Everything a pet needs except for the kitchen sink ! #catsinsinks

My name is Rollie I am  ever ever so slightly  loopy and SO very evil  my favourite way to relax when not being evil is to sit in the sink :

I am also waiting to see what Santa brings me so I have  compiled a list of things that I  want expect!.

1. A new scratching post so I  ( Rollie ) can survey my minions and laud it up over every one and  look down my whiskers at them.

2.  A new bed as my owner says I really, really, really have to stop sleeping on the sink.

3. An automatic cat feeder as my owner says mice are not part of my diet ... so unfair ... Anyway I picked out this automatic cat feeder ....

4.  My owner seems to think I have a champagne life style ..pah ... SO I am choosing  this drinking fountain for my drinking champagne water!

Rollies favourite place the kitchen sink!

My owner is taking part in a blogger challenge to create me  Rollie the cat the ultimate Christmas list from GJW Titmuss website

You have been loved ...

Life is too short for regrets but sometimes things happen that you cannot control if only you could control life the world would seem so much easier or would it. It coming up to 7 years since my beloved Nan died and so its this time of year I do get sad, especially as my Grandparent was a true love story played out.

I don't do sentimentality I am not over sentimental I am sorry to say alot has happened in my early years to put pay to that, switching off my emotions in time of troubles was a quickly learnt skill if indeed you can call it that.


My Grandparents my Nan was struck down first by leukaemia and bravely battled on with her treatments, then my grandad got eye cancer ( what are the odd of that tragedy) They helped each other in their times of need aided by myself and other member of the family.

Little did I know the summer of 2003 would be the last time I saw them together my grandad stuffed a £20 note into my hand and told me to ring when I got home , which you must certainly did if you didn't want to feel the gentle wrath of his tongue!

So just before my son started a school I got a phone call I got the phone call : he was dying , my Nan suffered a relapse due to her leukaemia and so they ended up in hospital together. My Nan as was her way got fed up with him, they bickered in the most friendly of ways. But she found some resolve and discharged her self to come home.


So he died but I know that he died knowing that people loved him sadly my Nan died 3 years later they had been together over 50 years and had lived in the same round for all that time.

You have been loved ..

My Ultimate Christmas Song and Memories are made of this.

My ultimate Christmas song is not your typical one that you might think , songs have memories that are personal to each person:

Love it " I'll tune into you, you tune into me" classic lyrics !

It was Christmas 1975 We had not long been in England having just come across from Scotland The Outer Hebrides as my dad had been in the army. I was only just three years old and I loved the Wombles. Well what happened in 1975 ?

• 11 February - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become the party's first female leader. Mrs Thatcher, 49, was Education Secretary in Mr Heath's government from 1970 to 1974.
• 4 March - Actor Charlie Chaplin, 85, is knighted by the Queen
• 3 April - Release of comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• 5 April - Manchester United clinch promotion back to the First Division one season after relegation.!
• 9 June - Proceedings in Parliament broadcast on radio for the first time.
• 5 September - The London Hilton hotel bombed by the IRA killing two people and injuring 63 others
• 10 October - Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is released.
• 6 November - First public performance by punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
• December 1975 "Wombling Christmas" is released.
• 25 December Claire Bolton age 3 recieves Wombles jigsaw for Christmas.

Christmas 2012 Claire Bolton now Claire Toplis( age 40) still has The Wombles jigsaw.

The other Christmas tunes I love are"

2. Do They know its Christmas Time? As I grew up in the 1980s's and the impact of this song shocked me as I was so lucky to have all the things I had as a child.

3. I believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake because it evokes the spirit and scene of Christmas and takes me back in time.

4.Fairytale in New York by The Pogues and Kitstie McCall because its fun and it lifts my 
spirits high.

5. Walking in the Air as this is a prerequisite to the ultimate Christmas cartoon that is tinged with sadness and joy. I love it because it is a true custom of Christmas.

@Bakerdays Keep Calm 40th Cake

I saw Baker Days offering reviews out and I thought mmm cake can I be cheeky enough to ask for cake .mmmm cake. Once my drooling had stopped I politely emailed them with a request for a cake but not an ordinary cake ooh nook.

They offer cakes that are small enough to slip through your letter box, but large enough to celebrate the biggest occasions.  They come in various sizes and many, many designs, and more that an amazing 400 plus to choose from!

And the cake  its arrived today.  it arrived in a box, which when opened revealed a Baker Days tin, with a two candles, some balloons and a noisy thing. All this was in course in celebration of my 40th Birthday if you can't blow your own trumpet once in a while when can you ?

Source: picmonkey.com via Claire on Pinterest

I have to say I was worried as when I worked in the Post Office one Christmas they did tend to play basketball with some packages!. I needn't have worried obviously perhaps the Post Office are more careful nowadays with their packages as they cake was perfect no dents or imperfections.

Source: picmonkey.com via Claire on Pinterest

I am thrilled with it I noticed also they do a Gluten Free option as well which is handy for me as my Mother in Law is coeliac. So what design did I go for there could be only one as I have a tendancy to panic about everything and anything .......

The Lock of Love

Last weekend I was in Shoreditch and I was pleasantly surprised it just shows you that you should never judge a book by it cover when it comes to areas of London. London is constant reinventing itself and regenerating its what London does. So stepping out of Shoreditch High Street tube I was greeted by this site, at first I was suspicious and I am sorry to say my mind began to go into overdrive and thought what I was seeing had some sort of slightly sinister over and under tones.

This I learnt was the Shoreditch Love fence which has far from a Gangsta street mentality about it, it has a far reaching significance. It is in fact a custom wheruopn couples inscribe a message or their initials on a padlock and affix it to a fence or any other structure that is permanent. So as the couples are bound to each other physically and emotionally the fixing of a lock furthers the bond.

There is an  assortment of padlocks in different shapes and sizes, and the red, blue, yellow and green wool and twine woven in and out of the diamond mesh fence in the shape of hearts, is an art work in progress.

Where did it all start ?


An ancient custom, which is believed to have originated in China, where lovers lock a padlock on a chain or gate and then throw away the key, symbolically locking their love forever. Around the world cities from Moscow to Rome are filled with fences, gates, and poles adorned with padlocks.  These engraved padlocks are an expression of hope and humanity, connecting people around the world with the one thing that unites us all: LOVE.

And why not visit a special site dedicated to Love Locks.