Trixie

Tonight is Trixie's night.

We were very sorry to hear Trixie went to the Rainbow Bridge to be with her brothers Norton and Ralphie on the 28 Aug at the grand age of 18.

There is a blog tribute at 6pm PST at The Big Piney Woods (ie the Calico Girls' blog).

If blogger is playing up (and it is at the moment!) there is an alternate site here for leaving a comment hosted by the House of the (Mostly) Black Cats

Purrs and headbuts to The Meezers Mom and sandpaper kisses to Miles and Sammy.

Pandora and Charlie

Happy Gotcha Day to Me!

It's my Gotcha day today. I know Mum told Ms Mia the 16th, but Mum got her dates wrong.......!! Silly Mum - but hey, she feeds us, so who's complaining!

No party this weekend, 'cos my Mum is going away - AGAIN! She says she's going to The Fourteenth Cen-choory - whatever that means! There's probably more on her blog, but we poodins can't read!

So my party is gonna be next weekend - watch this space!

Gotta go sooper-vise the packing now!

charlie

You win some, you lose some.....

Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you.....and some days the bear just looks at you and walks off.........

Finally!!

Mum has got our Secret Paw out.....so look out Paw in Mericky, something is comin' your way!

I tried to steal the toys, but Mum just kep' putting them back in the box! P'haps she'll get me some of mine own?

And this is me wiff my lay-zur. It's cool and I loves it loads!


charlie

Can't stop.......

Flycatching...........

While you're waiting.......

Excuse the bad light - Mama is still learning about her new video phone!

And [waves paw at Victor] - dude! Mum got your YouTube invite :-)

charlie

It's here! It's here!

We gots our Secret Paw!! All the way from Mericky!!

It was from Mrs Sniffles - and d'you know? For a bunny (and a beautiful one at that! - cq) she has the most excellent taste in fluffie toys!

We gots a tunn-ell. It's cool, makes crinkly noises and has a dee-vine little fluffy ball in it. Mum says best of all, when we're not playing wiff it she can close it up and put it away!

And I gots fevvers!! I loves fevvers. We gots a toy wiv eiver fevvers on it or it can have a fishy on it - I likes the fevvers best. It's supposed to hang on the dorrhadle, Mum says, but it hasn't got that far yet [munch].

My mum is so pleased wiff her new phone wiff video, she filmed me wiff my Secret Paw! And she has ovver videos she's gonna up-load to ewe-tewbe.

charlie

And dear Mrs Sniffles, please thank Bunny Mommy and Bunny Daddy for the most wonderful crinkly New York Times - it was very comfortable for my old bones! Inspired packing [big feline smile]

pandora

Tagged!

Boy! We wuz tagged by lotsa fluffies!

Smeagol and Strider, my girlfriend Ariel and Mah Main Dude Victor all tagged us for the five things meme.
We starts by tellin 5 weird things/habits about ourselfs.Then we need to choose 5 others to tag and they need to write a post about their 5 weird things/habits as well as repeat this rule clearly, then tag 5 more victims. Don't furget to leave yur victim a comment that says "your're tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.
So me and Pandora are sharing this one

I'm bigger, so me first:

1. My favourite toy is called Stick. I haf nearly killed it. It used to haf fevvers and stuff, but now it's just yellow fluff onna stick. I takes it everywhere wiff me.

2. I haf a new toy. It's called Dot. Mum says it's actually a lay-zur. But I loves running and pouncing on it. We play most evenings, Mum says it's good exercise.

3. When I was a little kitty I used to sleep in the litter tray.

4. I is totally ascareded of visitors. When the doorbell rings I hides under my bed.

5. I haf an underbite, which means my front bottom teefs (you know those cute little ones in the front?) go over my top teefs. Makes eating stinky goodness difficult. Good fing I likes biscuit crunchies!

[pushes] and now me [preens]

1. I am 18 years old and Uncle Tim sys I will probably live to at least 20.

2. When I was a kitty I nearly died, since then I have not been ill until my darling friend Ambrose went to the Bridge.

3. If you comb me, I will bite you.

4. If you try and clip my claws, I will bite you.

5. If you try to force a pill down my throat, I will bite you.

Everyone seems to have been tagged - so we'll leave it to you to tag yourselves if you haven't done this game yet!

:charlie: Ms Mia has been to say Happy Purrthday. I've been to check the list and got Mum to check her diaries and my Gotcha Day is not this week, it's next week - 26th August!
Ms Mia, please change my entry (again!) and I will chastise my Mum! Honestly, some beans are SO useless!
There will, of course, be a party at some point!

