Soop`s cosy kitchen for sincere and pleasant peoples

Just popped in to wish Charleygirl a wonderful birthday !! I hope you have something nice planned but if not we'll throw you a party here in the kitchen. I shall leave a birthday cake here on the side complete with candles !!

Happy Birthday !

Charley even!

Happy Birthday Charlie.

Happy Birthday Charley? and many happy returns of the day. ?

Happy birthday, Charley. Hope it's the start of a great year for you.

Not a year - many, many!
“A happy year to come”

Rosie nose it’s your birthday Charleygirl and joins me in wishing you a happy day and a year to come ?xx

Happy birthday Charley?hope you have a good day??

Off to the dentist this morning?so will return later and catch up on all the posts.

Happy birthday Charleygirl. I'm off to the hairdresser for 8.30 hence the early post. Then visiting mum then art class so a busy day for me. Have a good day all

Wishing you a very Happy Birthday Charleygirl ? ? ? ?

Morning All. If my memory is correct it’s our charley’s birthday today, very many good wishes going her way.

Goodness grandmafrench, what a saga. I’m relieved there was a solution to the puzzle, no way you could have known.

Exciting day here. Carpenters coming to begin to change our internal doors, hence me being awake so early. Good timing? Nope, but we’ve waited so long it’s better than more months of waiting. The other excitement is a wound check at the surgery, it feels a major step forward. Spirits are rising again, the knee is more comfortable and a smile or two appeared yesterday, especially when our soon to be ex daughter in law appeared for a surprise doorstep visit with an (allegedly) unwell granddaughter. While she certainly didn’t seem ill she is finding life hard going, a day at home with mum has hopefully done the trick. This patient will do her best to remain patient. .

Take care everyone. Must get going, don’t want to scare the carpenters .

Evening all....just off to bed, will someone put a shot of brandy in my Milo please?

Not a good thing to happen Grandmafrench but what a relief that it was not some fault in the manufacturing process !

Oh my goodness, GrandmaFrench - what a turn up for the books! I’m glad everything turned out fine in the end.

Your tale reminds me of a friend who bought a bag of frozen peas that, when opened, also contained leaves and other bits of vegetation. She took the item back to Tesco and complained loudly. The manager listened to her patiently and then said ‘I agree, that’s very poor quality control.’ He then pointed at the peas and said ‘I suggest you take the bag back to Sainsbury’s, where you bought it, and tell their manager the very same thing you’ve just told me.’ ???

But I do wear "Egg On Face" extremely well, don't you think? x

All’s well that ends well, Grandmafrench. ?

Hello Tuesday Grans of The Kitchen

Those are simply beautiful Glads, NannyT and I'm sorry you're feeling rotten today, Blossoming. Hope you haven't been overdoing things? I know you're having a down day, Corner - I expect your body is having a hard time adjusting after what you've been through. Hopefully you'll be through the glooms very soon now and be back feeling positive and a lot fitter. Be a patient patient, please! Let that nice Butler take the strain. Just sending you a huge wish, Dogs that the infection is brought under control and your Mum will be kept safe. ?

Well, all of you came up trumps, as expected. Lots of harsh words about cat food manufacturers and lots of empathy with regard to my small and bizarre scare! You're all so kind.

A charming lady did 'phone today as promised, and we spoke in a mixture of French and English because her technical terms about the production process were alien to me, and she insisted she'd forget her English words - she didn't. It was explained to me how staff wear special clothes and their own clothes and personal effects are kept in lockers in a staff area. If they are taking any pills, these too have to be kept in the staff area and are not allowed on the 'factory' floor. But, in spite of that of course, investigations will be made. She was very disappointed, she said, about the telephone and contact response online, but she'd do all she could now to expedite things and let me know if there was likely to have been an 'incident' at the place where the food was produced. She could trace this from the batch numbers on the base of the tin and I agreed to send her the tin and the pills, for which she was sending me a printed pre=paid label. She said she was so grateful for my perseverance in contacting them because, naturally, customer feedback was at the heart of what they do. Without happy customers, they wouldn't do well with their dog and cat food sales!

I explained that I had no wish to claim for anything. Nobody died, fortunately. I just wanted them to know what happened.

We left it there, urgent investigations would be made.

Then things changed rapidly. I telephoned someone who occasionally looks after our cats if we are away. I wanted to make sure that she has some time free at the end of the month when we hope to go to Northern France for a couple of days.

I then told her my cat food story! Lots of silence.....and then she reminded me that when she was last here, about 3 weeks ago, I asked her to give two tablets to one of the cats who was finishing a course because of an upset stomach. She has cats, she's good at cat wrangling and agreed to put the two pills down Paxo's throat. Unfortunately she omitted to tell me when we returned that on one occasion, Paxo refused to co-operate (and you only get one 'go' normally!). So, she put the rather mangled one pill and one which she hadn't tried yet, onto a dish to try the following day. Instead, she used two fresh pills. And she had left the other pills in a small dish. The dishes live in a stack in a cupboard and I had put the dishes away when I returned!!!!!

