Catch me if you can! I have the advantage as I have wings!

Anyone seen TLC?

Not to mention about 100 more posts!

Do I? At this time of posting, the statistics by our names show that I have 704 and you have 1156 posts, nit that this is a competition!

As a matter of interest how are the points shown in the Members list calculated?

Oh, I guess it was points and not posts that I was looking at.
I'm not sure of the formula, but you get points for posting, for joining groups, for adding "buddies", etc.

Hi Lori and all. What are new bile women? I know both my yuman and Les the vet and the nice perl ice lady are women but I don’t know what a new bile one is. Are they real yumans and if not can I lick one like a really good fresh bone? Will there be one in the LC fridge?

Bagabones, I shouldn't go round licking new bile women without checking with them first

Nubile comes from the Latin nubilis meaning a woman who is of marriageable age.

but aren't all grown up ladies of a marriageable age, el loro?
leroy's grandma got married again when she was really old.
what age is is a grown up yuman lady NOT marriageable then?

But in Ancient Rome, as soon as a girl matured, she would be regarded as marriageable, and if she hadn't married within a comparatively short time, eligible men would have moved on to younger women. So the emphasis implied in nubile is that the woman was young and also physically attractive.

Fishday Friday good afternoon tlc and crew, tuna bake for tea and there is some cream from mr machel's trifle. Taylor is spread out on the lounge carpet but he has to keep changing places as the sun moves.

Wow thanks machel.
I tried that business of spreading out in the sun on the lounge carpet this afternoon as well -  but it just got too hot for my fur. (being a black cat you see my fur gets extra hot in the sun.) In the end I had to move out of it into a shady bit.

good afternoon tlc and crew, taylor has black fur but he won't move out of the sun - too lazy! or perhaps he is just so content he doesn't want to move, he will move for one thing and that is for dreamies, a special treat which he loves. i'll leave a few for you to try

a question - why does taylor insist on drinking rain water outside in a plant pot when he has fresh water inside? some other cats like to drink from there too which is fine until i put some plants in it!

We pets know best. Water in dishes in the house is last resort only. It tastes and smells like the water when my yuman and I have abaf. Les the vet says it has kemi kals in it. She doesn’t put them in but someone does. Rain water left standing to mature for a while in old buckets and plant pots tastes great. Fresh rain water in puddles is the best. That is why we pets have flat noses so we can really get into the puddle for a drink. It doesn’t seem fair on those poor yumans with their long pointy noses that get in the way if they try to drink out of puddles.

It's a long time since I have seen my yuman face down in a puddle.

thank you bagabones, i won't worry about taylor's drinking habits,   Fishday Friday prawn salad for tea (it's so sunny and warm sat on the patio) and cream from mr machel's trifle. A bone for bagabones and a little cod for nermal, what has he been up to lately? is he still growing?

i haven't seen nermal or mr tom for about a week machel.
nermal has grown a bit but he's still not the size a young cat of his age should be in my opinion.
i think he wants to stop lickle because then he gets away with naughty silly things because people think he's just a baby.
if he was a big grown up looking cat like me or mr tom or jasper he would have to be a lot more sensible.
nermal is a peter pan cat who doesn't want to grow up.
thank you for the prawns and cream machel.
i bet nermal and mr tom will magically appear out of nowhere this afternoon now that prawns have arrived.
 they can somehow sniff them out from miles away.
it's marvellous - i don't see a whisker of them for a week but the minute i get some nice fish they always turn up to "help" me eat it.

I think nermal and mr tom have been stranded in the canarys because of the vulcanik hash but hey are now on their way home.

Good friends do that kind of stuff.

good afternoon tlc and crew it's very quiet in here, does that mean the gang are up to something or that they have already "done it" and are in hiding????

The gang have been busy out campaigning on behalf of the Pussy Cat Party. I believe their key policy is free cat food for all, and a tax on owners of big noisy dogs (and squawking parrots). It's just as well I don't have an owner.I am not a number, I am a free parrot.

And tax relief on toy mice.

And on sugar mice

and free love...?

