Rosie Mitchell <rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:
> Jane Vernon <spam@nopotteratthisaddress.co.uk> writes:
>
>> On 10/02/2024 11:43, Jenny M Benson wrote:
>>> On 10/02/2024 09:42, Jane Vernon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The late beloved Mike liked rich tea biscuits with dairylea spread
>>>> on them.  I could never understand that.
>>> Oh no!  Cheese on Digestives - to die for!
>>>
>>
>> To be fair, does dairylea spread count as cheese?
>
> Pepper the cat, who doesn't like Dreamies, is crazy about Dairylea
> triangles so I have to get them in specially.
>
> Rosie
>

Rosie, please introduce this pair. Some round here still remember stories
of Tosca. You’ve not been here and talked cat for far too long.

Mrs McT

In message <uqa1nc$tdgi$4@dont-email.me> at Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:49:48,
Chris <chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> writes
>Rosie Mitchell <rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:
[]
>> Pepper the cat, who doesn't like Dreamies, is crazy about Dairylea
>> triangles so I have to get them in specially.
>>
>> Rosie
>>
>
>Rosie, please introduce this pair. Some round here still remember stories
>of Tosca. You’ve not been here and talked cat for far too long.
>
>Mrs McT
>
This time round, I read "pepper the cat" as an instruction!
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"...told me to connect with the electorate, and I did!" John Prescott on
having punched the man who threw an egg at him (Top Gear, 2011-2-28)

J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
> In message <uqa1nc$tdgi$4@dont-email.me> at Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:49:48,
> Chris <chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> writes
>> Rosie Mitchell <rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:
> []
>>> Pepper the cat, who doesn't like Dreamies, is crazy about Dairylea
>>> triangles so I have to get them in specially.
>>>
>>> Rosie
>>>
>>
>> Rosie, please introduce this pair. Some round here still remember stories
>> of Tosca. You’ve not been here and talked cat for far too long.
>>
>> Mrs McT
>>
> This time round, I read "pepper the cat" as an instruction!

‘And only lightly salted…’

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On 10/02/2024 22:07, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
>
> Has Pardon discovered Lick-e-lix?

I haven't come across that. I'll look out for it.

I was having a wakeful session early one morning recently and got to
pondering on the subject of cats. I was thinking that with my current 2
being only 11½ and nearly 5 and me being newly 79, it was highly
unlikely that I would ever have another. However, I started wondering
what I would call her (it would be female) if I did have another.

The 3 most recent were/are named Ludo(1), Sorry(2) and Pardon. I
decided that if ever there was a next one, it would have to be Miss Otis
Regrets.

(1) Not after the game, but in honour of Ludovic Kennedy.
(2) After the game.

--
Jenny M Benson
Wrexham, UK

On 11/02/2024 11:40, Jenny M Benson wrote:
> On 10/02/2024 22:07, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
>>
>> Has Pardon discovered Lick-e-lix?
>
> I haven't come across that.  I'll look out for it.
>
> I was having a wakeful session early one morning recently and got to
> pondering on the subject of cats.  I was thinking that with my current 2
> being only 11½ and nearly 5 and me being newly 79, it was highly
> unlikely that I would ever have another.  However, I started wondering
> what I would call her (it would be female) if I did have another.
>
> The 3 most recent were/are named Ludo(1), Sorry(2) and Pardon.  I
> decided that if ever there was a next one, it would have to be Miss Otis
> Regrets.
>
> (1) Not after the game, but in honour of Ludovic Kennedy.
> (2) After the game.
>

Since I tend to say Sorry to a cat when I step on a tail, or a cat
appears from nowhere just as I'm making a grandiloquent arm gesture, or
I have to explain that there won't be any more biscuits until I get back
from the shops, I assumed that your Sorry was named for such reasons.

But you've always had an interesting way with animal names.I do remember
meeting Choc'late Pudding, with that so-important apostrophe!

Rosie

On 11/02/2024 08:49, Chris wrote:
> Rosie Mitchell <rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:
>> Jane Vernon <spam@nopotteratthisaddress.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> On 10/02/2024 11:43, Jenny M Benson wrote:
>>>> On 10/02/2024 09:42, Jane Vernon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The late beloved Mike liked rich tea biscuits with dairylea spread
>>>>> on them.  I could never understand that.
>>>> Oh no!  Cheese on Digestives - to die for!
>>>>
>>>
>>> To be fair, does dairylea spread count as cheese?
>>
>> Pepper the cat, who doesn't like Dreamies, is crazy about Dairylea
>> triangles so I have to get them in specially.
>>
>> Rosie
>>
>
> Rosie, please introduce this pair. Some round here still remember stories
> of Tosca. You’ve not been here and talked cat for far too long.

