The Chillout Zone (Off-Topic Thread)

belongtojazz wrote: »

I miss my dogs! I've. Even away since early sat and go home tomorrow ( mon) but I really miss my dogs!
I do this trip regularly to see family in the uk and bring my daughter to the orthodontist but my jazz is under the weather at the minute and I'm finding his trip really tough
Think I'm driving my dad up the walls as I've rung him twice each day to check how she is.... It isn't anything serious (hopefully) but while she's on medication I should be the one administering it

I understand! I sent my budgies to stay with my mother before Christmas, cause I was going to the inlaws in the UK. Then my fella got sick so we haven't been able to drive down and get them yet! When my ten year old Marky is here, I often threaten to sell him, stick him out the window, put him in the bin.... he's the noisiest budgie I ever had and I've owned about 50... but when he's not here I fret about him! He needs to see me all the time, he's in love with me, and I keep phoning my mother to make sure he's ok! My hen bird, though, she couldn't care less where she is or who is there as long as there's seed. I get them back this coming weekend, Marky is going to be over the moon!

My parents sent me this picture on Christmas morning, saying "Look what we discovered in the stable!"



That's our 14 year old Labrador Xsara. I really did think she'd gone up there, climbed into the huge bucket I know they have full of hay in the stable, and gone to sleep. I thought it was a very strange but hilarious coincidence.

Found out this morning my parents are massive fakes! They told me to look more closely at the background of the picture. I'd previously been too distracted by the cuteness to realise, yes... that's my parents' couch in the background, and the wooden floor underneath! They staged it! They went out to the stables and dragged armfuls of straw right across the garden, through the house and into the sitting room, then filled Xsara's bed with it! I asked them what on earth they were thinking, and they said "Well, we were bored!" It was their first Christmas morning alone since my brother was born 33 years ago! My dad did comment "Yeah, but if they kids had done this....!"

My mother showed us the pictures, she'd even fashioned a halo out of cardboard and some gold ribbons off the Christmas crackers. And my father added "And me dressed up as a shepherd in the background!" I thought that was a joke, they wouldn't go that far, but NO! There he was, in a wax jacket, green scarf draped over his head and one of the Springer Spaniel's toy rubber rings on top, holding a walking stick. I don't think I should ever leave them alone for Christmas again!

(This was because the night before, I sent them a photo of the in laws' dog, so they sent one back of our Sonny with a santa hat on, so the in laws thought it was game on, we sent one back of their collie wearing a santa hat AND tinsel, heard nothing from the parents, so I rang, and they told me to be patient, they were wrapping a set of lights around the ancient Labrador.... I told them to stop it! I could see that possibly going wrong and called a truce before they plugged the dog in. All the same in in laws did get a set of battery operated Christmas lights on stand-by in case my parents were bluffing. Turns out they broke it the following morning! Who says Christmas is for children?)

mymo wrote: »

That's a great story, and your dad was right, if the kids did that..............

Love it!

Just to add, while my daughter did a course in Dublin last summer I did something similar so can understand where they're coming from, I missed the laughs we had so put the ipod on the cat and sent pic's to my daughter, also gave the dogs the dustpan and brush and positioned them to be cleaning up (just for a laugh, god I am mad:o)
She loved it!

It was my first Christmas away, but my parents were ok with it cause my two brothers were going to be there, but my older bro arrived into Dublin (he lives in Thailand) on the 23rd, met younger bro, and they went AWOL. No contact for two days and no idea where they were. My mother was quite upset and kept phoning me in the UK with the in laws to say that Christmas was cancelled and she wasn't ever going to do a turkey again! In the end my brothers surfaced, younger bro drove down with older bro on Christmas morning, but not before they'd pulled this trick. Can imagine they were probably very bored!

mymo wrote: »

Just to add, while my daughter did a course in Dublin last summer I did something similar so can understand where they're coming from, I missed the laughs we had so put the ipod on the cat and sent pic's to my daughter, also gave the dogs the dustpan and brush and positioned them to be cleaning up (just for a laugh, god I am mad:o)
She loved it!

Just to add too, me and my ma do this all the time. We're very close and since she finally figured out Facebook and camera phones we share pics all the time, of my birds, my cat or her horse! You're not weird, me and my ma would pose the animals the same way! Difficult, isn't it?

Bailey is adorable