Good Morning Little Cat == and Friends == Hope you are all well the weather has been lovely here hope it has been the same for all of you, leaves you treats and drinkies   I am off to the hairdressers soon, have a nice day take care

but how can you get tax relief on free love when it's free so don't cost anyting?

unfortunately love is never free, so if a party offers free love....they get my x

Fishday friday i have a busy day today so i've made fish pie for tea - so there is some cod for tlc and crew, some cream from mr machel's trifle and a juicy bone for bagabones.

it's nice to see so many of my friends dropping in.
 i really missed marguerita - i'm glad she's back.
and machel has brought some loverly fish again.
mr tom and nermal never turned up to help me eat last week's fish, so praps i'll get this lot all to myself too.
unless el loro would like a taste?
do parrots like fish el loro?
i thought they might, because they live on ships out at sea on pirates' shoulders don't they? so they must get to eat a lot of fish.


aunty pet and the big man have been arguing a lot lately about which party to vote for.
i thought parties were things you went to and had lots to eat and drink and had fun - like a burf day party or a kriss muss party.
i didn't think you had to vote for which one you liked. 
leroy says that people have to go to a speshul place and write on a bit of paper which party they like the best and put the bit of paper in a box and then somebody adds up all the bits of paper and the party that gets the most votes wins and they have that same party for years and years.
fancy having a kriss muss party every day for years and years !


i think the big man and aunty pet want different parties.
aunty pet says there's no way she's going to vote for the story party (whatever that is!) because if that one wins they'll let people chase little foxes again and kill them.
sounds a funny sort of party to me where you just chase foxes instead of playing games. 


when i go out after dark i sometimes meet a fox who lives round here.
he's quite nice and friendly and sometimes we have a little game of chase.
he lets me chase him but i don't want to catch him. 
It's just for fun. 
when he stops i stop as well.
 i wouldn't want to kill him.  



i'm with aunty pet on that one.
a party for killing foxes sounds awful. 

to be fair the big man doesn't want a chasing and killing foxes party either, but he says some other things at the party are more important - i suppose he means fancy dress and jelly and ice-cream.
aunty pet says nothing is more important than stopping cruelty to animals.


when she says things like that i feel very safe.

I love fish - I eat cod, haddock, hake, tuna, salmon, sardines & others, but I cannot eat lemon sole because it makes me ill - there's something in it which as I digest it disagrees with me violently.

Lemon, perhaps?

I have no problem with lemon, just lemon sole. I think there must be an enzyme released whilst the sole is being digested as the effect happens about 3 hours after eating. Obviously I have only eaten lemon sole twice with a long gap between times, but the effect happened both times. Although I have to be careful with a few other foods, it is only lemon sole where this occurs. And no, I haven't tried other types of sole; that would be risky.

Les the vet said she used to have a parrot. She called it a firkin grey because it was grey with a red tail. It was a special firkin grey because it had red eyes which made it a King Bird. She said it was a cannon ball because it used to eat lots of chicken. She would give it a chicken leg and it would carefully pick the meat off the bone and then crunch through the bone and eat it all. I don’t know what the chicken was doing whilst this was going on. Les the vet didn’t say. It also used to eat a lot of chillies. It used to eat fingers also. Les the vet said men

would want to put their fingers in the cage and she would warn them but they would ignore her. Then the firkin grey would slice a piece of finger off with a bit of bone and the men would make a lot of noise. Les the vet enjoyed that and so did the parrot.Do you eat fingers El Loro?

 

Yes I do:


Yummy!

Fish fingers! I love fish fingers. I often wonder what the rest of the fish would taste like. Perhaps Machel would know. She seems to be the fish lady. My yuman is very clever. She chops the fingers off the fish all by herself (although I have never seen her do it) and stores them in boxes in the freezer. She is a bit naughty though. When she cooks a whole load for me she eats most of them herself. That is not fair.

 

So am I. I also like these fingers!

Strictly in the interests of science, today for the first time I ate a seafood risotto which, bedsides prawns which I've eaten frequently, also included scallops and squid which I've never had before. It will be interesting to see how a parrot's digestion copes with these, so far so good. The scallops were quite tasty, but the squid seemed to me to be rather tasteless and the texture was as it looked - somewhat rubbery.

Just to report that I survived yesterday's squid without any digestive problems.
I've now got to get these tentacles which grew during the night removed!

Where have all you cats gone? I hope I haven't scared you away - I'm quite harmless (most of the time)

fishday friday good morning tlc and crew, it is very quiet loro, i hope the fish and cream will be eaten. it's haddock as i'm making a fish pie for tea. fish don't have fingers, they have fins, we get fish fingers by using cod (or similar) to make a shape of fingers.