Oh yes. I was a carob kid too.

Coltsfoot rock. I don't even know what that is but I assume mostly beef gelatine.

To be fair, when mum *made* sweet treats we got plenty. Lots of made from scratch deliciousness.

Sometimes it can be a great ingredient but I'm not generally a fan (blame my mother who would buy us liquorice root instead of sweets)

Oooh this sounds good. My friend keeps Lady Grey in the house and that's nice too, but this sounds like my kind of thing. I might even consider not sweetening it.

Might.

I tilted my screen to see the sheen better 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

I do like a cocoa nib in my teabag I have to say.

The liquorice? Hmm. Depends on the blend.

😱

Hopefully just the rats' blood.

Why have compassion when beating us with sticks can be done instead for cheaper?

A bunch of people became carers or sole parents because their partners were disabled or killed and .gov still can't work out why the employment pool disappeared and nobody is available for badly paid social care jobs

Exactly. And we do not, as a cat, have any need for this much sugar or any of the other nutrients.

But I had chocolate today so I should be quiet. 😆

My healthcare is free at point of access though. His is not.

Oh no! 😆 I haven't seen that but I can imagine it!

Yoshi would definitely lick his way through at least one more cube of mango if I let him but I am a very mean butler and do not.

So many hugs. I'm so sorry.

Thank you. I'm taking all available hugs and I'm not letting myself apologise for it.

None of that changes me drifting around the house like a romantic widow, gazing out of windows and crying over things like a sock on the floor that she didn't put there.

Thank you.
I'm very lucky that there's no doubt that her condition was terminal & we did all we could.

I didn't think I'd lose her so young but she had stage 4 kidney disease that *nobody* suspected until she took a sudden turn and went off her food about two weeks ago and deteriorated rapidly.

I don't know what happened this last week but yeah... There was just no space for anything else here either!

It's so strange. Humility is one thing but so false modesty also ignores these small privileges we have.

Apart from anything else, I don't look extremely young. I'm not extremely young. But enough people have told me my features are arranged prettily that I can acknowledge it as none of my doing!

Booooo to them dehydrating you when you need blood volume!