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HairyHandofDartmoor

There must be a zone of weirdness around your house Foxgloves, that makes potatoes and unidentifiable poo appear :rotfl:.

foxgloves

Lol, yes a weird zone is very likely. At least no more potatoes have appeared! I'm no closer to being able to identify the poo, but at least no more had appeared on our back courtyard anyway......... but you can imagine how distinctly dischuffed I was to open our side door so as to empty a couple of big trugs into the garden waste wheelie bin to discover that a cat had decided to stage a dirty protest ON OUR DOORMAT!!! Oh deep joy! Bring back the weird potatoes. Now we have #Poogate.
Asked our cat if he was the baddie responsible. He looked inscrutable then asked for his dinner. Hmmmm. He's never done anything like that before & it may have been a territory claim from one of the local cats currently keeping me awake at night with noisy fighting, but he's not off the hook yet. Doormat sprayed liberally with pear & freesia body spray to prevent any repeat performance. That will probably turn out to act like a synthetic pheromone for some other creature like weasels or something & open another chapter of weirdness.
F x

Blackcats

Purple fairy - I have also been trying to think if there is any evidence of a link between the potatoes and the poo.
It is interesting to ponder how much we all share about our lives with each other but we wouldn't know if we passed each other in the street. We might recognise foxgloves if she had a bowl of peeled potatoes in one hand and a mystery poo sample in the other.

foxgloves

Grrrrr, have just lost a long post. Am not retyping it. Here is what it was about:.
Pond de-gunking
Chicken soup
Fish pie
It wasn't very exciting.
F x

Kantankrus_Mare

foxgloves wrote: »

Grrrrr, have just lost a long post. Am not retyping it. Here is what it was about:.
Pond de-gunking
Chicken soup
Fish pie
It wasn't very exciting.
F x

Made me laugh :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Isnt it just soooo annoying when that happens?

foxgloves

Yes, Kantankrus, infuriating. Hope it doesn't happen tonight as I intend to bore you all with my plans to catch the phantom poo-bottom.
F x

HairyHandofDartmoor

I'll look forward to your plans 'Poo Detective'

foxgloves

Samhain blessings to you all. That is summer done for another year & welcome winter with all it brings....often a few challenges, but also many simple beauties - I love a crisp frosty walk or watching a skein of November geese flying over in perfect formation. We don't do 'trick or treat' here - it wasn't a 'thing' when we were children & as we don't have kids ourselves, it never really stuck. I sometimes carve a pumpkin, but this year we've got knitted & crocheted ones & lots of candles.
So we tend to celebrate the old festival of the changing seasons & I've got a big pan of beef in the oven, simmering away in Hobgoblin beer - A Delia recipe from her winter cookbook, which is topped with garlic, mustard & gruyere croutes. Haven't made it before & will be getting to it before Mr F so as to put aside enough for tomorrow too!
Anyway, now I've created a nice bit of seasonal ambience, I have to return to the subject of the mystery poo. No more appeared yesterday but there was some this morning when I went out to look - Yes, truly a life of glamour here - I really want to know which animal is visiting us at night. So I decided to set the dining table in our conservatory tonight. We will eat in there, lit by candles, but have the outside light on, so if anything rocks up to the bird feeding slab, we will definitely spot it. I have even baited it with apple, toast, oats & a few tuna chunks donated by cat.
I am so curious to what will turn up! And it will hopefully solve the mystery of the unknown bottom!
And if this critter fails to turn up? I shall be disappointed, but it won't last long as there are caramel buttons in the house.
All good wishes as the wheel of the year turns again.
F xx

crazy_cat_lady

Well, I too am waiting with baited breath to hear if you get a visitor this evening. I've been out all day so I'm definitely hiding from the world tonight. Kids are dealing with the trick or treat lot and we have no pumpkins, real, crocheted or otherwise.

HairyHandofDartmoor

foxgloves wrote: »

Samhain blessings to you all. That is summer done for another year & welcome winter with all it brings....often a few challenges, but also many simple beauties - I love a crisp frosty walk or watching a skein of November geese flying over in perfect formation. We don't do 'trick or treat' here - it wasn't a 'thing' when we were children & as we don't have kids ourselves, it never really stuck. I sometimes carve a pumpkin, but this year we've got knitted & crocheted ones & lots of candles.
So we tend to celebrate the old festival of the changing seasons & I've got a big pan of beef in the oven, simmering away in Hobgoblin beer - A Delia recipe from her winter cookbook, which is topped with garlic, mustard & gruyere croutes. Haven't made it before & will be getting to it before Mr F so as to put aside enough for tomorrow too!
Anyway, now I've created a nice bit of seasonal ambience, I have to return to the subject of the mystery poo. No more appeared yesterday but there was some this morning when I went out to look - Yes, truly a life of glamour here - I really want to know which animal is visiting us at night. So I decided to set the dining table in our conservatory tonight. We will eat in there, lit by candles, but have the outside light on, so if anything rocks up to the bird feeding slab, we will definitely spot it. I have even baited it with apple, toast, oats & a few tuna chunks donated by cat.
I am so curious to what will turn up! And it will hopefully solve the mystery of the unknown bottom!
And if this critter fails to turn up? I shall be disappointed, but it won't last long as there are caramel buttons in the house.
All good wishes as the wheel of the year turns again.
F xx

Happy Samhain to you too .It's good to be reminded of the nice things about autumn.

Your candlelit meal in the conservatory sounds very romantic Foxgloves (if you forget about the reason for it :rotfl:).