Prematurity

[desperance]

The letters page of "The [London] Times" is the traditional place to record hearing the first cuckoo of spring; I think LJ is the obvious place to record sighting the first Christmas-branded object.

My local supermarket has Xmas stockings out, in mid-August.

They're for cats.

He's not getting one. However much he yowls and looks cute. Not now, not later. Not in December. Never.

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

My local supermarket has Xmas stockings out, in mid-August.

o_O That's insane.

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Mine actually share a stocking. It has bells and little bones and mice attached. It comes out during the holidays, and I fill it up on the night of the Eve, and they get to unpack it on Christmas Day. I always hide some sort of stinky treat near the bottom, so they have incentive.

I got it at the grocery store, funnily enough . . .but probably not in August.

[synedrian.livejournal.com]

Ha! You're late. Our local "gastro-pub" has sent out "book now for Christmas" leaflets in *July*.

We did wonder whether they were simply very late for last year's Christmas.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*iconlove* - the flutter is fabulous.

At least you have a local gastro-pub. Sigh. I too should live in the middle of nowhere. Here I am, heart of the inner city, and if there's a gastro-pub in town I haven't found it. Unless I'm just difficult to please...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Awww. Don't they fight over who gets what? Cats who share nicely is a tricky concept to get my head around... (The girls always ate out of the same bowl, mind you. If I gave them two bowls, they both ate out of one, and then they both turned to the other.)

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of someone I used to work with who was looking after her neighbour's cat over Christmas one year. She went round on Christmas day to feed the cat and discovered that he hadn't been left anything special for Christmas dinner, so she went back to her house, got some of the prawns that she'd bought for her own cat's treat dinner and shared them with the neighbour kitty.

I'm not sure that either cat would really care either way, but it made her happy.

(And yes, I saw some 'book now for Christmas' signs on restaurants in Nottingham yesterday.)

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Each of the cats has very distinctive taste in the type of toy they like, so I mix and match, and there's not much fighting. They push and shove for treats a bit. The only time they fight is when the quiestest one, Violet, gets too much catnip in her and turns into one of those potheads who gets paranoid and munchy after too much weed!

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

You say that now, but come the last week before Christmas...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, hush. At least allow me the illusion of being strong. For a while. December's a long way off.