soops kindly kitcheners and perfect pampered pets.

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Morning all !!

Although still a bit snuffly I think I might make it , I hope I have escaped the reoccurring lurgy some of the ladies have experienced.

Your idea for a rainy day suits me down to the ground Gaga I hope you enjoyed it.

Galen your diet, if I might be so bold, is not one suited to getting you back to fighting form!! Do you not have an emergency stash of ready meals in the freezer that you could shove in the microwave? scrambled egg and a couple of Babybells do not 'maketh the woman'

Those look like innocent faces to me Grannylyn I think you have the wrong pair of criminals

I love the 'tomato mummy' story Grey . The things they say - priceless !!

I know what you mean about making the most of your time with the DGC Corner , our littlest will start school next year and we have found that everything changes when they do. We don't see them half as much as they have friends, and after school clubs etc. So we, like you cherish our time now.

Got a new estate agent coming round at lunchtime , thought we would widen our net so we shall see how that goes.

Have attached two pictures...Cooper made Paw patrol cakes and Stevie is now a lodge leader at Beavers ( very proud of it he is too !!)

Happy Day one and all x

Nellie, motion sickness is no myth. I still feel queasy watching water flowing under a bridge and looking out of a train window. The only way to avoid it is to do the driving yourself. DS1 was awful as a child. I could put little flags on a map of England to show the places we had to stop for him. Learning to drive and getting his own car was the answer for him, but we had to put up with it for 17 years before that. When we were teenagers we had to travel in the back seat with our car-sick German Shepherd. We learnt to recognise the signs and shove her head out the window just in time and I wouldn't have wanted to be the driver immediately behind us. OK - TMI!

Wobbly bits has just posted on the end of the last thread to say he is leaving us for a time. I have to say in general I agree with him. Just a couple of threads for me now. There is so much unpleasantness and point scoring. Some people will never change their point of view if they had indisputable proof tattooed on their forehead so I will leave them to it.

Agreed, annsixty I have just broken my denture so am off to get it fixed "while you wait" keeping my mouth firmly closed as I travel. I shall try to keep it closed on GN too.

If you are sill reading posts *wobblybits"have I missed something or is this the long awaited hip op (not to be confused with hip hop which is what you will be doing after! Down in da hood and all that)
BTW I am thinking of starting a 'persona non grata" clique. Cynical, moi?
Keep in touch and good luck with the hip.

Apparently we're already a clique in the kitchen DB....

I'm sorry WB is taking a hiatus - but I do know what he means. When you take out the game threads on Active there's precious little left. I wish we had the opportunity to block threads we are not interested in.....

Nellie and Anno I totally agree about motion sickness. We had no car as a child and when we did go in a relatives , I would start off fully dressed and be down to my vest and knickers by the time we arrived!! It wasn't till I learnt to drive that I conquered my travel sickness in a car but to this day cannot travel 'backwards' or in the back of a car! And don't get me started about ferries

I'm another affected by motion sickness (well, nausea) when I'm a passenger but not when I'm driving. Fierce acceleration or deceleration are among the worst offenders.

I have been having a break, was finding most threads depressing and didn't want to make you all here more depressed. OH has a slipped disc and after 5 weeks we are actually at work today. Not sure how long he can manage and he will probably suffer tomorrow. But there is now a little light at the end of the tunnel so I feel happier posting here.

N&G I thought that we had been accused of that ages ago by a certain person who has been banned.

I loved the photos of Cooper and Stevie- they look so happy.

I also am fine when I am driving and although I ma not sick if sitting in the front seat it is a different matter if I am in the back.

Those of you who have understood the trials of me trying to get a 5 drawer chest of drawers dismantled- it is all over and done with and somebody else may have my bed in the psychiatric unit.

A neighbour took pity, dismantled it this am and deposited the bits in a couple of bins. I am now looking on line to buy at least one other but the problem now is getting a fully assembled chest of drawers carried up one flight of stairs- Elf & Safety comes into play.

DH sometimes accuses me of "late onset dyslexia" I.e.reading one thing and understanding something quite different by it. I did this re your furniture issues, charleygirl and for a few moments thought you had also had your bed dismantled and donated to the local psychiatric unit??
Doh(or similar) , as Homer Simpson says
Sorry to hear about DH's slipped disc, tizliz my father used to suffer badly but was fixed each time by an osteopath called Mr Cameron who lived up by The Meadows in Edinburgh. We would go up to Edinburgh by bus and train, with Dad standing the whole way , apparently that wasn't as bad as sitting. He would have his consultation and skip out of the consulting room like a spring lamb. I believe current medical practice is NOT that, but it worked! Takes me back.
I hope mcsporran's appointment went OK, soop? Wise not to risk lurgies at the Care Homer that can be avoided. We all know "Coughs and sneezes spread diseases"!

CARE HOME not HOMER!!

Daphne a huge truck would have arrived at my front door costing £167+VAT and after that it was a silly amount of money for each 5 minutes in the house dismantling the chest and taking it away. This chest was on its last legs and very wobbly.

It is a beautiful sunny day here but very cold- spring hurry up please I want warmer weather.

N&G very good luck with a new estate agent- fingers crossed. The last one was not a lot of use especially re organising the open day. I am still convinced he sent his mother to be the only viewer.

