plant them in the greenhouse as it has a soil floor

That way next year the vines will be able to support more grapes and hopefully will put more out as well in the 3rd year.

There are a lot of grape vines in gardens around me but they never really get ripe outside, aside from this one women who has a huge vine outside and its covered in bunches of huge ripe red grapes every year. Might ask her for a cutting. She used to make wine with them, but now just leaves them, so not sure if they are an eating variety.

You are going to look great!

I've just had a "well done" from my boss. It was sincere and heartfelt which means a lot.

To be honest... I thought I was slacking a bit but there you go. Imagine how good I could be if I tried?

I feel like that about every aspect of my life.

(But YAY! well done )

I've planned for that for every aspect of my life. Consistently Mediocre is my lifetime goal.

Fucking right.

I am the Thad to your Alex.

Imagine Grim...land.

All the staff would be Holly Willougby.

Waiting at Manchester Piccadally for a train home after an excellent weekend. I joined OutdoorLads, an outdoors group, in the spring and to get people to attend their AGM they laid on a pub night on Friday and a dinner/celigdh on the Saturday evening. I had a great time and spoke to loads of people. I also proved to myself that I can still dance.

Looking forward to doing a lot more with this group.

2 job interviews next week. One in Liverpool so if it goes well i can lunch with davpaz

Just waiting for Dazpaz to post in the Nay thread....

That's ace! Except I don't work in the city centre, you know.

I can have a later lunch to allow you travel time.

I'd love to do the forensic psychology MSc at your place.

/Derails

Fix her up, DP!

Do it! I can offer insider benefits!

Assuming that 'my' place is where you think it is, natch.

Title

That was intended for the previous post, but I think that works either way.

Deffo title

It's not just north and south, there's an East and West too!

Had a phone call of my new Manager (based in That London) to talk about the email I sent him regarding my position at work.

The email was sent a couple of weeks ago so I assumed he was going to brush it under the carpet, but no.

He said I am now a Senior Graphic Designer and he'll be in touch with HR next week to sort out my new pay.

So that was nice.

Fantastic news! Well done.

Excellent! And what timing with my birthday coming up.

I am currently in post op from getting my balls put back together. It all went well but more importantly morphine is the bomb.

All being well I can make some more offspring soon

This should be in the Nay thread based on the above. Sorry world.

The first line of that made it sound very dramatic. The second line made me realise what was going on.

Good luck with the recovery!

Morphine is awesome.

Make sure you have a constant supply, Gramps x

The one and only time I had that was 3 years ago when I had some bulging discs dealt with in my spine.

When I came around the nurse said I could press the button as much as I wanted as the morphine would knock me out before I could do any harm to myself.

Whilst I wasn't in pain that much I found it was useful to knock me out and get some rest.

Later on the nurse came back and said I needed to have a pee. I was still flat on my back and couldn't get any pressure built up So I figured gravity would help and asked them to help me stand and do one.

Later that night the pain kicked in and the morphine was doing nothing, it was only in the morning that I found out during my standing to pee, the morphine pipe had become disconnected and I had been squirting morphine all over my leg and bed all night.

Bit shabby for private care as I did raise my pain issues but they just said that the computer said I had consumed loads of morphine, they should have checked the pipe really. I never raised it as it wasn't like they were going to send me home with a bottle to make up for it!!

Twofer on Teasers from the office chocolate vending machine! Best day ever.

What are Teasters?

Maltesers?

Or it could be Tasters. Which are better than Maltesers.