Carry On Catting - the Excellent Cats do what they do best

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

......... and try to break into the film industry.

It'll be an unlikely success as they'll have to stay awake for long periods while filming goes on.

Well. Unless they decide to make Carry On Sleeping.

Instead of putting a penny in the slot is it one dreamie? Absolutely terrifying but awesome photo 😟😂

I would have put a quid on Grumpy's hedgehog for the win in that photo. Last animal man standing and all that.

Right, so I have become mildly obsessed with the Beach Boys, thanks to the dementia choir's latest playlist.
It has taken me a fortnight to put it together.

Anyway.

I was looking on Amazon Prime for suitable (or even unsuitable) documentaries about them, when the algorithm directed me instead to a 1950s film Life in Emergency Ward 10.
Having been a devotee of the later TV series, I abandoned the Beach Boys and watched the film.

Fucksake. The casual sexism and misogyny are off the scale. The doctors all smoke, even during ward rounds. And in the anaesthetic room.
The nurses kowtow to them, slavishly.

The new surgeon immediately has an affair with a colleague's wife. That bit I entirely believed, though.

No women doctors, naturally.

I haven't got to the end yet but I'm hoping that little David gets through his heart operation (although the old man in the bed next to him dies on the table).

That was weird. Why was an eight year old on the same ward as an elderly man? I'm sure they had paediatric wards in the 1950s.

None of which has a thing to do with cats, excellent or otherwise.

I went for a drive today with a friend.

Gizmo was outside when we left.
We were gone for about two hours.
When we got back, we stopped in the car park and chatted, then Gizmo suddenly appeared next to us, standing on a bin.

He must have heard my voice, and decided to come over to register displeasure.

Or to welcome you back?

Well maybe, but as soon as I got out of the car, he ran to my house, miaowing as he went.

And Gizmo never runs anywhere.
The poor fellow must have been crazed with hunger. It had been a whole two and a half hours since his last pouch of Felix, after all.

That poor starved animal. I hope you can live with yourself 😁

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne I think he has been teaming up with Lex and Toad. I went to Lidl earlier after feeding them lunch. I came back to see Toad and Lex in my bedroom window looking out. As I walked into the house, they ran into the kitchen shouting about how STARVING they were. I had been gone for a maximum of 40 minutes. Toad was most disappointed that I hadn't bought him any treats, although I did get a leg if lamb that allegedly feeds 11-12 so that should last one meal with this lot!

A quick update in case any of you were worried:

• the little boy pulled through

• Dr. Murray and his wife survived her infidelity

• especially as Dr. Palmer hooked up with Sister Johnson

• Matron never got over what the nurses did at the hospital dance

• the heart/lung machine was hailed as a great success by the anaesthetist, who (worryingly) didn't understand how to use it

• which probably explains why the old man failed to survive his heart surgery

• or possibly all the doctors smoking at his bedside made his heart disease even worse

• I am now belatedly watching a Beach Boys documentary

Rum, I think I'll pop down to Wales and be one of the 11 - 12 people who tuck in to your leg of lamb.

That's if your cats can be persuaded to leave me a bit.

Help me, Rhonda, Help, Help me Rhonda

Help me, Rhonda, Help, Help me Rhonda

Help me, Rhonda, Help, Help me Rhonda

Help me, Rhonda, Help, Help me Rhonda

Etc Etc Etc

She knows how to stay comfy😁

That room looks incredibly cosy @Hollyhobbi

We would go on holiday to Cornwall back when I was still young. If the weather was dull or (heavens forbid) raining on the way down, we would change the cassette in the car to Beach Boys and 9/10 lo and behold, the weather would clear up.

Well we were going to a part of the UK where the old faiths have never really died out completely, so a bit of Shamanistic Sun magic seemed appropriate and did seem to work.

My Beach Boys CD is one I have on in the car a fair bit!

Kitty’s coming in her UFO, @RumNotRun. (It’s bigger on the inside).

Apparently living with a vegetarian has its drawbacks.

Kitty is very attuned to All Things Woo, is she not.

What with her Ouija Board and now a UFO, she's clearly got friends on the Other Side.

Definitely.

Ghostie says all are welcome to come and share the lamb, but do not touch her tummy! Fred is working on his bravery cause he wants to show Kitty his toys.

Kitty says she wouldn’t dream of grooming another cat’s tummy without being invited to, and would Fred like to play with her catnip mouse?

Fred is working on his bravery cause he wants to show Kitty his toys

Oh, does he now?
That's an interesting way of saying it.
I bet Gizmo would also like to show off his (ahem) "toys" to some female cats.
🤣

Oh, does he now?
That's an interesting way of saying it.
I bet Gizmo would also like to show off his (ahem) "toys" to some female cats.
🤣

Has Suzy turned him down again then?

Has Suzy turned him down again then?

Linney and Suzy had a massive row yesterday in the front garden.
Gizmo was watching from the window with great interest.

Has Suzy turned him down again then?

You'd have thought he'd have got used to rejection living next to Sybil 🤣

Poor Gizmo. He wouldn’t get anywhere with Kitty either, I think she had more than enough of horny male cats in her ratter years.

What a good thing he’s got Broon’s duvet.

I wonder what Linney & Suzy were fighting about.

I don't think THIS THREAD is going quite the way the OP intended.