A temporary truce...

... between Charlie and  Gumtree! And yes those are bits of their fur on the carpet as this was taken after a most vigorous knockabout-play-fight-play that they both won of course! :-)

Bloggie friends!!!

This writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days is bizarre but it's taught me two things:

1) I'm literally and metaphorically writing rubbish just to get to the word count! LOL!

2) I miss blogging! I miss you all!!!

See you at the finishing line!

p.s. Gum-Gum goes for his "little operation" this Thursday so please wish him luck!

:-)

Two tins tied together with a piece of string

Bloggie friends!

It’s the second week of January 2012 and I’ve absolutely nothing of excitement to report (apart from the little matter of me nearly ditching the blog and leaving Blogworld on Friday for good when Google removed my blog - but that’s another story) !! LOL!

Charlie says: I move further along the carpet to play with my toys.



p.s. Thank you to all of you who talked me off the virtual ledge of Google Headquarters (lovely Jan, Kim, Marg, Cheri... all of you, all of you!)

p.s. Also thank you to my lovely special scrummy friend who lent me their mobile number - because I don't own a mobile phone or want to!

To unlock my Google accounts I had to get a verification code and the Google Bots would only recognise a mobile number for them to send me this code.

p.s. I say bring back the Pigeon!

Happy Blogging!!

My Screensaver

Charlie says: I interrupt your blogging cos it is snack time. For me.


Bloggie friends!!! Some of my favourite bloggers have signed off for the holidays to be back by the New Year (I hope!) and everytime I think I ought to do the same, I can't.

Cos my name is Old Kitty and I'm a Bloggie-holic! :-)

Have feathery Friday everyone!

8 snowy days to Christmas!

Kindness of strangers

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image

[Charles W. Chestnut (1858-1899) ]

Lovely bloggie friends - thank you for your kindness after yesterday's post.

Just to say I don't personally know Bin. I met her here in blog world and she was kind enough to help me with my passworded doc that I couldn't open.

I'm sure you've all seen her latest post. I, like you, await further news.

I am feeling more optimistic for Bin and that poor cat than I did this time yesterday though. I didn't think my heart could break any further.

And yesterday, I was supposed to have written my story for my latest assignment. The one that I bought all those women's mags for. The story I wanted to write was supposed to be lighthearted and optimistic with a realistic feel and one that could be read in a weekly women's mag.

But given yesterday's heartbreak I found it very difficult to create such an environment.

I was more likely to write a vampire story or something horrific!

So I guess being able to turn off one's current emotions to write to satisfy a commercial writing market is something I am yet to acquire!

Anyway, if I hear any further news from Bin (I've emailed her too, poor woman!) I'll let you know.

Thank you once again for being supportive and kind and as outraged!

The blogging world ROCKS!

Mother of all boards - kaput!

Dear Bountiful beautiful and buxom bloggie friends.

The above is a hat made out of pc cables.

Today's shenanigans makes me realise that perhaps that's the best use for them!

At 7.05 am, my desktop's motherboard breathed her last sigh and said "ta-ta, me old china, I've 'ad enough" and promptly turned off all her lights, fan included.

At which point my desktop breathed its own last sigh and fell silent.

Their Maker, Dell Inc, have finally agreed that there was nothing I can do.

These lovely people had me rolling up my sleeves, grasping a screwdriver, opening the pc's hard drive tower and generally rummaging through this wire and that.

Ya know, I never knew that was how a memory card looked like....

An hour and a half later, they finally twigged that I was going nowhere except towards electrocution (I could hear in the background such exchanges as "you mean she's not discharged the electricity? Quick tell her to do so!")

At least now they have agreed to send in a Technician with a Proper Screwdriver and a brand spanking new Mother of all Boards.

Because I paid extra for such a service in my warranty.

I betcha y'all are now all wondering how is this fabulous and fizzy woman blogging if she doesn't have a pc?

I do have my second hand hulk of a laptop. It connects to the internet router via a very small cable because it cannot pick up my wireless.

So am on the floor, ignoring the little laptop fan cranking up for all it's worth and trying to figure out how to upload my pics especially ones of Charlie. And my shoes.

I'm not even thinking of allllllll that work I've not saved on my flash. All. That. Work.

So brave and boisterous bloggie friends - you may experience severe downturn in the visual quality of my blog until the Dell Tech Person appears.

Don't blame me though, blame Mother!

Have a tech free Friday everyone!