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Thanks for that information Vera, I hadn't realized cows milk could cause digestive problems for cats. I will now need to rethink of ways to keep the neighbourhood
cats well and my garage mice free too.

Vera I bash my peanuts up with the steak tenderiser thingy lol and then mix them in with the suet pellets in the window feeder.
I do have a one of those wire ball things for peanuts.Must look it out.But I find that it is the Squirrels that empty it rather than the birds.

Yes they do say these days not to give cats 'normal' milk.I get the cat milk for Thomas but just give him a tiny bit each day. But saying that all our cats had milk and they lived to a ripe old age.Our old Peter used to get the cream off the Gold Top every Saturday plus silver top milk every day .
Kandj,how many cats visit you?

Hi all visiting Daughter's apartment so on the intenet, can't work out though why I had to log in to Genes. Just been to Hawkeshead and bought two fleece tops and a fleece gillet, also some Christmas presents, we left OH home working so we are out with our money alone!!

Lucas has still not returned home so goodness knows where he is, meanwhile Luna is top cat and enjoying it.

Not sure when I will be on next.

Oh dear Ann.I hope Lucas is safe somewhere.Has your DIL contacted the people where she has moved from just in case he tries to find his way back to his old home?

So empty purses then today after a good spending spree :-D :-D

Hope that Lucas finds his way to your daughter before too long Ann. New fleeces sound a good choice with the wet/windy weather and a drop in the temperature now.

Jane we have 3 regular cats coming into our garden. After Vera's advice I am thinking twice before putting cows milk down for them now.
We have a pet shop in the village and I will need to pop in and see what cat treats are available....... all very new to me I might add.

Yes Jane she has let her friend know who cleans the apartments. She has put notes through doors in this road, bills in two shops and contacted all vets and RSPCA. It is freezing here today and although it was sunny earlier it is now chucking it down and gone dark. Still BT have been and we are back on line so far.. :-) :-)

Well, we have heard via an ex genes member on face book, who has heard via another facebook friend that somebody has found Lucas. However so far that is all we know, we have passed on daughters phone number, that was this morning, and have not heard any more. So fingers crossed hopefully she will soon hear more. Unfortunately nobody has said if he is alive :-S

I hope that Lucas can be re-united back with your daughter and her other cat Ann.
Try not to think that he has been harmed in any way, that would be too awful after all that your daughter has been through this past year.

Yes, it is frustrating that we have not heard any more so we just have to hope.

Fingers crossed Ann that Lucas will show up alive and well at your daughter's home.

We have had quite a lot of seagulls here today. I think that is a sign of bad weather?

Very dsgruntled birda round this morning, a frost and empty feeders so T was out there before breakfast filling the feeders.

Lucas is still AWOL little monster!! She did have her hopes raised as somebody called her to say there was a black cat roaming around. She went to see it but it wasn’t Lucas.

We are back home again now in a warm house. One load of washing done, another to do tomorrow. We had a long journey home yesterday, the traffic was horrendous, goodness knows where everyone was going to or from, then a caravan overturned between junctions 19 and 18 on the M6 south there was a huge tail back so, as the traffic stopped at J19 and we had just got there we detoured across country and rejoined at J 17, took a while but we stopped for coffee before rejoining the motorway. I think the journey took us 30 minutes longer than normal. Luckily it was dry and sunny. it is very strange but there always seem to be hold ups between junctions 17 and 19. And often accidents on that stretch as well.

I now have to get my brain engaged and get on with Christmas which has sort of been put on the back burner while we were up there. I have more or less bought all my presents and almost finished my cards, just have to write them now, the address labels are printed off and waiting. On 5th December we are going to Hampshire for one night, staying in a B&B and seeing my sister with her presents on the Saturday then going to see Luke on the Sunday before driving home. Luke is a big boy now and chattering away, he is looking forward to having a baby brother in February.

