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Hey Reshmi, loved the onions, forwarded to Anda 👍

thanks.

feeling much better today. Managed a bit of guitar. I wonder how long i have had this bacteria in my system as i am feeing better than for a long time. Pain is still there but underneath that I feel better, hard to explain, maybe someone here will understand what I mean. Like someone has just given me an unexpected hand up. Nice.

Keef Richards says in his biography that he’s probably lived 2 lifetimes because of his insomnia. I know how he feels now. I used to enjoy his choice of drink too. I think I almost fell asleep at one point actually, I must have done coz I was almost having a very strange dream about annoying little creatures but alas it’s 1 am and I’m about to explore my vast music collection again with headphones on.

I think there is maybe need of a spin off thread here. The Amazing Adventures of Sleek the Wondercat. Bought to you from the Cat Lair or the Ickle House, depending on your target audience

Episode One, Sleek visits Toady to help solve the eBay mystery shopper mystery.

I tell you lot, Enid Blight On the Landscape got nuffink on us lot. I could do the theme tune. Reshmi could right the rhyming script, Toni obviously would be the celebrity cat owner/agent, Toady would be Sleeks sidekick. Dachshund’s hounds could play some evil arch enemies, have I forgotten anyone??? I can see it going all the way to Broadway as a musical. We’d all be millionaires by next Christmas.

I would like the credits to mention Based on idea by Skinny Keef after many many nights of no sleep. Lol

mind you I’m not doing the promo tour. All the endless interviews and that green room hospitality stuff was just too much last time darlings!

i’ll stop now 🤪

Good morning everyone

Kitty (()) It will be nice when it’s a bit warmer. Have a good day.

Toady (()) I hope you have a good day. Keep warm. I hope your phone call went alright.

Barbara (()) love to you and Mr B (()) and your son (()) and Niamh (()) and your niece (()) and her fiancé (())

Toni (()) Have a good day. We lived with our gran our mum worked our cousin was 10 when we were born he was pleased going to school telling children his sister was expecting twins. He died of Cancer when he was 50. Life can be hard at times. Thank you for asking about my cold not too bad now. Sorry you have to do a difficult phone call (()) love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) love to you and your mum (()) take care

Keef (()) you are bringing your son up to have manners (()) love to Sucr’e (()) and Loanda (())

Hi Toni toady Joan and Keef

how are you all this afternoon?

mum went mad with the thermostat this morning

so I had a really long sleep

but maybe I needed it

it did disorientate me a bit though

I did some of the VA FB physio routine though which helped

it didn’t just make me feel that I’d achieved a small thing and stretched of course,

it felt like a bit human social interaction even though I was a staring at a screen lol

because there’s no worse for me than the days when I can’t go outside at all and just speak the the Vesuvius members

Keef that was sweet when Sucre said “ please” and “you’re welcome” lol

LA’s Spider-Man backpack arrived here today I may appropriate it and use it as a bargaining tool so LA can tame the tarantula, it’s a natural predator I know, but as Toni said, whoever heard of a giant wriggling spider toy being put on a mima’s leg? My goodness, highly irregular 😂

Mums bs is ok today thanks, she’s cooking chicken biryani right now, I wasn’t allowed to help her or stop her but at least she’s happy 👍

toady even I heard the rain last night, which is unusual here in The Tropics lol

was the wind still howling?

how did you sleep?

Toni I saw a sitcom where a woman said she knew she was aging (well she was 35 - bosh snorts derisively - but that’s another topic) because she had to moisturise her arms before she went to bed to keep her skin looking good- I almost said “welcome to psoriasis” 😂

👋Joan are you and Sue doing anything nice today?

or just relaxing?

BR is good thanks everyone 🙏

he’s only committed a minor misdemeanour by telling granny that he hadn’t been given any breakfast in the hope he could sneakily get some more Blearios, bless him

but he must he hungry after not eating properly for so long

ok I’ll stop there for now getting a bleary eyed- in the sleepy manner I mean, not obsessing about sugary cereal, not yet lol.

have a nice NYE afternoon everyone take care xx

Hi Keef

how are you feeling this evening/ night?

