Forbidden Fruit. Delayed Gratification. Call it what you like, it cannie be bate!
When I’m not oot&aboot, prowling, yowling, meowling and other related activities, I like to keep a weather eye on the status of Lobby Door (not to be confused with Lobby Dosser) because it might, just might, find itself inadvertantly left ajar (when is a door not a door?…) thereby leaving free access to the Stairway.
One thing we cats do not lack is patience…internalise Lobby Door as a mousehole, I thought, imagine it as a small furry/feathered friend and a stalking opporchancity, I moused, sorry, mused, and your Time Will Come.
And it did…
…19:12 to be purrecise!
now look, I’m not asking for much, just open the door ever so slightly and…
…I purromise my paws is pure as the driven snø, honest to pudness.
is this a door I see before me, handle towards her hand?
ohyessohyessohyess…
whooooosh! didja see me move didja???
and you have to agree, this bed was made for me, MADE FOR ME!
Sorry, I didn’t mean to shout, but I’m that excited so I am. And where, might you ask, is Marmers in all this? Well, there are limits you know. His claws are very sharp and hooky and although this cover was in a sale, fpu is awfully fond of it, so it’s just me, moi, myself *happy sigh*
The blurry tail end speaks volumes!
On a technical note, I had to approve every phot individually lest my sensibilities should be offended. This is a bit laborious (spelling?). Is there a short-cut to approve all photies at one shot, so as to say?
I’m afraid I have no control over such things Barney. The WP site must have been having a Senior Moment🙂
Well done, KC!!!!The winner takes it all!!
Aaaaaah, an ABBA moment…
I have to say, I preferred the Zeppelin moment to the ABBA moment…
I purferr zeppplin moments to abba,but was whacked out after work to think of a suitable reply😀
So, patience makes purrfect!!!! I was reading this with baited breath as the photos came up a tad slowly, I, to be honest, was thinking that the last photo would be one of you, DINING on the bed. Ah well, maybe next time😆
Steady on taddoe, there are limits. Imagine meaty chunks in gravy all over the virginal wotsit. Blimey. My Liff wouldn’t be worth livin’.
Purriness is……
…a refulgent kitty called Mia…
….gloriously sprawled over staff’s bed. Leaving just a leetle bitty bit for Socks to curl on! Generous I am.
you are the epitome of watchfulness in that first photo, KC! I love it! I am also amused to see that your pu’s have the same headboard as Big Man and moi, and also somebody’s bedside table is pure groaning with books, much like my own….
As long as it’s not your headboard that’s groaning, landlady dear…purrhaps your twinkletree is though?🙂
Latest Ferryport Charity Shop treasure – ‘Objects of Desire’ by C J Emerson, a first novel and a real stoater in the blood, guts, severed bits, child abuse and psychological pressure stakes; also ‘the accidental’ by Ali Smith which is…interestin’…
Not recommended – Roisin Macauley, ‘the new Maeve Binchy’. I’m kind of of the opinion that one MB is one too many🙂Anyone else feels like sharin’ their bedside tables, groanin’ or other wise, feel free…
We all seem to have same gouts dans la vie. I had same headboard on my bed in Whitianga, have 4 books on the bedside table (various styles) Just now its “Oor Wullie and The Broons-the early years 1936-46; a biography on Anthony Kiedis, singer of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers; Born to be riled by Jeremy Clarkson and “les drailles oublies” by Christian Laborie.
P.S. KC. Wisnae thinking aboot meety chunks, more like wee meeces👿
Gravy and blood, doesn’t matter which, they’re both anathema to pu’s. They don’t understand the æsthetics.
