If things get tougher?

kiwichick

ceridwen wrote: »

Personally - I've put myself down on Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall's list for gardensharing - as in I'm hoping someone nearby will share their garden with me.

Hiya,

I'd meant to do that after watching the show but never got round to it, thanks for the reminder. I've registered as a sharer but I seem to be the odd one out financially in a relatively affluent area so am not keeping my hopes up

AL x

2cats1kid

The whole "cats won't foul their own garden" thing isn't necessarily true. My cats definitely use our garden, as I can see them out of the kitchen window. In fact one of mine is too lazy to dig a hole and just squats on the lawn! And we have all the cats in the neighbourhood in our front garden - the other one of mine likes to sit (inside) on the window ledge and they all parade up and down doing the feline equivalent of "nah nah nee nah nah" at her. We have loads of offerings left in the bark chippings on the front. Now I'm putting fruit beds in the front I need to find a way of deterring them - I have some heavy duty plastic mesh over the veg beds at the back and that does the trick.

ceridwen

...and then there's the thing of cats deciding that a nice sturdy bit of wood in the garden means "oooh...nice kind human has provided a scratching post for me" and the wood gets loads of scratch marks on it. Never did work out how to solve that little problem:mad: Thinks....cats can't be the world's brightest animals methinks...they still seem to like me....whilst I'm busy wishing them a million miles away....

morag1202

ceridwen wrote: »

Thinks....cats can't be the world's brightest animals methinks...they still seem to like me....whilst I'm busy wishing them a million miles away....

Oh ceridwen!...... cats are MUCH brighter than humans - which is why they ALWAYS inflict themselves on those who wish them a million miles away, and those who are alergic. Kipling said it all in his "Just So" stories!

ceridwen

Hmmm...so it's possibly a bit more having dark thoughts about "tanning their little backsides if I catch them at it" then?;) Having said that - don't think cats are being a problem these days - slugs on the other hand...and they are too small (and slimey! ugh!) for thoughts of "tanning their backsides" - I just throw salt on them if I spot them.

Hopefully - my new raised beds - with igloo type covers - will deter them from "walking off" with my plants - though I'm thinking how I can attach a couple of bands of copper round the outside of these beds as a safeguard and might also keep my used coffee grounds to scatter round the outside of them as well - "belt and braces".

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Speaking of tanning backsides - cooeeee.......Icewytch....how goes it? Hopefully some of the requests for sheepskin goods that MSE'ers have put in for you are a "goer"?

2cats1kid

Cats like people who don't like them because they don't smell of rival cats. Other cats will smell my cats on my clothes etc. so be wary of me, but you, ceridwen, smell gloriously un-catlike, so they come to you. So you need a quick blast of eau de chat before you go out!

abaxas

If things get tougher? ..

The OSers will be loving it! Bring on the dried egg!

mardatha

sandra, dont buy a second hand gas camp stove, Just get a new one and its much safer. they will last for years and years. Old ones can sometimes be corroded inside.

Triker

ceridwen wrote: »

Hmmm...so it's possibly a bit more having dark thoughts about "tanning their little backsides if I catch them at it" then?;) Having said that - don't think cats are being a problem these days - slugs on the other hand...and they are too small (and slimey! ugh!) for thoughts of "tanning their backsides" - I just throw salt on them if I spot them.

Hopefully - my new raised beds - with igloo type covers - will deter them from "walking off" with my plants - though I'm thinking how I can attach a couple of bands of copper round the outside of these beds as a safeguard and might also keep my used coffee grounds to scatter round the outside of them as well - "belt and braces".

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Speaking of tanning backsides - cooeeee.......Icewytch....how goes it? Hopefully some of the requests for sheepskin goods that MSE'ers have put in for you are a "goer"?

Hi there, can you tell me where you got these from Ceridwen, thanks..xx

mambury

how to get rid of cats!!!

Although I have cats, I used to have a problem with other cats leave pressies in the gravel in the front garden. A friend suggested to try feeding the cats and hey presto probelm gone! Cats will NOT poo near their food so simply buy cheap as chips dry cat food and a light sprinkle every now and then and the !!!!!!s begin to realise that pooing isn;t really a good idea where there is free food!

Mambury