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doingitanyway

Brilliant cat stories again. So funny

redofromstart

Morning! His car dropped off for a major service in the village garage, no idea on the cost but it will certainly wipe out the council tax saving for the month. It was a rather wet walk back, hope it stops before I have to pick it up.

Cats are not popular this morning, busy playing 'is it raining out of this window? Yes. I don't like rain. What about this window? Oh. I don't like rain. Lets try the back door. Oh. What about the dishwasher, is it raining in the dishwasher?' When cat one gives up, cat two takes over. I swear that they tag team to be even more annoying.

Plans for today did involve the garden but will now need a rethink. Might tidy upstairs, complete with furry helper doing' ooh can I jump out of the front window? Oh, its raining. What about the back window? oh. I know I will sit in the thing you are tidying until the rain stops. ' Actually I might just go back to bed with a cup of tea and a book and stop fighting the feline flow.

redofromstart

The bed was full of cats so I gave up and washed some of the upstairs window frames instead. Worryingly the mould removing stuff melts the ancient paint on the window ledges!

Starmummy

redofromstart wrote: »

The bed was full of cats so I gave up and washed some of the upstairs window frames instead. Worryingly the mould removing stuff melts the ancient paint on the window ledges!

I know this feeling. everytime i clean the windows it removes yet more paint. Even more worrying when I'm pretty sure that it is the paint holding the frames together :rotfl:

greenbee

Look on the bright side - less prep to do when you finally get round to repainting the windows

I have been and bought food. I'm not exactly awake but I do need to get some work done today, which could be interesting.

redofromstart

Ours are nasty ancient UPVC put in by the previous owners weeks before the conservation status got slapped on, its the rubber bits that are perishing. The window ledge itself is wood, and once the bits I have done today have dried then I will be able to sand back down to wood, think its the paint that is gone rather than the wood that is rotting.

I'm not worrying too much about the bathroom mess until SS moves out in a couple of weeks, its his epic showers (despite the extractor fan) that seem to cause most of the problems in there so I'm just doing a surface wipe with bleach spray until then.

Car was less than I thought, and I got to collect it when it wasn't raining so that was ok.

Lunch was the tail end of a bag of sweet potato fries and the last of the grapes. Made some croutons for the planned salad with the nub end of the loaf I made at the weekend ( small cubes, squirt of spray oil, sprinkle of finely grated Parmesan and then ten minutes in the oven). V tasty, will be lucky if there are any left by tonight.

HairyHandofDartmoor

Happy belated birthday Redo, I'm just catching up with your diary again.

I love your cat stories too. I would have a house full of cats were it not for three of us having asthma and fur allergies, plus a fear of vet fees :eek:. So we content ourselves with one furry moron (rabbit).

You're making progress with the decluttering and cleaning. It can be hard to make yourself do it, but it makes you feel so much better when it's done . Clutter makes me feel negative and a bit hopeless.

sashybo

:rotfl: at the cats redo, I honestly think cats were sent to try us sometimes. :rotfl:

My cats play “how many times can we chase each other around her legs before she falls” - usually on the stairs - and “how many clean clothes/chopping boards/dishes can we sit & clean our butts on before she loses the will to live”. Their new favourite game is “how much food can we snatch from the worktop/plates/baby before she has a screaming fit”. :eek: Then you get the insolent stare before they sashay off in a huff!

doingitanyway

I am starting to see that if you have a cat you are guaranteed a laugh every day

Hoping you went back to bed with a cup of tea?

Seasidegal58

Now I'm back from DD's, I'm homing in on you again for my cat fixes! However DD did send me a photo today of Queen Ginger. DDOH's gym bag was on the bed so of course Her Maj had to climb in and sit there. Weird photo - just looked like a ginger cat head floating on its own!

Good work on the sanding. Hope the windows themselves are ok and it's just the old paint that's the problem.

Your croutons sounded delish!