Cousin Matthew Returns with the Robbing Butcher

[TheMustressMhor]

A thread intended for menus, cats and idle chit-chat.

My household has cats and dragons, all rescues or long-term fosters. The cats are quite interested in the little dragons but very wary of the big ones, as they should be! They're mainly kept apart, except when the dragons have their morning bath and the cats line up to stare - they run when the dragons start lashing their tails though. Friends have tarantulas, fascinating creatures, I enjoy seeing them, I love how they move, and how they shed, but I'm allergic to their hair which irritates me more than usual.

Goldie I'm sure any cat could get used to a service dog, which can be trained to an astonishing degree simply because they enjoy the work.
I saw an animal heroes awards programme which featured a woman with severe narcolepsy, so bad she couldn't leave the house because she never knew when it would overcome her. Then she got a service dog who is incredible, he senses when an episode's coming on and warns her in time so she can lie down somewhere safe, then he stands over he and guards her until she wakes again. Quite remarkable, and he does it all for love. And there are also dogs who can sniff out cancer! Man's best friend indeed, even if some humans treat them appallingly.

And to bring it back on topic again, all my cats love custard!

Morning everyone.

The reason teenagers are worse than toddlers is because they are a good deal bigger, so you can't stick them in their cots, shut the door and put your fingers in your ears till they stop screaming.

They are also teenagers for a lot longer than they are toddlers.

Girls actually start to become teenagers at around the age of eight.

They do not stop until they are twenty two.

Boy teenagers start at age eleven and stop at about twenty.

All teenagers disagree with everything you say, on principle.

They also get drunk (often on your booze), risk pregnancy, take drugs (maybe only once but still...) and cost a fucking fortune.

They are never full.

And their friends are also never full. And their friends spend their entire lives at your house. Every single one of them.

Duh. Give me a toddler for a bit of peace.

The Mhor DC are all old enough now to be utterly charming, thank heavens.

Hey goldierocks - sorry you had a seizure yesterday. That must be difficult to live with.

Going to go against the grain here - I found the toddler stage a nightmare, esp with DD1 who JUST WANTED TO BE A GROWN UP and shouted and stropped a lot until she started to become one.

Teen years were easy peasy for us, the odd bit of door slamming and just knowing that everything we said/did/thought was wrong but apart from that, they were great and had lovely friends.

Feel I may not thrive today as the weather has gone grey and cold and windy and I've got boring accounts type stuff to do.

< shudders at the picture Mustress painted of teenagers, holding on to Yolo’s glimmer of hope>

Morning everyone. So grey outside. And I desperately need to deep clean everywhere. And do laundry. I am not thriving either

Hello, mind if I join? I was on some of “those” threads (I’ve had a name tweak but obvious who I was!)

I have a puppy, not a cat.
I have a teen, not a toddler.
I love custard.
I am not thriving, but I’m striving to be thriving.

Dragon dogs are amazing indeed!

Dandy I like your posting style and informative links.
Photo of puppy when you get a minute, please.

The links were informative indeed

To save myself typing this over and over again - dear posters, if you have pets, do show them to us, and share amusing anecdotes.

Thank you 7Worfs that’s lovely of you to say

Glad you both found the links informative (do you like my ‘royal’ grin? I feel we missed a Christmas-time truck on t’other threads )

I’m trying to upload a photo of the pup but MN it’s uploading rotated 90 degrees to the side for some reason! Maybe it’s an evil cat in the system trolling dog photos ...

Trick not trick ffs. I wouldn’t mind a Christmas-time truck though, as long as it was loaded with cheese.

Oh FFS trick not truck

Finally got it working. Turns out it’s an anomaly - I had to google for a hack!

Hope you enjoy.

He’s adorable - I really want a family pup, but maybe in a few years...

Thank you. It’s a she, she is gorgeous but in the teenage phrase and it is hard work. She gives the best cuddles though, if I lie on the sofa she comes and rests her soft head on my shoulder

Maybe it’s an evil cat in the system trolling dog photos

That'll be one of ours.

And welcome to Dandy.

What are you having for dinner in the Dandy household tonight?

I have solved the fried egg problem, by the way. The problem where DH was incapable of frying me a nice soft egg.

Anyway - what I did was this - I went to sleep last night thinking really hard about fried eggs with dippy yolk.

And when I got up I cooked one for myself, with a slice of toast.

I also reprimanded DH for ruining yet another non-stick pan with a Brillo pad. (This may be more annoying than the fried egg thing actually).

Mr. Mhor watched me eat my dippy egg as he ate his porridge.

I firmly believe that he understood, subliminally, how I have felt over the last twenty years, when he has cooked me an egg in a sub-standard way.

Well. I hope so.

We shall find out at the weekend. On Friday I shall visit the emporium of the Robbing Butcher and purchase his ruinously expensive square sausage and Stornoway black pudding.

Then Mr. Mhor can do his thing with the breakfast over the weekend.

I am convinced that he will have understood the fried egg thing by then.

But am I deluding myself?

Evil cat in the system trolling dog photos

And I agree with yolofish about teenagers having lovely friends.

All our teenagers had lovely friends.

They just ate prodigious quantities of food, made a good deal of mess and listened to terrible music all night long.

It was at the Mhor house that DS's friends congregated. Every single night. Even when DS wasn't in.

I still know most of them, all these years later. Lovely boys who became lovely men.

Love Evil Trolling Cat.
Thanks for the welcome Mhor
And funny you should ask about what I’m having for dinner tonight; MrDandy has just suggested we try out a tasting menu at a new restaurant fairly local to us. We will be accompanied by our teenager, as we promised we’d take her to dinner while her younger sibling is away. Hopefully teenager will be uniformly delightful, but I’m expecting to get at least three eye rolls and weary sighs simply for breathing.

On the toddler v teenager point: while your toddler may try on your shoes and make up, they hopefully don’t squirrel them away and leave the house secretly wearing your favourite shoes on their feet and your most expensive unopened moisturiser on their face.

But but but with teenagers and older you get to wear their cast offs! and they make you buy things you never would! I have a pair of silver trainers which I adore but would never have ever considered. DD1 made me buy them.

Yes to trying new things yolo that is true!

Ha!

Many years ago I bought a crème brulee kit. It consisted of a few small ramekins and a blow torch.

When I opened it for the first time, the blow torch wasn't there.

Since I'd bought it in a charity shop I wasn't too bothered. Just forgot about it, really.

Ten years later elder DD and elder DS mentioned in passing that they had appropriated it to light joints with.

Apparently it was regarded as "cool" and was much admired.

So it isn't just your clothes and make up that teenagers nick. Oh no.