Time passes too quickly and to my shame I was intermittent on Umra,
usually when Serena reminded me in early August that the birthday
monitor had been on my case. or that Sid (of blessed memory) or somebody
else had been asking after me.

Well, Tosca, a cat of immense character and cattitude whom I loved
dearly but never really liked, has been gone from us for nearly eight
years now, and left us while we was living temporarily at the top of a
Glasgow tower block, just a couple of weeks before I lost my mum. Soon
afterwards I was properly rehoused and to mark the occasion I asked Cats
Protection if they could find me a suitable moggy. "Could you take two?"
the nice lady asked, and I thought I could manage that. They had a pair,
Dinky and Oreo, who had to leave their family because the young daughter
had turned out to be allergic. So along they came: 5-year-old female
marbled tabby Dinky and 2-year-old white-and-black male, Oreo. I didn't
mind Dinky staying as Dinky because she really was Dinky – when Ally
came to visit she dubbed her "Nanoneko" and said she was the smallest
adult cat she'd ever seen. She's still a small cat but very solid, if
not leaning towards the tubby. The other one was never going to stay as
Oreo, I'm not having a cat named after a nondescript Merkin biscuit and
when it turned out that, gentle as he is, he really hates being picked
up and resists with a hell of a kick, he became Pepper.

They are both very gentle cats, mostly, and get on very well together
although Dinky is definitely the dominant one. She is very demanding
about night-time sleeping positions and will poke at my face or pluck my
pyjamas until I arrange myself just so, that she might curl up in my
right armpit. Pepper is more standoffish, sleeps by my feet and really
wouldn't mind, you know, if I were to scratch his ears. After I'm prised
from my bed they curl up together for their post-breakfast snooze.

It's alarming that they are now 13 and 10, reaching the stage where
every extra year is a bonus. But, fingers and paws crossed, they both
have a good few years of mischief in them yet.

Rosie

In message <uqa1nc$tdgi$4@dont-email.me> at Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:49:48,
Chris <chris.mcmillan@ntlworld.com> writes
>Rosie Mitchell <rcmitchell@golgonooza.co.uk> wrote:
[]
>> Pepper the cat, who doesn't like Dreamies, is crazy about Dairylea
>> triangles so I have to get them in specially.
>>
>> Rosie
>>
>
>Rosie, please introduce this pair. Some round here still remember stories
>of Tosca. You’ve not been here and talked cat for far too long.
>
>Mrs McT
>
This time round, I read "pepper the cat" as an instruction!

They don't like it ip 'em you know.

Rosie

--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"...told me to connect with the electorate, and I did!" John Prescott on
having punched the man who threw an egg at him (Top Gear, 2011-2-28)

On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 11:54:51 +0000, Rosie Mitchell
<walneyrose@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/02/2024 11:40, Jenny M Benson wrote:
>> On 10/02/2024 22:07, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
>>>
>>> Has Pardon discovered Lick-e-lix?
>>
>> I haven't come across that.  I'll look out for it.
>>
>> I was having a wakeful session early one morning recently and got to
>> pondering on the subject of cats.  I was thinking that with my current 2
>> being only 11½ and nearly 5 and me being newly 79, it was highly
>> unlikely that I would ever have another.  However, I started wondering
>> what I would call her (it would be female) if I did have another.
>>
>> The 3 most recent were/are named Ludo(1), Sorry(2) and Pardon.  I
>> decided that if ever there was a next one, it would have to be Miss Otis
>> Regrets.
>>
>> (1) Not after the game, but in honour of Ludovic Kennedy.
>> (2) After the game.
>>
>
>Since I tend to say Sorry to a cat when I step on a tail, or a cat
>appears from nowhere just as I'm making a grandiloquent arm gesture, or
>I have to explain that there won't be any more biscuits until I get back
>from the shops, I assumed that your Sorry was named for such reasons.
>
>But you've always had an interesting way with animal names.I do remember
>meeting Choc'late Pudding, with that so-important apostrophe!
>
>Rosie
We've only got Harryet Pottercat left now. We returned from Spain with
2 cats (and 2 dogs) Fang was found at a couple of days old with
littermates on a building site next door. We took her and one sister
(other neighbour took some too) and sister was in worse shape and
remained with the vet over night. I took Fang home and had to bathe
her wash a large wound on her side and bandage it. I had more injuries
than she did after that, so we called her after Hagrid's monster pet.

Next morning the vet said the sister hadn't made it over night but he
had a cage full of kittens who needed a home so we took one to keep
Fang company and continued the Potter theme. Harry used to groom Fang
and cover her doings in the litter tray for her. Bobby, the puppy
we'd already recued, mothered both kittens although he was only 6
months old. Harry loved him and has now transferred her attachment to
B.

