Guess what this is?

Sea weed! :)

Agree!

Definitely ! Great for your garden next year,Sue, I see some new wellies on your shopping list..:o) Bright colours,or green ? What odd places cats choose to sleep..he/she loooks very much at home there :o).

Not to be too smug, but I got this in the the first pic. I wish I could harvest some for my garden, it's great isn't it?
How clever of you to install a cat shelf in your kitchen lol:)

well collected...

:-))) i took a photo today of a cat looking just like yours.. :-)

What do you do with it after the rain washes it Steragram?

Great stuff Stera!

Well Scottish, I normally just put it as a mulch round things that look as if they need a bit of encouragement, but its usually bladder wrack on that beach- I've never had this long stringy one before so don't know whether it will disappear over the winter or still be stringy in the spring. I guess it ought to be chopped up but hesitate to run the mower over it in case it gets tangled round the blades. So its trial and error time - I'm too idle to make liquid feed with it!

Probably green wellies Sandra but I'll see what they've got at the farm supplies shop. I have to get a size too big to be wide enough as my feet are more the shape of duck feet than human ones.

That shelf it usually full of tea and coffee Waddy - it had just been emptied for the kitchen ceiling to be painted. Its all go just now!

Thank you Jane, Michaela Sheila and Gorgeous
mama for reading! I hope the cat you photo'd was better behaved than ours Jane...

:-)

I thought your first pic was animal. Definitely a Dougal type dog! The cat would never exert itself to accompany you collecting seaweed & it will not be pleased if you put cans & things back on the shelf just as it has found a new, good place to sleep. From there it can see all that goes on in the kitchen, even with its eyes seemingly closed!

A Dougal dog! Marvellous - I never thought of that!
Don't fret about the cat's sleeping place - she's not fussy. The hall bookcase was her bed last night and yesterday she tried to curl up inside an open shoe box. She's crazy.

Well collected , Stera .
It is supposed to be very good for the garden , isn't it ?
Cats will find the oddest places to sleep , and look like they belong there !

You're right Driad. I put some round a young hydrangea that was dragging its feet a bit last year and it shot up the following year with great enthusiasm. I think it was Bamboo who suggested it originally when I was worrying about my damson tree.

We have a lot on our local beach, have never got around to using it as yet!! cats love the most curious places don't they?

Shame to waste it Dottydaisy - even a carrierbagful is enough to mulch quite a big shrub. (Not that your garden needs any encouragement!) For cats sleeping places check out Cats Sleep Anywhere on google!

Lots washed up after the storms ... They say it's good to prevent potato blight but I don't know if that's true.

Your cat fits nicely in there :o)

Well we didn't have potato blight - but probably wouldn't have anyway...
She does doesn't she? It's amazing, the small spaces she crams herself into. Asleep on the hall bookcase again just now. She couldn't stand even to touch the cat bed we offered her that our previous cat loved - and yes, I had washed it!

They are very fussy animals !

They sure are. Today she's bored because she doesn't want to get soaked. Like having a toddler about the place - you forget what young ones are like after years with ones in their teens.

Valuable heap you have there Stera, my mulch is cosisting of fallen soggy leaves, lol.
Our cats lie across the shelves above the radiators and Caspar has now realised that the top of the larderfridge is also a good place to curl up, we have provided proper beds for them only to have them ignored by the cats and then chewed up by naughty Brynner....

Do you know, I think perhaps we should have a separate blog category for cats! In fact a CATegory. (Sorry)I guess the top of the larder fridge will have a warm air vent at the back? I'm wondering whether to invest in one of those hammocks that hook over a radiator - has anybody tried on@

Scottish - as a postscript, yes the long stringy seaweed has all disappeared - more thoroughly than the bladderwrack does actually.