Tea? (Part 2)

[Speicher]

Get well soon Leo. Do cats have kneecaps?

I am assuming that the vet knows this. Perhaps you can have cruciate ligaments without having kneecaps, or perhaps he said "crucial" ligament. Leo started yowling intermittently at 7am. Fortunately the vet is just up the road, and has a surgery on the premises, so there is someone there all the time. At first I thought he had damaged his hip, which at his age, approx ten or eleven years, would have been very bad news. He is fast asleep now, being carefully watched over by Tasha.

Breakfast time here tomorrow will be fun preventing Leo having breakfast will probably mean denying Tasha her breakfast.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Breakfast time here tomorrow will be fun preventing Leo having breakfast will probably mean denying Tasha her breakfast.

I'm afraid you will have to give up your breakfast too. Fair's fair

But pop in here and I'll brew some tea

 

[Speicher]

Arch will no doubt be along soon with the proper name of the joints in a cat's back legs. I am guessing they are not "knees" as such.

Can anyone on Tea offer some advice? How do I explain to my mother, that if she thinks she is not receiving e-mails over the weekend, that might be because she has not been sent any.

Also that she does not need to ring me to ask me to ring her when I have received her e-mail. Furthermore if some is going round to her house this afternoon to help her with her computer what expletives deleted does she expect me to do about it before then from fifty miles away?

and breathe .... and eat crumpets freshly delivered by very nice man from Tecso's, along with organic white chocoalate from Dominican Republic, and various other edible items. Any requests?

(Must now enjoy peace and quiet before The Impatient returns).

 

[Speicher]

I'm afraid you will have to give up your breakfast too. Fair's fair

But pop in here and I'll brew some tea

Too late, Tasha and I have had our breakfast, and I am ready for lunch.

 

[Hover Fly]

Cats do indeed have kneecaps, or patellas as they prefer to call them.

 

[HelenD123]

Can anyone on Tea offer some advice? How do I explain to my mother, that if she thinks she is not receiving e-mails over the weekend, that might be because she has not been sent any.

Also that she does not need to ring me to ask me to ring her when I have received her e-mail. Furthermore if some is going round to her house this afternoon to help her with her computer what expletives deleted does she expect me to do about it before then from fifty miles away?

and breathe .... and eat crumpets freshly delivered by very nice man from Tecso's, along with organic white chocoalate from Dominican Republic, and various other edible items. Any requests?

(Must now enjoy peace and quiet before The Impatient returns).

Just be thankful that she can actually use e-mail. I suspect my parents are somewhat younger than your mother and they struggle with e-mail and web browsing. I need to get them using it before I head over to Canada to make my life easier.

 

[Speicher]

My mother is 89 years old.

She has now just rung me to say her phone is working. I reminded her that she could have used her mobile - the silence was deafening.

When you are in Canada, it might concentrate their mind about using e-mail. Could you just teach them the basics of receiving and replying to your e-mails, as a start. Sorry if I am teaching you to suck eggs.

I would add that heading to Canada would probably also make my life easier. Trouble is, I would not want to come back. I wonder if Flying Monkey has a spare bedroom?

 

[wafflycat]

Arch will no doubt be along soon with the proper name of the joints in a cat's back legs. I am guessing they are not "knees" as such.

As said, they do have knees (patella) They also have heels, and they walk on their toes

 

[Speicher]

Leo is making the most tremendous racket imaginable at times. He keeps trying to lick the bandage, which the Vet has said he should not be doing. They suggested trying a collar, but that might stop him settling down and going to sleep. I put a litter tray out for him, but he decided that might be somewhere to try and lie down. This could be a very long week. Could I swap knees with him? I could lie still and watch cycling, and read lots of books. The citizens of Tea could take in turns to put the kettle on. Not eating very much would not do me any harm.

 

[Arch]

Huh, it appears my years of animal skeleton study has been gazumped...

Yes, quadrupeds have kneecaps, and knees, and ankles and all that, they just aren't quite where many people think they are - as Waffles said, they walk on tip toe so the joint in the middle of their back leg is the ankle, and the knee is actually up at the top of the leg, and the hip sort of buried within the body, which is why quadrupeds look as if their 'knees' bend the other way to us - because it's their ankles... Same at the front, the 'front knee' is the wrist, and the elbow up at the top of the leg and the shoulder within the body.

Prey animals walk even more on tip toe than predators, and have the number of toes reduced to reduce the weight of the legs, since the key to really fast running is light limbs and long strides. Except in the case of the cheetah, when a certain amount of being able to dislocate your spine also comes into it. There's a theory that giraffes didn't evolve tall to browse the top of trees, they evolved long legs to run, and the neck had to follow in order for them to be able to drink...

Cows, of course, have kneecaps, and for some reason, I've always found them amusing when I find one in an assemblage. I don't know why.

Any tea going? I don't like to jinx myself, but my back has felt way better today. Just need to try and make myself take it easy for the next fortnight, then I have a week off...

 

[TheDoctor]

*Passes Tea in all directions*

Evenings!! Only just in from work, and I need to go and make some dinner. Fajitas, I think

 

[Arch]

Fajitas

Bless you!

I had a veg and cashew nut stirfry, all my five portions at once.

More tea now....

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Huh, it appears my years of animal skeleton study has been gazumped...

Yes, quadrupeds have kneecaps, and knees, and ankles and all that, they just aren't quite where many people think they are - as Waffles said, they walk on tip toe so the joint in the middle of their back leg is the ankle, and the knee is actually up at the top of the leg, and the hip sort of buried within the body, which is why quadrupeds look as if their 'knees' bend the other way to us - because it's their ankles... Same at the front, the 'front knee' is the wrist, and the elbow up at the top of the leg and the shoulder within the body.

Prey animals walk even more on tip toe than predators, and have the number of toes reduced to reduce the weight of the legs, since the key to really fast running is light limbs and long strides. Except in the case of the cheetah, when a certain amount of being able to dislocate your spine also comes into it. There's a theory that giraffes didn't evolve tall to browse the top of trees, they evolved long legs to run, and the neck had to follow in order for them to be able to drink...

Cows, of course, have kneecaps, and for some reason, I've always found them amusing when I find one in an assemblage. I don't know why.

Any tea going? I don't like to jinx myself, but my back has felt way better today. Just need to try and make myself take it easy for the next fortnight, then I have a week off...

Are you saying that, since all our leg bones are in the "correct" places, Homo Sapiens are no good at running?

 

[TheDoctor]

Not compared to an antelope we're not. However, we're bright enough to invent weaponry!
And bikes

 

[Landslide]

Morning all!
Fresh brew a-go-go! Help yourselves...

Last day off work today, back to the office tomorrow.