Trivial Things that annoy you - Mod Note in OP

Audacity! It's freaking everywhere on us media, makes my teeth itch.

Nothing about this in the forecast. My own fault hanging out the washing.

A few hours later and the far too sunny South East (TA).

seemed to have misplaced the remote for my old Creative Soundworks CD / radio player. Remote is only about 20% bigger than a bank card. Bought the player about 18 years ago…the days when tech was starting to be all delighted with itself pushing ‘mini’ and smaller = better. Nice until you have to go find the fûckin thing after losing it..it’s grey as well as tiny so not like it stands out in a room a bit too full of clutter..

It is time we started calling the horsefly a personfly. It has long ago given up on horses and decided to dine exclusively on us.

Picked up a few groceries in Tesco then went next door to Pennys. Got tea-towels, a few outdoor cushions and place mats for the garden and headed to the till.

Do you want a bag? Yes please, I’ll need to carry the stuff.
Reusable or paper? Paper is fine thanks.
How many bags? Maybe 4 of the large size should be enough (for the cushions).
Ok, just so you know, that’ll be 15cents each.

Ages since I was in Pennys - is this a new thing? No problem paying the 60c, just TA’d that the multinational chain that made profits of nearly a billion last year are now charging for a paper bag to carry bulky cushions. It’s probably saving the planet though 🙄

Does that numb the area?

I use bepantiseptic.. has a local anaesthetic and antiseptic... always have one in the car, in the house, and out and about...especially gardening

Great for nettle stings, mosquito bites, horsefly wounds 😬 and especially thorny injuries and scrapes

My TA is waiting on people to get back to me with a quote for a job. Not a small amount of money either.

Having to text and remind them I'm without a car and "could they please, if they don't mind teribly, if its not too much trouble" plámás nonsense out of me… well, it's maddening

Can't be direct as I'll piss them off and no one will fix the fecking thing

Anthisan has an antihistamine in it which stops the body reacting to the bite.

Anusol hc has hydrocortisone in it which reduces inflammation.

Germolene works well stopping the feeling of itchiness whereas Anthisan gets to the root cause. I often use both. If an itch is that bad anything is better than making it worse by digging your nails into it and giving it a good scratch.

Thank you, I was wondering as I've never used anthisan

Im on whopping doses of antihistamines daily so that's probably why I've never bothered with it. The immediate pain killing and protection is enough

Spending a day in the garden used to mean looking like I'd done myself intentional mischief for weeks afterwards. People giving me curious and pitying looks in the supermarket queue unless I wore long sleeves 😬 definitely a TA when it happened

My tyre seems to be losing air for some reason 🙈

That should plug it.