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So poor I can't even pay attention

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  • That's brilliant, I just shrieked with laughter reading Colin's latest trick and woke not only Kismet, the gingerfluffykit on the end of my bed, but also DD who doesn't sleep well anyway and bellowed something unprintable. You can get childproof fridge locks that will thwart a labrador, and should work with even such an inventive chap as Colin.

    The world is a better place with tabby cats in it.

    Thank you for the cake recipe, I'll try that at the weekend. I love all bought yogurts, flavoured or natural, cheap or megabucks, but have never tried using it in a cake so I'm intrigued. Never tried making it either, and wonder if it's very much cheaper than buying or does it taste very much better?

    The soup was a great success and much coveted by the lads at work during lunch break!
  • Igamogam
    Igamogam Posts: 6,028 Forumite
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    Piquant wrote: »

    Colin has learned to open the fridge...

    This morning when I came downstairs the fridge door was open and the cheese chewed, the creme fraiche open and spilled across the floor and the shelves all skewed.

    I thought perhaps I hadn't closed the door properly? Cleared it all up and managed to give a very stern look to the smug cat sitting by his empty bowl. Went to do some chores, heard a lot of noise coming from the kitchen and arrived to see the cat on his back with paws under the door, opening the fridge :eek:

    The fridge now has the bin in front of it!
    Years ago we had 3 cats and they worked as a team - one opened, one grabbed and one was the decoy/ look out. Many a morning we would go into kitchen and find that remains of a chicken ( raw) - the plastic would be ripped off quite neatly and a few bones and the parsons nose left on the polystyrene tray. Cheese too and beautifully cat tongue sculpted butter :rotfl: we had a fridge lock long before we had children............actually when we had children we never bothered with a fridge lock come to think of it!
    Be the change you want to see -with apologies to Gandhi :o
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  • Thanks for some good laughs at cat burglars. Needed that after a day waiting to hear how a friend's op to remove brain tumour went ( back on ward, prognosis good, phew :) ).
    Mum's fridge was hidden behind a cupboard door and cats never realised that's where the food was hidden. However they could hear and smell an onion being peeled at 20 paces (before the meat was even out of the fridge) and would be at your feet before you knew it.
    "Does it spark joy?" - Marie Kondo

    "Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." Napoleon Hill
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    I was going to suggest a fridge lock too ...so clever these animals
  • chevalier
    chevalier Posts: 7,937 Forumite
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    Absolutely priceless. Now of course you will have to tell your neighbours to be on the look out for him going through their windows and into their fridges!
    I want a job that is less than an hour driving away from my house! Are you listening universe?
  • LAM2011
    LAM2011 Posts: 1,432 Forumite
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    Its clearly payback for the new diet! He will just help himself now :rotfl: Naughty kitty!
  • gallygirl
    gallygirl Posts: 17,240 Forumite
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    I don't actually like cats (ducks :o) but even I am warming to colin :rotfl:. Can't wait till he finds the drinks cabinet :D.
    A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
    :) Mortgage Balance = £0 :)
    "Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"
  • Baldybear
    Baldybear Posts: 1,720 Forumite
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    Ha Ha fab, I really want a cat, but OH does, but am working on him ;)
    Debt 13-1-25 - £39K!!!
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  • slowlyfading
    slowlyfading Posts: 13,429 Forumite
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    Haha that's fab! :rotfl: Please try and take a picture of him doing it!
    Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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  • Ha Ha !! Images of Colin rolling around the room drunk as a skunk!! :rotfl:
    LBM July 2011 - Finally took control Nov 2011 DFD Sometime in the distant future ! :eek:
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