Christina Websell wrote:
It was necessary to have another rat hunt yesterday morning. This
time three men came with 3 terriers (one 18 weeks old just to observe)
The rules were the same. Shut all the chickens up and keep the cats
inside from the previous night, in case the terriers catch them and
they might well do, as they get very revved up during a rat hunt.
So I shut the door firmly at 10 pm, with both cats safe inside and a
temporary litter box made from an old turkey roasting tin filled with
earth in the kitchen. They were snoozing by the fire and everything
was hunky-dory when I went to bed.
I'd only just dropped off to sleep when Boyfriend woke me at about
12.30 a.m. by meowing very loudly outside the bedroom door to advise
me that I had forgotten to leave the back door open so he could get
out. I ignored him and he went back downstairs. Twenty minutes
later he was back and said it must have been an oversight on my part,
and could I possibly get up and let him out as he needed a wee. I
ignored him again, and he went away for ten minutes. He could not
believe that I didn't hear his pleas so he came back every few
minutes to meow louder and louder ALL NIGHT!
When I got up, having had practically no sleep at all, the litterbox
appeared unused, but when I had to nip back to the house for my rat
thwacking stick after the rat team had been here a while, I caught
the poor lad unawares with his nether regions over the box for at
least 3 minutes with a look of great relief on his face.
After that, he retired upstairs to sleep on the spare bed and didn't
get up until 4 pm.

I have to go on strike tomorrow, I work in local government and they
are trying to alter our pension scheme (I pay about 80 pounds a month
for it and have done for 17 years) so we have to work longer, in some
cases until we are 70.
I can ill afford to lose the days pay but hey. Public service is
fairly badly paid but the one thing we could look forward to was a
reasonable pension in our old age, and now they want to save money by
not giving it to us at the proper retirement age. I have been in
full time work since I was 15 and paid what is called "full stamp"
all the time and I still cannot retire until 62.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall at work tomorrow. In a building that
normally has around 250 workers in lots of different departments, I
doubt more than a dozen will be in, and those will be picketed.

Tweed

It's not very often that I agree with strikes, but in this case I'm 100%
behind the council workers. Most of the time they do an excellent job for a
very low wage, the least they can expect is a reasonable pension at the age
they were told they'd get it when they started the job.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart.
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