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Apr. 23rd, 2025 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsOn Saturday, I was at Pets at Home, helping out for Consett Cats again. This time I was manning the tombola, and final total raised was £81. Not as much as the week before, but considering the prizes were the usual, not exciting tombola fare, I was pleased with the total. The shop did warn Kay, the main rescue lady, that we had to be careful about people stopping to talk and blocking the aisle. Not just for our day, but the whole fortnight.
This is a year-long partnership, so we'll be back in the summer and before Christmas for two more fortnights of fundraising -- in between they have collection tins out for Consett Cats near the tills, and raise money that way -- and hopefully they'll rearrange, so the table can go in the foyer and not cause bottlenecks.
We ended up staying much longer than originally planned, but again, I got to stroke lots of cute dogs and talk to lots of people, so I enjoyed the day.
If anyone is interested, Kay was recently interviewed for the BBC news, talking about trapping a feral colony. She really is an amazing woman, running the rescue single-handed with the help of volunteers.
Sunday I spent hanging at Kayleigh's as my brother and nephew were going there to put up a shed. It's not often that us sibs can get together for nearly a full day, even if Chris was working for most of it. It was nice to just hang, though man, it was chilly, and in the end Kayleigh switched on the patio heater.
Monday we were supposed to take Bodhi to a Tinkerbell Easter party at Moo Bears, but it was cancelled as Tinkerbell ended up having to be admitted to hospital. Thankfully, Bodhi still doesn't really have any real concept of time, so didn't realise she was missing out. Plus, she had all her eggs to concentrate on, so was happy enough.
I was a bit annoyed at Moos, who only announced the cancellation in a few sentences within their normal daily FB post. If I hadn't read that, we would have turned up to no party. I think, considering the tickets were pre-paid, they should have messaged people individually.
As there was no party, we rearranged plans and did grocery shopping in the morning, dropped off Bodhi's easter basket, then went to Pauline's as she'd asked us to come for lunch. Stayed there for a couple of hours and then headed for Newcastle to drop off Corey's Easter eggs.
Yesterday was supposed to be a no plan day for me, but first thing I got a message from Kayleigh asking, what are your plans today? Which I always know means, something has come up, can you babysit for me? And yep, I was at Kayleigh's from 10 to nearly four as Bodes wasn't feeling well and Kayleigh and Lucy had tattoo appointments booked in. It was all good though, I got to play tea parties and got some sun in the garden, and had a bit of excitement when first, their youngest cat decided to carry in a giant, fat, furry bumblebee. Then a blackbird decided to stroll in the house to get a drink from the cat's waterbowl. That I didn't mind, the bee situation, trying to work out how to get a cat to drop a bee wasn't a good time.
This is a year-long partnership, so we'll be back in the summer and before Christmas for two more fortnights of fundraising -- in between they have collection tins out for Consett Cats near the tills, and raise money that way -- and hopefully they'll rearrange, so the table can go in the foyer and not cause bottlenecks.
We ended up staying much longer than originally planned, but again, I got to stroke lots of cute dogs and talk to lots of people, so I enjoyed the day.
If anyone is interested, Kay was recently interviewed for the BBC news, talking about trapping a feral colony. She really is an amazing woman, running the rescue single-handed with the help of volunteers.
Sunday I spent hanging at Kayleigh's as my brother and nephew were going there to put up a shed. It's not often that us sibs can get together for nearly a full day, even if Chris was working for most of it. It was nice to just hang, though man, it was chilly, and in the end Kayleigh switched on the patio heater.
Monday we were supposed to take Bodhi to a Tinkerbell Easter party at Moo Bears, but it was cancelled as Tinkerbell ended up having to be admitted to hospital. Thankfully, Bodhi still doesn't really have any real concept of time, so didn't realise she was missing out. Plus, she had all her eggs to concentrate on, so was happy enough.
I was a bit annoyed at Moos, who only announced the cancellation in a few sentences within their normal daily FB post. If I hadn't read that, we would have turned up to no party. I think, considering the tickets were pre-paid, they should have messaged people individually.
As there was no party, we rearranged plans and did grocery shopping in the morning, dropped off Bodhi's easter basket, then went to Pauline's as she'd asked us to come for lunch. Stayed there for a couple of hours and then headed for Newcastle to drop off Corey's Easter eggs.
Yesterday was supposed to be a no plan day for me, but first thing I got a message from Kayleigh asking, what are your plans today? Which I always know means, something has come up, can you babysit for me? And yep, I was at Kayleigh's from 10 to nearly four as Bodes wasn't feeling well and Kayleigh and Lucy had tattoo appointments booked in. It was all good though, I got to play tea parties and got some sun in the garden, and had a bit of excitement when first, their youngest cat decided to carry in a giant, fat, furry bumblebee. Then a blackbird decided to stroll in the house to get a drink from the cat's waterbowl. That I didn't mind, the bee situation, trying to work out how to get a cat to drop a bee wasn't a good time.
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Date: 2025-04-23 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-23 04:54 pm (UTC)But yeah, the bee situation wasn't good. It was huge, buzzing angrily, and Miah just wouldn't drop it. Thankfully, in the end, she ran outside with it, and it managed to escape. Meanwhile, Bodhi had brought me her easter basket with a tea towel in it. Apparently, that was a bee trap.
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Date: 2025-04-23 09:06 pm (UTC)I think my first reaction to the cat having the bee would be to boot the cat out the door, then encourage to release the bee, and bring the kitty back inside. It's never fun to have any sort of insects inside one's house, but especially not ones that can sting!
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Date: 2025-04-24 10:47 am (UTC)In the end Miah did go outside with the bee, it was the only thing I could think to do as I couldn't think of another way to get it out of her mouth without making the bee even angrier. Because yeah, stingy things are not cool!
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Date: 2025-04-24 08:25 am (UTC)And that you got to spend time with your sibs.
They really should have contacted people individually; not cool Moo Bears!
Oh geeze, the bee! That could've been bad if the cat had gotten stung. Our dogs snap at bees all the time and sometimes don't miss, and then they're sorry.
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Date: 2025-04-24 10:46 am (UTC)No, I was annoyed with how Moo Bears did the announcement. The cancellation would have been so easy to miss if I hadn't checked FB that day.
Yeah, Miah getting stung was what I was worried about. The thing was buzzing like crazy, but she wouldn't let it go.
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Date: 2025-04-26 05:32 pm (UTC)That totally sucks of Moo Bear! They should have made sure everyone with a pre-paid ticket new the event was cancelled!
That sounds like a very exciting Bodhi sitting! Scary about the bumblebee but the blackbird incident sounds rather adorable.
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Date: 2025-04-27 06:22 am (UTC)Kay the cat lady is amazing. She normally only adopts to people in the NE, but she was up in Scotland yesterday delivering the two ragdolls I mentioned in a previous post. They had to go as a bonded pair, so I guess it must have been much harder to find the perfect owner, so she had to travel.
Yeah, I was surprised Moo Bears messed up like they did in terms of telling people the event was cancelled.
The blackbird hung around the garden for hours after it came in for a drink. While not tame as such, it certainly wasn't frightened either, and kept strutting around even when we were outside.