Thread 9 - TalkLair: “Russell's teapot goes on being round”

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 8).

The new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey; we have truly settled here. Outside, the garden is blooming with summer flowers - should bloody well be, what with all that rain. Inside, the hearth is glowing, pictures are up on the walls, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

It’s a ball-chucker that macman’s very manly arm is wielding there, not a hammer.

I did wonder about that @MavisMcMinty. I assumed an axe.

@Gonners I had a dream the other night that I was in Sydney. I’d walked there. It was deserted and full of naff old furniture, and very boring.

MavisMcMinty · Today 16:59

I learnt about them after reading a similar story, Sinner, maybe it was her?!?

Maybe, I did mention it in The Other Place.

I hope we’ll get some Badgercam footage at some point! I’m intrigued about the adventures of Badger.

Takes about 5 minutes to upload a photograph over our pitiful broadband, but next time I visit my Dad with his supersonic speeds I’ll see what I can do. Haven’t got much footage so far because of the harness problems, and although the camera was flopping backwards and forwards just now on our practise session, that’s probably because he was being so athletic and gymnastic catching balls, I’m pretty certain when he’s out on his own he maintains a steady, casual yet purposeful trot.

Very smart tech dog!

I quite liked Sydney, and the Blue Mountains are gorgeous. Less impressed by the Gold Coast, which was essentially a slightly swisher and much hotter Blackpool.

Badger does look like a dog with a mission. What that mission is, well, who knows? Badger, possibly?

But spaniels are the Best Dogs Evah! We met a handsome young Cocker today, being trained not to jump out of the back of the car without permission. We resisted his enthusiasm and reinforced the training by not making a fuss of him, though it was difficult. He seemed to understand that he shouldn't assault total strangers. He then met a cat and tried to play with it, despite it jumping on to a wall and hissing at him. He just loved everyone.

I know I’m biased because I practically gave birth to him myself* but Badger really is a very handsome fellow.

*I watched him being born.

If he manages to stay alive until next spring, I have a ladywife all set up for him. Part springer, part cocker, part border collie, looks more like a small collie than any of her other heritage, which I find is usually the way. Her owner was captivated by Badger’s good looks! Even when he was a puppy I was at the vet’s and a woman in there wanted to know if I’d ever stud him out! I thought at the time I’d be having him neutered, so regretfully declined, but feel now it would be a terrible waste of his excellent genes not to pass them on.

Part springer, part cocker, part border collie sounds like the perfect dog. 100% beauty + a border collie's brains.

That said, the last border collie I met was busily occupied attempting to herd a single, stationery tennis ball.

I’ve often heard that springer/collie crosses are the worst possible mix for wandering off, and the two most wandering off dogs I’ve ever known were springer/collie crosses…

One used to follow us home when we rode the horses past his farm a mile away, and to begin with we felt obliged to stick him in the car and take him back. Then one day our excellent cat The Mighty Bean happened to be in the barn when we got back and he danced sideways towards the dog, bristling like a bogbrush, then chased him down the road for a couple of hundred metres! So funny, and although the dog continued to follow us whenever we went past, he always turned around and went back on his own at a safe distance from the terrifying ferocious cat.

Sensible dog - clearly knew that cats are trouble. Although not usually quite as much trouble as this one: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4882295-to-break-into-my-new-neighbours-house-thread-2?postsby=Catsos

Heh, I’ve been engrossed with that thread!

It's brilliant!

There are many reasons I've never wanted to go to Australia and that fucking worm is now on the list.

Badger is just utterly adorable and very, very, very handsome. I didn't see Django being born but I did see him the day after and it was love at first sight. I didn't know I'd become his actual mother at the time but I'm so glad I did.

I thought the downstairs cats had gone and I think the son of the mother cat might have been rehomed but mum is definitely back as she chased Francis into the flat today. Yesterday she curled up by my front door and hissed at the cats and me. She has turned into a real bitch.

That thread was hilarious. I read the ‘toilet will act as a loudspeaker of sorts’ post at the time it was posted and fell about laughing. I then reread it and fell about laughing again. Oh gods, and the rope from a drone one. Poor cat.

Dear god, the crabsticks!

The thing that really made me laugh was the photo of her computer and all the tabs open on it. Someone said the whole saga was an elaborate hoax but I don’t care. Haven’t caught up with the thread yet, hope the new neighbours were OK about their catburglar.

My daughter has made a cake, for her pal's birthday tomorrow. It's Vicky sponge and she showed me a list of ingredients, so we went out to get them and I was curious as to what the typo "340g of sunflower oil" could be. She couldn't find the instructions, just the ingredients...

I've just realised that she forgot to put the cocoa powder in, I'll try not to mention that.... They are currently cooling, she'll decorate it tomorrow, there's pre-made fondant icing and that let to a small row about how we DON'T NEED TO GO AND BUY ICING SUGAR.

Anyway, I'll have to go out for more butter tomorrow, for the buttercream flowers, half of which will be red, half black. My wrist aches from whipping cream.

Good for your daughter, SinnerBoy, I hope the cake is a great success.

340g sounds as though it might be a quantity of something like jam -admittedly rather a lot of jam! - or butter (ditto). But if the cake has come out all right, it's probably just an aberration in the recipe. I have an otherwise excellent cookbook which appears not to have been proofread or tested. So you'll get all the ingredients together and half way through the recipe it says "now add the tomatoes" and you think "What bloody tomatoes?" I dare say somewhere else in the book there's a recipe where you end up with unused tomatoes.

I'm intrigued by the 340g of sunflower oil!

Is it instead of butter? If so, that would be about right for a 7-egg size cake I think.