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Nov. 5th, 2005 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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shevek. I got some of my heavy grocery shopping done, since he has wheels. It's very strange doing grocery shopping and not worrying about how I am going to get 10kg of potatoes home. I forgot to get vast quantities of tinned tomatoes. Oops. Another time. I can always take my wheely suitcase.
I slept reasonably, although I didn't get to bed until after midnight and I was stiff and sore when I got up, again. Must further pursue new mattress stuff.
Some random bird spent the night in the loft. It woke up when I flushed the toilet (lots of plumbing lives in the loft), and started flying around all scared and confused, the poor thing. I don't know why it didn't wake with the dawn chorus. Maybe it was too tired after all the fireworks.shevek heard it and kindly went to investigate, when he opened the window it got out pretty fast.
I don't know how it got in; most of the loft ceiling is covered with loft insulation stuff. I think it must have come in under the eaves at the northwest corner, there is a bit of a draught coming from there sometimes. No floorboards over that way, and lots of plumbing stuff, so I'll have to be very careful in going to investigate, if I do. I'm going for the "cross my fingers and hope it doesn't happen again" approach for the time being. Maybe the bird will tell all his/her birdy friends that the loft is scary, it's hard to get out of and a strange noise comes and wakes you. Or maybe when the fireworks are done the birds won't feel the need to come into the loft to sleep. I'll see what happens when the weather gets colder. It's probably a fairly simple job to plug the gap once I've found it. Maybe covering the window with a thick heavy curtain would make finding the gap easier.
I don't really want wild birds coming into my loft to sleep, even without bird 'flu concerns. I don't want birdshit on my things, I don't want to be responsible for getting birdshit on the landlady's things, and unhealthy birds could carry ticks, lice, fleas and so on, none of which I particularly want in the loft. Also it will just make the loft even more interesting to the cats that come to visit us, and I have a hard enough time getting them out of the loft if they go up there as it is. And if they can't get out easily then it won't be much fun for the birds either.
It was in there some or all of the night; it must have shat somewhere. I haven't found where yet. I'm not going to look immediately, that stuff is easier to deal with once it is dry.
If I have a bath now, the milkman will come for the milk money, won't he?
shevek. I got some of my heavy grocery shopping done, since he has wheels. It's very strange doing grocery shopping and not worrying about how I am going to get 10kg of potatoes home. I forgot to get vast quantities of tinned tomatoes. Oops. Another time. I can always take my wheely suitcase.I slept reasonably, although I didn't get to bed until after midnight and I was stiff and sore when I got up, again. Must further pursue new mattress stuff.
Some random bird spent the night in the loft. It woke up when I flushed the toilet (lots of plumbing lives in the loft), and started flying around all scared and confused, the poor thing. I don't know why it didn't wake with the dawn chorus. Maybe it was too tired after all the fireworks.
shevek heard it and kindly went to investigate, when he opened the window it got out pretty fast. I don't know how it got in; most of the loft ceiling is covered with loft insulation stuff. I think it must have come in under the eaves at the northwest corner, there is a bit of a draught coming from there sometimes. No floorboards over that way, and lots of plumbing stuff, so I'll have to be very careful in going to investigate, if I do. I'm going for the "cross my fingers and hope it doesn't happen again" approach for the time being. Maybe the bird will tell all his/her birdy friends that the loft is scary, it's hard to get out of and a strange noise comes and wakes you. Or maybe when the fireworks are done the birds won't feel the need to come into the loft to sleep. I'll see what happens when the weather gets colder. It's probably a fairly simple job to plug the gap once I've found it. Maybe covering the window with a thick heavy curtain would make finding the gap easier.
I don't really want wild birds coming into my loft to sleep, even without bird 'flu concerns. I don't want birdshit on my things, I don't want to be responsible for getting birdshit on the landlady's things, and unhealthy birds could carry ticks, lice, fleas and so on, none of which I particularly want in the loft. Also it will just make the loft even more interesting to the cats that come to visit us, and I have a hard enough time getting them out of the loft if they go up there as it is. And if they can't get out easily then it won't be much fun for the birds either.
It was in there some or all of the night; it must have shat somewhere. I haven't found where yet. I'm not going to look immediately, that stuff is easier to deal with once it is dry.
If I have a bath now, the milkman will come for the milk money, won't he?
