Millie McKenzie

Millie McKenzie

@cowbear.bsky.social

Cat Mum of Nouveau, Lord Bastian and Lady Puddle D'Floof (aka Baz and Puddle) No commissions Kiwi She/her

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I got a pet stroller for the kittens. It's just day one, I need to get them comfortable and used to it before I start to venture out beyond the backyard. But they actually love it. Bastian especially, he just did not want to get out. #Cats

And I've ordered a catio 😺 And booked a glazier for a cat flap so they can freely go out to their catio whenever they want. I feel happy now, I'm getting it sorted. I've been stressed because I want to keep them inside but feel cruel like I'm keeping them in prison. They're gonna love it.

Recently switched to prepaid phone after being in a monthly plan for like 16 years. Turns out true prepaid doesn't exist anymore. It's still a subscription! Prepaid used to mean pay upfront, then it is depleted with use. I've paid $8 and used none of it. Therefore I should not have to top up! Argh!!

I can't stand this subscription based existence. Every part of our lives is a subscription. We have to pay for the right to exist and it's doing my head in. Also, you offer $8 prepay "plans" but your minimum top up os $10?! WTF? How is that even legal?

EP 4 of celebrity traitors isn't on Three Now yet 😠 I had Sunday night traitors viewing in my mind, so I'm forced to give series 3 of NZ traitors a go. Good to see Madeleine Sami in the host role, she was great on Bake Off. Paul Henry really didn't work for me.

Never, not once in the whole almost 9 years since I adopted Nouveau, has she climbed onto the top of the tall chest of drawers in my bedroom. So I put the kitten food up there, thinking I'd sneakily figured out how to keep her from eating it. Felt pretty proud of myself...

I'm implementing the dedicated feed times method and phasing out the free grazing method. Results after one day and night? The kittens don't appear to have even noticed the change.

Millie McKenzie@cowbear.bsky.social

Today, after 6 and a half months, Nouveau has finally realised the kittens have food and that she might eat it.

She gonna suffer. Not sure what to do. She's refusing to eat her own food and is only eating theirs. She's on a special digestive diet because she has had some digestive issues, and she likely gonna now get the shits cos she's just eating kitten food when she's nearly 9 years old with sensitive tum.

I'm assuming because not one single person has ever responded to this, even with multiple reposts, that it's not available anywhere for purchase.

Millie McKenzie@cowbear.bsky.social

Can I buy the Supersizers Go and Supersizers Eat on dvd in the uk? I can't find them here in NZ. I watch them, probably once a year at least on YouTube, I love them so much, but the quality is so bad! I'd love to own them.

I'm about 15 min in to #CelebrityTraitors and am seeing a lot of comedians I thought I knew well, but it seems actually I know them from Would I lie to You compilations on YouTube, some of which must be from a considerably long time ago... When did everyone get old?

Sometimes I see some fantastic pieces of artwork here, and I hop on their Etsy and discover shipping to NZ is $62. For a 5x7 print. A flat piece of paper. $62 😔

Walk into the service station on the corner by my bus stop, "Morning 🙂 do you have those new Motu Move cards?" "Yes 🙂" Awkward silence for a moment ... "Can I please have one?"

Ok, I've brought back inside a garage full of stuff that I need to sell. Stuff that I've kept because "one day I might have a bigger house". I have to be ruthless people. It's a little upsetting, but I know it will also feel really good to let it go.

I'm doing a big clear out of my house and with every piece of furniture that's sold and picked up, I look at the gap and think, oo, what could I put there... No! Stop it! Stop buying furniture!

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I don’t know the story here but my best guess is “tripped over the cat going down stairs in the dark but still love him”. Photo from my collection, 1958.

Things I was frightened of as a child. Wardrobes Sleeping (after watching Nightmare on Elm St 5 the Dream Child at age 11) The scary breathing man outside my bedroom window (actually a possum) The crocodile that my cousin said would eat my dad

Iain Clark But In The Fog@iainjclarkart.com

Things I was frightened of as a child: Children of the Stones. My older cousin visited and wanted to watch the final episode. I had nightmares for *years*. The nacelle caps on my USS Enterprise poster which looked like glowing eyes in the dark. The almost entirely innocuous cover of this book:

You've made me want to watch the Chase tonight.

Flight Through Entirety@flightthroughentirety.com

This week, @adamrichard.com.au and @scribblesscript.bsky.social join us for a picaresque and shoddily made romp through time and space, with Daleks, followed by a devastating emotional farewell. #DoctorWho 500yeardiary.com/s5/e4/