A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

prepareathome

Morning everyone. I started this mail around 6am but it rambled a bit to much so deleted it and started again. VJsmum am so glad you dad is home but not surprising his is disoriented, anyone would be after being away that long even if it was a holiday or work rather than in hospital.

I got zilch done yesterday as I just had to sleep after last post was so tired and that was me till 5am about 17 hrs sleep and I am still very, very tired. Woke up to find I was lying in a rather muddy, bloody bed as girls are in season and its been raining out and they of course as I was asleep jumped up and snuggled down beside me, so just had to strip off bedding and put it in washer and it will have to go into drier as its pouring out there. It looks as dull as a November day rather than June.

Last year I spent out £190 on a Monogram Climarelle Cool TM double bed set which is wonderful but not a good idea when you have dogs that share the bed as its not supposed to be washed on a daily basis or even weekly so getting a bit lumpy now and not even had it a year - they do warn you to keep washing to minimum so cannot really complain so was a rather expensive mistake and when it becomes totally unusable I will go back to cheapo duvets that can be washed daily and replaced cheaply, shame as it should last years and is so comfortable to lie on and be covered by and does help with the over heating. Why is it when I had cheapo duvets and matteress protectors they hardly ever got blood on bed or even mud but minute I bought this suddenly its marked daily........

I buy my dog food usually from Amazon as its cheapest place but had never noticed the subscribe and save option, so went and had a look and sure enough its there for their food and will save me £1 off each pack so signed up for one a month as that is usually how often I buy it so thank you for mentioning it.

I know I usually don't bother with AF but those oatcakes are a real bargain so going to see how much it will be with postage.

Right better go and see if I can do something to wake up properly as all I want to do is go back to sleep again and that does not amuse me.

Hugs, Love and Healing xxxxxxxxxxxx

mardatha

Fuddle be careful re the size of the dumplings. I once made them too big and the RV asked why we had bathbombs in the mince.

jpscloud

Trifles, as other people have said, you now have a new owner! Exactly the same happened with me... I had a middle-aged cat from a rescue centre already living with me, when little Cloud appeared in my garden, peeping out from behind the bamboo. She too was so hungry she tried to eat oat cakes that I'd put out for the birds.

For two weeks I gave her handfuls of cat biscuits under the bamboo, and she peeped at me from a safe distance. Good, I thought... I can spare you some biscuits but really, another cat with the attendent litter, vets bills etc... no way.

Then one day she was peeping at me as I put the biscuits down and something in her eyes made me say "come on, then"... and she bounded out of the bushes and greeted me like a long lost friend.

Oh well, thinks me. No worries, I can give you affection as well as biccies. In the garden. You won't get past Spider (middle aged male cat, rather grumpy) anyway.

Next minute I am doing a bit of weeding with the doors open and what do I see but Spider proudly leading her into the house like she's his new best friend!! I found out later that he really just wanted to boss her around and occasionally beat her up (no serious injury, but he did like to show her who was boss!)

I hate admitting it now but I did actually ring the CPL, but before the call was over I was saying "erm, you know what... I think she's staying with me!"

Spider died of a sudden heart attack a couple of years ago... Cloud is now my sole owner and is the most affectionate cat I have ever known.

Sorry, blithered on there. I will be opening a book on how long it takes your new owner to be comfortably installed in your house though trifles... 4 to 1 on, one week, anyone?

grandma247

Thanks for the thoughts on allergies. I will give the docs. a miss. I hate going anyway and it seems once you are over 50 they like to get you in their clutches and you end up with all sorts of prescriptions for things. If it became a serious problem I would go though.
I have an allergy to peanuts or rather to the arginine in them. They can trigger or prolong cold sores. It took me years to find that out. One of my grandsons presented with an allergy to peanut butter when he tasted his mums as a tot and although a blood test showed he did not have any markers in his blood he still has swelling if he eats them. He instinctively avoided them when he was little. He would eat all the chocolate off chocolate coated peanuts and hand the little pile to his mum but that must have been enough to set up the allergy.
I could not figure out at first why he had an allergy since no one else has it till I remembered my own experiences with them. I can eat a few now and again without problems but have to be careful how many and how often.

