Not mentioning the T word at all

Caterina

My two cats do not have collars (would never tolerate them!) and I have never had problems with birds. However I have had plenty of gifts of the rodent variety! Once DS removed a live mouse from the mouth of one of the cats. He knew that there was a mouse there as there was a tail dangling from the cat's mouth! So DS gently opened the cat's mouth, removed the (perfectly healthy, intact and alive - albeit terrified) mouse and took it across the road to the church gardens (where it probably got eaten by the resident foxes, I would not be surprised).

lizzyb1812

Oh yes, I've had the twitching tail dangling out of the cat's mouth - and the frantic hunt once the owner of the tail has been dropped behind the settee

lostinrates

Caterina wrote: »

Once DS removed a live mouse from the mouth of one of the cats..

DH is an expert at this. Most often the cats will give me the beastie ewhen I ask for it, but dh is far beter than I at picking them up....he has the knack of carrying a shrew without being bitten by it....my parents sometimes jokingly call him the Shrew Tamer.....but its only half about the rodents I think.:eek:

gailey_2

Evening guys.

finally did my halloween cakes and they tasty I ate 3 hubby and daughter ate a few so got 12left so needb to make more tommorow especially as hubbys ate half the halloween sweets I brought.
we carving the pumkins tommorow if I scopp out inside how best to cook it?
hubby wants seeds kept so we can grow pumkins in garden next year.

7year wedding anniversary today and hubby fell asleep at 9.
we went out 4 meal last night breifly local india wish my currys were as good as the indian.

anyone watch river cottage veg tonight the series makes me think maybe should have more meat free nights to save money but hubby loves his meat and hates mushrooms.
Loved the cherry plum wine. I still got 20bags plums in freezer some greengage but think some cherry so as missed elderberry flower so going to try brewing as possible xmas gifts.

got some yellow tomatoes unsure why hubby grew them so making a yellow tomato chutney.
got some cherries in freezer so doing cherry brandy.
got donated huge bag cooking apples need to do chutney , crumble and baby food.

anyone know when sloes are ready or out as wanted to try sloe gin.
thinking need hectic time in kitchen in november take pressure off xmas.
plus need to stockpile in case it snows.

saw snow in newyork on news quite freaky for october!

Pink.

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Oh pink that's left me feeling queasy.

I'm really sorry Jackie, my post wasn't meant to be offensive or upsetting in any way. I apologise for making you feel bad.

It seems I can't do right for doing wrong on this board any more.

Pink

Kaz2904

Oh pink, I don't think that it was meant badly. I didn't read it that way. Sorry it's made you feel bad .
Bitsy, I cut and paste the recipe for the bread. I'm sure I use sugar but use it when I'm activating the yeast so I follow the instructions on the packet IYSWIM?

My cat doesn't have a collar. She's had 2 and got out of them so feel they would be more dangerous. When she was spayed, she had the lampshade off her neck before we even got to the car :eek: and then proceded to bite at her stitches until I removed them myself. She's a little minx and hates the car so I figured it was perhaps safer for her to have them done at home. Besides, she kept hiding when the vet was open

Seakay

Ooh I had a cat that bought a bat in once as well! He was a bit useless at hunting really (rescue shelter cat and didn't even know how to wash or lap at first) so was hugely proud when he dropped a furry thing on the kitchen floor and then it started flying around the ceiling! I had to shut the cat out of the kitchen (he was FURIOUS!) and then work out how to catch the bat and get it out without injuring it and preferably without handling it (bit confused at the time about the legality of handling a protected species) so turned the light off, waited for the bat to hang off the door frame, then proffered a biit of card which it moved onto and then carried that to the back door from where it flew away. All very exciting!

I always used to put birdfood ontop of a holly bush with the top cut flat and some holey containers on it as the cats couldn't climb it. My current cat is now very elderly and doesn't bother even trying to hunt, so I've moved to a metal pole with feeders attached to it. A couple of young birds do get caught by neigbouring cats in spring /summer before they learn to keep an eye out or stay off the ground, but I reckon I save many more by providing year round food

Great name Ceirdwyn, your namesake had good facepaint too! I used to like Methos the 5000 year old one the best.

redlady_1

I'm back!!!

After a weekend back up North visiting the tribe and coming home with lots of lovely pressies, I am straight back into work. I came home with more Lincs sausages than you can shake a stick at.

On Friday my sacks of flour turned up. 25kg is ALOT of flour!!! 16kg of bread flour too so now need to store all this.

FK couldnt catch a thing. She would sit there are stare at it and do her hannibal lecter bit.

So, it's a new week and I wonder what it will bring...

redlady_1

Kidcat - thinking of you xxx

jackieglasgow

Pink, I never meant it in a bad way at all, sorry. I chould have put a smiley of some sort on the end to soften it, I am sorry if I made you feel bad. X