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Wind. Cold. Gale. Frightening.
The Hub said walking in the park today was like lifting the covers when he gets into bed with me.
The weather reminds me of the Christmas Eve years ago when there was a gale and our six-foot-high garden fence blew down. Our cat had followed the Hub out to help him investigate, when a gust blew her right across the street. She ran off.
A couple of hours later the phone rang; the Hub answered it, chatted for a bit, then hung up.
‘Who was that?’ I asked.
‘The cat. She just phoned to say she was in Birmingham.’
I didn’t believe him, of course: although I was unaware that he’d let her in earlier and she was snug in her basket, every body knows cats can’t use the telephone. She’d have sent a letter.
The Laughing Housewife 
Gale also in Holland! Gusts of wind and rain. Yuk.
Birmingham eh? 😉 *grins*
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Stay safe!
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Well and truly scary: storm force 11 in the Irish Sea and the channel. Our friends are supposed to be sailing back from Rosslare today, but Shipwatch shows no passenger ships in the area in question.
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I’ve done that trip from Rosslare, it’s quite rough at the best of times.
Looking out at the Irish Sea this evening I don’t envy them if they have set out.
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Scary. Our nephew drove back to the IOW yesterday; the ferries were cancelled for most of the day but by the time he arrived it was calm again. That’s the good thing about a wind, I suppose; it will blow itself out eventually.
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First belly laugh of the day.
You are daft. Everyone knows cats use semaphore
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Thanks for the belly laugh in return 😀
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DId you ever find out why she went to Birmingham?
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I was wondering that too
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No; she was a little secretive at times. You know what cats are like.
I thought it was the wind that had blown her that way but you never knew with Whiskers.
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maybe the Queen was on a visit and the cat wanted to do her mouse frightening duty?
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Not so, Tilly, anyone would have loaned her their cell phone to make the call, not so a postage stamp!
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I dunno…if a talking cat with a Stockport accent asked to borrow my phone in Birmingham, I might just run a mile.
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Beautiful here this evening…am sitting here in short sleeves…sorry.
Your cat can’t use the phone?
He is a bit backward.
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The second belly laugh of the day! I have the best readers 🙂
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What? The air smelled like it had beans for dinner? 😆
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Always 😀
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You are way too funny! It is 13 degrees F. outside here in the western part of Massachusetts, the coldest day of the year as of yet. I hope that it doesn’t get colder. Your cat is lucky to have found her back all the way from Birmingham to her warm basket.
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Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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haha! Too funny! I love it!
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She could have phoned if she’d managed to find a feeee-line…
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Another good one! You guys crack me up 😀
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Right. Cats just don’t “get it.”
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I think I’d run away of a gust of wind blew me across the street too, Tilly!
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i am not into cats, but the story was funny.
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8 degrees F in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom with a wind chill factor of -12F. Slated to drop to -7 tonight, with continued high wind.
The further the cat blows away to, the better I like it.
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Ron.Ron. 😦
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In the immortal words of ET…..p-h-o-n-e h-o-m-e……
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Can’t cats tweet, or is that only birds?
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Phoning or writing, she is a clever cat 😉
Now if I could only train my dog to take calls when we are out . . .
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Love this one!
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hahahha so funny! I think cats still can use the phone, someone might help them to hold the phone 😀
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Does anyone remember the old Meow Mix ad? Of course cats can telephone. After all, they are cats. According to Edmund Lear they can sail boats!
Couldn’t resist the conversation. Here in Atlanta, 22 degrees Fahrenheit with the sun just up.
Thanks for the laughs, Tilly and Co.
margo
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I don’t know whether to rejoice or mourn that the comments section is often funnier than the original post.
Rejoice, probably, because I’m so busy laughing 🙂
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Since the advent of push-button phones, some cats have been known to phone home and other places. They had trouble with the rotary dial phones, though. Just ask them…
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Twenty-five here today and the dogs don’t want to go out. They may have fur and hair and be descended from sled dogs but they say their mother slept with a Chicuaua, not a Siberian Husky.
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Now everyone knows cats use morse to communicate by clawing your thighs to send you their messages…
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Ah! That explains so much…
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Sounds as if it’s a laugh-a-minute in your household
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It is – when we’re not rowing 🙂
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Hmmm. I hope she came trotting in after that conversation. 😆
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