Elderly cat breathing difficulties when purring

[bronze]

I remember Professor Brainstorm with his multiple pairs of glasses. Do you wear all yours at once though Richard? If you google him, there's nothing actually related to the original.

[Richard]

I do feel a bit like that sometimes, when I have my ordinary glasses perched on the top of my head, my computer glasses on - and I'm looking for my bifocals!

 

I used to adore the Professor Brainstorm books. He used to rush around shedding pairs of specs all over the place. He had a housekeeper called, I think it was, Mrs Flittersnoop or something like that.

 

He used to invent all these fantastic machines that then went haywire - I seem to remember a pancake making machine that they ended up using to make paving slabs for the roads.

 

Happy days!

 

Am going to collect my Orpingtons this afternoon!!!

[Couperwife]

Do the shake and vac and put the freshness back,

 

I know someone at school who knows and does the whole routine at school to show how good an advert it was - all the little cherubs at school look at her like she is an absolute nutter

[kannie]

Egluntine - I should hope Christine hasn't got prostate problems! I always get up in the night - I feel quite miffed if I sleep through!

No its definately not a prostate issue!

 

I slept through a couple of nights recently and it felt like sheer luxury! I think it was having no alcohol at all that helped

[The Dogmother]

I get up in the night too girls, so you're not alone there.

 

I fele old when the spotty little herbert who shares my office reminds me that I'm older than her mum

 

Oh, and I was the oldest at circuit training tonight - only because Phil wasn't there though

[Charlottechicken]

You will have to get into the habit of having supper earlier, at least an hour before you go to bed, that way you should sleep through the night without interruptions

 

 

It worked for me

[Guest]

I'm just far too young to be bothered by any of these troubles...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lesley]

Supper Claire? - we often don't get our dinner until nearly 10pm

 

I also don't drink enough during the day, as I don't often feel thirsty. Carl makes me catch up in the evening. Our evenings usually start around 9pm

[Egluntyne]

Supper!!!!.......Dinner in the evening!!!!.....that all sounds as if it belongs in the "Does Class Matte" thread. Just kidding!

 

Round 'ere its "Us Tea"!

[Guest]

Supper!!!!.......Dinner in the evening!!!!.....that all sounds as if it belongs in the "Does Class Matte" thread. Just kidding!

 

Round 'ere its "Us Tea"!

 

 

When else would you have dinner?!

[Richard]

Supper!!!!.......Dinner in the evening!!!!.....that all sounds as if it belongs in the "Does Class Matte" thread. Just kidding!

 

Round 'ere its "Us Tea"!

 

 

When else would you have dinner?!

 

I'm with Egluntine here - I have my dinner at dinner time (middle of the day) and my tea when I get home from work. Supper doesn't happen in our house!

[Rhapsody]

when do you have lunch then?

[The Dogmother]

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is mid-afternoon (if you're lucky), and supper is a late night snack.

 

I think it depends on where you come from geographically

[Richard]

Oh dear, I'm feeling really deprived here! I don't have a lunch. I have breakfast, dinner and tea. Maybe I need to introduce some extra meals into my life!

 

My girls get breakfast (layers pellets), dinner - lettuce and any other greens, plus any stale bread or pasta treats, and maybe the odd bit of green s"Ooops, word censored!"s for their tea. they also get a few sunflower seeds whenever I fill up the feeders for the little birds in the garden.

[beach chick]

we have breakfast, lunch and supper. tea is what kids have... and dinner is either when you're going out or when you've got people round!

[The Dogmother]

Oh dear, I'm feeling really deprived here! I don't have a lunch. I have breakfast, dinner and tea. Maybe I need to introduce some extra meals into my life!

 

My girls get breakfast (layers pellets), dinner - lettuce and any other greens, plus any stale bread or pasta treats, and maybe the odd bit of green s"Ooops, word censored!"s for their tea. they also get a few sunflower seeds whenever I fill up the feeders for the little birds in the garden.

 

Sounds like your chooks eat better than you Richard

[Guest]

 

You have tea in a cup, with cakes, in the afternoon when your elderly relatives are round......

 

Breakfast at breakfasttime, lunch at lunchtime and dinner at dinnertime - thats how it works in our house!

[Richard]

I think this is all down to semantics. My dinner is someone else's lunch, my tea is someone else's dinner, my cup of tea and a bit of a nibble is someone else's high tea with an elderly relative ......

 

The problem would come if I invited somebody round for dinner, expecting them at midday, and they didn't show up until 8pm!

 

I think my girls do eat better than me; but, as they say on the TV, it's because they're worth it!

[Guest]

'High tea' is something cooked which you have instead of a sandwich, like beans on toast, cheese on toast etc.

 

Talking of Rick Wakeman - must be getting old, both Wakeman and Steve Winwood are church organists (I read that somewhere).

That can't be true! Please remember where you heard that! Which church, I wonder? Probably one with a large congregation! Or do you mean someone who plays a pipe organ rather than an electronic one?

 

My DH is a church organist - does that put him on an equal par with Rick Wakeman?

[Richard]

Apparently Stevie Winwood is a chuch organist down in the South West somewhere, and Rick Wakeman plays in South Norfolk.

 

My wife is Treasurer for the PCC and went green with envy when she found out that Wakeman was giving concerts to raise money for the 5 churches around where he lives. He played the church organ and electric keyboards etc. and he also got some of his mates to play - and some comedians as well that he knew!

 

Needless to say they were sold out by the time I found out about them. Just my luck ...

[Guest]

Wow!

 

Let me know if you hear about another event like that!

[bronze]

hmm

it depends whether its sandwiches or cooked in the evening what I call that meal. Generally its dinner now as we have cooked but I grew up with cooked at noon and had tea in the evening. Supper is late evening

[Egluntyne]

I'm sure it is a North /South thing.....ish

[Charlottechicken]

Oh my goodness what have I said!

 

I used the word 'supper' to mean the last drink (and snack) you have before bed.

 

I am confused now, I use 'lunch' to describe a cold middle of the day meal, but 'dinner' if it is hot. Tea is my evening meal (which is cold on a Sunday!).

 

Which is the north bit and which is the south, I am in the middle!

 

Anyone out there who can talk proper and tell us what is what? (mind you I wouldn't change anyway )

[Looney]

Hee hee this is funny!

 

We have lunch during the day if it is a cold meal and then dinner which is the hot meal in the evening.

 

We have dinner during the day if it is a hot meal and then tea in the evening if it is a cold meal.....

 

...we never have supper - must make time for that too!