I have just had an appointment in today's post for an ultrasound scan tomorrow evening at our local hospital. I had to read it twice before I twigged that yes, it is at 7.10pm. Apparently they make appointments up to 8pm. I am not to have anything to eat for the previous 6 hours but that will not be a problem for me as I seem to have almost given up on eating.

Not to worry about my weight loss though - there is still plenty in reserve!

Gaga definitely a weird time for a scan and it is tomorrow- unbelievable. I wish I could stop eating temporarily to give myself a helping hand. I have plenty of extra adipose tissue so no problem there.

Tizliz I do hope that your OH does not overdo things today because 5 weeks is a while to be off work. Hopefully a night's rest will help him.

glammanana enjoyed the porridge but passed on the strawberries. I had already defrosted home grown red currants and they went very nicely with it.

Am staying in the kitchen I think. Ventured out to the vets earlier (long story) and it is so cold and damp the cinema trip is now deferred.

Will some kind person please update me on who Rory is? I came to this thread late after despairing of many others. Thank you.

Izabella Rory is an elderly cat who now lives with soop and MacSporran* having spent many years as a feral cat living in woods beside their house in Scotland. He has gone from one extreme to the other, fending for himself through thick and thin, and now being waited on hand and foot, even expecting freshly cooked chicken which is hand fed! He enjoys having a snooze on a chair or better still, MacSporran's lap. He does not venture far and is usually two paces behind MacSporran so that he can oversee MacSporran's garden work. A very well loved cat.

Back from Campbeltown and doing my best to catch up with you lot.

Gaga I shall be thinking of you tomorrow evening. It's comforting to know that your case hasn't been filed in the 'pending' tray.

MacSporran's aneurysm appears to be developing slowly. When last scanned it was a mere three mm larger. Today's scan showed another 3mm increase. 'No cause for alarm'...

Greyduster What a wonderful imagination. To be honest, I did make sense of the tomato morphing into an Egyptian mummy.

NanaG* I trust that you print the photos that you take of the boys. If so, the albums will become family heirlooms in the fullness of times.

bags Anno and Nellie When my sister and I were young, whenever we travelled by car, we couldn't leave home without a bowl (each) in which to be sick. It is a most unpleasant buggeration.

Wobbly Please don't stay away for too long. We enjoy your company.

DaphneB

Tizliz Slipped discs take an age to repair. The trouble is, once a disc weakens, it has a tendency to continue to make a nuisance of itself. I feel very sorry for your husband.

Charleyg Oh, thank goodness for yet another kindly/able-bodied neighbour. The saga of the chest of drawers has reached a satisfactory conclusion. Is it possible that the same neighbour may be ready to assist with new furniture when it arrives?

Elegran

Galen Are you feeling a little stronger? Please say that you are beginning to eat sensible food...

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Izabella I see that Charleyg has given you important info on the status of Rory (Ruaridh, in the Gaelic tongue.)

We arrived in Scotland without a cat. Within a very short time, on a snowy day, a huge black cat turned up in the garden together with a she cat and two fairly young offspring. All cats lived in a commune in the forest that borders our home. We acquired a nearly new wheelie-bin, lay it on it's side and furnished it with rugs and an Eskimo basket, lined with fleece. It became Rory's first 'apartment'. We would line up bowls of food inside the apartment and for some time all was well. We then thought...hey, this male and female are going to continue to reproduce. Contacted the Cat Protection League and was loaned three humane cat traps. bags will recall the night we managed to trap the mother cat and two daughters. They were taken to the vet and spayed. A week later, all three were released beside the garden fence, and ran off into the forest. Rory REFUSED to participate in the drama. He moved out of the wheelie-bin apartment into an upmarket kennel. Eventually, we had to pay for the vet to travel the 24 miles to our home in order to "capture" him, take him to the surgery, and give him the snip. He was not amused. It was a very gradual move into our utility room. He could be fierce and did in fact launch his muscular form in my direction. Bruised and scarred me. MacSporran said 'he's not coming in...' but of course, he did
and here he has remained. Utterly devoted to MacS Mother cat would call by occasionally but she has since moved on. One of two daughters remains close to Rory. She has a wee chalet, and she also comes into the utility room during the evening and Rory and she sit together on a very large cushion. The cupboard groans with the weight of special cat food. I shall find a photo to show you of the dynamic duo.

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Izabella One image is of Rory in his apartment. Here is one of Rory with MacSporran.

Soop a lot better thanks but still very breathless on any effort. Still not hungry, but am on a course tomorrow and they provide a lunvch

I haven't posted on this thread before but like others am becoming disillusioned by some of the other threads although I won't be leaving GN (probably no-one would miss me anyway ). This seems like such a relaxed easy going thread - can I come in and have a coffee?

Rory, so VERY pleased to meet you. I attach my photo for your perusal. I live in rural repose, hunting, river watching and generally getting the staff to attend to my every whim.

Welcome sunseeker*. I am new on this thread too and have been made to feel very welcome also.

sunseeker, welcome! The kitchen expands to accommodate refugees from certain other threads! I'm sure that it is just what you are looking for.

Thank you for the welcome. Lovely to see picture of beautiful cats (I am a cat person - although I don't have one living with me anymore). I will sit in the corner stroking the cats and won't be any bother!