What Sea?

Skype conversation between Pinky and Black Cat:

08/06/2011 22:47:55 Pinky: Allo singletude?

22:49:06 Black Cat: Wot?!

22:49:55 Pinky: As you're one you're a singletude as opposed to a multitude!

22:50:29 Black Cat: Oh, I get it... :)

22:51:07 Pinky: Great, let's all hold hands and get in touch with the living (rofl)

22:54:02 Black Cat: Or time travel while gardening, watch Not Going Out and generally keep up with one's loony best friend, lol! (rofl)

22:55:10 Pinky: Don't follow Not Going Out, am watching a recording about Britain's secret seas

22:56:20 Black Cat: Oh, well, NGO is very funny!

22:56:50 Black Cat: Erm, wot secret seas?

22:58:23 Pinky: Broadcast on 29th May. Just seen a sequence about life under the Palace Pier

23:01:29 Black Cat: That's not a secret sea, that's the Channel, or the North Sea, or the Atlantic Ocean or summat! The Irish Sea maybe?

23:02:18 Pinky: Well I dunno about you, but I live by the seaside

23:02:58 Black Cat: Yeah dood, but what seaside?!

23:03:35 Pinky: Brighton seaside

23:05:23 Black Cat: Bristol Channel? Med? Caribbean? Brighton Aquarium? Wot the 'eck is our local sea, lol!?!

23:06:30 Pinky: The Brighton Aquarium is on land silly

23:06:49 Black Cat: Face it, you don't know, you's googling!!!

23:07:08 Pinky: No I'm not!!

23:08:42 Black Cat: The Brighton Aquarium is not on land, it's under water, that's how fish piss in it!

23:09:09 Pinky: Yes, but the water is on land!

23:10:32 Black Cat: No it can't be, it's water for Ceiling Cat's sake!

23:10:59 Pinky: Eh!

23:11:20 Black Cat: Wait one, going 2 da l'eau...

08/06/2011 23:11:34 Pinky: Love it

Later I pointed out to Pinky that all seas are on land (think about it...) therefore the Brighton Aquarium, being full of sea water, could be a (very small) sea, hee hee!


Bestest, 



:) xxx

Santa Claus is Handing Out Gifts in Portugal

Father Christmas has braved the storks...

...and made the children of Portugal happy! "Oh, by the way, the storks tend to make nests on high chimneys which are mainly industrial and not residential so no problem for Santa!" says Pinky.

Doodle Angel will be late I'm afraid, fellow Doodle Weekers. Actually, I'm not sure I know how to doodle an angel!

I hope you're all having a totally bodacious Chrissy Mouse. I know I am!



:) xxx

I Think I Hugged a Stranger!

Among the comments on my last post "Why Does my Special Friend Bully me..." was the following:

Anonymous said...

Just give him a big hug and say thank you for caring and worrying about me.

26 September 2008 18:11

I thought it was Pinky because he comments as "Anonymous" as he hasn't got a blog. Well actually he has, on MySpace, but there's only one post on it because... never mind, I digress. So anyhoo, I replied as follows:

Black Cat said...

Pin... erm, I mean A Lonely Mouse, I {{{HUG}}} you and am glad that you care:) xxx

27 September 2008 04:43

At about 10 or 10:30 last night (Saturday) he rang me to say he'd just read my blog and hadn't meant to bully me, it was just that he cares about me and thinks it's not good for me to be such a night owl. I told him about the comment and he said it was the sort of thing he would have said if he'd had time to leave a comment (he's busy decorating at the moment) but it wasn't him!!! Oops!

Anyway, whoever it was, he probably deserves a hug! I say "he" but it could of course be a she, but I feel somehow that it is a he!

Have a super Sunday evfurrybuddy:)

XXX

Why Does my Special Friend Bully me...

... because I keep odd hours?

Long Time No Blog!

I am not dead - at least I don't think so :: pinching myself ::. Yes, I felt that, probably still alive then!

