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The burning news  is that the Romanian problem lies with Google Chrome and  apparently  if I wait  a few more says the problem will be resolved.

 I am not holding my breath!!

`Armless Fun

Magpie 157

Venus de Milo with Drawers 1936, Salvador Dali

Courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales on Blogger

I have told you before

That just because

I am

Armless and harmless

Does not mean

That you can use me

As your

Target practice

  Barbara M Lake
  Trinidad WI
   February 2013

Danger! New Kid on the Block!

A man walked into my office yesterday afternoon (after I'd taken a good look and pressed the switch that opens the door!) and proceeded to tell me after mentioning that he needed money and food, that he had just served 25 years for murder. I kept the smile on my face, advised him as to what he should do next, gave him the apple I had in my bag, told him we had no money on the premises and sent him on his way!! 

On speaking to my boss later on, I learned that this man is not a newbie to our office and was trying it on (yes he did serve the time!) as he knew there was a new kid on the block!

Well he obviously found out very quickly although he was quoting Jesus at me in every other sentence, that this new kid on the block is not an easy touch! I've dealt with his type before although not I must admit, a convicted murderer.  But he served his time so I am not judging.

News of a new kid on the block travels fast!

Not Romanian

I am not a happy camper.  

For months now most times when I visit my page, it asks me if I want to translate it from Romanian into English.  I am told that it is in Romanian but apart from capitals which shouldn't be there, it looks very English to me.  I get all sorts of questions including 'always translate into English?" Some of my friends see the same message when they visit my page which I suppose on the whole, keeps them away.

I am even having problems writing posts.  Words disappear and reappear as I'm typing them. Fonts change, size changes.  I have tried everything from removing widgets to reporting it to Google.  All to no avail.    As I type this I cannot see what I'm typing as the page does not move with me.  The font I have chosen to use, does not appear and even though I have blocked pop ups, they keep appearing.

A friend suggested that I was hacked but I have been told it's a Google problem.  If that's the case then Google needs to get its act together and sort it out.

What else do I have to do to get this problem which is part of the reason I don't blog as much anymore, fixed?  I don't want to close my page.

If some of my readers complained to Google (via the tab in the top right hand corner) perhaps something would be done to release me from my misery and frustration.

I don't want to swear - it's Lent!

Antiques Found

MAGPIE 153

Charlotte Gainsburg AnOther

Photograph courtesy Tess Kinkaid Magpie Tales on Blogger

Oh gosh Mum

I know you told me not to go

Up into the attic

Where it’s dusty and glum

Look at these

Treasures I found tucked away

Grandma’s ancient player

And prehistoric black CDs

Barbara M Lake ©

January 2013

Trinidad WI

Our House - Kitchen Dramas!

 For the last couple of weeks a smell in one part of the kitchen has been driving me mad. I would get an occasional whiff of a nasty.  persistent odour which everyone in the rest of the home seemed to be immune to.          
I tried everything  in a bid to find whatever was giving off this terrible smell - from cleaning cupboards to going through gallons of bleach, disinfectant, air freshener. You name it, I tried it!  There was no nasty smell coming from the kitchen sink outlet, the garbage bin or from outside the kitchen window which if you could get out of, would send you on a twenty foot drop! Frustration set in. I was convinced there was either a piece or broccoli or cauliflower rotting behind the cooker because that`s what it smelled like only worse. I wasn't sure how I was going to get the cooker out of its snug built in space .  But determined I was. So much so that I have damaged the top of the cooker in that I lifted it (as one does ordinarily to clean) but the damn thing would`t go back into its original position once I`d determined that there we're no rotting veggies there.

So! Not being able to stand it for a minute longer and furious that no one else could smell it (they all have blocked sinuses or what??)  I decided the time had come, if I was to save my sanity, to move the blasted cooker myself. Not easy!  About to start pulling and tugging, I opened the door to the cabinet which houses the gas cylinders. Blow me down! I instantly found my problem. A leaking gas cylinder!  Leaking gas smells like rotten broccoli and rotten cauliflower both of which I have cooked in the last couple of weeks.  

Like that was enough? This evening I was on my lap top in the kitchen (not literally you understand) when daughter comes in and cries out.  I was too involved in my e mails to hear any disturbance. Daughter rushes passed me gurgling `ugh. ugh` - you know that throat gurgling sound that sometimes comes from the throat??  I looked up and saw her fighting with something on the window sill. I couldn't actually see what was happening but I was aware of the sounds and splaying of arms at the kitchen windows.

Me:  what was that?
Daughter: I don't know but it eyes that stared, a long tail and a long nose.
Me: A Manicou?
Daughter: Not sure.
Me:  a Mongoose?
Daughter: not sure.
Me: a rat?
Daughter: God, I hope not!

And it`s me who is being tested for macular deterioration tomorrow?? HAH!!!!







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Our House - Bedtime!!

For those of you who know about my, 'Our House' series and also for those of you who don't, I posted the following elsewhere in the early hours of this morning!!

Conversation less than two minutes ago in the Lake household. i.e. 1.30 am

Daughter coming into kitchen "you do realize it's half past one, don't you?"

Me: "And?"

Daughter" sighs........

You know that disapproving look that a mother gives her daughter?  Well, role reversal was definitely apparent with that comment!!

That's nothing - I'm going to bed in a minute with Grey's Anatomy - that should make the  other half behave in exactly the same way as daughter!!

Like I care!!

On a totally different note I am absolutely fed up with all my posts here being translated from Romanian into English and vice versa.  This has been going on for ages and no amount of removing apps or complaining to Google seems to be working.