Jenny M Benson <NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/02/2024 22:07, Serena Blanchflower wrote:
>>
>> Has Pardon discovered Lick-e-lix?
>
> I haven't come across that. I'll look out for it.
>
> I was having a wakeful session early one morning recently and got to
> pondering on the subject of cats. I was thinking that with my current 2
> being only 11½ and nearly 5 and me being newly 79, it was highly
> unlikely that I would ever have another. However, I started wondering
> what I would call her (it would be female) if I did have another.
>
> The 3 most recent were/are named Ludo(1), Sorry(2) and Pardon. I
> decided that if ever there was a next one, it would have to be Miss Otis
> Regrets.
>
> (1) Not after the game, but in honour of Ludovic Kennedy.
> (2) After the game.
>

And 3 after the Rose Garden?

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On 11/02/2024 12:21, Rosie Mitchell wrote:
> having a cat named after a nondescript Merkin biscuit and when it turned
> out that, gentle as he is, he really hates being picked up and resists
> with a hell of a kick, he became Pepper.

Hopefully he doesn't spray as well...

BrritSki <rtilburyTAKEOUT@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2024 12:21, Rosie Mitchell wrote:
>> having a cat named after a nondescript Merkin biscuit and when it turned
>> out that, gentle as he is, he really hates being picked up and resists
>> with a hell of a kick, he became Pepper.
>
> Hopefully he doesn't spray as well...
>

‘Ere, ‘ave these two bricks…

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

On 11/02/2024 13:51, BrritSki wrote:
> On 11/02/2024 12:21, Rosie Mitchell wrote:
>> having a cat named after a nondescript Merkin biscuit and when it
>> turned out that, gentle as he is, he really hates being picked up and
>> resists with a hell of a kick, he became Pepper.
>
> Hopefully he doesn't spray as well...

Not since he was done. His sprays brought tears to my eyes.

Rosie

Rosie Mitchell <walneyrose@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2024 13:51, BrritSki wrote:
>> On 11/02/2024 12:21, Rosie Mitchell wrote:
>>> having a cat named after a nondescript Merkin biscuit and when it
>>> turned out that, gentle as he is, he really hates being picked up and
>>> resists with a hell of a kick, he became Pepper.
>>
>> Hopefully he doesn't spray as well...
>
> Not since he was done. His sprays brought tears to my eyes.
>
> Rosie
>
>

Was the spray from his Aerosol?

--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan

In message <uqae3l$uv9b$2@dont-email.me> at Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:21:08,
Rosie Mitchell <walneyrose@gmail.com> writes
[]
>Well, Tosca, a cat of immense character and cattitude

> whom I loved dearly but never really liked

That line shows a true cat person. (I think I may have had humans in my
life I could say that about, too.)
[]
(Rest of lovely story snipped.)
>
>It's alarming that they are now 13 and 10, reaching the stage where
>every extra year is a bonus. But, fingers and paws crossed, they both
>have a good few years of mischief in them yet.

I hope so too for you. (And them.)
>
>Rosie
>
>
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

The average age of a single mum in this country is 37
- Jane Rackham, RT 2016/5/28-6/3

In message <uqakau$10avk$1@dont-email.me> at Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:07:26,
Mike McMillan <toodle.pip1@virginmedia.com> writes
>Rosie Mitchell <walneyrose@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/02/2024 13:51, BrritSki wrote:
>>> On 11/02/2024 12:21, Rosie Mitchell wrote:
>>>> having a cat named after a nondescript Merkin biscuit and when it
>>>> turned out that, gentle as he is, he really hates being picked up and
>>>> resists with a hell of a kick, he became Pepper.
>>>
>>> Hopefully he doesn't spray as well...
>>
>> Not since he was done. His sprays brought tears to my eyes.
>>
>> Rosie
>>
>>
>
>Was the spray from his Aerosol?
>
https://twitter.com/JamesAHogg2/status/1623411555101560839
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A true-born Englishman does not know any language. He does not speak English
too well either but, at least, he is not proud of this. He is, however,
immensely proud of not knowing any foreign languages. (George Mikes, "How to
be Inimitable" [1960].)

J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
>

Jpeg J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985
MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
A true-born Englishman does not know
any language. He does not speak English
too well either but, at least, he is not proud of this. He is, however,
immensely proud of not knowing any foreign languages. (George Mikes, "How
to
be Inimitable" [1960].)

Everyone knows that a true Englishman can be heard and understood by
everyone else in the whole world - as long as he SPEAKS LOUD ENOUGH!
--
Toodle Pip, Mike McMillan