Sorry I haven't blogged for so long. Pinky insisted my computer needed a complete reinstallation, which involved reformatting the hard drives and reinstalling WindowsXP and all my programs and files. Ahem... Installation went OK. Files OK. Programs. Where are all my programs? They're here, but are they working properly? Not so much. Pinky is now known as the CTO, hahaha!*

I'm still gradually getting my programs back in. It's taking, like, a squillion years. I love my computer but all this has dampened my enthusiasm somewhat. Besides which Planet Black Cat is rather in the doldrums at the moment. I haven't even managed to read many blogs or leave comments, even to those who have kindly left comments on my last posting. I'm slapping my wrists and promising to try to do better. I still love you all though!

I've been to the human v-e-t today because my eyes have gone all gummy and itchy. Oh, sorry, that might be too much information. I felt so dizzy on the way there I nearly fell over twice. The doctor took my blood pressure and it was quite high, so what with one thing and another she wants me to have some tests so I have to go back tomorrow (coz Friday is the day the phlebotomist visits the surgery) to have my blood stolen. I shall probaby feel even dizzier after that, haha!

Some cats have asked why I have a sleeping snail on the wall outside my front door:




It's been there for several months but I don't think it can be dead because if it was, wouldn't all its sticky stuff have dried up, causing it to fall off the wall? I don't know, but I heard recently that snails can sleep for three years! However, as this was a Steve Wright factoid, it may or may not be true...

xxx




*Computer Torture Operative

Leap Year

Dear Pinky,

It's Leap Year and today is 29th February, the only time in every four years that this date occurs. So I'm not going to remind you how bare my finger looks without any bling on it,

nor am I going to point out that although you proposed that we should (re)marry about four years ago, we still haven't set a date.

Nor am I going to point out that we don't actually have to sell our houses and buy a bungalow together before we (re)tie the knot. After all, at the rate we move, we could be dead before we achieve these goals.

Just saying...

Much love from your ador ed ing,

Black Cat




P.S. Does my bum look big in these shorts?

Shame about the Lizards

Sorry guys, I should have looked at the terms and conditions (which I just have) but they do say "download", not that you can't watch it as a streaming video, but I guess they mean both. Bummer! It's sure to be shown in Mericky, Canada, Australia, and other countries, at some time in the future hopefully.

Some new friends have asked who Pinky is. Here is a portrait of him:




Handsome devil, ain't he? You'd never know he's actually a bean, ha ha!

Lovely Lunch and Washed Up Wood

Hi there! I'm way behind on reading blogs and blogging myself. What on earth do I do all day that makes me get so far behind? Well, I sleep a lot, but sometimes I do actually get out of the house! For example, on Wednesday Pinky and Grumpy took me out to lunch.

There were meant to be four of us but Maggie couldn't come, unfortunately. She lives in Portugal so we will have to wait until she comes over again.

We had lunch in a pub restaurant near to where Grumpy lives. The food was delicious. I forgot to photograph it! I had rump steak with a Jack Daniels sauce. Actually, if I'd only thought about it, I should have videoed it because it arrived on a metal platter and was literally sizzling and still cooking; awesome!

Grumpy had a massive burger and Pinky had chicken carbonara.

After that we went down to see the wood that was washed up on the beach a week or so ago. It's amazing, it goes all along the coast from Southampton to Hastings or something. A long way anyhoo. We stopped near another favourite haunt, Carats, and took pictures. The public are forbidden from taking any of this wood (surely that must contravene maritime law? Dunno) and quite a lot of it has already been cleared by the authorities, but as you can see, there is still a lot left! In defiance Grumpy took a piece for his brother, who is building a new garden shed. I think he might need quite a bit more wood than the piece Grumpy took, ha ha!



After that we went to Carats and had a cup of tea (each, that is, not one between us, haha!).

Hope evfurrybody is having a great Sunday:)

BTW, there will be more about Grumpy in a future posting. He is a very talented bloke!