Just heard electrician not coming due to wife’s diahorrea, had to google it for spellig in text to mpu, and found this useful mnemonic which I really need to share with a wider world…
brilliant!!😆
yes, but why would his wife’s diahorrea prevent the sparky from coming round?? I mean if it was his own bowels that was in a bit of turmoil, I could understand, but in my opinion, when you have the Dehli belly, you kind of prefer to be by yourself….it’s not like anybody else can really help… 😆
MC always said ‘a closed door is an anathema to a cat’. MC often added loud mewing and scatchig at the carpet to ensure the resistance of staff was worn down as soon as possible.
Well done KC for your purrsistence. Is this a permanent pass or just a fleeting privilege?
Though, a bit worried that staff should indicate a bias towards one quad-ped over another so blatently. I do hope Marmers gets a compesatory skritch at some stage.
Do excude the spellig – it’s obviously going to be one of those days!!
Spellig excised, MadLamb, I’ve seen worse…
Alas, muddy pawprints were clocked on bedroom windowsill this morning and I’m afraid fleeting privileges may be withdrawn as long as the (much-needed) rain purrsists.
Cunningly, the pu’s decided (fpu decided mostly) not to have carpets downstairs in CCC, so skritchy-skratching is limited to my skritch-pad and the furniture (you are sooo in trouble for admitting to that last bit, KC)
😆 😆
We went round to see some people hubby vaguely knows. You could tell they are cat people immediately by the threads hanging from their sofa!! 😀
reply to madlamb
I love these people even though I don’t know them
Dear taddoe all you have to do to ‘reply to’ is click on ‘reply’ but I specs you knew that really🙂
eh,nope–you know i’m a genious on ‘puters😀
Bedside stash at the moment s the QI book of advanced
banter and The Lucifer Code by Charles Brokaw. How did fpu enjoy the Claude Izner?
Eeeerm…like the curate’s egg she thought it good in parts, but in the end, couldn’t suspend disbelief, thank you Mia.
Ah well one cat’s smoked salmon is another’s cheap tripe. As for doorstops female staff found that to be the only use for her Dickens collection – though she did rather like the Pickwick Papers
I’ve got Dickens’ biography by the bed, but its 3 million pages long and so heavy I can’t prop it up for long, so although I’ve owned it 20 years, still on page 221.
Firelighters. Bedlegprop. Doorstop.
tableprops, shelfprop, any more props??😀
Prop forward…’big, strong, dependable and extremely mobile’. If anyone has a spare one lying around, fpu might be interested😆
Me too. 😆
It would take two strong men and a boy to support this book – mind you, that’s not a bad idea…
keep the boy,jeelie,just send me the men😀
Dear landlady, re the sparky’s di-hi-ho spousal situation: he had to stay home to look after the kids. I feel slightly unconvinced by this, but maybe it was really really bad. It better had been, we’ve been waiting months to get a new kitchen extractor fan put in and it turns out to have been languishing in his garage for …months…*gurrrr*
My god,in scotland they’re just as bad as over here
Yes…. well as excuses go, it is only slightly better than the one offered to a teacher acquaintance in an obviously forged letter proffered by a pupil.
“Dear Miss McGraw, Jimmy could not come to school yesterday, as he had a wee touch of cancer” 😆
🙄
I’m glad to note that you are all still alive in Scotland, I was beginning to wonder. Over here we are alive but a trifle hot. Have been reading “Righteous Victims” on behalf of Saga, who got it for a summer hols. read from her history teacher. It is good, hands out blame impartially to Zionists and Palestinians/Arabs alike but it is HEAVY GOING even for one who, so as to say, grew up with the post-56 history. So what can a wee slip of a lass of 18 do? Hand it over to Daddy with a command to prepare notes. So far it has taken me 10+ days. What one does for ones offspring. And this is as close as cheating as one can get without actually CROSSING THE LINE. In 10 days we start for St. Kilda!! And Callanais!!! Watch out, Soaplady, for unwashed Vikings and unruly pirates descending once again on Breasclete.
Make sure you stock up on your Velvet Antlers, Cap’n. Can’t have smelly pirates descending upon Soaplady’s breastplate😀