My Life In Flip-Flops - Part 2

  Last week of Feb, Spring feels like its right round the corner here. The photos illustrate life here pretty well.....a lot of feeding various groups of cats, a lot of eating out, a lot of very little! One of the sets of cats we feed , our BFG - Bin Feline Gang - are now in an almost picturesque setting (not the actual bins but the surroundings!) as all the yellow spring flowers are out. Its really funny when we get up there, the 2 gingers cats come literally gambolling through the flowers and in my head I can hear the theme music from Little House On the Prairie!! Da da da da, da da da... I wonder if the 2 ginges (to rhyme with hinges) are female, we could call them Laura and Mary. Oh, maybe not, I think Mary went blind, didn't she? And actually one lives in a TREE!!! An actual tree! That completely threw us to start with - standing in the road, hearing all this mewing coming from above our heads, and we are looking round like a pair of idiots, till we realise its a cat. In...

  How, HOW??? Tell me how your heart cannot melt when you go out at 11pm to close the shutters on a blustery February night and find this on your patio......I am hoping Tabs & Minxy are big enough hearted to not mind the FFF utilizing this piece of their apparatus too much. Look at those faces!!!! Oh, and below, this other picture?? Another morning flat out in the office. With my 2 trusted assistants.

  I have decided to rename our bed The Office. It sound so much better when I say, oh yes, I spend 9am -12 at least, everyday, in the office. Doing finances, checking the media, socializing with contacts, expanding my brain with exercises...rather than admitting I laze about in bed, doing the Wordle, checking FB & e-mails, sorting out our finances etc, and don't ever get up until noon!! And then, today I read THIS on the tinternet...I am in with the in-crowd!! I am practically a ticky-tacky ticker-tocker!!!....ahead of the crowd... " 'Just thought you guys should know that the Scottish have a word for laying around in bed after it's time to get up, and it's called hurkle durkling. 'I do be hurkling and I do be durkling and once I've hurkled my last durkle, I will get up. But, I'm a big fan of a hurkle durkle.' Other TikTok users followed in her footsteps and shared similar clips of them lounging around after their alarms went off. " A fe...

  Morning gang! Now, bear with me here, as I might accidentally offend with this, but believe me its not my intent! Its a foot note to the last bleating's, about my trip back to Blighty, or more precisely, the flight home, and my Jewish Gentleman..... he was in the opposite aisle seat to me, with a an empty seat in the middle of his row, and an Islamic/middle eastern-y looking/dressed (trying to tread carefully here!!) kind of guy in the window seat...this is where I might be accused of offence or making assumptions y'see, but anyway..... while my JG was doing the praying/fidgety thing, this other guy was looking a bit concerned too! But this is the interesting bit.....during the flight I noticed they exchanged a few words...then a few more, by the end of the flight they had turned toward each other, and were jabbering away, in friendly fashion ten to the dozen. And I just thought 'Gosh, that's a bit amazing' clearly from 2 sides of a very contentious fence yet w...

  Here I am back, and only 1 tooth down. The other 31 fighting fit and ready for more years of active chompsing! The whole thing went amazingly well, and if possible I now love my dentist (and Mrs Dentist) even more. Less than 5 minutes, and the anticipation was SO much worse than the actual event....not to say longer! Actual event, under 5 minutes, worrying about the event about 3 and a half weeks. I was still quivering like a pooping whippet throughout, mind you. The trip started well, ferry and pre arranged taxi to airport all tickety boo. Both ferry and airport had plenty of sockets for me to plug in my old school lap-top...that and simple text on my antique non-smart mobile is my only means of communication when travelling. I am about one stop short of actually carrying an office desk around with me, tied to my back. A sort of travelling admin tortoise. I snuk round the airport, watching the cleaners to see where they'd plug in their floor whizzers, so I could plug in me gad...