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I am so glad to hear Popeye is OK and back to normal! I hope you are feeling that way too, or soon will be. How horrid for you both but thank goodness you are both safe.
 

Haha -- so like a cat! ^. .^
 

A win for the positives in the move, but a HUG too for the move and what it brings up, and of course the very unknown part of it all.

a great adventure to be sure, but always a hint of worry too, which is whats kept the species alive all these years.

shame you are not just a few hundred from here rather then the few thousand, or i'd have offered to come give you a hand.
sure others would have as well.

thank you for the scoot best wishes..

yes it is raised, and i thought it might be too low for the rider, but it's pretty much perfect for me, ( steph not tried it yet, so we'll see.)..yes, the good thing is Lauren is quite 'leggy' ...i think they say of ladies..

Great legs, but i mean tall....well taller then all her mates..i'd guess 5.7/8"

Again perfect for me. dancing she rests on my shoulder nicely.
( god must love me ..giving me beer amd bacon as well as Lauren, proves it me thinks )

So she can normally see over my should on the scoots abroad, but this one will give her views over my head i think..might make a difference to how she 'enjoys' the bike ride, ...hopefully..
has top box so she can rest back, as did MB, but she still said NO..


Best wishes for your move, i take @ianpspurs , view that as upsetting as it is, sometimes it's right to move on.

you have been on about moving for a while now, perhaps time to let that 'inner voice' take over and let your mind rest easy, with the decision.

Have a good morning @SaskiaKC
 

Sorry @Krystyna23040 probably MY computer playing up rather then any fault with the forum,
but you seem to have missed off your address, so we can 'help' with the problem..

No worries next post will do, just thought i'd mention it..

see ya soon.
 
Oh my days...poor old Popeye...

So glad he's safe and well, IF also ....
A) a little Skittish
and/or
B) a sneaky B****** and planning a sneak attack back, too.

Have only seen ONE cat on a lead, it didn't look happy, so we toyed with it, as well, but belles was NOISY and like a greased up writhe-ring snake when we did finally put it on her.. (3 pints later..ME, not cat..and very NOT beer.)
it was TOO torturous to watch any longer so we gave up and that was the end of that..so well done you getting him in it at all..very impressed, and probably a nod to his mind set at the time, i'd guess...poor mite.

Hope the days ahead get him back to his own ways and Zones of interest
( no reason why anything should be OUTSIDE , so close to the back door....no foods or drinking bowls ? )
 
@SaskiaKC thanks for your reply and good wishes. That is a very handsome red sofa, now I have sofa envy! It would be good if there was an acceptable bed at the new place and you could just buy a new mattress. I hope you can find a way to keep your mama’s desk. I think it would be very comforting in new surroundings. A little story. Our second move was from a ground level flat to an Edwardian house and our King bed base would not go up the stairs. The removal men offered to saw a bit of the stair rail and finial off but we just couldn't do that. So we slept on the mattress on the floor for 8 weeks while a factory made us a split base bed. But we were very young, now it would be a struggle to get down to the floor let alone get up again, lol.
 

Thank you. Hug.
I have no doubt God loves you, and the gifts of Lauren, beer and bacon (notice the order ) are wonderful blessings. You yourself are such a loving husband and family man and friend ... Lauren and Steph are blessed.

Re: recent postings here about different people's images of "scooter" -- here is what I picture:
 
If you can persuade the government to make chocolate an illegal substance then you will clean up.
 

Very hard indeed to get up and down from a floor mattress. The KittenCat might love it -- she wouldn't have to jump! -- but I don't enjoy getting up from my current bed, which is just a mattress and foundation, total height 16". My sofa is the same height and I have to tell myself that getting up from it is good exercise ... ???

An Edwardian house sounds fascinating ... I have seen pictures of course, but to live in one! Is it as nice as it seems? WWI era is about as old as most houses would be around here ... there are some turn-of-the century ones too, but they are not thick on the ground. It is funny -- there is an American house style called Queen Anne that looks nothing like Queen Anne houses I have seen pictures of in the UK, and actually are more Edwardian in date, ... hmm ...
 
SaskiaKC said:
I am so glad to hear Popeye is OK and back to normal! I hope you are feeling that way too, or soon will be. How horrid for you both but thank goodness you are both safe.
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He surprised me how quickly he came back to normal. I was out earlier, and left him asleep in my bedroom and shut the door so he couldn't go outside while I am out. I was just being cautious. When I came back a few hours later he was still asleep. I woke him up, and went outside with him. He seems to understand. We are both back in my bed and he is purring his head off. I am very relieved.
Thank you.
 
Now going or now seeing is very Norfolk do you not agree @Krystyna23040 ? Are you sure you aren't really in Hilgay?
 
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@gennepher I hope you and Popeye are rested and feeling better after the ordeal.
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Thanks @PenguinMum
We had a good sleep earlier. Then I had notifications that some parcels had arrived at the post office. So I left him asleep in my bed, shut the door, to make sure he stayed in..
it was nice earlier, so I stayed out do some shopping and other messages. He was still asleep when I got back! So I woke him up and went outside with him (I didn't put the harness and lead on). He seemed to understand not to go out of my sight. It was still daylight. But if he needs to toilet tonight, then it will be harness and lead. Although I have bought some cat litter and a tray today (he has never used one, never had to, I always had a cat-flap). But I will set that up in a bit....

Whatever it was that got him coming out of the cat flap was an opportunist. I don't know if your cats do things at regular times, but you can almost set your clock to the times he goes out to toilet, goes out to hunt, and so comes out of the cat flap at regular times.
 
It really wasnt that grand. It was a red brick semi detached with nice features and was the home where we would start our family. We spent a lot of money repointing the brickwork and rebuilding the chimney which was in shocking state. A few months after we had the big storm of 1987 and the damage was so bad the old chimney would have come down and killed us in our bed. We had n power and couldnt get out of our village for a week. Hundreds of ancient oak trees were felled like mere twigs in every direction.
 
Oh thats good news. Absolutely my cats do things at the same time every day. If I am late opening the can of tuna they sit expectantly by the kitchen cupboard where it's stored. At 10pm I just have to say “time for bed” in fact I only have to switch the tv off and they head to their night baskets. You really can train cats if you want to. I think they like to be habitual.
 

There is no food outside nor drinking bowls...
Only the ponds in the back garden with hibernating frogs, and buckets of rainwater in back garden.

He thinks heard or saw something just now through my bedroom window, it is dark now, so I have put him on the harness and lead, and he has dragged me round the garden and checked every tree and blade of grass...but won't toilet on the lead. I can't believe he allows me to put him on harness and lead...

So we ended up back in the kitchen where I blocked the cat flap with heavy wooden chest. And set up cat tray and litter...plonked him in it...whereupon he sent the whole lot flying and now I have crunchy cat litter all over the kitchen floor. He is worse than @HarryBeau 's little mites...

He won't come out of the kitchen...he has his eyes glued on that cat flap, which he can't see because of the wooden chest. I give up...I have come back to bed. It is up to him if he joins me...
 

I agree that they like to be habitual. His Lordship is going to have to learn different going outside habitual times for his own safety at the moment. But then that is probably why he catches so many mice, because the little blighters probably come out at the same times...
 
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gennepher said:
He won't come out of the kitchen...he has his eyes glued on that cat flap, which he can't see because of the wooden chest.
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Oh poor thing he obviously is trying hard to protect his home & you...he's in one piece that's the most important thing it will take him a while to settle down...I think he'll use the tray after all cats like to be clean...bless him he has his pride...hope he has a restful night...I had a lockable cat flap in London have you considered one of them long term?
 
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