Marmers and I, having newly arrived here from here Flying Cat are just paddy-pawing our way around this quite exciting new home. Of course, like our current temporal residence (as opposed to virtual) this may change as we – or I – git the hang of all this here themery, widgetry, gadgetry etc…
Or not as the case may be…
At purresent, we are living in a bosky grove above the sea in Robinson Crusoe country in the Kingdom of Fife. In the fullness of time we’ll be off once again to a more permanent residence in Ferryport.
The header’s a bit nostalgic, but once we’re purroperly settled in the Kingdom, I will order a change…
This morning, as the hooked claw of Fate creeps towards the vole tunnel of Destiny, all we really really wants is OUR BREFUSS!!
So, if the ammanuensis known as female parental unit would git off her ever-spreading and head kitchen-wards, I for one would be Quite Chuffed.
Time for a handful of crunchies donated by members of our fanclub, Mister Tws and Ms Eek.
You deserves your brefuss for this! Allow me to be the first to put fingers to keyboard and congratulate you. Do we now have to call you KC and not FC? You could be Fife Cat…
I quite like KC, although KFC also has a certain je ne sais quoi. Now I think I have to notify Uncle Les and become an ignominious Ex-Islandblogger.
I’ve had my brefuss thank you very much. With Treats…
I think I’ll call you XFC. KFC could be misconstrued, and you might start getting phone calls for takeaways. Are you going to put smiley things on your blog so I can roll my eyes? And tell Uncle Les you should have a big link to your new blog, preferably one with flashing lights 🙂
When I find out how to put in smiley things without this HTML malarkey I most certainly will. I haven’t actually got around to telling Uncle Les anything…too Knackered! KKFC…
So, you have moved on from being a Stromness pirate a royal sidekick. Kingdom Cat indeed. Maybe I misunderstood the term: but surely you don’t hang around in the Jehovah’s Witness Kingdom Hall? # More packing and unpacking in the future. Should keep the PUs out of trouble. # All the best.
Hiss! Spit! Perish the thought! For this Kingdom is mine, although nothing is for ever…
Purrlease don’t mention packing&unpacking. It causes unnecessary distress in some quarters…not mine of course. All I do is sit around in the Sunroom of Transience looking handsome. QED.
Colour me impressed – I was expecting another technical support call to be required to get this up and running. The neurons in FPUs noggin must be having a good day. 🙂
Four and a half hours later and we’re now trying to embed Flickr and failing miserably. Not giving in just yet…
Techie Help did help, we were just a bit delayed by a certain dead email address which now has new lff.
Hi
tis looking good
Looking forward to many a tale and many an adventure from you and the pu’s but all felines need their brefuss first 🙂
Ooooh get you with your technical support chat.. imbedding things…tell me KFC, what HTML stands for? Hmmmnnn?
Actually I’m not at all sure about KFc as a name, I agree with Jill, it could lead to some horrible misunderstandings with a deep fat fryer. You know it’s freshly delivered meat every day. You and Marmers might find yourself gently covered in flour and.. well. You see where I’m going with this, non?
Southern Fried Pussy? I see what you mean ladyland😀It would be a nasty end!
I know what the L stands for…as for the rest HAFC!
Glad to see you’re blogging again, marvellous, it gave me paws for thought…
Good to see you on the web – the themes and widgets will come in time. Don’tbe afraid to try a few out.
I like KFC but always will be FC in our house. It could be adapted to mean FifieCat.
Boris and Spock send furry hugs to you and Marmers while incarerated. Hope the new hoose will be up to your standards and fpu will have a new spring in her step for providing adequate brefuss on order.
YYYEEEESSSS–i come off duty at 21h30 knackerd and what do I find???an email from fpu telling me you are up and running:At last.i’m off to beddie byes write 2morrow
mmeeeepppsss
Thank you barebraes, MadLamb, Jeelie, taddoe. I’ve been playing with my widgets…there are those out there who might not believe this possible and I’m here to purrove them wrong😆
FifieCat might be misconstrued…we are sailing, we are sailing, home again across the sea…which brings us back to flying again.
