Reasons To Be Cheerful

[LadyCG]

1. https://ibb.co/4dvPxRX

Needs I say more? Today is my Friday...

:-)

What are your RTBC?

[Buenchico]

Wye Valley beers? Any good?

My RTBC:

1. I still seem to have got a pulse ;

2. My cats are starting to trust me again after a (failed) attempt to get flea treatment onto them earlier this week ;

3. I'm continuing to enjoy my amateur radio hobby (that I've picked up on after about half a century).

[Barmaid]

1. It is nearly Friday.
2. I am going to a fancy dress party on Saturday and I am going dressed as a Victorian prostitute. I have a marvellous fake silk bustle skirt, a basque and an under chemise. I have an enormous hooped skirt which flows and sweeps at the back, and I look ridiculous and feel magnificently burlesque. Mr BM is going as my pimp. Walking up the road is going to be funny (not that I can actually walk sensibly in that garb in high heeled boots across uneven ground).
3. The kittens have only brought in dead things since they last brought in a live frigging snake (there is one message I never thought I would send to Mr BM "Come quickly, there is an effing snake in the effing utility room).
4. Oh and it's nearly Friday!

[Barmaid]

Chris, cats are flea treatment are my bugbear atm. I cannot give them spot on since they groom each other. Charlotte will eat anything you put in front of her. "Here Charlie, pill, eat" and she scoffs it. Millie is a witch. She spat the first pill out which I shoved down her throat whilst Mr BM held her. On the second try she held it in her mouth for a few minutes before spitting it out. I tried wrapping it in ham, she ate the ham and spat it out. I tried crushing it in ham, she now hates ham.

[237SJ]

Sold my North Face sleeping bag and rucksack. Only to buy another sleeping bag. Rucksack went up Kilimanjaro and is going to continue around the world with a yacht delivery captain friend of mine so that's nice. Off to Devon for a week tomorrow. Going to be crap weather though.

[LadyCG]

I'm not keen on HPA, Chris, but I did have some lovely beer in Riga:

https://ibb.co/Wg9QBCb

BM, I think you were quite restrained. If I'd found a live snake in the Utility I think I'd have gone doolally.

[Barmaid]

I've decided I might be clinically dead. I just calmly put it in the dustpan and put in on the compost heap (they like compost heaps).

Mr BM announced 30 mins ago that we are again hosting the work's BBQ in August. I just looked blankly and said "Ok, let me have numbers and food requirements and I'll sort it". He looked at me really oddly and said "Are you OK?". (He doesn't realise I am secretly planning to do enough food for the BBQ AND his wake).

[LadyCG]

Kill two birds with one stone, BM, I like it.

Can I borrow your prostitute costume when you've finished with it... ?

[Buenchico]

Barmaid:
Isn't that your normal Saturday outfit though?

I've been trying to get 'spot on' treatments onto my cats but your post has reminded me that tablets hidden (inside pieces of chicken) make things far easier. So I think that I need to go and buy some. (I know that Credelio works with them but it's prescription only. I'd need to take at least one of the feline threesome to the vet's surgery to get a prescription and then, as I don't think that the vet stocks Credelio, buy it online. So I might give the Johnson's tablet, which can be bought in Pets at Home, I try first).

LCG:
I've not been to Riga but I can testify as to the quality of the beer in Bratislava - among many other places!

;-)

[LadyCG]

237, in-laws are off to St Ives tomorrow and it's looking rather wet.

We're going to Gdansk a week on Monday and that's looking dicey too.

[Barmaid]

Not these day, Chris - now only once a month. And just to balance things, once a month I wear a nun's habit too.

I use Credelio and find it very effective - if I can get Miss Spitty to actually take the damn pill. I would not waste any money with anything you can buy off the shelf. You can get a prescription and then buy the drugs online. At present I have a deal with my vets and I pay so much per month for the first year but it covers all their worming and flea treatments, their microchipping, 2 consults with a vet and 2 with a nurse and 25% off their spaying so it worked out cheaper to do it like that for the first year. In the second year, I may just get a prescription and get it online.

[Buenchico]

>>> " . . . in-laws are off to St Ives tomorrow"

I hope that they'll take care setting their satnav. Back in my trade plating days (delivering vehicles across the country), a colleague of mine was meant to go to St Ives in Cambridgeshire but ended up in Cornwall! (There's one in Dorset too).

The advantage of visiting Poland's Tri-city (Gdańsk, Gdynia & Sopot) is that you can head to the beach at Sopot if the sun shines or head for indoor attractions in the other two cities if the weather's poor.

[Buenchico]

>>> " . . . if I can get Miss Spitty to actually take the damn pill"

Have you tried cutting a slit in a piece of freshly-roasted chicken and stuffing a tablet into it? It seems to fool my lot (most of the time, at least!)

[DTCwordfan]

I'll take the wine - and the weather forecast for down here was described as an 'Autumn Gale' coming in - with a lot of rain as well.

[Barmaid]

Yes Lady CG of course you can. I am wondering if I might actually make some money ;) I said to a friend it will be like Emily Bronte meets Love Honey. Mr BM is strangely quite excited!

I'm going to try her with a prawn, Buen. I'm not likely to be cooking any chicken between now and next week. Anyway, she may decide she doesn't like chicken anymore. So far this week she has gone off ham and lamb, so who knows. Witch. I can just give her sister the pill off my fingers and that daft idiot will eat it. Not Millikins the Marchioness of Mayhem. Oh no. Madam.

[DTCwordfan]

sounds like my Mater, Barmaid...a touch of honey and yoghurt works wonders, smeared on the lips!

[Barmaid]

Are we talking prostitutes or cats now, DTC?

[rowanwitch]

I always found a prawn was best, except for Brenda the tart, she required full armour and a doctor on standby to set up a blood transfusion.... Then I realised chicken curry worked. So tikka chunks from the supermarket...

[Barmaid]

I think Her Royal Highness Millikins is holding out for caviar.

[DTCwordfan]

cats......don't think that the Mater was a Madame of the Night - anyway, she would have long forgotten it - she doesn't know who her progeny are now!

[Hymie]

Many years ago, the family cat flea problem was solved with a flea collar. Although the cat had never worn a collar, he did not seem to mind wearing it - with a small bell attached to give the birds a fighting chance.