Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Maybe a courgette?
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- Thread starter Katherine
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
You put us all to shame.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Apparently our heating isn't on.... I'm going to find out shortly! But for now I'm nice and cosy!
hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Yes I know.... but that's AGES away. He could just drop by well before then. Don't want it going off
Morning @hopless500 have a 
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
OP
OP
- Location
- Manchester
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Happy birthday to you.
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Coventry's awfully murky this morning.
hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Thank youMorning @hopless500 have a
hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
Hoppy Birthday to you...
Hoppy Birthday to you...
Hoppy Birthday dear Hopless...
Hoppy Birthday to you!
hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
I may already have cake 
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Have a good un Hopless 
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Not for me, Wol.
I've just signed up for Pie-camp, though
Pieminister in the Covered Market Oxford. Yummy!
I have just bought my road tax for the mini, £20. I could have paid direct debit at £1.75 a month, I thought I could get away without spreading the payments.
The tax on my MINI is £0
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Umm, not quite. There is no genetic slip up - and it's quite simple really.Brindle torties are far from rare.
Firstly, the gene for white spotting (S) is independent of other genes for colour / pattern. A cat is just as likely to not have white spotting as having it.
Tortoiseshell colouring is sex-linked and only (other than in some very rare cases) occurs with female cats. This is down to the fact that the y chromosome is too small to hold any genetic information for colour - colour genes are only found on the x chromosome.
Hence, a male cat can either only be orange (O) or non-orange (o) i.e. ginger or not, since as an xy, he only has a single x chromosome.
Female cats have two x chromosomes and therefore have two sets of genes pertaining to colour.
For a female cat to be ginger, she must have *two* copies of the O gene, one on each x chromosome i.e. she is OO
If a female cat only has one copy of the orange gene, i.e. she is Oo, then she will be a tortie of some description, with the non-orange part of her colouring being solid or tabby.
And if a female cat has no copy of the orange gene i.e. she is oo, then she will be black or tabby or some variant thereof.
Henry's mum was a Tortie.She had a real mixed bunch of a litter.
I didn't get Sasha until she was 18mths old so I know nothing of her parentage.
EltonFrog
Legendary Member
Happy birthday @hopless500 , have a great day.