Its been a tiring day one way and another. Mpu has now got his New Voice, courtesy of a nice vampire. Fpu thinks he sounds quite sexy. Whatever that is…
A MEMBER OF YOUR FAN CLUB? ME? NEVER!!!
It was just a small gesture on my part, nothing else. I may have been feeling a bit guilty for passing through The Kingdom, without paying my respects to the new KingPuss ( any relation to BagPuss?) that was all. I did NOT and will NEVER EVER join a Pussy Fan Club. Cheery Tws…
PS Just read that back, and would like to say that if there was a different kind of Pussy Fan Club… no, no, no, better not go there…
Me’n’Marmers are pure devastatit. Not only did the Mighty Tws not pop by to gie’s a wee clap, he denies being a member of our Fanclub.😥
New Voice? Explain, please, kitty…
A nice man burrowed into his neck with a Black&Decker under local anaesthetic and turned his throaty purr (think whispering Bob whatsisname only less so) back into a light baritone. I’m being charitable here…sometimes he gets miss-taken for the Lady of the house. But only vocally😆
I thought that was MPU’s normal voice when i spoke to him(oops)
How shocking–TWS is NOT a mamber or fc’s fanclub????could have fooled me
The counter tenor is a perennially popular mode, tell the MPU an etirely new career may open up for him. ‘Oh For The Weengs Of A Dove’… May I also today pay tribute to John Ryan, and Capn Pugwash, and RIP to the crew and especially the cabin boy.
Hear Hear Jeelie!
What our own lovely Cap’n Pugwash is going to do now that his Creator has gone to the Big Hammock in the Sky I just do not know…will he just fade away never to be (virtually) seen again?😯
Hurrah! for your new blog, and long may it entertain with stories of the weird and wonderful (and possibly also warped) in your new domain. Also many cheers for MPU’s new voice; we are looking forward to hearing it in purrson. Didn’t know vampires with power tools could do so much for the public good. 😀
I think Vampires With Power Tools might be in for a Business Start-up Name of The Year Award, its got a real ring to it.
Good to see you back blogging. Don’t think KFC suits though. Fried legs and breasts
are no good for the waist. hope mpu has only a female Voice. Where has mjc been lately.
RIP FC, Long Live KC! I’m purr-fectly delighted to see your new realm. Anyone for cream?
Harry darling, fpu would like you to know she has no intention of frying either of the aforementioned extremities!😆
Oh don’t worry about mpu…its only his voice!
I think mjc has lost interest and is only being polite…I could be wrong of course…
My dear Mister Fourex, could you pussibly make it Devonshire clotted? Me’n’Marmers would really appurreciate it. Thank you😀
found you via Madlamb. *purr* Can I join you for the clotted cream?
Purrlease do!😀
oh good to see you again my furry pal….did you do that walk i told you of at Lower Largo…maybe your paws sink in the sand but?
How nice to see you morroletc🙂. I am far too light on my paws to sink into the sand, but don’t like the idea of sand between the claws …
The pu’s have walked to Elie and several times to Leven on the Coastal Path. Sometimes fpu takes her secateurs…
My mother in law got thrown out of the Glasgow Garden thingy-( you know the big exhibition) for taking her secateurs.. well, she got politely asked to leave. Hope same fate does not befall fpu, KC!! 😆
How is the settling in (not of any sand between the claw type) going?
Did you enjoy your crunchies?
Mind and have a look in local ASDA for the Feline Fayre 60% fish sachets. They are Woody’s favourite.
There’s an excuse to do some retail therapy then! Thanks for the tip mrlinlass. Mpu says we’re getting fussy…😐
Dear ladylandlady, much time and effort was expended in trying to keep secs. stuffed in jeans pocket when not in use on briars…
Found you via Taddoe. 🙂
I think KC purrfectly excellent, though …. if the C was construed as come, then I suppose you wouldn’t blog on a Sunday? Or [had an even more disastrous thought], you had joined J’sK. :O
Grand to see you have taken the big step out into the wide world of independence. 🙂
*purrs* Thank you for visiting me in my shiny new home. Les is going to deselect me or whatever it is on IB.