I think that’s a great idea, combining everyone’s talents to make a feline musical!

would we be allowed to keep the money? that’s the question,

maybe Sleek and Joan and Sue’s dogs will suddenly get a taste for the high life, solid gold feeding bowls, caviar in the cat food etc lol

toady can do the interviews haha

I”ll placate toady’s new neighbours who didn’t “sign up” for living next door to a celebrity, with bowls of chicken / vegan nuggets and Blearios

Then we all go back to the bunker to partake of apple crumble or antacids, in my case probably the latter to be honest

have as good a NYE night as poss, bye for now take care x

Happy new year everyone and the moderators

Why do people have to fight and row why can’t people just be satisfied with what they have.

Kitty (()) I hope all is well there love to your carers (())

Toady (()) have a good day. I hope you have a good year with out too many problems. Happy new year to Mr Blackbird and little mice.

Barbara (()) Happy new year to you and Mr B (()) love to your son (()) and Niamh (()) and your niece (()) and her fiancé (())

Toni (()) Happy new year to you and your big family and dogs and cats and others. Good luck with your appointment on the 3’rd. love to Paul (()) and Charley (()) and Annie (()) and Lucy (()) and Tia (()) and Kari (()) and your friend (()) and your lovely neighbours (())

Reshmi (()) I hope you have a good day and your mum (()) I hope you have a good new year with not too many problems.

Keef (()) have a good day. I hope the Doctor can say why you have so much pain this year. Love to Sucr’e (()) and Loanda (()) I wish them all the best this year.

happy new year to Mig Sticky wicket and DD Julie and any one else I’ve missed.

Hi again Toni

you were right about the weather again 👍

hats and hoods day indeed

LA wanted to stay up yesterday to see in the new year but he fell asleep in front of the tv at 9 pm bless him

when he woke up he asked my sis if he’d stayed awake past midnight. I’m not sure what her reply was, maybe it all depended on how many monstrous sp*der toys were crawling around on her person lol.

Yes you’re right the delicate sensibilities of a mima should indeed be respected, but how to enforce, how about no Paw Patrol watching until after supper? No I don’t think I’m brave enough to suggest that, otherwise the next thing I know a toy (hopefully) alligator may devour my knee as it didn’t have time to go to al fresco and buy a suitably aristocratic accompaniment for French fries - oh dear it doesn’t bear thinking about

yes French fries little LA, not Italian fries - which would indeed be “quelle catastrophe” lol

LLF has emerged from her lair to text “Happy New Year”, well that was generous of her, haha

I texted back in a polite bland manner and sent my polite and insincere smile to her via smile - in - reply- mail, it’s even slower than regular post and “arachnids - oh - why?” - mail as toady the writer and director of all things Spider-Man - related once said ( she kept that under her 4 hats didn’t she? 😂) once had occasion to use when faced with a visit from the littley - aristocracy with not a spare cobweb or any black widow - proof armour in sight - how decidedly ookey 😱

I hope you and K got through the nasty phone calls ok

bye for now Toni tc xx

ps i know another temple but I thought it was a nice pic, Buddhist temple in Nepal this time xx

Hi Keef

how are you today?

hope you’re feeling a bit better?

take care, Reshmi.

hi toady

how are you doing this evening?

my parents and I are supposed to be going to a Japanese restaurant tomorrow as a kind of late birthday treat for mums birthday which was in December

but the weather forecast look’s decidedly ookey

so we will have to see what happens

i actually managed to sit down and have a cup of tea at “wear a jacket / cost a packet” - or whatever it’s called these days, lol - I think it was because I went relatively early and of course most people were still recovering from nighttime partying, porridge consumption with postman, vegging in front of tv with cabbage nugget burger activities and so on 👍

I did also see a lot of confetti on the road, which was quite unusual, as there’s not a lot of nocturnal partying round here to be honest, so I am slightly concerned, ok more than slightly, that maybe LA has entered into a marriage with one - well hopefully one - lady baby!

my goodness what a thought

does that mean that tarantula king of the toy creepy crawlies has in turn found his partner / queen?

so what would I present the many legged couple with as a wedding gift?

Dark chocolate covered flies with no added sugar?

Do I eat 25 of these “alternative sweet treats” and leave 2 in the box?

oh no, my gastric oracle will choose to emigrate intergalactically if I even try to entertain such notions

ok that was a bit of a tangent really 😂

I hope you have an ok night and a better sleep tonight toady bye tc xx

Thanks toady

have a good night xx

ps a chair for one of your neighbours lol xx