Games meet

Long trek together with Jelmer and Tam to Xhoffraix.Driving went fine, the 3 hamsters under the hood of the Wagon R did need some encouragement to get us up the longer hills...
Meet was lovely, lots of people, games, some very nice weather early on the saturday, enough room to get away when the lots of people became too-many-people. Hugged sessifet25 . A lot. Had a very fun Eurovision party with lots of booze. I liked Greece, Belgium, France. I liked Germany too but I wasn't expecting it to win - I had it in the sweepstakes, so that was nice :-)
My favourite idea was to make the wind machines controlled by text messages, so that if enough people texted 'wind' to a special number the machines could rise to gale force and blow the singers off stage. Wouldn't that be fun?
I could have done without all the fat jokes about some of the singers. FFS, at least they're not just picking people out of a model catalogue and sticking the real singer into the background.
I thought this was the very best moment:

They got a do-over - though I thought he kept going admirably!

Cat update

Don't think I wrote about it here, but I talked to the shelter about the fighting and they have offered that I can have a 6-week tryout period instead of 3. I really want this to work, I absolutely adore Roo, he's sweet and funny and wonderful, but I think he may not be in the right place here. At least now I have more time to see if things improve.

The weekend was... well, they're both alive, and though I'm sure there was at least one big fight, they're not terribly scratched up (though Tijgje is acting extra defensive and gets upset if Roo even looks at him). According to Martijn the house was a disaster area though, entire shelves emptied, piss and puke everywhere. He went above and beyond the call of duty of a cat-carer and actually cleaned most of it (so grateful) but I think it's clear they were very upset. It was rather soon to leave them for a weekend, I kind of regret it now, but at least we've survive. I need to go buy enzyme cleaner now to get the piss smell gone.. And I want to find a large tub that can serve as litterbox, since Roo has again managed to piss outside of it. I can cut a high entrance in a tub and hopefully that will sort the problem.