So the wrapping of presents will have to start this week. And next week is probably when the new bathroom will be started, not looking forward to that. :-) :-)

Just me here then all busy Christmas shopping I guess. I actually got around to emptying out the medicine etc cabinet today and now have a baf full of out of date stuff for the chemist.nand goodness knows why I have four boxes of elastoplasts!

Not many birds today. We did have a robin and a blackbird in the apple tree and a few Great tits but not much else.

Amazing what you accumulate isn't it?

I did see a robin yesterday but it seems to be mostly collared doves the moment.

I just seemed to have duplicates of everything with some 4/5 years out of date so not used. I think I shall drop the bag in the chemist and hide my face.

And I missed them again, just got in from shopping for food, OH was in the conservatory and saw a flock of long tailed tits on the coconut but couldn't call me because of disturbing them, so I missed them! Just one starling on the coconut when I looked :-D

Not seen Jane on here for almost a week, hope she is OK, or maybe I missed that she was going away??

Had a funny sort of day really. Had to go to tesco earlier than usual as the boiler man cometh at 12. So we decided to have breakfast there. got there to find cafe closed for refurbishment, so no breakfast, no coffee even :-( got the shopping, no problems.

got home, boiler serviced, no problems there either.
Then decided to do a few jobs at local shops, collect prescriptions, post a packet, take stuff to charity shop, had trouble parking as a truck was delivering to McColls, then someone moved and that was ok.

Drove across Gloucester, down horrid road we usually avoid to choose tiles for the new bathroom which is being started on Monday next. Found and ordered tiles, no problem there. Back to another branch of Tescos through more horrendous traffic, it now being wet and dark and still only 2pm, not had lunch so ordered soup, bread came, ordinary sliced,butter all sloppy, managed to spread it, soup came, cold, sent back, came back too hot, really mouth burning hot (daren't complain again). soup was actually not bad (tomato and basil). Afterwards to my favourite place :-S B&Q (Wednesday 10% day for over 60s), for bathroom cabinets (we need two), Soap holder, toilet roll holder, shower racks, toilet brush and holder, expanding shaving mirror. Success, we found everything we wanted and a few bits more. go to the till to be told the 10% is not given on bathroom accessories. so we left the trolley and walked out. Next I tried Home sense for bathroom things and OH tried Topi (?) for flooring for the bathroom, both without success. so we drove home and by now it is really dark (4.30) and the roads are congested with school traffic. :-(

Oh well tomorrow is another day and this time OH will remember to take with him the vouchers he has for B&Q which don't have restrictions on them. :-)

I'm here :-D..I have had my Sister staying with me for a few days so haven't really had chance to get on the computer.We had a lovely time just having good old chats and laughs and doing a bit od retail therapy :-D

it was Wacky Races in the lounge just now.That cat caught a mouse in the garage when I went in to get him a pouch of cat food.He then brought it through and dropped it.Thankfully he caught it again and I managed to get him out the back door with it.
So that was his supper :-S :-S..Peace reigns once more :-D :-D

I do hope Lucas is managing to catch his supper.
Pleased that you are ok Jane, nice to have quality time with your sister (big sister? Little sister?

I had missed you too Jane so am glad you are OK and have been having a good time with your sister.

After a few grotty days I am looking forward to the weekend when my son and his partner are coming, just for a day and a night. Don't see a lot of them so every visit is a bonus, though he won't have his girls with him this time.

Just as it was getting dark I looked out of the window to see 8 collared doves apparently settling down for the night on top of the garden table. Not sure what they were doing there but they did look funny.

Hello all

Ann is your Avatar a photo of Lucas? Has he turned up at your daughters yet?
Edit..Ooops, sorry I just spotted the cat is Luna (hope Lucas comes back soon).

Vera you will be counting down the days before your son and partner come to visit.

Jane, have you got jaw-ache with all the girly chattering with your Sister?

Nothing of much interest here only the usual birds eating everything in sight.
I bought some cat milk to put in the dish for the neighbours cat. At 98p a carton I need to visit the village pet shop and check out something cheaper to entice them and keep our garage mice free. Perhaps Jane would lend me Thomas???