The Excellent Cats welcome the new year by planning an expedition in search of 'She who must not be named'

[Grumpyoldpersonwithcats]

Carried forward from the previous thread.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/the_litter_tray/5440081-prison-dramas-bands-and-ouija-boards-the-excellent-cats-audition-sing-and-plot?page=1

Lenny however needs a rest before he starts searching.

@PandorasBox7 I'm so sorry about your dear cat. It's awful when they die.

welcome back

Welcome back @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne. Very pleased you've escaped the naughty step unscathed. 😁

Linney did my head in last night.

He miaowed to go out at midnight, and as it's snowing and freezing here, I thought he'd be back in five minutes.

Reader, he finally returned at 01.30.
I had to stay up, keeping an eye on the window, so that I could let him back him.

I couldn't leave the window open because:

a) it's bloody cold

and

b) Gizmo would have got out too

Argh cats.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne very cute cats though.
What did you do to get on the naughty step?

Thank you Grumpy.
And thank you for starting this thread due to my unforeseen absence.

My getting banned on Christmas Day caused my horrible children great hilarity.

I sometimes wonder why I bothered to give birth to them.

"But what the fuck did you do?"
"That'll teach you a lesson"
"No, we're not playing Trivial Pursuit because you've had it since DD1 was born and you know all the answers"
"Har Har Har Mutha's been banned from Mumsnet"
"Are you going to open the Chablis"
"Fucksake how do people get banned from Mumsnet"
"When will the turkey be ready"

"Mum. MUM! THERE'S SMOKE POURING OUT OF THE KITCHEN!"

"Mum. MUM! THERE'S SMOKE POURING OUT OF THE KITCHEN!"

This was undeniable.

Yes, the fire brigade attended.

Yes, I ruined the fire brigade's Christmas Day.

No, the turkey wasn't on fire.

Yes, we agreed that it tasted just fine.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Welcome back @TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOneYou seem to have excelled yourself on Christmas Day - getting banned and setting the kitchen on fire!! What shenanigans do you have planned for 2026? 😁

I have a vision of poor Linney frozen fast to the frosty ground and unable to move to get home, poor lamb!

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne I take it a quiet life is not your style?

Linney must be very hard to spot in a snowstorm 🤣

Blimey Broon, you know how to keep things lively! Christmas Firemen - excellent! 😂

Welcome back and hope 2026 is a good one in the Broon and White household.

Pah. Not he.
I went to the front door every few minutes and called him, and he totally ignored me.

Kitty’s been out on the balcony a couple of times & come back in cold & complaining.

I remember one Christmas at my ex-MIL’s where the glass (Pyrex?) platter the turkey was cooking on shattered in the oven. No firemen but no turkey either.

Not getting banned would be a good start.

I suppose I should've put "not burning the house down" first, but you can see where my priorities lie.

What did you do to get on the naughty step?

It's a long story.
🤣🤣🤣

Spoke your mind?

I’ve just been chatting with a work colleague about her Christmas.

She made the huge mistake of leaving the turkey unguarded in the kitchen while she answered the door to her guests.

When they came back the cats were busy tucking in.

Oops.

I admit I did do am advanced search to try to work out what thread you had "misbehaved" on, but of course, despite recognising your username, it wouldn't bring up any posts.

Lenny is apparently deeply unimpressed with his covering of snow.

Poor Lenny, he needs a nice warm bit of Mumsnet chicken

Moi?

A few years ago I invited my mum and dad over for New Years Day lunch. I'd bought a nice lemon tart from Sainsbury's posh range. The cats had been shut out while we had our main course, but Matilda must have snuck in when I brought the tart in. I was just asking if anyone would like seconds when Matilda sprung onto the table and landed on the tart which was sitting on a baking tray. The baking tray plus tart, plus Matilda went sliding across the table towards my mum. I'm not sure who was more surprised Matilda or my mum. My dad still decided to have seconds despite it being sat on by a cat.

Dd was home for Christmas and decided to have a bath. Cat completely bemused by the concept (we all shower regularly, honest!) and deeply suspicious of strange fluffy substance filling the usually empty white void in the bathroom.

Suzy glaring at Gizmo through the window.
I expect she's planning to get her own back after he pushed her off the bin.

Gizmo is studiously ignoring her.