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

[TheLongRider]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_litter_tray/4114520-cat-chat-thread-we-ve-lost-count

Which company?

This is the GP receptionist job.

When I lost my job I flogged everything not nailed down in flat except me and Mr C @Papergirl1968

Not missed any of it except a ring, incidentally. Ask the food bank if you can get any more help - the local Salvation Army should give you topups for fuel etc.

And talk to your GP too. A lot of them can refer you for any local charity services that you need an organisation to access.

UC is no good. The other problem one faces is that charities are only accepting people via places like the council or other charities so in one’s moments of misery and paralysis you h

Sorry.. you have to be prepared to spend 3 hours on the phone a day. It’s not helpful at the time but you will see results.

Well you’ll never go short of chocolate & Victoria biscuits in a GP surgery. You get given danish butter biscuits too but they are a waste of good ingredients.

A new tabby cat has appeared on our street, it was a bit of a shock to see it in our garden. Then it ran behind my reversing car & rolled over so it’s clearly tired of life.

Still no broadband so I’ve emailed two CEO’s, bought data, downloaded 4 e books onto the Kobo & had a little cry.

Must be a day for cats. Limpy appeared again wailing away this morning
Ollie retreated to my lap and refused to go out until "mean cat goes away an where is PAWS?"

So sorry it's been hard papergirl1968. I don't think even the best money manager in the world could get by on UC. Hope you get one of the jobs.

QueenPaw Funny that Limpy has appeared when Paws has not. Have you ever seen them together or are they Jeckyll and Hyde? I think Paws has a very sweet face but Limpy looks like a bit of a bruiser.

Thank you all for the great suggestions and understanding.
I passed my Lidl phone interview so progress to an in store interview on Tuesday.

Ooh staff discount.

Yay!!! Pawsome Pockets for Matt, fingers crossed for you.

Being skint is the pits. We’ve all been there, we’re all with you.

Oh good luck @Papergirl1968 everything crossed for you!

Good luck!
Tonight has brought another black and white cat who is not paws, or Limpy
My face at this point is

Get a roast dinner. You need it.

A pic of the self care package, complete with massive crispy Yorkshire, is required as proof you are being nice enough to yourself.

And me.

I actually had a roast dinner tonight, from Tesco ready meals section. I added a couple of croquette potatoes and another yorkshire pudding. It was lovely but not half enough - I could easily have eaten two!
Loving the parade of cats to Queen's door. Word has clearly got round.

Good luck @Papergirl1968

@QueenPaw are you collecting monochrome cats? You could arrange them artfully around your home.

Walter is being daft. He came bombing it in from the garden, ran round the back of the sofa, got tangled up in my phone charger wire, tripped over the rug and ran upstairs to yowl outside the baby's room. We met on the stairs and had whispered words 😂

Did you say“Fucking get it together Walter” 😹

I just heard Bertie scratch our kitchen door. Spooky af. Dh has had the same experience months ago.

I’m still without broadband.

When our Siamese cat died, years ago, I was devastated, but a few days later was in the bathroom putting my make up on, not even thinking of him or anything really at that particular moment, when I heard him meow. It was a meow in the house somewhere, not outside, and he had never been to that house as he stayed with my parents when I moved out. I like to think he came to let me know he was OK and to say goodbye.
My DF was the least woo person ever, but said he felt the cat jumping on the bed at night.
A few weeks after my dad died I was going in and out with buckets of water washing the car, again not thinking of him at that moment, when I smelt orange, like someone had just peeled one. Very intense for a minute or two then just faded away.

@Fluffycloudland77 close! 😂

That's very spooky, maybe he's checking in on you. I often think I've seen my Bertie. It's not helped by NMC being so similar to him.

Paws is here now staring at the fridge for "some of that tasty raw food you're hiding"
Ollie is claiming he knows nothing about black and white cats and it's all a big mystery

I've just come back from dragging my black and white cat out of a neighbour's garden where he was terrorising another cat in a hedge. I swooped in, told him off for swearing and marched him home like a sack of spuds under my arm.

He's now telling the other cats of his exploits and scoffing the rest of his dinner.

@TheLongRider send him over, he will fit right in with my collection of cats that don't belong to me

He's a prick, but he's my prick. He's getting on in years but he still thinks he's all that and a packet of chips.

There's nothing he likes better than a Netflix binge, he'll curl up on your knee for hours with a faintly snuffly purr. He bosses his more easy going best mate Mouse around the house, he hates girl cat and tolerates Nemo, he has an understanding with Hobbes. He's an arse but I love him.

Well you’ve ruined his street cred now.