Calling all Beans!

Guys, Mum has something to ask all your beans. I s'pose poodins could do it, but it is definitely a bean thing.

Mum has a little badge on her blog (top of our blogroll) that looks like this:

I Remember
Khang Nguyen
Pentagon

Although we're British, Mum is one of the bloggers taking part in this mark of respect to the victims and families of 9/11.

Mum says although the response has been huge, Mr DCRoe is short of his intended 2996 bloggers (one for each name, geddit?).

So Mum is sending out a call to the beans - if you haven't signed up yet click on the badge and sign up for this blogging miracle. Bloggers around the world joining together on this one day to remember the fallen and celebrate life.

So come on, poodins - let your beans use your computer on 9/11 and join in the call to blog!

Wouldn't it be excellent if we got the 2996 bloggers??

charlie and pandora

Dark in here, innit........?

Wow - all the light things went out in the house the other day! Daddy and Mum were going around getting these things out.........

They are called 'can-dells' and Mum says they are really hot! I nearly singed my beautiful tail a couple of times....

I liked having no lights 'cos Mum and I played 'chase the torch beam' - that's a good game!

But when the lights came on there was this nasty screamy beeping noise that drilled through my head.......we didn't like that at all - in fact it made Pandy have a bad turn!

Mum says it was called the 'Ha-larm' and Daddy turned it off real quick.

All in all - powercuts are definitely not my thang!!

charlie

Looky, looky!!

Look at what my Daddy maded for us!

Houses in the UK aren't built with screens, like the Mericky houses. And wiff two Before Fluffies taken to the Bridge on the Nasty Road, Mum doesn't want us to go roaming.

So Daddy maded us our very own screen! It fits into the french doors and means the doors can be open to let in some of that lush fresh air and we can't 'scape!

We likes it VERY much - thank you Daddy!

charlie

I was very disturbed this afternoon. We were shut out of the lounge (well, we know why now, 'cos Daddy was building our 'Fresh Air Thingy'). When we were let back in and I had inspected the Fresh Air Thingy,

I wandered off for a bite to eat - inspections are hard work! Well, the kitchen floor was lovely and clean....but where was my FOOD??

This is my dining area. But no tablecloth, no bowls, no FOOD!

MAMA! Don't make me poop on your pillow!

::cq:: oops, sorry Pandy [puts down bowls] I forgot.....

Wow!

That was SOME party.........

Most everyone came to help the old bagcat sellybrate her birthday! There was swimmin', tramamapolinin', drinkin', nippin' and even karaoke and dancin'! I'm pooped!!



Some new friends came; Skeeeeezix, Rocky and Maobert. They are cool dude cats and are welcome anytime (even though Pandora blew off Mao!).

Pandora is still recovering, and I'm still trying to dry my fur out. The pool has been returned to the loan company and the tramamapoline has been sent back to the people that lent it to us. There's no food left, and the drink was all drunk!

So it's back to normal here - until my Gotcha Day, which Mum says is next month!

charlie

Thank you all for coming to my party. It was a great success! :-) I hope you all had a good time!

Thank you for the presents and cards, they were all excellent. Look at these adorable cards:

from Skeeeeezix and Maobert :-)

Ah well, back to the routine of bean care. Mama was out all day yesterday in the hot and she was VERY bad-tempered when she came home. We need to do extra furkisses today. But first - a nice nap....

pandora

Party Time!

At 10pm UK time (that's about 4-5pm in Mericky), in about an hour, Pandora's Party will kick off!
If we're not here when you arrive, it'll be 'cos it's the middle of the night here, and we will be doing our usual shift walking on Mum and Daddy's faces....but everything will still be here, so party on and if we can get back we will!

She's 18yrs old on Monday and Mum said I could arrange a party tonight for her.


We have multicoloured nip for the nipheads.......

We have Shrimptinis for those that like them......

And Russianless White Russians for those with a taste for the finer things.....

Mum has instructed taps be left on for drinking.........

As it's blinkin' hot here, Mum has said we can use the pool - but no taking a whizz in the water [looks guilty]

And finally, my favourite!! Mum has ordered a tramamapoline for us younger kits.......!!

and as an extra treat, for the more mature felines - shot chess, with the finest nip brandy and scotch! (What? You didn't know nip brandy was BLUE!?!)

did I do good, Mum?? Did I??? Huh? Huh?

Pandora [yawning]: oh look!! A party fit for a feline of such beauty and poise.....and shrimptinins! Charlie, you're not all bad.

