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Jul. 12th, 2024 12:04 pmIf your sense of humour encompasses fart jokes, let me recommend to you this post: My husband is a human gas chamber"
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Went to the optician on Tuesday, and it turns out that my astigmatism has changed, so, new glasses! Apparently I have had the current ones for five years, which is weird because I would have sworn I got them no more than two years ago. My sense of time has distorted.
It's really hard to choose a new pair of glasses, and I was short on time. Beast and I returned to Specsavers yesterday morning. He has the minimalist kind with no frames, just stalks from ear to lens and a little thing connecting the lenses across his nose, but the stalks don't have hinges and from experience, he reckons the next time they are bent, they will break. His minimalist frames cost more than the sum of the two frames I ended up choosing. Although to be fair, I have more Stuff to put in mine—varifocals and reactolite being the obvious ones—so my actual glasses end up more expensive. Considerable discount for the second pair, though \o/. Anyway, after about an hour and a half with a very helpful Optician's Assistant we have ordered new pairs.
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In the squirrel wars.... Yesterday's report: the plastic 'baffle' we affixed part-way up the pole did indeed baffle most of the squirrels, but there was one particularly chunky one that had no problem climbing up the slinky, over the baffle and on to the peanuts.
The baffle was made from the lid of a 50-fat-balls container. We are now using the container instead. Just before making tea, I saw a small squirrel which had climbed, found itself inside the inverted bucket (which is translucent white) and did not know what to make of it.
It will be very interesting to see if the chunky squirrel manages to bypass the bucket!
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Morning update. Beast witnessed a squirrel climb the pole, grasp the brim of the bucket, and swing itself athletically up to the top of the bucket, from which it jumped on to the feeder and grazed merrily.
I wish I had seen this.
But Beast has already removed the brim of the bucket. No further developments... yet.
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Late news! The whatever that was supporting the bucket has failed! I think it was string, so it's possible it may have been nibbled. At any rate, when we returned from the gym, the bucket was sitting on the ground at the bottom of the pole, and happy squirrels were running up the pole for their peanuts.
Beast reports that the string was chewed through. Hah.
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Went to the optician on Tuesday, and it turns out that my astigmatism has changed, so, new glasses! Apparently I have had the current ones for five years, which is weird because I would have sworn I got them no more than two years ago. My sense of time has distorted.
It's really hard to choose a new pair of glasses, and I was short on time. Beast and I returned to Specsavers yesterday morning. He has the minimalist kind with no frames, just stalks from ear to lens and a little thing connecting the lenses across his nose, but the stalks don't have hinges and from experience, he reckons the next time they are bent, they will break. His minimalist frames cost more than the sum of the two frames I ended up choosing. Although to be fair, I have more Stuff to put in mine—varifocals and reactolite being the obvious ones—so my actual glasses end up more expensive. Considerable discount for the second pair, though \o/. Anyway, after about an hour and a half with a very helpful Optician's Assistant we have ordered new pairs.
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In the squirrel wars.... Yesterday's report: the plastic 'baffle' we affixed part-way up the pole did indeed baffle most of the squirrels, but there was one particularly chunky one that had no problem climbing up the slinky, over the baffle and on to the peanuts.
The baffle was made from the lid of a 50-fat-balls container. We are now using the container instead. Just before making tea, I saw a small squirrel which had climbed, found itself inside the inverted bucket (which is translucent white) and did not know what to make of it.
It will be very interesting to see if the chunky squirrel manages to bypass the bucket!
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Morning update. Beast witnessed a squirrel climb the pole, grasp the brim of the bucket, and swing itself athletically up to the top of the bucket, from which it jumped on to the feeder and grazed merrily.
I wish I had seen this.
But Beast has already removed the brim of the bucket. No further developments... yet.
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Late news! The whatever that was supporting the bucket has failed! I think it was string, so it's possible it may have been nibbled. At any rate, when we returned from the gym, the bucket was sitting on the ground at the bottom of the pole, and happy squirrels were running up the pole for their peanuts.
Beast reports that the string was chewed through. Hah.