We were at work on our own. We are on our own in the office on Mondays and Fridays now that the world of shipping seems to have worked out that people can work satisfactorily from home and permits them to do so for at least some of their week. (And forces them to do so for all the out-of-hours rest of their week.... boundaries have faded.)
F hates the new work from home arrangements for a variety of reasons that I will not allow her to elaborate further here (this is my blog), and we go to the office Monday to Friday just the same, colleagues or no colleagues.
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One day last week I watched F get up from the desk, stand in the middle of the floor and fold in half. She isn't very flexible (compared to cats; and she certainly doesn't twist well) but she can fold in half frontways, and she put her hands on the floor and shook her head all around. Now my interest is piqued... what is she doing?
She said (said) it makes her neck feel better.
When she stood up, seawater poured out of her nose. That made us both laugh. She must have been storing it up in her face. She tried it a second time, and a second time sea water poured out.
It has to have gone in when she was swimming. I told her swimming wasn't good for her. You can drown in that stuff.
I can't think of a use for this new discovery other than as nose wash, but it provided a few minutes amusement for us both. I wonder if she didn't empty it out whether the water would eventually evaporate and leave a salt residue in the storage tanks.
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I would say F is better than me if she can do that.
ReplyDeleteI’ve had water swish around in my ears and had it seep out by tilting side to side but never had seawater come out of my nose…..well maybe if I’ve misjudged a wave but then I usually cough and splutter so nothing has a chance to stay within
F swims face down, but she thinks it might be the diving in that did it. Now that we know to check, she can make it come out on other days too. We have read that salt on the surface of various membranes in your face and throat makes it an inhospitable environment for cold viruses (some of which are corona viruses, and some rhino-viruses - so guess what recent plague might not be interested in F's nose....)
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ReplyDeleteCrikey, Tigger - F must have sieve sinuses! Or leaky eardrums letting water through that way... then again, perhaps not actual seawater at all, but just the naturally saline human fluid that otherwise can exit as tears... now you've got me wondering too! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Possibly natural saline, but only happens on swimming days. Like I told JayCee cheaper than sterilized seawater in aerosol cans. F's Mum used to flush her sinuses with a salt water solution she made up with boiled water and ordinary table salt. At the time F thought it weird but now maybe not so much. Fz & Pz Mr T
DeleteThis is a medical discovery you should write up while you're in the office.
ReplyDeleteI can do that too, but i don't swim, mine is salty water from allergies. it is so aggravating when working to bend over to do something and it pours out. it happens when I work out doors even worse. your face and paws were so beautiful in the first photo I had to put a kiss on both nose and paws... now i am WONDERING too but wondering why F rather go to the office than work from home.
ReplyDeleteWFH - don't get the exercise of the walk to work and back, don't get to greet all my fans (both ways, but morning in particular), don't have aircon at home, don't see why we should pay the electricity bill for aircon for working time even if we did have it, like to have a boundary between work and home (a close down time), hate having work computer set up on the dining table.....home is for home stuff, the office is for work stuff - it is a frame of mind thing, a focus thing... with work at home there is never a switch-off time or total relaxation, and if Mr B is at home, home gets in the way of work time too. To top it off, these days because the clients expect 'working from home' they have formed the impression we are available at their whim, even for stuff that could easily wait for the next working day. Trust me she could go on and on..... and on.....
DeleteHow on earth did F not know it was up there? Not being a swimmer, I have not experienced a sinus full of water.
ReplyDeleteSome people flush out their sinuses with 'sterilized' sea water, F just skipped the sterilized bit (and the cost of buying it in a fancy aerosol can).
Deletetasker has something called a cross trainer. i think it's called that because of the noise it makes and the noise he makes which makes me very cross when trying to have a sleep in the garage. phoebe.
ReplyDeleteAny sort of training would make me cross too Phoebe. Whatever possesses him?
DeleteYou ask a very good question Tigger. I hope that F can be persuaded in the name of science to try out an evaporation experiment and you will report the results.
ReplyDeleteOh, and by the way, I went for a swim in the river today and Gail had a minor panic that I was being carried downstream by the current and might not make my way back to the riverbank.
Silly humans, they do worry unnecessarily...
Toodle-oo!
Nobby.
We did an experiment tonight - she went upside down immediately after getting out of her swim and water poured out. Now we are stsrting to wondrr if that's not a good thing! Do you doggy paddle Nobby? Does water go in your nose?
DeleteOhhh it was probable in her ears and sinuses.
ReplyDeleteKinda why my swim friends and I don’t put our head in the water.
Well that’s what we pretend. It’s more to do with we have no idea what’s in that pool water and we don’t like to get our hair wet. 😂