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I hate this time of year.

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  • P PhilLenoir

    I have to fight with my wife to keep the tree until 12th night! Don't you stand the tree in a water with a reservoir? We do and we use some sort of "tree keeper" (which is probably just scented sugar, ethylene glycol and sorbic acid). We don't get much needle drop at all, even on a spruce.

    Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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    Nagy Vilmos
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    We have a reservoir, just use water and the tree normally does okay.

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    • N Nagy Vilmos

      We have a reservoir, just use water and the tree normally does okay.

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      Then that's clearly good enough. Things tend to be on the dry side over here (I've had a tree take up a few litres in a day). I know ethylene glycol improves transport (it's used in fungicide on grape vines, or at least used to be until some dope watered wine down with it some years back), and sugar always helps keep cut plants/flowers fresh.

      Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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      • G glennPattonPub

        They tend to secured via bored looking 'Security Guards' as they are to secure doors to give them something to do...My experience at Porton Down was odd as the first day on site everything was locked up armed guards (MP's) looking stern. The second day there the door was wedged open, I asked why the reply was "Random Inspection". How was it random if they knew to secure every thing before hand? :confused:

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        glennPattonPUB wrote:

        How was it random if they knew to secure every thing before hand?

        This is the Civil Service: http://xkcd.com/221/[^]

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          One of my tasks for today was "get the Christmas decorations up" - the family tradition being that they go up a week before Christmas, and come down on Twelfth Night. Tell me, have you ever had a cat launch itself at you through a Christmas tree while you are trying to hang baubles on it? No? It's a good test for your heart, I suspect... And shiny silver baubles don't look quite as good with blood stains...or maybe they look better...I'm not sure. Gawd. Three weeks of cat destroying Christmas tree. Three weeks of not being able to go to the loo in dark because of what sharp broken objects he has scattered since you went to bed... :sigh: Can we all cancel Xmas and move on to summer already? Please? :laugh:

          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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          Mike Hankey
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          Our cat used to topple the tree over while we were asleep most every night it was up.

          New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription. I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.

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          • P PhilLenoir

            Who couldn't remove the mouse? Your wife, the cat or the tree? Of course the tree couldn't, you've basically hermetically sealed the thing to the stairs.

            Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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            OriginalGriff
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            The cat has no problem moving mice, birds, moles, and other assorted wild(ex)life. The wife cannot move anything "nasty" for reasons she does not feel need explanation. The tree I suspect of plotting to attack the cat when his back is turned, and will also not transport vermin.

            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

            "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
            "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              The cat has no problem moving mice, birds, moles, and other assorted wild(ex)life. The wife cannot move anything "nasty" for reasons she does not feel need explanation. The tree I suspect of plotting to attack the cat when his back is turned, and will also not transport vermin.

              Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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              PhilLenoir
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              Sounds like "you're up" then!

              Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.

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              • K Kschuler

                Wow. That's the Christmas Spirit. :-D

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                I don't believe in hate, but I am not a great fan of cats.

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  One of my tasks for today was "get the Christmas decorations up" - the family tradition being that they go up a week before Christmas, and come down on Twelfth Night. Tell me, have you ever had a cat launch itself at you through a Christmas tree while you are trying to hang baubles on it? No? It's a good test for your heart, I suspect... And shiny silver baubles don't look quite as good with blood stains...or maybe they look better...I'm not sure. Gawd. Three weeks of cat destroying Christmas tree. Three weeks of not being able to go to the loo in dark because of what sharp broken objects he has scattered since you went to bed... :sigh: Can we all cancel Xmas and move on to summer already? Please? :laugh:

                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                  Fernando A Gomez F
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                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                  Can we all cancel Xma

                  Better, cancel the cat...

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                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                    One of my tasks for today was "get the Christmas decorations up" - the family tradition being that they go up a week before Christmas, and come down on Twelfth Night. Tell me, have you ever had a cat launch itself at you through a Christmas tree while you are trying to hang baubles on it? No? It's a good test for your heart, I suspect... And shiny silver baubles don't look quite as good with blood stains...or maybe they look better...I'm not sure. Gawd. Three weeks of cat destroying Christmas tree. Three weeks of not being able to go to the loo in dark because of what sharp broken objects he has scattered since you went to bed... :sigh: Can we all cancel Xmas and move on to summer already? Please? :laugh:

                    Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                    Be happy, may be the snow is going to fall! :-\

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      One of my tasks for today was "get the Christmas decorations up" - the family tradition being that they go up a week before Christmas, and come down on Twelfth Night. Tell me, have you ever had a cat launch itself at you through a Christmas tree while you are trying to hang baubles on it? No? It's a good test for your heart, I suspect... And shiny silver baubles don't look quite as good with blood stains...or maybe they look better...I'm not sure. Gawd. Three weeks of cat destroying Christmas tree. Three weeks of not being able to go to the loo in dark because of what sharp broken objects he has scattered since you went to bed... :sigh: Can we all cancel Xmas and move on to summer already? Please? :laugh:

                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                      It's the demon cat from hell!!! I guess he'll be worshipping Satan Claus and needs some bauble sacrifices :)

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                      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                        It's the demon cat from hell!!! I guess he'll be worshipping Satan Claus and needs some bauble sacrifices :)

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                        Sander Rossel wrote:

                        It's the demon cat from hell

                        Well, yes. But all cats are Fiends From Hell... :laugh:

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                        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                          Sander Rossel wrote:

                          It's the demon cat from hell

                          Well, yes. But all cats are Fiends From Hell... :laugh:

                          Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                          Didn't Meat Loaf sing about Cats out of Hell? "Like a cat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes! Like a cat out of hell I'll be gone, gone, gone..." :cool: And that other hit he had was sung from the perspective of a cat too (or so I'm guessing). Owner: "Do you love, do you love me forever?" Cat: "Well let me sleep on it, baby, baby, let me sleep on it..." If them darn cats aren't breaking stuff (preferably at night) they're certainly sleeping! That said I'm really a cat person :D

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            One of my tasks for today was "get the Christmas decorations up" - the family tradition being that they go up a week before Christmas, and come down on Twelfth Night. Tell me, have you ever had a cat launch itself at you through a Christmas tree while you are trying to hang baubles on it? No? It's a good test for your heart, I suspect... And shiny silver baubles don't look quite as good with blood stains...or maybe they look better...I'm not sure. Gawd. Three weeks of cat destroying Christmas tree. Three weeks of not being able to go to the loo in dark because of what sharp broken objects he has scattered since you went to bed... :sigh: Can we all cancel Xmas and move on to summer already? Please? :laugh:

                            Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                            Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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                            Must be the owner, our two cats took one look at the tree and immediately settled down under it for a kip other that bashing the low baubles with their heads in passing they have since ignored it. now the tinsel and Ikea cardboard decorations on the fireplace have undergone constant and co-ordinated attacks

                            You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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