Monday Musings

Here I am, blogging in the comfort of warm slippers, thanks to Pinky! The slippers are somewhat worn out, some of the cozy lining has worn away, but they’ll do for a bit longer and if I get some sheepskin insoles, even longer, ha ha! It’s not like I’m a miser or anything, it’s just that I’m really mean on a very low income so I have to make things last as long as possible!

Mickey asked about the “black” in rum and black. The black is blackcurrant cordial, e.g. Ribena. You may call the concoction something different in Canada and Mericky, or maybe you eschew the “black” in favour of something else, such as Coke, as Mickey mentioned he had heard of that. Personally I can’t stand Coke, in rum or on its own, but here is an interesting factoid I picked up from a lovely innernet cat-breeder friend (sorry, I can’t find a direct link to her – I thought she was in my “Places I Like to Visit” but it seems not) but she and lots of lovely animal webcams and bean webcams can be found here. Well worth a visit because the cams stream in real time and most of them have chat rooms. Back to the factoid. Apparently Coke (original recipe, not diet variety and not other brands) contain every nutrient you need to stay alive, but the Coke has to be flat for it to work. I don’t know where this info comes from or if it has ever been put to the test. I keep meaning to Google it and then get distracted into something else! Ha, I’ve just found the link; it’s http://chinktonks.camstreams.com/ (she breeds Tonkinese cats and they are awesome. She only broadcasts when she has a growing litter).

Somecats have noticed that I have a new banner on my blog (it still needs a bit more tweaking) featuring three cats. These are, looking from left to right (and in the order in which I served them) Oliver:

William:

and Cybil:

One day (or rather, over several postings) I will tell their stories. They were all wonderful cats. Strangely, none of them were nipheads. I would have thought the odds against this were fairly rare. I feel another poll coming on… Anyhoo, Oliver was the inspiration for my nickname “Black Cat” because he shared my life at a time when I was a CB’er and I chose “Black Cat” as my handle. I was the original Black Cat (in the area where I live at least) although bean Black Cats have proliferated all over the place since then! Pinky was the “Pink Panther”, which got shortened to “Pinky”, and he gets called this by our friends probably as much or more as by his given name!

Miles: thanks for telling me about your hoodie. Seeing you relaxing with your meezermom while wearing it made me go “Sqeeeeee, awwwwww”! The hole in the back for a leash sounds like a good idea so you could wear it out walking on a cold day but a pocket on the back? I’m with you there, like you could get your paw round to it. You’d have to be a contortionist! Or, if you felt in need of a Temptation or some nip that you had put in there to sustain you during the walk, you would have to roll on your back on the cold ground and shake them out of the pocket. Duhr, I don’t think so!

Diamond: you asked why I have a bunny rabbit on my MySpace page. Dunno, I just came across it somewhere on the innernets and liked it. I love all animals (though bugs, not so much, though I respect their right to life) and a bunny with tiger furs just seemed cute. I know it must be photoshopped but it’s cool, IMHO:)

I have a question but I see I’ve “rabbited” (no pun intended) on for quite long enough so I’ll save it for another day.

Oh, another question (probably rhetorical) which I won’t save for later. I am wondering why a website called “crescenet” is commenting in mine bloggie and in Portuguese too. If they want me to sign up for something, they’re out of luck coz I don’t speak Portuguese, ha ha! I’m sure they’re lovely people, but come on guys, I don’t understand you, sorry!

Enjoy the rest of today everykitty and have a nice Toes Tuesday. I’m off to the Orthoptics Department tomorrow so keep you paws crossed that mine eyes can be uncrossed, lol!

Slipperday

Thank you to all who commented on my Toesday. They were all funny and informative. Karen Jo had a great suggestion, which was to use a shoelace by poking the plastic end through the holes, sewing round then tying off. I was about to go hunting for shoelaces when along came Pinky to the rescue. Knowing how clumsy I am, he was afraid I would trip over and hurt myself (again) so he confiscated the slippers, took them away and returned them all mendified!

Rum and black? These are tools for slipper mending? Oh silly me, of course, the cobbler needs liquid refreshment to improve concentration and accuracy…

Great!!! Thank you Pinky:)