Oddments

[poliphilo]

I'd have guessed ecru was a shade of blue. No very good reason except that it sounds that way. Ailz is back doing cross-stitch and the pattern she's working on calls for certain little twirly bits to be done in ecru. Anyway I looked it up and it's a cousin of beige- only more yellowy. Beige sounds like beige but ecru doesn't sound like ecru- if you see what I mean- which is why I'm unlikely to put the word in a poem any time soon.

I think the rat was in the kitchen again early this morning. The evidence is suggestive rather than conclusive- noises, a spice jar knocked into the rubbish bin, a meaty piece of string dragged to the middle of the floor. Since s/he keeps coming back I think s/he needs a more than generic name. The rabbits are Tish and Tosh. The rat can be Trash. Ailz suggests getting a cat to complete- or deplete- the menage.

We took my father in law to the doctor's last night and then to fill a prescription. I was the fittest of the party and got to do all the leg work. The nearest out-of-hours pharmacy was in Sainsbury's. I still find it slightly weird that prescription medicines are being dispensed in supermarkets. One of the guys in the pharmacy queue was also buying carrots - and the white coated assistant put them through the till for him.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I also only know what ecru is through cross stitch. It crops up a lot in patterns I do, as I mostly stitch wolves, dogs and other critters (my thread palette is big on greys and browns).

'Trash the rat' - I love it!

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I learned what colour ecru was from cross stitch and other embroidery also when I was a child. I love the name. It sounds old-fashioned to me.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I suppose ecru sounds ecru to me because it also sounds like emu, which are sort of a dusty brownish color. -_-

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I know ecru from buying stationery, in the olden days.

I have a cat...

[jubal51394.livejournal.com]

And tons of mice! I have a perennial mouse trap on my kitchen counter.

Connor thinks those little "squiggly" things in the kitchen are living cat toys. He plays with them and when they run under the refrigerator he waits there for hours hoping they will come back to play again.

"They" say that if you need a "mouser" you need a female cat since they are the hunters. Just a "word to the wise" before you take on another mouth to feed. *wink*

[carl9whalley.livejournal.com]

I could loan you 1 of my three cats we'll 2 rolo is very very lazy he would just watch. Sox and rosie are female so they would have a go.Rosie is the fastest cat ive ever seen ....