The Intruder

From Facebook Archives

17 January 2021

Just wandered into our bedroom prior to getting showered and saw a cat's tail slide under the bed.

Not Felix's pure black one, nor Teddy's ginger Northumbrian flag either, but Jessie-cat's black & tabby.

"Oi! There's a cat going under our bed and it's not even our cat!"

Jessie looks out a little sheepishly

"Out you!  You don't even live here."

She slinks out past me and slips back downstairs.

Now to find out who left the backdoor open long enough ...

Bad enough yesterday she and Felix had a half hour's antipathetical duet on the drive which you could hear all over the street.

I have since learnt that Jesse is a tomcat.

 

 

The flag of Northumberland

 

 

In Gear

From Facebook Archives

16 January 2011 at 14:17

I've ordered Fester’s birthday gift from Amazon 

(it's in June) and got presents for 3 people whose birthdays are in May and October, and possibly some for next Xmas too!

White Rose  In the sales?

Benonbag  Partly

Ozwife  How organised!

Bentonbag  I must have got my arse in gear - 

pity the clutch is gone and it's stuck in first!

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Once everybody is driving electric cars nobody but those of us who learnt to drive on non-automatic infernal combustion engine vehicles will understand the reference.

Strange Attraction

From Facebook Archives

15 January 2012 at 22:43

Did Sherlock make anyone else cry?

Rose Kitchen  Me! x

Ms Exlibris  Not me - I just want to know how he can still be alive?  Why do Steven Moffat stories always confuse the hell out of me??

Bentonbag  Ditto - but the last 15minutes had me in shreds - especially the graveside scene - but that's perhaps because I've been there

I swore never to watch Sherlock again after the last series ended with an unresolved denouement - but I am strangely attracted to John Watson's military gait and was drawn back in again.

 

Just The Ticket?

From Facebook Archives

14 January 2012 at 15:20

Been to Central Station for Freedom of Scotland passes for half term - just noticed two start 12 February as requested and two start 19 January! 😖

How the heck did the computer manage that one?

All Berwick tickets (where Freedom of Scotland starts) are ok.

Return trip tomorrow to remonstrate!!!

So will have to go to the Quayside Market after all.

These boys are getting bl**dy expensive

15 January 2012

Tickets successfully replaced by woman cashier who asked who it was who had done the first sale.   

Sadly all I could tell her was "it was the man that sits in that seat over there".   

Eyebrows raised with the tiniest hint of a roll!

 

The Least You'd Expect

From Facebook Archives

11 January 2018 at 22:47

I'm looking at hotels on the Mull of Galloway and have just found 'toilet paper' and 'towels' listed under Room Facilities.

Now I've not got huge expectancies but I'd have thought the former was a given!

Mr Mull  You'd have thought so but a few years ago we stayed in a Travelodge and, having already changed rooms from a filthy one to a merely grubby one, we noticed there was no toilet paper.  We asked the staff member for some and were told they couldn't give out toilet paper until the manager was there!  Thankfully they seem better now.*

Norsk Islands  Have you mentioned this on tripadvisor?

Mr Mull  I believe I did but it was some years ago.

Bentonbag  I won't tell you what I saw on the flat room outside our Travelodge window in Glasgow when we did our first Freedom ofScotland Rail Tour a few years ago!

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*Travelodge have improved considerably in recent years and I would actually recommend the one in Bournemouth.