Chicken, Dreamies and Lickelix - the Excellent Cats form a disorderly queue

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

..... behind Gizmo, of course.

Calling all cats! Come and get some chicken.

This is Gizmo just after he accidentally rolled out of his donut last night.
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Who pushed me out 🤔

Guess where Kitty’s favourite part of the sofa is.

Toad is looking more and more uncomfortable when he perches on the end of his newel post like a fuzzy gargoyle, so today I decided to try something. It may not look the best but Toby approves of his new throne.

Is it fixed on?

Kitty jumped on her big cat tree the other day & one of the cushions whizzed off. She flew in the opposite direction & was thoroughly annoyed.

Our DCat is very up for chicken and dreamies.

Just come back from an overnight visit to the peak district. Boris and Matilda seemed pleased to see me. Didn't encounter any NMCs on my travels, but did come across a NML, NMZ and NMW. I think visiting a wildlife park was probably cheating a bit with the NMA spotting. The baby lemur and baby zebra were super cute though.

I think Gizmo’s finished the chicken.

I've got a small amount in the freezer now, waiting for the next time I make curry.

I could defrost it for any visiting Excellent Cats..

Kitty’s got her best “Pleeease, Auntie Broon?” face on.

Aw. Who could resist that little face?

@EmpressaurusKittyi have tied it around the bannister but he managed to jump off and the cushion ended up sideways against it, so I have now tied it to the newel post as well in the hope that it'll stay in one place.

Lemurs are misleading little buggers. I also thought they looked soft and would have fur like a rabbit, but I stroked a ring tailed lemur once and it had quite coarse fur. He tricked me!

Girlcat has decided that having her ears done is NOT her favorite way to relax in the evenings. The massaging of the base of the ear afterwards is very pleasant, but she's not sure it's worth having the liquid squirted down first.

I do hope it doesn't stain or bleach fabrics, as the violent head shake directly after application has left my blue top covered in little damp spots.

I'm jealous that you've stroked a ring tailed lemur Rum, they're one of my favourite animals. We were told that humans weren't allowed to touch the lemurs, but the lemurs were allowed to touch the humans if they wanted to, so if they landed on you you let them stay there or tell the keepers so they could remove them. I was sad that none of the lemurs decided to jump on me.

In terms of softness of creatures I've stroked over the last couple of days.

Some kind of sheep = like one of those bristly doormats - do not recommend.
Goat = Fairly course fur - bit stinky.
Rabbit/ wallaby = Very soft - Would have liked to have taken home.
Matilda = Very fluffy - The fluffiest beast.
Boris = The most velvety fur - I'm definitely biased.

For some reason, despite them having biscuits left over in the cat feeder when I came home, Boris has decided that he's been starved and has been pestering me for more and more food since I got home.

I was sad that none of the lemurs decided to jump on me.

That's not a sentence you see very often.

...........has been pestering me for more and more food since I got home.

OTOH that sentence appears frequently (on this thread anyway)
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Yay! Honour has been restored.

We won the village quiz tonight!

DS1 said it was because he was on our team for a change

Well done!!!

Some kind of sheep = like one of those bristly doormats - do not recommend.
Goat = Fairly course fur - bit stinky.

There's a massive variety in coat textures with both types of animals, and with sheep whether they've been sheared recently affects that too.

If a sheep has been sheared, it will have a texture similar to a woollen rug/mat as there's only short stubby fibres left which are sticking up. As mid summer, on a year we've had heat waves, I'd be worried if they hadn't sheared all the sheep! Plus the general texture of sheep's coats tends to vary greatly across the breeds - hardy rare breeds tend to coarser coats, whereas breeds like Merino have been bred for centuries to get a softer coat. Sheep who breed in climates like the Shetland Isles or the Himalayas have double layered coats.

As for goats, well... Ever heard of cashmere? Made from the undercoat of goats. Again, goats bred in extreme climates like the Himalayas have double coats with the undercoat very soft and the top coat coarser. My cousin used to keep goats, and the differences in texture of their coats can be massive. So depends on breed, conditions they are kept in, where they live and so on. If the goat was rather stinky, could have been a Billy as they are MUCH smellier than Nannies

Oops - just realised I've done the ADHD thing of brain dumping loads of facts on you all at likely a much more detailed manner than I intended. Apologies!

Very interesting info @Allergictoironing !

We have been busy here as DS got his GCSE results. Some better than expected and a few not as good as predicted. A bit mixed shall we say (but he's never going to be a straight A student!).
He's going to do Maths, Music, Music technology and further maths A levels at his school's 6th form. He may drop further maths as it looks pretty incomprehensible...

Herbie has decided not to pursue any further studying as he felt he did enough whilst staying on DS's bed as he revised!

NMPC (Not my Penrith Cat).
Spotted this morning while walking to the station to take me back to London. Definitely got Basil vibes 😻

That's an interesting mix @Pianoaholic - maths and music together. At my school (way back in the 70's) STEM subjects and the Arts type subjects tended to clash in the calendar, so trying to do e.g. Physics and History just wouldn't be possible at A Level.

Pretty bad too if you wanted to top up your O levels with an off topic subject, e.g. a friend and I both did Greek Literature in Translation O level for fun, but we could only do half the lessons as it clashed with Chemistry which we were also both doing. Still passed, her because she was brilliant at everything, me because I'd been brought up on classical literature (buffs fingernails with a smirk).

Wasn't helped by us having an arrangement with the local boy's grammar school about a mile away. Our 6th form did things like drama and music & the boys came over to us, they did classics and we went over to them.

I’ve heard before that maths & music go well together - although I may be thinking of Irene from Malory Towers saying that!

I needed to cut a side off this box for something else, & watching Kitty sitting in the remaining part is making me think of her looking through the gaps of a parapet.

Do I need to get a small castle for the balcony, that’s the question. We’d have to be clear that she wasn’t allowed to fire anything at cats below & it would have to be weatherproof.

Maths and music do often go well together. Not really in my case, I got a C for GCSE and had been predicted E!
I did music, art and English literature Alevels as I originally wanted to go to art college but had a change of heart and went for music in the end.
Interesting that you studied Greek @Allergictoironing . My parents went to Greek evening classes as they loved Greece and wanted to be able to speak it while they were there.

DS2 did sciences and Maths for A level - realised he didn't fancy them for university or a career so did Music A level in a gap year before going to uni.
Several of his friends did mixed music and scieces/maths at A level too. Don't think the mixture is too uncommon.