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Nerwen · 11-01-2015, 08:24 PM

G55, in my old place it was like that with brushtail possums. They'd come in through the cat flap and raid the fruit bowl.

Here, it's more varied. Bats, for example, last autumn, and it's started again now it's spring- I think they're coming after moths. I wouldn't mind except the cat kills them.

Nolwë_Namiel · 11-06-2015, 11:22 PM

The Blue Jays drive me crazy in the fall because my neighbours have filbert (hazelnut) trees along our joint fence. When the nuts ripen, the Jays crack them open by tapping them on my roof. The first year I lived in the house I couldn't figure out what the noise was. LOL

Zigûr · 11-22-2015, 10:27 AM

This evening I shall assign my Argonath bookends that came with my Extended Edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring", which I started actually using as bookends for the first time this year and both of which have completely failed to stop books from falling over.

Should have expected no less from film tie-in junk. They're based on the film design, of course, so they represent Elendil and Isildur rather than Isildur and Anárion, which probably explains their uselessness - they lack the weight and solidity of authenticity to the original text behind them!

Galadriel55 · 01-27-2016, 08:04 AM

Course schedules that mean half the time you have to eat lunch when most people have dinner, and half the time when most people eat breakfast.

When the weather can't decide if it wants to rain or snow. On the same topic, old floppy umbrellas that turn inside out at the merest hint of wind.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 02-17-2016, 03:04 PM

Returning from holiday and not having the following day off work.

Pitchwife · 02-27-2016, 04:43 AM

^I second that.

I assign drivers on the fast lane who know perfectly well that you'd like to overtake that truck in front of you but step on the accelerator as soon as you indicate.

Zigûr · 02-27-2016, 07:00 AM

This is a bit literal, but on the side of my apartment building which my balcony faces (our other side has a nice view of a river, a park and central Sydney) there's an abandoned lot from a failed building project which is extremely Dagorlad/Morannon-like: a waste of rusted metal and great piled-up heaps of blasted stone. When it flooded after a series of recent rains it didn't do much to improve its appearance. It might be in need of being subjected to a time when "the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion."

11-01-2015, 08:24 PM	#1
Nerwen Wisest of the Noldor Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ˙˙˙ssɐןƃ ƃuıʞooן ǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ Posts: 6,694	G55, in my old place it was like that with brushtail possums. They'd come in through the cat flap and raid the fruit bowl. Here, it's more varied. Bats, for example, last autumn, and it's started again now it's spring- I think they're coming after moths. I wouldn't mind except the cat kills them. __________________ "Even Nerwen wasn't evil in the beginning." –Elmo.

11-22-2015, 10:27 AM	#3
Zigûr Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 785	This evening I shall assign my Argonath bookends that came with my Extended Edition of "The Fellowship of the Ring", which I started actually using as bookends for the first time this year and both of which have completely failed to stop books from falling over. Should have expected no less from film tie-in junk. They're based on the film design, of course, so they represent Elendil and Isildur rather than Isildur and Anárion, which probably explains their uselessness - they lack the weight and solidity of authenticity to the original text behind them! __________________ "Since the evening of that day we have journeyed from the shadow of Tol Brandir." "On foot?" cried Éomer.

01-27-2016, 08:04 AM	#4
Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,515	Course schedules that mean half the time you have to eat lunch when most people have dinner, and half the time when most people eat breakfast. When the weather can't decide if it wants to rain or snow. On the same topic, old floppy umbrellas that turn inside out at the merest hint of wind. __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

02-27-2016, 04:43 AM	#6
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	^I second that. I assign drivers on the fast lane who know perfectly well that you'd like to overtake that truck in front of you but step on the accelerator as soon as you indicate. __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI

02-27-2016, 07:00 AM	#7
Zigûr Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 785	This is a bit literal, but on the side of my apartment building which my balcony faces (our other side has a nice view of a river, a park and central Sydney) there's an abandoned lot from a failed building project which is extremely Dagorlad/Morannon-like: a waste of rusted metal and great piled-up heaps of blasted stone. When it flooded after a series of recent rains it didn't do much to improve its appearance. It might be in need of being subjected to a time when "the Great Sea should enter in and wash it with oblivion." __________________ "Since the evening of that day we have journeyed from the shadow of Tol Brandir." "On foot?" cried Éomer.

11-06-2015, 11:22 PM	#2
Nolwë_Namiel Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Beleriand - First Age Posts: 19	The Blue Jays drive me crazy in the fall because my neighbours have filbert (hazelnut) trees along our joint fence. When the nuts ripen, the Jays crack them open by tapping them on my roof. The first year I lived in the house I couldn't figure out what the noise was. LOL