Thread 27 Starmer: He's a very clever cat

[DuncinToffee]

A nod to the Chief Mouser

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Thanks for the new thread, usual flower tax from me.
Pic taken on a recent trip to Norway.

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Greetings from NYC. Everything is taxed .

He's still failing to grasp the distinction between my food and his food. It's all his food. Today he thinks he might be partial to macaroons.

I finally have a cat (visitor) to pay the tax

Tax paid!

I use a get a dress made from patterns like that every Christmas and birthday - I loved being a child in the 80’s.

Tax provided.
I tend to think this one is very clever, but being a cat she is exceedingly judgemental too. In the second photo she has clearly judged me and found me wanting.

I’ve got a blue Toast blouse with exactly that collar. I wonder if they used that pattern?

They will have used their own pattern blocks but any experienced pattern cutter will know how to draught a collar like that. There's tutorials on t'internet for those of us who aren't experienced pattern cutters 😂

My aunt says the same about the local deer and she lives in Surrey!

Morning all. Found you! Thanks for the new thread @DuncinToffee . Here's a very hot Rory for tax.

We went for a late walk yesterday and driving up to the car park there was a family of deer crossing the path very leisury but neither of us thought to take a picture.

Many years ago, there was a local story about a baby deer that got it's head stuck in the railings of a local primary school. The fire brigade freed it, at which point it bounded off to never feature in news again.

The fact this happened in Birmingham, didn't seem to be a thing at all.

Eventually I learned that - thanks to the canals - there are fucktonnes of wild animals that can sneak into and out of the city. Deer being one of them.

We live near a large park, and deer have been seen there.

That said, you don't really get more wild than people snapping foxes carrying away a snake in Moseley. And we had a red kite that liked landing on our shed for a while.

We live near an old quarry turned into a nature reserve and a railway, plenty of wild life.

Recently a kite started flying around, love watching him/her

Sunday 21st April 2019, minding my own business washing up, a goose walked past the window, on the pavement.

I know the date because - intrigued (to say the least) - I videoed it sauntering down the close. I went out because I was concerned it might be hurt or distressed. Not a bit of it. It just carried on walking ... I suspect if it could talk it would have said "... yes, I'm walking. Now piss off ..."

I think it would give the fox(es) I've seen parading up and down the close a run for their money.

I hear tell the geese that live by the canal in the city centre have an attitude.

We get badgers in our garden. I kept telling DH off for leaving the lid off the metal bin we keep wild bird food in. Turned out it wasn't him. Badgers were opening the shed door, tipping off the lid and tucking in.

Geese can be right arseholes. They're up there with magpies.

We have deer in one of nature reserves close to me but I've never seen one. Probably because I usually visit with DS2 who couldn't creep up on anyone or anything if he tried. They got bold during the pandemic and started to venture out onto the main roads.

My mum and dad lived next to a small canal (singel in Dutch) and the swans were menaces, especially when they had young. They actually attacked people front doors.

Time to pay cat tax.

We had a duck and ducklings in our garden two days running last summer, one lot got stuck in a drain up the road when they left and the neighbours had to rescue them. We have a pond just down the road but there haven’t been any at all this year.

Geese are indeed arseholes. A friend of mine had a guard goose. When you arrived you had to honk your horn and wait to be escorted into the house or the areshole goose would attack you. I was terrified of the little bastard.

Geese have a longstanding arse reputation; the Greeks and Romans used them to guard houses. They make a very loud noise if displeased

I think I might be a goose.

If you can set that to music, then chart fame surely awaits.