I don’t think it could be construed thusly Plaid…not under the circumstances…
KC–i suppose we could re-name your PU’s as the “sunshine band”???
👿
Anstruther and kippers – and I believe The Reaper is an example of a zulu?? Certainly rigged with a giant lugsail that must be exciting to handle. Any chance of a spin for Old Captain P come later in August?
thats the way—
-the money goes, Pop goes the weasel! Was that what you were meaning taddoe?😀
Dear OCP, only if they are doing trips when you’re here, but we could pop along to the Fisheries Museum if you like. Mpu doesn’t need an excuse!
I also found you in my Catlitter (one could say so much, but me’n’Marmers are so purrleased to see you again, we’ll refrain) and in reply:-we get the keys to Cookiecutter Cottage on 28/8 so will still be in Lower Lager when you (dis)grace these shores with your purresence. Will landladyland be available? Purrhaps one should rephrase…
No ;no need to rephrase on this site–freedom
😕
Hi Barney,
Reaper is a Fifie, one of the big ones. There is a smaller one, called White Wing , also at Anster. You can visit both of them but I think you have to be a member of the “Boats Club,” associated with the museum to actually sail on them. I will be making enquiries once we have actually moved into our new abode. I did get to sail on Isabella Fortuna a few years ago, she is also a fifie and now based in Wick. It was a fairly calm day and so more of a nice day out than a real sail. The Swan, based in Shetland is also a fifie but the Shetland men re-rigged the fifies which went to Shetland with a gaff mainsail to make them handier for use in Shetland waters. I was fortunate to have a trip on Swan from Kirkwall round to Stromness a few years ago. There is a zulu at Anster, “Research” an ex Shetland boat, but she is not in the water. She is partially dismantled and set up in a boatyard setting to demonstrate how the big fishing boats were built. The museum is well worth a visit, even if you don’t get to sail on Reaper or White Wing.
So there😀
very interesting HB😀
Aye, verra’ interestin’. Have replied by private line. Now aren’t you lot all agog as to what OCP said to the pus? (I get a bit of a jog using that expression, it being so close to something rather nasty).
Oh, darn, one is not able to correct one’s contribution! For “expression” read “term”.
For those not in the know, the fpu is a real stickler for correct English usage. But where is the link to that *splendiferous and utilitarian blog?
I could correct your contribution in my shiny behind-the-scenes editing suite, Cap’n P, but hey-ho the sun’s shining and I’m off out to purrowl, while mpu takes his rapidly crumbling molar back to the fang-farrier!
I purrfer the hyphenated version of pu’s thenk-yo!
If you mean *The Tongue Untied, then your wish is my command…
😕
There you are taddoe, does that answer your question? (Three ??? marks or it’ll come up like this again :question:)
😆
Hope the MPU’s molar has been restored to full gnashing strength. Remind him not to get pistachioed again too soon, or he’ll be back to square 1. Paddy’s stitches coming out tomorrow, managed to keep him from nibbling his nethers, but he’s still chewing on his back leg. I just wish I could reach mine with my teeth, or anything else…
There’s Paolo Nutini on Radcliffe & Maconie again, sounding like he’s left his teeth in a glass by the bed.
Not full gnashing strength just yet, more interim munching.
What exactly is the point of P Nutini???
Pnutini sounds like it could be good in a sandwich, but may cause Anna Phyllactic shock.
😡 I LIKE PAOLI NUTINI (well haven’t heard is new cd but the last one was soo
gggooooddddddddddd
More like a brefuss spread, I’d say. Urrrrrgh!
He’s a nice lad, but shings like Shir Shon these daysh.
Ish a youshful affectashun I’d shay. Blimey where’s me teesh?
But then, old folk icon John Martin always annoyed the hell out of me as he got older and and…more annoying👿Like Walter Gabriel on Valium…