I had an unannounced visit from my younger brother yesterday, complete with his children Charlotte (5), Thomas (3), and Alexander (13 months.) I answered the doorbell and there they were! Andrew (my brother) said "You're babysitting.." My heart sank, but fortunately he was joking. Individually...

She's back from causing an earthquake in California. I've boiled up a chicken carcase in my pressure cooker, for soup. It's a bit of trouble, I suppose, as I then have to get all the bones and skin out and pick the meat off. I put the meat back in to the stock, added bay leaf, carrots, onions...

Now, suddenly, I have only 6 posts showing in rpca. That's weird since a few hours ago I still had 2k plus. I guess that has solved my prob re worrying about having time to respond to purrs and prayers. They are all gone. I don't like it though. Very strange. Tweed

There was a monkfish tail at the supermarket tonight when I popped in for some bread quite late, going spare on it's sell-by-date. Convert the currency for USA by doubling it. It cost 7.65 and I got it for 0.50. My freezer is full of such bargains and no more room but how could I resist...

He is just getting so greedy. I feed him and KFC at the same time, he has more because he is a larger cat. He can finish his quicker because his teeth are better than the old girls and then he tries to get hers too. He pushes her off it if I am not there to give him a stern...

Like a lot of other folks who post to newsgroups I use a separate web-based email address just for that. It attracts lots of spam (up to 80 messages per day) so I have to clear it out every couple of days. Often I just go to it and delete all the messages en-masse. Sometimes I have missed...

He tripped me up with winding between my feet on Wednesday evening, hoping for yet more food although he had been fed not two hours earlier. I fell backwards on to the edge of my table. I had to have a home visit from the doctor today - this is unheard of for me. I have cracked two ribs...

"Irulan" wrote in message ... Here is my contribution to the upsidedowny head contest: http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n137/lrulan/lilysleep.jpg -- Irulan from the stars we come

Got a knock on the door this afternoon from my ex-next door neighbour's son. Thelma was widowed suddenly and moved a mile or so away with her cat into a bungalow. This is the house that has been redeveloped and I've been having so much trouble with, it's totally unrecognisable from how it was...

Some of you will remember me mentioning him before. He and his wife take in cats and birds that find themselves in dire circumstances. At least one of you has read one of his books. Could his cat Frannie have some purrs and any left over for himself? He mailed me this: _________________ Just a...

I was down feeding and watering the chickens this morning, Boyfie was helping of course, when I heard a loud squeak and Boyfie came out from behind the woodheap with the largest rat he has caught yet dangling from his mouth. He hot-footed to the house with it (he always does when he catches...

Two times over der last week I got my meowmie sum brekfast an I put it wear she wud find it on der kitchen rug, rite wear she go to put der kettel on wen she get up. Bofe times it were a fat mousie and bofe times she trud on it. She dint seam as plesed as I fort she wud be. My kwestion is dis. ...

"Mark Edwards" wrote in message ... Next to military service, nothing typifies "Hurry up and Wait" like jury duty. I live in Arlington (Texas), and the courthouse is in Fort Worth. I go into Fort Worth maybe once...

You will not believe Enid's vet bill that came today. The vet did warn me that the bill would escalate to 200 pounds if I went for the endoscopy so I said to hold off for a couple of days to see how the antibiotics worked and if they didn't I'd think again. The invoice is for 233 pounds 30 pence...

"Mark Edwards" wrote in message ... Poor girl - she developed an infection in her eyes, and I took her to the kitty doctor this morning. They checked for corneal scratches with the black light (coool!), and ...

At last we have had a thunderstorm this afternoon - and a spectacular one too. It lasted for around 2 hours and the rain absolutely lashed down. After it was over I got in the car and tried to go to the shop for some bread, it wasn't possible as the bridge was flooded rather too deeply than I...

KFC is doing really well. She has already learnt that she gets her meal in the bedroom just for herself (without Boyfie) and she puts herself on the spare bed and says "prrrrt" Like: gimme my nice renal food here NOW even with auntibios in. I might be wrong, but she seems to have improved...

She was diagnosed with CRF a few weeks ago and TED said the best chance would be if she ate this particular diet all the time. She loved it at first, but now she doesn't. I was so paranoid about her not eating anything else that I fed her in the spare bedroom so she could not eat Boyfie's food. ...

Sometimes I thinks, and sometimes I just sits and thinks! Today I was thinking about how both my cats have fitted in so well with me and my lifestyle. I wasn't expecting to have any cats. After all my d*gs went to RB, first Kitty FC claimed a place by the fire, and then Boyfriend came. It was...

Kitty had not come back by this morning and I've just got home from work, she wasn't here. I'm making posters now to put on the trees and lamp posts nearby. Will update later. Tweed & Boyfie