soop's friendly kitchen for like-minded folk and pampered pets.

I've just popped in to say best wishes to Soop on your journey and for the get together but please try not to get to riotous, you know the noise carries as far as our house.

I hope Rory is safe until you return. MacS is a good man.

We are travelling home tomorrow via a visit to my aunt who mum fell out with years ago. I always enjoyed her company so I'm looking forward to seeing her again. Also one of my cousins should be there!

Take care everyone until I get home!

I wonder if this post will be successful.

I have brought white wine to the north step. Anyone? Just hold out your glass.
House is clean and cakes are baked ready for a Macmillan coffee do tomorrow. Virtuous - moi? Smug I think!

Norty

I don't know what I might have missed when I've been occasionally absent from the kitchen. Seems to me that we are all totally innocent. Cari, fear not. Everyone here is full of nothing but good will to all grans.

Anno how are you? How did you get on with your shoulder check up?

Have a lovely time with your family soop. Hope MacS and Rory will behave themselves while you're gone. ?

This norty step is getting a bit crowded now but the more the merrier just keep bringing the wine

Maybe the new kitchen should be called The Norty Step!!

Well done Kitty! It posted . I hope you have a great visit with your aunt and cousin. I find it so easy to fall into the familiarity of relatives.

maw

I have had three glasses of wine but I do not feel like singing. When I do something wrong usually people are quick to tell me where I have gone wrong so it would be nice to know.

My feeling for what it is worth is that Cari read some posts a week or two ago but time has moved on since there were one or two upsets. I do not mind staying on the norty step overnight but I have to be up at a reasonable time folks. I suspect that I will not need an alarm.

soop I do hope that you have a wonderful time with your family- when are you returning? We will try to make sure that MacSporran behaves but no promises. We know that Rory will because he is a model cat and a very goooooood boy.

We will have to be up early too charleygirl as Paw has to be at MKH for a blood transfusion. More than a bit cross actually. Reported to District Nurse yesterday that the carer and I had seen traces of rectal bleeding so the DN arranged a full blood test this morning to check ifbtherevhad been a significant loss.
He also had an "extra" INR test.
2 weeks ago his level was 2.6 which is bang on target and I was told to keep him on 3mg of Warfarin daily and come back on October 6. I protested that was much too long when there was no guarantee Paws levels were stable so the phlebotomist offered to come out this morning and do both. .
Sure enough his INR has shot up to 4.7 which probably explains the rectal blood traces (internal bleeding)!
The GP was only too content that this was down to piles and therefore not urgent when we spoke on the phone earlier today well, yah boo, the Urgent Care Centre doctor clearly thought otherwise and wanted Paw in hospital tonight!
Persuaded her to let him go tomorrow as an Outpatient but if I hadn't kicked ass yet again, there would have been NO INR test, he would have been on way too high a dose of a Warfarin for another two weeks and his insides could have bled and bled.
Silent scream.
soop have a wonderful time with your family and know that mcsporran will take good care of Rory and hopefully the "chaps" can enjoy some quality time and create some happy memories.
(I would have felt exactly the same in your shoes if it had been Grace)

Maw I'm sorry to hear about Paw. Thank goodness he has you fighting his corner.

What a good job you understand paws condition so well, maw, exhausting for you having to be more professional than a professional but oh so well done for persevering. You're right to be cross, I imagine words will be said at the appropriate time. Hope this upset won't stop you resting - even if on a virtual norty step . I remain very curious as to our joint offence, maybe we'll know one day.

Good luck for tomorrow. maw, wishing paw well.

No problem with your post this time kitty, where do they go? Sounds like a wonderful catch up tomorrow

Oh charley, three glasses of wine? I'm feeling very hard done by after my single glass .

Hope you have a safe and comfortable journey soop and a very happy weekend with your family. Such a pity that MacSporran can't come with you but neither of you would have felt able to leave poor old rory on his own. Hope that both the chaps have a peaceful weekend.
Love to you all. X

Just a quick visit as I'm another one with an early apt- this time for a chest x ray!

Just wanted to say Maw ...I love the renaming suggestion :-) and sorry to hear you face more uphill struggles to get Paw the treatment he deserves.

And have a wonderful time soop , I know you will miss MacS but he and Rory will enjoy some man time and you will have lots to tell on your return.xx

I will add my good wishes to Oldgoat's, Soop. Have a good journey and a happy weekend!
Hope you also have a good journey home, kitty and a pleasant visit with your aunt.

Didn't see your post, N&G - hope you're feeling better today and the chest x-ray goes okay ?.

Wishing you safe journeys soop and a wonderful weekend. As others have said, the boys will have a gooooooood time together and be pleased to see you when you get back.

Maw I dread to think what would happen if you weren't on the ball about Paw 's situation. This sort of thing appears to be happening more and more often - or is it our seemingly insatiable need for bad news to make our own lives feel better?

Is it really time for flu jabs again? I suppose that means our summer is over then

kitty I haven't been to Morecambe for years and years.
My mother loved it as she was stationed there with the WRAF during the war. According to the stories she told she had a fine old time

Get well soon all you poorly people and keep strong to all those looking after someone.

PS I hope the norty step isn't a stone one or you'll all get piles!!

What on earth have you lot been up to in my absence to bring the wrath of poor old Cari on us?
Just wait til I return!

oooops ....more scared of Galen than Cari :-) best we all stay on the 'norty step' !!! There ARE cushions Kitty - what do you take us for ;-)

Back from the hospital , all done . I have a heart but my lungs are a bit suspect!!

Day 3 of my antibiotics so should be seeing improvements soon. Time for a cuppa I think !!

She told us off AND wanted mint tea Galen Can you credit it? Do you think she was on the wrong thread? Maybe she meant to go into the argy-bargy cafe?

Hope you have a lovely family get together soop and that Macs and Rory have a peaceful time waiting for your return.

When we were in Wales last week, I called into a shop to get a present to take home for DD. They had some slate coasters shaped like rugby balls and you could have a sentiment of your choice carved into it, so I ordered one for DD as it was his birthday, I always get him something silly, and we had not, at that stage, fallen out! It came this morning and as he doesn't speak a word of Welsh, he asked me what it said and I told him "you are the best". So he went on the internet. "What are you doing?" I asked. "I'm just checking that it doesn't actually say "You are a complete b*****d", he said! He was smiling when he said it though!

DH!!!! Not DD (she's not a complete b*****d!).

I am just back from the Dentist. I only went for a check up but I have had a loose tooth for a couple of years and is has started bothering me so the Dentist and I agreed it should come out. It was very quick and painless and is the first tooth I have lost. However I had a bad reaction to the anaesthetic and shook from head to toe. I felt dreadful and had staff rushing round and after I had sat for quite a time a member of staff fetched her car and brought me home.
I am now sitting with my feet up and spoiling myself.

Poor Ann! I hope you are feeling better now and the reaction has worn off. Life is never straightforward!
Cake anyone? Lots left from the coffee morning!