Tinsel, Glitter and Baubles - the Excellent Cats prepare to knock Everything off your Christmas Tree

[TheShellBeach]

As we approach the festive season, they're already finessing their plans and recalling last year's successes............

What on earth has Vixen been drinking then? That picture is hilarious.

I have a 4 year old cat who likes to decimate ours.. now the kitten has joined in

Thanks, everyone. I’ve had lovely newborn snuggles this afternoon. Just about to leave to go home to my fur babies, who must think they’ve been abandoned.
Keep the lovely cat pics coming.

Unless she has learned to open bottles @Grumpyoldpersonwithcats then I don't think she's drunk anything. She's just naturally photogenic 🤣

I don't eat the tinned Spam.

Our butcher makes his own.

We love a Spam Tea at our house.
🤣

I have fond recollections of having Spam fritters for school dinners.
I realise I may be looking back with rose tinted spectacles 🤣

My grandparents were polish so we have a sort of Polish Christmas eve dinner which involves fish. My mum sent me home last year with a probably expensive cooked piece of fish for Matilda and Boris, which I gave them a piece of to try and they turned they refused to eat. I put the rest of it in a sandwich and ate it myself. What I'm trying to say is that cats are fickle creatures and who knows what they consider a special meal

If you don't mind cooking chicken I'm sure Kitty would love a warm piece of roasted chicken breast, but if you don't feel comfortable doing that I'm sure she would like some tinned tuna. Otherwise I'm sure she would love some extra dreamies.

Or possibly spam.

I wonder if they'll ever make Spam Dreamies.

Tinned tuna. I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks @HumanToCatBeasties.

@RumNotRun I look completely sozzled in any picture too so I am very much with Vixen here
@TheShellBeach spam not so much

I know so little about spam I'm not sure 100% if you are being serious @TheShellBeach . What is spam? (of the meaty kind). Do butchers make it? We will remain a spam free household regardless. 😂

Thanks, I have in my head an idea that there may be a long-lasting ARV injection in development, but I can see that the profit margin in trying to develop something like that for cats won't be enough to interest pharmaceutical companies, sadly

I don't look back with rose tinted spectacles on any of my school dinners. I don't recall us every having spam though, so maybe it really is delicious. 😂

I suspect that deep frying Spam in batter would probably not be considered a healthy school dinner option by Jamie Oliver - but they were delicious with chips 🤣.

I promise I'm being serious.

We've always been fond of Spam.

As you know, we live in a remote Scottish village. A butcher from Paisley (93 miles away) delivers here once a fortnight.

His produce is superb. We get our Christmas turkey from him.

And as well as being a very good butcher, he makes wonderful apple pies.

And Spam.

🤣🤣🤣

Ooh, and this year, he's expanded into Sticky Toffee Pudding.

He has a very loyal customer in DS2 now. DS2 is extremely fond of the butcher's BBQ Burgers.

The butcher was delighted when he discovered that DD2 was moving here.

Is spam the same as the mysteriously named "luncheon meat" we used to get at primary school?

I'm not sure if I school dinners in my region at the time were particularly bad, but I don't have the fond memories other people seem to have. I did spend years working in catering and hospitality and there aren't many foodstuffs that I haven't deep fat fried. I've fried a battered physalis in batter at one pub (not my idea), but never spam. Maybe it's time for a come back in pubs? 😂

Yes it is!

I must confess that there are a couple of tins of Spam in the store cupboard.

We have to be prepared for bad weather here. We've been cut off before now. There's only one road in and out of the village, and if it's blocked for any reason, food can't be delivered.

The 2023 landslides caused chaos here, as the road was washed away.

If you wanted to buy Kitty some cooked chicken she would probably love it heated briefly in the microwave as well.

😻
We’ll experiment & report back.

My school dinners were generally great. There were usually two different hit options and if you didn't fancy them you could have the salad cart. You got 10 points to use and each item had a corresponding number of points. I think two crab sticks were 1 point, cold sausages were 1 point. Woe betide anyone trying to have more than 10 points of salad though!

Sorry to hear about Tobias' diagnosis. Hopefully he manages to live with it without too much bother - he certainly sounds like he's in the best possible hands!

Congratulations!

Kettle just dipped his tail in my cup of tea. He didn't even notice, the dozy cat. I had to remove it myself and hold it to his face to get him to clean it 🙄