[–] 32 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Our girl is petrified of fireworks and we still haven't found a way to keep her calm.

In the UK, fireworks season runs from the weekend before Halloween until the weekend after 5th Nov, with near constant loud bangs at all hours of the evening and lots still happening at night, so she's absolutely miserable.

This year, we have drugs from the vets, a thunder vest, happy hoodie and have built her a blanket fort. She seems to be able to fall asleep best when there's loud music being played, so we used a Babymetal playlist during the peak hours of 7-9. She also seems to enjoy stoner metal, so Sleep's Dopesmoker worked well. Last year was Slipknot.

Here's her in happier times:

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    A few weeks ago,my wife and I went to a small barbecue at her colleague's house. I didn't know anyone else there, so spent a lot of time chatting with the 11yo son of the host. After we left, my wife received a message: "[Son] says that your husband is a 'good bloke'"

    High praise indeed.

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    Replaced a ceiling mounted one that made the plasterboard vibrate with an inline fan. The inline fan is up in the attic and ducts through the roof. The new fan extracts 3x as much air and is much quieter.

    Still need to make good the ceiling, but that's tomorrow*'s job.

    *Tomorrow in this case may not actually be tomorrow.

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