Yes, you guessed it. Saturday evening I was looking for a clean dish and for the first time I used the dish which not only had been put away in the 'animal' cupboard but which still contained the offending pills! ? I could never have known about those pills being 'on the loose' had I not spoken to her today.

I couldn't be nasty, but I so wish I'd known. I wouldn't be looking or expecting anything to be left in a pile of clean dishes, so obviously just didn't see the pills. They were very small. I felt that I needed to urgently notify Nestlé and this poor customer service lady before she set in train a series of events which would be unfair, and lots of extra work for her.

So I mailed her and explained and said how terribly, terribly sorry I am. But there was no way I could have known why this happened and it was only luck that I found out today!
Fortunately we had already had a very nice conversation with no threats or finger-pointing and she had been very agreeable and confirmed that she would be getting to the bottom of what happened if it was at all possible, so I didn't think she would respond badly. She didn't. She said she was so pleased that I had solved my own mystery and now I hopefully didn't have to worry about the safety or the quality of their product.

I think all ended well. I was not at all concerned about appearing very foolish - but I do rather wish it hadn't happened.

So I went out for a nice calming walk in beautiful sunshine and will take the view that such things do happen......well, they do to me..... Tomorrow is another day - a better one, hopefully.
I have a nice haircut, the diet's going well, the weather's lovely and I'm looking forward to tea and a catch up at a friend's house tomorrow.

Hoping for anyone unwell or worried - may tomorrow be better. Wishing you all a good night, sweet dreams and, unlike me, maybe keep out of mischief, everyone?

Stay safe. With love and hugs from France. ??‍♀️

Garage clearing ground to a halt today. Dh has a sore throat and cough, which he reported on the Zoe app and they recommended he get a PCR test. I had to drive 40+ miles there and back to a testing station so along with dropping off stuff at the dump, there was no time to do anything else. I’m not sure I’m really up for any more garage clearances - this one is challenging enough!

That’s shocking about the cat food, GrandmaFrench. It’s hard to imagine how that could have happened accidentally.

Take it easy, Cornergran, you don’t want to wear out that new knee!

Gorgeous children, Soop! ❤️

I hope you’re feeling better tomorrow, Blossoming.

Ouch for your ds, Brooke. Dh broke both his collar bones in a car accident, many years ago. The car wasn’t too healthy afterwards, either!

I hope your mum is okay Dogsmms. What a worry for you.

corner you seem to be doing well to walk so far but don’t overdo it. Sorry you didn’t get your lunch. Hope things seem better tomorrow. Anaesthetic of any kind usually brings a downer after a few days. Sort of anticlimax feeling.
Grandmafrench what a strange occurrence with the cat food. I wonder what the tablets are. They obviously didn’t get there by accident. I hope Nestle take your complaint seriously.
Well done for persevering.
You certainly have more energy than me. Pushing the vacuum round is usually enough to make me rest for half an hour and I only live in a flat ?
Nannytopsy what a beautiful flower, I love the colour.
soop that’s a picture to warm anyone’s heart. ?
Big wave ? to all the kitcheners. Catch up later.

I’m going to miss your Spanish soliloquies Urmstongran, obviously not as much as you! But look forward to the train reports, I think you both have an excellent life balance, enjoy your last few days.

Ha! I wish muse. S T R E T C H I N G as hard as I can!
Rapid antigen tests in the morning.
Negative test required for flight home.
I’ve managed not to have a stick up my nose all Covid but now on the dog days ...
Bet we are pretty much the last cohort to need this done pre-flight.
€80 to throwaway.
Someone is quids (or euros) in.

3 days Urm! Where has the summer gone? Stretch them out as long as you can.

All sunsets are beautiful muse in their own way aren’t they?
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Sorry to read about your son brook. Hope it heals quickly. If I remember correctly, my DD had her arm in a sling for a while and it healed naturally. Hope your DS's break isn't too serious.

Hope you are better tomorrow Blossoming. Take care.

? Thank goodness your cats didn't eat all the food Grandmafrench. Was today's tin OK? A think a life time's supply would be good compensation for all your troubles. I've heard of wilt, probably from Monty. Mind you, Monty is enough to make anyone melt wilt. Can you cut out all the damaged parts?

Gorgeous photo soop. ?

Had a lovely but sad afternoon with our two friends. They have known each other for 15 years but never moved in together as a couple. A huge argument a week ago has certainly shaken them both, but it's not been the first. B is my daughter's age and she asked if I could show her the walk I do with Mya. Off we went. A few tears on the way but it gave her chance to talk. MrM tells me he managed to talk to G whilst we were gone. MrM thinks they will be OK. I'd like to think he's right but I have my doubts.

I can't match soop's fantastic sunsets but I've just watched a lovely calm one here. Inside now with a glass of white. Big lunch with our two friends so a small bowl of spag bol tonight.