Love the stories about cats. My stepmother used to have one visit her every day for years. He only lived a few doors down but each morning when his people went to work he would go to Sms and stay there till 10pm. Most times he would just get up and mew to be let out but in bad weather his dad would come knocking and the cat would leap up and go to the door like a kid who was late home. You could almost hear him say oo sorry dad I forgot the time:)
I like cats but since my oldest is allergic to them it is not a good idea to get one.

It must be the time of year for wedding anniversaries. Congratulations to all those who have one or have had one lately. We had our 39th last Saturday and treated ourselves to a morning at a car boot sale on Sunday. We rarely get time to go but we really enjoyed it.

I got a dolly high chair and rocker chair for one of my gdds both for a pound and a kenwood electric carving knife for £1.50. Just as we were leaving dh spotted a large box of lego marked £30 and he bartered it down to £27. When we got it home it weighed nearly 8kg! That was a real bargain. I am hoping to set up a lego club so need loads of it as cheap as possible.

Uniscots97

mardatha wrote: »

bathbombs in the mince.

Thank you for the chuckle, I nearly spat my coffee out when I read it :rotfl:

Hobsons_Choice

Trifles: We moved into this house eleven years ago...and so did the stray puss.
Neighbours told us it was left by a couple who had moved house but left this beautiful pedigree Burmese cat to fend for herself :mad:. Lady next door had been looking after her, but she obviously decided she wanted to be with us. She literally moved in with our furniture (sat on top of sofa as it was being put in place)! And so she stayed...I felt a little guilty because elderly neighbour obviously loved her to bits, so we agreed to share and it was nice to know puss was well looked after when we were on hols.
She died two years ago (we think she was about 14 when she arrived) and I still miss her.
Take her in Trifles, she's decided you're THE ONE.
VJs Mum, so happy to hear your dad's home. A weight off your mind I'm sure.
Chuckin' it down here. We were thinking of going off somewhere next week, but have decided to leave it to the end of the month in the hope this awful weather improves. Son & family in their small caravan in the SW atm. Hope it doesn't get blown away in the gales!

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FUDDLE - please reassure me that it was the chamomile tea that went down the drain - not the Pup!!!!! (although if I'm honest I could willingly put mine down the drain occasionally!!!!) Lyn x.

VJsmum

Thanks everyone.

Nothing like a deadline of yesterday to give one inspiraton to do the marking. Three sets of questions down, 2 to go. Fortunately I am ahead of my 5 minute per paper estimate.

For once I am not sorry the weather is so horrible as I have to stay in.

Laters

mcculloch29

I love the cat stories, I am a more of a dog person for sure but I'll share my brother's.
He and SiL got adopted by a feral cat shortly after getting a cat from CPL, the feral never wanted to come in but hung around the garden. My brother is very creative so made the feral a garden cat house for shelter in bad weather.
When Max the feral eventually passed on at a very advanced age, another cat from the neighbourhood moved in, this one had a home address on the collar, but when my SiL took it back they weren't bothered. Cat re-appeared in the garden within hours.
Bro's CPL cat Tom died aged 15 ish and was replaced by one from Burman Rescue, Oscar. He was an ex show-cat who ended up at Burman Rescue when he broke his tail and was unsuitable for showing. (Thoughts on owners who would do that are unprintable.)
Oscar was wonderful, but died aged only 12 - not that old, so his replacements were a bro and sis, Burman kittens. They wrecked the house as kittens and aren't that much better now, at 4, but they are absolutely gorgeous.

katep23

Loving the cat stories

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Bro's CPL cat Tom died aged 15 ish and was replaced by one from Burman Rescue, Oscar. He was an ex show-cat who ended up at Burman Rescue when he broke his tail and was unsuitable for showing. (Thoughts on owners who would do that are unprintable.)

Last year we adopted a(nother!) cat from the RSPCA - she is 12 years old and had lived with one family all her life. When the kids grew up and moved out the parents took her to the RSPCA as "we only got her for the kids and we don't want her". I really don't understand how someone can do that to an animal who has been part of their lives for 12 years?

We have 4 cats, all from rescue centres - two brothers and a naughty tortie who had 3 litters of kittens by the time she was 2 :eek: She was a skinny little thing when we got her but she has filled out to the point where she is rugby ball shaped now and has been put on a diet!