Now there's just time for a quick nap before the guys start teleporting over.

News, News!

My Mama is home! She went to see our granny and grampy in Scotland, but she's home now. She brought pictures of our cousins - look!

pandora

We gotted our Summer Secret Paw! It's so awesomely cool!! And it's a Mericky fluffie we don't know.....so we're sending Mum off to the shops! :-)

charlie

And lastly, don't forget my birthday party! Tomorrow night, bring drinks and snacks and nip (if you take it, I prefer shrimptinis myself)Everyone is invited (although, given my age, I may retire frequently!). Paws up, charlie is in charge of the games, he says he got some ideas from recent parties.....[shakes perfect head] I dread to think........

pandora

Party - 21 July.....make a note in your diaries!

I will be 18 bean years old on the 24 July!

That's 78 years old in our lifetimes..... sheesh, no wonder my bones creak....

Mama says I can have a party on the 21st July, but she's gonna be away for a week now. So - if you see this, spread the word. All felines and beans, buns, woofies invited....

Mama will do the rounds as much as she can when she gets back from our bean granny and grampy's house.

pandora

Mum's Leaving Again!!

Mum's leaving again. She's going to see our Granny and Grampy in Scotland. We don't like suitcases, they are BAD.
We watched Mum pack (charlie: actually Pandora pretended to be asleep - so Mum would think she didn't care), thinking that by using the Cat Stare we could persuade her to empty the suitcase again - but no........

When she settled down for a coffee we did the whole 'crowding the lap' thing, thinking maybe that would persuade her to stay........


We were very good, bit of sniffing, lots of purring and no fighting.....but no, she's still putting stuff in the suitcase.......

So I'm gonna sit on the draining board until she comes home!

Daddy's gonna look after us 'til Mum comes home. Good thing is we get extra snuggles from Daddy....!!

Charlie and Pandora

Happy Fur-th of July!

Happy Fur-th of July to our Mericky Fur-iends!!

From

Charlie

and

Pandora

p: For Pete's sake - will you update our blog, Mama!! We know you have the goods, 'cos you've been lurking with that flashy box.

cq: sorry guys.......Mum's been busy.

c: get with the programme, my fans need to see the Charlie-Boy!

cq: Charlie - move please.........

c: [mutter mutter]

p: ah - my safe place. Mama's lap.........

c: Mum boughted me this new playmat. Well, she says it's a doormat, but it must be for me - I co-ordinate wiff it!!

p: you can run, Charlie-Boy - but you can't hide!! I'm watching you.......

cq: Charlie - what are you doing, honey?

c: Isn't it obvlious?? I am guarding Daddy's fur. He takes it off and leaves it lying around - someone has to keep an eye on it.......

urrrrrggggghhhhhhh

shhh.....

Mum says I'm 'still in recovery' - whatever that means.......


boy, Oreo really knows how to throw a party!

charlie

Hot hot hot

It's hot for little old ladies here in the UK...

*PHEW!*

Charlie teleported over to Oreo's party this morning, I think he was looking for his buddy Victor (boys! honestly).

Poor kit is a bit sad that his girlfriend Ariel can't be there, but we is praying for your mommie and your mommie's mommie, Ariel!

Charlie left this for Mama to post.

Pandora

"Woo hoo!! New toy!! I gotta new toy! Mama brung it from the Birmingingingham place where she's been at skool! I've put my stinky rub all over so Pandora can't have it! And it rattles too! Meeces that rattle are soooo kewl! Off to Oreo's in a minute, Pandy's coming later today, when the Mericky people are awake, she says.

charlie"

Mama founded me!!

My mum founded me.

I sneaked out last night to do some 'sploring and they shutted the door wivout realising I was outside. So I creeped unner the little house in the garden, and sleeped there.

It wasn't nice, there was meeces, 'n' spy-dorrs 'n' bugs 'n' stuff and then when the sun camed up, I couldn't get out!

I cried and cried. Mama camed into the garden and looked under the little wooden house but I was napping. But she camed out a lot and I cried and cried 'Mama!' 'Mama!' - and she founded me! She called my name looked under the little wooden house with a light and got Daddy to come see.

Daddy made loud noises, Mama said he was pulling up the floorboards. I didn't like the noises, so I squeaked out of the teeniest space and dashed for the nice safe house. But the door was shut! Mama caught me and putted me in the house and I went and hid in my room.

I'm so glad to be home with Mama, it's NASTY out there.......

charlie

ps - lookee what my girlfriend Ariel has on her bloggie :-)