Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks lir. I'm not sure I want to feed them as I don't want pets right now and they are tame enough. My aim is that they get looked after and the b1tch who owns them gets prosecuted for cruelty. Will def give CPL a call though, there's one not far from here.

If you feed them and catch them they can be rehomed.

Are they pretty?

One of my ferals looks like he has always belonged to us....like his grandmammy was siamese.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

If you feed them and catch them they can be rehomed.

Are they pretty?

Too skinny to be pretty. Heroin chic doesn't look good on a cat. Its so sad.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Too skinny to be pretty. Heroin chic doesn't look good on a cat. Its so sad.

Poor little things. Its surprising that there isn't more or them to scavenge...you must live in a super clean area. The ones here eat lots of pigeon, leaving me feathers almost everyday.

I think I'd try cats protection first, though i you can find an independent you might find them quicker.

vivatifosi

I don't know we have much to scavenge. It is super clean here and no rubbish is ever left out. Also we have urban foxes, who are way more street smart. ETA we used to have wood pidgeons here but they seem to have been driven out by magpies and crows.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I don't know we have much to scavenge. It is super clean here and no rubbish is ever left out. Also we have urban foxes, who are way more street smart.

It makes me so cross. I love our animals and I know that its partly a curse of the childless to be batty enough to give them their own internet names etc etc, but I just cannot imagine ever leaving them. For a month I left them with their ''Granny'' (see batty) and I felt hollow waking up without their hot little selves snuggled against me.

Pink whistley left an answer phone message for DH yesterday. I have replugged in our old Amstrad phone, which I'd forgotten she mastered in Hampstead. She used to talk to my mother ...''Granny'' on that and skype when I was out. At least skype is free:o

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

It makes me so cross. I love our animals and I know that its partly a curse of the childless to be batty enough to give them their own internet names etc etc, but I just cannot imagine ever leaving them. For a month I left them with their ''Granny'' (see batty) and I felt hollow waking up without their hot little selves snuggled against me.

Pink whistley left an answer phone message for DH yesterday. I have replugged in our old Amstrad phone, which I'd forgotten she mastered in Hampstead. She used to talk to my mother ...''Granny'' on that and skype when I was out. At least skype is free:o

That's lost me .... the way I read it, your cat phones your mum for a chat on the phone....!

PasturesNew

Any of you silently reading the Crown threads? It's got its own board now. I've been reading loads of stories all over the Internet, people's personal stories of what they've lost.

Poor bugg4hs.

I think people didn't understand how it might work and just thought it was currency exchange at a good rate... esp as it was in Martin's emails and on his Top List.

Board: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=202

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's lost me .... the way I read it, your cat phones your mum for a chat on the phone....!

Yeah, you got it...sort of. Only on the amstrad or skype though, and she answers. I unplugged the amstrad but I'm not sure how she left her distintive ''Mioaw'' or DH's answer phone.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Any of you silently reading the Crown threads? It's got its own board now. I've been reading loads of stories all over the Internet, people's personal stories of what they've lost.

Poor bugg4hs.

I think people didn't understand how it might work and just thought it was currency exchange at a good rate... esp as it was in Martin's emails and on his Top List.

Board: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=202

This whole thing was completely of my radar. I'm reading now.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

This whole thing was completely of my radar. I'm reading now.

Quick overview:

Company in Cornwall were selling foreign currency to people online. They had to pay by bank transfer or cash/cheque. No credit cards.

Company not protected under FSA. When they folded = no come back, money gone.

Typical buyers were:
- honeymooners
- people going on holidays
- trip of a lifetime people who had saved for years for a trip to Disney or Australia
- dying kids (not seen on MSE yet) where money had been gathered to send them on a last holiday of a lifetime
- people transferring money abroad to buy holiday homes, pay big home deposits, or relocating.

Typical sums I've seen are: £1000-2000 (very common), £12k (quite common), £20-50k (a few).

Many people won't have found out yet, they'll be oblivious to this news as there's been so much on the telly about the Govt.... and it's happened in Cornwall.

13,000 contracts - about £17million missing.