A Very Great Quantity Of Excellent Cats

[TheShellBeach]

New thread.
Continuing the adventures of all our cats, the well-behaved and the less well-behaved.

Damn. You're right 😂

Shady is NOT happy, we both just heard the weirdest noise and are now freaking out together
He won't take his eyes off the window

Did no-one notice my little joke in the first line of my post at 19.38 yesterday?

Yes, I did spot that at the time.
I immediately thought 'Here, here' 🤣.

No jokes about colons and semicolons please.

Oh I don't know it sounds like a good idea to me 😁

Actually, as someone who has mental health issues and a husband who's going to lose part of his colon, maybe I really should go for that small semicolon tattoo 😂

I'm another one fussy about spelling & grammar, also very careful phrasing to ensure there can be no mis-interpretation. And abberant apostrophes - I hate blatently obvious "Grocer's" apostrophe use

But then again the stories my mother used to read to us in bed weren't the typical children's tales, more Greek, Roman, Celtic & Norse mythology or maybe a bit of Jane Austen or the Chronicles of Narnia. I'm the comparatively sloppy one in my family for grammar etc, both my siblings can write awesome prose.

And we all either have, or have had, cats 😎

Allergic, there was a bit of aberrant spelling in your last post.

We were given a group tour of DS2's secondary school by the headmaster. At one point he used the word 'less' when he should have used 'fewer'. I couldn't help myself so I corrected him 😮.
I also at one parents' evening 'marked' the teachers' comments in DS2's report using red ink, I really didn't think that my son's report should have had a series of basic spelling and grammatical errors, including those from the English teacher. (She did at least apologise).
Yes - I can be a bit of an arse 🤣.

If some arse from a company has annoyed me (it doesn't take much) I correct their emails when I send my reply.
Looking at you, Femiola of Octopus Energy.

Ooh, and yesterday, some women from Openreach rang me to try to persuade me that her company would charge me less than BT.
She made the fatal mistake of saying, "Would that be of interest to yourself?" so I gave her a brief lesson in the correct use of "you" and "yourself" before slamming the phone down.

A mystical tattoo of Leroy’s arse, Yes? Is that really a good idea <wanders off grumbling and eye rolling in mummy way>

Grumpy

A friend of mine bought something from a much younger acquaintance. This involved giving her a receipt. My friend, a retired building tradesman, drafted this and presented it to her. The spelling was correct, because he can spell

"That's not how you spell 'receipt'" said the acquaintance. An argument ensued - I'm sure this would have included my friend saying "i befor e, except after c" -and eventually the truth of the matter was discovered (they may even have looked it up in a dictionary).

The acquaintance was horrified at her mistake. In the past, she had taught English in schools for several years, and had been teaching the wrong spelling all the while.

"i before e, except after c"?

My weird, feisty neighbour would disagree. So would I when I have a seizure. 😁

@Supersimkin2 I do love this one, but I'd have to get some colour in to it.

Very dear. <sniff> You could do some lovely stuff with sumi-e, those bleeding blot black ink tattoos like Japanese watercolour.

I’ll just have MUG across my forehead to proudly proclaim public membership of the cat lovers’ club.

You should never ask your concierge about the 'i before e' rule.

Mais "concierge", c'est un mot francais, n'est-ce pas, Grumpy.

Back to cats........

NMC Picard has popped in to see Linney and they are enjoying a rare moment of cat nip on the carpet together.

Linney and Picard, wishing it would stop raining so that they could go out and annoy the local wildlife.

The cat in the picture, between Linney and Picard, is Cheilidh.

She was the cat who sent the email. She was an amazing cat who was always bringing us strays to feed.
She was the Queen of the Alley.

Cheilidh in the alley

Ah Shell, she was beautiful!

I DID say I'm the sloppy one in my family..... 😆

And Grumpy yes! Possibly my greatest hate is "less" instead of "Fewer", so common these days. As is use of "me" where "I" is correct, e.g. "Soandso and me went out..."

Argh! The ‘me’ incorrect use gives me the screaming rage

Now you lot are just channelling my dad...

Bit odd seeing as he's not dead 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

My dad always used to stop us if we said something like "This man said..." He'd ask us what man we were talking about, which would result in my sister and me rolling our eyes but correcting our speech. Now he's a lot older, he often will tell me about something, using phrases like "this man" or "this pub". Aaahhh the sweet sweet taste of revenge. With wide eyed innocence, it is now me who gets to say "but what man? How can it be this man when you haven't yet introduced him".

I thought I would open some skittles

Paws wasn't even in the house before I opened them and he appeared from nowhere