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Oh Ann I like that!!
Thanks for making me laugh.
Our last cat found a chicken from somewhere and was chasing it round next doors garden.

The cat we have now brings many things in I've had a frog leaping around in the kitchen as well as the usual birds, mice , voles etc. One day is was busy at the sink and heard a noise turning round I saw a dead frog with the cat sat eyeing it up as it lay on the kitchen floor. i picked the dead frog up wrapping it in kitchen roll and put it on the side work top near the door as I had something urgent to do. I returned a minute later to collect the frog and take it outside. Got the fright of my life as it was sat there looking at me !!!

Blinking cats!!

Pam

Hi Pam,
yes cats are a law unto themselves, we originally got that cat because the cottage was innundated with mice. They do tend to bring things home, a neighbour has a deaf albino and we watched it chase a fox down the road a few nights ago, not too sad about that as my dog is partial to rolling in foxes doings. I have been known to tie him to the gate and scrub him after that.
When I was young we had a pack of beagles that used to hunt near us, the often invaded the garden with all the people dressed up in their gear trotting along the road, actually I haven't seen a hare around here for ages, they used to be quite common, I have watched one with my Mum 'going mad' as they say during March
Annie

Re the Hares -I was only thinking a couple of weeks ago we don't see them anymore they used to be a common site in the fields.
We to used to live in a very old cottage, it was originally a 'travellers rest' it had the mounting steps at the front of the cottage - the cottage next door was the 'inn' years ago.
We had spiders as big as the mice - well i thought so!! argghhhhhh Our cat of that time was named 'puss puss babes' (dont laugh) was scared of them

The reason for the cats name was my partner and daughter couldn't agree on a name so whilst they were trying to agree on one I was calling to him 'here puss puss babes' and by the time a name was agreed on he wouldn't answer to anything else

Pam

Ok who dares to own up to this (if you are old enough)
As a young girl my job was cutting the news papers into squares for use in the toilet. Although we had inside toilets we also used the outside one as well. I can still hear my friend from next door shouting - 'Mum - Paper!'

whilst in the toilet.

That is one part of yester-year I do not miss.

Pam

No not here but I think my parents may have let us have the toilet roll and they had the newspaper.

The toilet roll was just as bad though because it was that really rough paper that we all used for tracing with.
I used to love pinching some to trace from books, I got into trouble for that a few times when it ran out.

Yes I remember that - did the same as you as well re- tracing paper.
There were actually some properties inour village that still had the 'pan and ashes toilet I'm pleased we didn't. Pam

Pam our cat was known as Puss, guess that was Mum as I was only a toddler when they got her, to me she had always been around.

Yes I remember the newspaper cut into squares, Mum made a hole through the corner and hung it with a bit of string. Izal was the hard loo paper, it was still used in public conveniences long after most people had stopped using it at home. It was good for tracing, so was greaseproof.

We did have the old privy, most people did around the lanes in those days, in fact the council used to send out a type of tanker and collect the contents of the buckets, that ceased before we moved and Dad had to dig a pit at the bottom of the garden. They didnt have mains sewers in the village untill the early 60's, my daughter lives out of the village and where she lives they still have their own septic tank, a new modern one that 'digests' the contents and turns it into compost was fitted last year,

Annie

I cannot recall any septic tanks in our village but the very oldy wordy pub in a village where I lived in the late 80's used to have one.
I also remember going to stay with my mum's sister in Malta in the early 70's and the toilets were sumping up the day before they came round to empty the tanks. Gosh what a stink that kicked up!!
As a child it was usual to see people sat on their doorsteps chatting to each other, on warm summer nights.
I the early 80's we would sit ouside our conservatory with a home made bottle of wine after the kids were inbed and pass a glass over to the neighbours We enjoyed those nights chatting to them ( until the bats came out flying around) I was scared of them! Sadly they are both dead now but I have a wicked tale to tell you at some point

Pam

Hi Pam,
probably because we are all locals we still chat at night's along here, the road has a reputation for gossip (as somebody once commented, ''you cant piss crooked along there without somebody knowing'') but at least somebody always notices if any thing is amiss and we look out for our elderly neighbours. We get bats at dusk as well, they swoop very low. Sadly recently there doesn't appear to be so many hedgehogs about at night though. A few years ago they were very common along here. As a pup my dog pranced up to one, pricked his nose and has given them a crosseyed look ever since.

I know all about that smell, mind you when I was young right in the middle of the village a local farmer had a dung heap outside his barn about 20 foot high, we were used to it but I have heard all sorts of comments from visitors at the bus stop back then. Sadly no more land sold of and barn and house gentrified like most of our cute cottages which back then were very primitive. Most two up and down in small rows now knocked into one desirable property.

Annie

lololol I know I shouldn't laugh at your dog being cross eyed Ann - but i just got this really funny image in my head - sorry!
My memories of the warm days when younger are of going walks as a family into the woods nearby. Mum would pack a picnic tea for us. We would spread out the blanket then take ourselves off to play. We would always go home with huge bunches of Blue Bells and give some to our elderly neighbours. Pam