Dropped courgettes and french beans and eggs to the children and collected empty egg boxes. Picked up chocolate treats at Poundland for the care home staff. Went to see mum and handed the bars of nosh to the always delightful carers. Mum looked great and we had a good chat.
Some may remember Josie the stray kitten who appeared out of nowhere three years ago. After taming her, spending a considerable sum at the vet and growing to love her she then vanished as suddenly as she had appeared.
The other day a local friend saw a post on the facebook page of the neighbouring village. A cat had been seen, regularly in a garden (a home where 11 lucky cats already reside) and was being fed. The cat lovers wondered if anyone had lost a tabby. My friend thought that the tabby looked like our lost Josie and she put me in contact with the cat people. Tonight, as the sun was setting, I sat opposite the feeding place where the tabby usually appeared. Sure enough a mewling announced her arrival and the cat people put out a dish of food. I sat in the doorway and took some photographs. I crawled closer and the cat stayed it’s ground. I called, “Josie”, but she didn’t respond.
The cat people are going to borrow a mobile scanner which would detect a microchip and identify an address. If this cat has a microchip it will link to an address. If it is our address then the cat is Josie. No microchip then definitely not our tabby. I hoped it might be Josie but I think that it is not the lost moggy. Mabel and Nigel say, “two’s company but three’s a crowd!”.
Leaving two kilos in weight. Add two kilos of sugar and make ten pots of Victoria plum jam.
The annual Stumps cricket club reunion (all members now non playing) takes place today at The Gables. Green bean salad will use some of the fresh picked french beans and we will open jars of baby beets that we pickled last year. Pizzas are on the menu plus lots more savouries and sweets.
