Good morning all.
I agree with you on the crowds. The Queen was literally just down the road at South Bank two weeks ago. It would have been a 15- 20 minute walk and I was ready to go but turned on the tv as the helicopters were hovering overhead. When I saw the crowds and the interviews with people who had driven all night and had been waiting since 4 am, I thought, think I'll watch it from here. It was nice knowing she was so close but I have memories of her visits when I was at primary school, and we waited in the hot sun at the cricket ground. I think she did drive through us, big circles, but it was still overwhelming. This time, if she'd come up the river further, round the next bend, she could have dropped in for a cuppa!
The new kitties are quite different to the last very furry pair. We still have the girl from that pair but hubby had to euthanase her 10kg brother as he had PKD (polycystic kidney disease) which is congenital, so he was doing well to make it to 10 years. He was awesome in a big cat way..used to sit in the hallway with his back against the wall and legs and tummy out. These new kitties are from the RSPCA again and are quite the energetic types..still have lovely full tails and long ear hair. When I sit at the computer table, the girl scotts under the chair, up onto my lap and head butts my arm. Always has to go under the chair and up the other side! The house is a bit of a kitty play pen as I found offcuts of black mesh/ netting at reverse Garbage and they love to climb it. Well, her brother isn't doing much at the moment as he's being treated for lead poisoning.
The ceilings in this big OLD Queenslander are lined with pressed metal..even the entire loo under the house is lined with it. We reckon it once belonged to the chief of Wunderlich pressed metals. Two bedrooms hadn't been done but had coolite sheets, polystyrene, but when we pulled it off years ago, it left bit hard globs of glue. It was cheaper to cover those ceilings with the aluminium reproduction sheets than get them scraped and painted. The original stuff is tin and, on the front verandah, the angle of the ceiling that gets the afternoon sun, has flaked bits of paint. It seems the little black boy kitty somehow ate or chewed some of these. I bought some "Peel Stop" which you paint over the old paint and it "encapsulates" the paint and stops the flaking. Most of it seems pretty secure, just these little spots. A lot of the inside ceiling was repainted.The windows are leadlight but evidently that doesn't drop stuff. Old places have their own challenges. This would have been built in the 1880's or earlier. It would originally have been the last on the ridge here as the two on the other side are smaller and don't have fireplaces etc. The houses on the riverbank opposite are worker's cottages close together with no car accommodation.
So, I have been nursemaid to the kitty as he was partially paralysed and spent a week in the Cat Clinic and still getting treated. He's not eating so has to be tempted..I make awesome kitty thickshakes if anyone wants the recipe! Lol! Kitty food, usually Duck and Liver flavour, kitty biscuits, an egg, a bit of water,,whizz it up. Looks like a chocolate thickshake!
Anyway, I must go out and check if there are epies open today. I've got lazy. It's so easy to snap them with the iPhone and upload from there. Wonder if they have an ap for uploading to DG? Cheers all. Happy Gardening.
