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#SoCS 1st February – Spoonful of Something

01 Feb 2025 14 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Minnie Kaur, Socs, Sonu Singh, Spoonful Cat Update

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “spoonful.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Okay, so, I’m sat here writing this from my sick bed, on my phone, as I’m still not 100%.

I’ve had more than a spoonful of cough mixtures over the last week. It’s still not shifting…

Anyway, as soon as I read the prompt, good old Mary Poppins came to mind.

We all love that classic, A Spoonful Of Sugar, don’t we?

To be honest, a lot of the medicines right now, are sweet enough, but hey, it doesn’t stop a Disney fan from wanting to sing it, everything I have to give, or take, medicine!

https://youtu.be/SVDgTbGZEw4?si=6uDFKuixZHveOuYo

Now, I thought I’d share the cat antics of this morning.

I was in bed (my recent abode of the last week) when, at around 10am, I heard a bang.

I knew Minnie Kaur the Minx was on the loose. She’d obviously gone and pushed something off somewhere.

Little did I know it was a little bit more than a something…

The Living Room TV was off its stand, face down, awkwardly balancing on a pointed tissue box cover on the coffee table.

This didn’t look good!

With Lil Princess’s help, we got the TV back up, but I could see the dents in the screen. This did not look promising. What would our resident TV fab, Hubby Dearest, say?

I switched it on.

Yup.

Not good.

It looks like she tried to climb up onto the radiator cover behind the TV, where she usually sits to watch the world go by. The cover somehow moved and fell, knocking the TV over.

And there you have it. The #DarkDestroyer strikes!

And in other calmer #caturday news, #SonuSingh has rediscovered my office beanbag and is peacefully chilling out.

Unlike the Dark Destroyer, #MinnieKaurTheMinx , who offered to start her own #OnlyCats fan page to fund the new TV, to replace what she spectacularly destroyed! (Image censored to protect our lil girl’s modesty!)
I had to remind her she’s not even 1, yet, and will need to make sure her #catmum reviews her online activity. How are kitten ready knows these things, I don’t know, but she was all for showing of her lil black beans and cute paws!

And there you have our morning, so far!

I think I need a spoonful of something to get over the excitement/shock!

Disclaimer: no cats were harmed, injured or allowed to post on OnlyCats, during the xompising of this post. 😝

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#SoCS June 11, 2022 – A Picture From Wherever…

11 Jun 2022 23 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Socs

Linda’s SoCS prompt.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “a picture from wherever.” When you sit down to write your post, find a picture, whether in a magazine, newspaper, or even product packaging. Write whatever thought or emotion the picture provokes. Enjoy!

I don’t get physical newspapers or magazines often now, so I had nothing handy as I settled down to write this post. Most of the books I had were not picture books, so I thought I would scroll through my gallery and just randomly pick a picture from my old pics… and this is what came out.

Now, this little (large) fella caused more than a few guffaws when it tumbled out of the fruit bags at school a few years ago! Honestly, it makes me giggle just looking at the photo! A pear who thought he was a banana, or a courgette? Who knows?

A confused bit of fruit was this pear
As he questioned each giggle and glare
"Please wash me and eat
I'm ever so sweet
Why , oh why do you just stand and stare?"

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 11, 2022

#SoCS June 4, 2022 – Iron(y)

04 Jun 2022 24 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Iron(y), Linda G Hill, Socs

Linda’s SoCS prompt.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “iron(y).” Use “iron,” use “irony,” or use both. Use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use both. Have fun!

I love to iron, I do.

Standing in my laundry area, with my music on, I can press away to my heart’s content!

The irony lies in the fact that I find it gets too hot for me in the summer months, and then I stand, and sweat as I iron, hoping that I don’t end up needing to wash said clothes, again!

I love to iron, I do.

But please tell my son that he doesn’t need to wear three outfits a day! It’s hard enough getting the grass stains out of his cricket whites, without adding to the general volume of laundry that passes through to the basket.

I love to iron, I do.

But not that much!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS June 4, 2022

#SoCS May 28, 2022 – Trail/Trial

28 May 2022 41 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda G Hill, Socs, Trail/Trial

Linda’s SoCS prompt.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “trail/trial.” Use one, use both, use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use both. Have fun!

This week has been a trial, with many things going on, in work and personal life, but we got to the end of the week, the term and it’s time to breathe!

One thing was me and my clumsiness, and you know I seem to leave a trail of destruction wherever I go. Well, actually it’s not so much a trail as me injuring myself!

I tripped over my own feet and ended up taking the impact of what could have been a much worse landing, on my left hand. All good until I realised a moment later that I couldn’t bend one of my fingers! (The Middle One, ironically!) So I ended up with a dressed middle finger that I couldn’t bend and I looked like I was being rude to people!

Thankfully there was no break or fracture, or tendon damage that was apparent, but I have severe bruising of the finger, knuckles, general hand and ego! The swelling has gone down a lot, but it is still painful, and a little hard to type as fast as I usually do, but things are getting better.

Thank goodness for the two-week break from school!

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS May 28, 2022

#SoCS May 21, 2022 – Clear

21 May 2022 39 Comments

by Ritu in #SoCS Tags: #StreamofConsciousnessSaturday, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Clear, Linda G Hill, Socs

Linda’s SoCS prompt

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “clear.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Now, clearly, I was too tired to schedule this post last night, seeing as I am writing it now, at 6 24am on Saturday morning (thanks to Sonu Singh waking me up for his food!)

I try to make myself crystal clear to him every Friday night, that Mummy needs a lie in, but, as if he has an alarm clock inside, he bounds into our bedroom at around 5-5.30a m, miaowing away. If I don’t wake straight away, he has a clear plan;

jump on the bed, massage Mummy.
If no response, claw the carpet.
If that doesn’t work, try climbing onto the windowsill and begin chewing plants
Failing that, knock over bin, and begin chewing random rubbish loudly.
If still no joy, run around the house madly
Still no food? Give up, and jump back on the bed and go to sleep with Mummy and Daddy until they get up.

So, now he is fed, I am awake, and planning for the day. Here’s hoping for clear skies, as opposed to the crazy rain we have had the last two days, as Lil Man has another cricket match! (Well, it is Saturday, and the season is upon us!)

Have a good day, Peeps!