A fun article today, inspired by Michael who wrote on another article:
‘Imagine a PoC party with no booze and just tea – Valerian and Catnip in teabags with hard biscuits. There would be plenty of fun’
Comments:
DW ‘Maybe a little booze?’
Babz ‘No booze? L’
Oh I think maybe a little booze is called for, a celebration of meeting our ‘PoC family’ at last. Hopefully, one day Michael will be hosting this party for PoC cat lovers and our cats. Everyone will be welcome except Woody and his ilk, we don’t want cat haters spoiling our fun.
All cats will be welcome of course because we know for sure that all guests will be careful and respectful and make it a happy occasion for our cats too. Even Marc’s bike will be welcome, I’m sure he won’t mind cats sitting on it.
We hope that Jeff (Monty’s mom’s husband) will build a walkway for the cats, where the cats who don’t like to mingle can sit and indulge in catnip, or valerian tea bags.
So, there will be alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks, along with singing and dancing and praising cats. Yes and hard biscuits too Michael, as long as we have some of Babz home made cheese scones and chocolate cake which are to die for!
Has anyone else got a speciality they can bring along to share? It will be almost like a Faith Supper at Church where everyone takes along some food, except that they have no booze, well apart from the Communion wine of course.
Anyone singing must ensure that their song has ‘cat’ in the lyrics.
- ‘What’s new Pussycat’
- ‘I Thought I Saw a Pussycat’
- Maybe someone can think of more?
We can play: ‘Pussy in the Corner’
And we can recite poems about cats:
- ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’
- ‘Pussy cat Pussy cat Where Have You Been?’
No sorry Dee you can’t recite Woody pee pee …or maybe you can if it’s unanimous that we all want you to when we’ve had a few drinks lol .
Look out London, here we come ………………….
You know I could set it to music. It would be a polka.
Wisconsin has a long history of great beers– there have always been lots of breweries here. So it’s just really common (for good or ill) that Wisconsinites like to drink a lot of beer.
The way they got around the prohibition of alcohol in the church building (except communion wine) was to store the beer in a fridge in the church’s garage and then the beer was only consumed outside, in this grassy fenced area with lots of shade trees next to the church. No one over indulged though– just a beer or two with their meal. It was never a problem.
I recently saw two interesting statistics about Wisconsin. #1: The Wisconsin River is the third most deadly in the world, behind only the Amazon and the Nile. #2: Wisconsinites consume more alcohol than people in any other state. I think number two has something to do with number one. Every time we go canoeing Jeff and I are the only sober people on the river. With few exceptions every other person is not only consuming alcohol, they are blind drunk.
That’s done it! lol I’m no more good, I laughed so much I fell right off my chair, oh Dee you are so droll, lol lol
Your recital is a legend!
Yes we must set it to music for the PoC party but I doubt I’ll be able to sing for laughing.
It will be the party to end all parties that’s for sure 🙂
OK. If there’s chocolate cake, I’M IN!
I make a mean key lime pie.
And, Ruth AKA, I think my Woody recital would happen by popular demand!
We just need to set it to music and have a candlelight vigil for his poor, sick soul that will never progress.
PEE PEE WOODY
Woody, Woody, Pee Pee Woody
When did you go wrong
Was there something in your past
That made you so hate cats
Were you beaten
Were you shamed
What made you so unkind
That you would troll
And spit such venom
As if you lost your mind
Is there anything that you can love
Or are you void of that
Do you turn your rage
From the deserving ones
And plant it right on cats
The price you’ll pay
Beyond this life
Should scare you beyond measure
You harm the ones
That harm the least
And really are a treasure
Maybe in a few years it would be possible, Michael. Right now Jeff and I have bills to pay off from when I took time off to go back to school. It was an investment, and worth it, but we can’t afford an expensive trip for a little while at least.
But we could feasibly do an overseas trip at some point. My sister can watch Monty for us and Jeff has lots of vacation time from work. Being PRN means I work when I like in physical therapy and American schools are off for three months in the summer, so my music teaching job ends in mid June. We would have to work around fireworks shows though– tricky because we don’t always know very far ahead of time what shows our crew will be assigned to. I’d have to get an organ sub too. If Jeff and I could do it I would think people already on the same continent as you could easily make it happen.
For now it’s an amusing fantasy. But who knows? You could just start it as an annual thing and whoever can come, comes. It would grow over time. So what if it starts out with just a few of you from England and maybe Marc from Switzerland? You would have to post an article and pictures from the party.
A typical spread at our Coffee Morning fund raisers at Babz office, her scones and choccie cake go like wildfire lol