Cat chat thread the umpteenth - the Café is open all welcome

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Ollie has to ensure that Paws respects his elders.

I wonder what breed the brown cat was? It’s not a common colour in domestic short hairs.

@Fluffycloudland77 it was a sort of chocolate colour.. like this

I think bsh, havannas come in that colour.

There’s a beautiful grey bsh on our road, asbo tried to beat it up but we were like noooo he’s got a pretty face & he got away.

I have 2 tabbies, Chester and Maggie.

Maggie brought a juicy mouse in today but left the guts behind the kitchen door.

Chester hid under our car while a black cat lounged on the driveway. Zero attempts at showing any sort of authority. He is very soft and avoids confrontation.

I'll try and get a pic if I see it again. Wasn't BSH.. more lean looking. Not fluffy. Just looked well, cat like but brown

He’s just hospitable @NatMoz.

Oh blimey! Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the Idiot Sisters and Wossername!!!

Anyone been for a mooch round any shops yet? 😁

I went to Dunelm - for an interview. Seemed to go ok but not heard yet.
I got home to find an email from Lidl asking me for an interview there too, albeit by phone.
And I have one on Thursday for a receptionist job.
I guess interviews are like buses - none come along for ages and the three arrive together.

Belated Happy Birthday to Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday and your daughter, Swampytiggaa

I love the photo of Paws and Ollie asking for chicken. It would be impossible to say no!

Oh Good Luck @Papergirl1968.

Thanks, Fluffy. I so need a job, mainly to keep the cats and dog in food.
Greedy Matt has broken open two packets of bread rolls and one angel cake, and partly eaten the contents, in the last two or three days.

Good luck @Papergirl1968 🤞

Good luck!

Papergirl1968 I was posting the same time as you last night and missed the news of your interviews. Good luck with all of them. Fingers crossed you get to choose the nicest/best paid. Hope Matt, Socks and the dogs have got their paws crossed too as I guess they won't be getting themselves a job to keep themselves in food, treats and toys!!!

Thanks, all.
Being able to choose a job would be lovely, but I'd be grateful to get any one of the three.
I had to go to a foodbank a couple of weeks ago, which was both humbling and humiliating.

I bet it was packed though wasn’t it? What an awful experience for you though.

I wonder when life gets easier? Is it soon?.

There were only a couple of other people there. We had to wait outside and someone brought a couple of carrier bags out for each of us. There was milk, orange juice, some bread rolls, some biscuits, a few tins, and a couple of large sandwich bags full of a white powder. I was thinking, christ, they've given us drugs! Had a sniff. Ah, ok, it's washing powder.
It was a strange experience. I'm lucky enough to have paid my mortgage off but once the dds had gone (adopted, lots of issues, which meant I was entitled to various allowances and benefits), I very quickly ran up debts of around £7,000. Not on luxuries, clothes, shoes etc, but necessities. And then of course started getting hammered by bank charges.
Universal credit is just not enough to pay for bills and food.

I bloody hope life gets easier soon, Fluffy!

Oh it’s easily done. We had food parcels delivered for dh due to covid and online shopping priority access. They left them on door step.

Bank charges are evil. They really ought to cap them. If someone’s overdrawn they can’t afford charges too.

Better luck and job prospects to all on the Litter Tray.

@Papergirl1968 few apps if you don't have them already
Shopmium - some free food offers for various supermarkets
Quidco - don't buy anything without checking on there first! I got £75 cash back for car insurance and use it all the time as it adds up
Olio - food sharing app
Too good to go - reduced food
Lidl plus - if you shop there, offers, vouchers etc

I'm a bit of a bargain hunter! Also use loyalty cards like boots, Morrisons, sainsburys etc anywhere you can

Limpy is back.. and shouting outside

I use those apps. I’ve started using my ereward survey points for groceries in sainsburys.

My internets down and I’m down to 20% of my data with a royal funeral to watch. Bugger. First time ever a switch has gone wrong.

Thanks, *Queen." I hadn't heard of some of those.
Today's interview went moderately well. I had a call later to say it was very close and asking me to go in on Monday to do a trial for a couple of hours.