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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2009 21:54:59 GMT
I think she still is quite beautiful.
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Post by spindrift on Oct 8, 2009 22:33:59 GMT
Yes, she is.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 9, 2009 6:57:45 GMT
I agree.
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 9, 2009 6:59:59 GMT
Oh, I thought we were talking about the cat.
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 9, 2009 7:11:31 GMT
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Post by bjd on Oct 9, 2009 8:54:03 GMT
At least BB didn't have a lot of facelifts -- she still has "good bones" and that makes a difference in one's appearance in old age. I think she just turned 75.
I hope your cat is happy where he is now, Baz. A friend of mine also found herself with a cat when her neighbours moved to Tahiti. And there was a student living near us who left behind a cat when he left the country. After it hung around the neighbourhood meowing constantly for a while, another neighbour found a lonely older lady who took it for company.
Oddly enough, I saw very few cats in Rome -- expected to see more because of all the postcards & calendars for sale with titles like "The cats of Rome". We didn't go to Largo Argentina though.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 9, 2009 11:13:10 GMT
Well, we'll all age if we don't die first. Some more wrinkly than others. Bardot is a smoker, no? But wrinkles are also very genetic. I have none in my 50s, but of course other things head south. One of my closest friends, who is a few years older than I am, is more wrinkly (she has never smoked) but she can still get into Jane Birkin sized jeans. She is a lot like Jane that way.
I don't like Bardot, but there are far worse things one can do than care about animals. Most people in her set are not great humanitarians, after all, they spend their money on yachts, fast cars, that sort of thing.
I would so much have loved to have seen St-Tropez before it became trendy and plastic. I'd be so happy in a warm, dry Mediterranean climate.
As for the cat, I feel like spindrift; this story has made me terribly sad - I'm getting a bit Bardotish in my dotage - my cat is such an important presence in my life. But I understand if a person can't tolerate an allergen. I so hope that lovely cat finds someone to love him (or her, but I think 'tis a tom).
Funny, I saw a lot of cats everywhere in Rome and kept feeding them sardines. Never got to eat my good sardines in olive oil...
Just noticed, bazfaz should be a dynamo!
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 9, 2009 11:29:23 GMT
I think you need 1500 posts to become a dynamo, no ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2009 13:17:14 GMT
That won't console spindrift. (Brigitte Bardot lives in Saint Tropez.)True. But for someone who lives in Canada, St Trop is like just living round the corner. Very true. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 9, 2009 13:55:55 GMT
Well, she's holding a cigarette in this photo, but her primary activity in the picture is more likely to have caused that kind of wrinkling:  Describing her as Halloweenish is most unkind and perhaps detached from reality, as well. I wish you ladies could stop being so sad about the cat. Surely people who simply abandoned it weren't giving it such a great home anyway. Since its life was already disrupted, the Fazes quick and humane efforts will give it a much better life now. |
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Post by spindrift on Oct 9, 2009 19:43:16 GMT
I certainly hope so but one can't be sure.
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Post by imec on Oct 9, 2009 20:13:53 GMT
I certainly hope so but one can't be sure. Too true spindrift. |
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 9, 2009 20:48:26 GMT
Imec, a message came up on your link :" Än error ocurred."
I hope this isn't referring to the cat.
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Post by imec on Oct 9, 2009 20:55:20 GMT
Hmm... it seems to have fixed itself now. Classic Canadian animated film about a cat that just wouldn't stay away.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2009 23:02:59 GMT
 maybe he's gone to Egypt  . I just saw him in the "Packing list" thread down yonder. |
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Post by lagatta on Oct 9, 2009 23:36:32 GMT
It is normal for a cat to want to go to Egypt, where cats were gods. Though all the scrawny African cats, trying to escape to prosperous Europe alongside their humans, must find it strange that this well-fed ginger cat would be heading the wrong way...
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 10, 2009 9:37:24 GMT
I have just looked out of the french windows into the courtyard and seen...
another cat.
OMG.
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Post by lagatta on Oct 10, 2009 12:05:01 GMT
Oh dear. Ask your neighbours; it is probably just a local cat making the rounds. They love to adopt different households, thereby ensuring food and housing security.
On the plus side you could make this a fictional story line. On the minus, you probably have a thousand other things to worry about, with those shiftless former owners of your domain...
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Post by imec on Oct 10, 2009 12:29:17 GMT
Maybe the word's out - you know the way to a a good cathouse...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2009 12:31:45 GMT
I have just looked out of the french windows into the courtyard and seen... another cat. OMG. Are you sure you were fully awake? Maybe it was a nightmare? ;D We'd best start brainstorming as you find a home for this one too then? |
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 10, 2009 14:00:46 GMT
It was a neighbour's (Mme Fradin) cat, I have been told, venturing into newly liberated territory.
On the plus side Mme Fradin has said we can help ourselves to some of her walnuts. And in less than 3 weeks we are on bisou terms with her.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2009 14:32:14 GMT
Perhaps the cat that was just put in exile was keeping a dozen other cats away from your house.
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Post by rikita on Oct 10, 2009 18:00:51 GMT
well but i suppose those other cats will be less likely to try to enter the house, won't they? and from what i understood that was the main problem - that you want to be able to leave doors and windows open without cats coming into the house, right?
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Post by bazfaz on Oct 10, 2009 20:38:31 GMT
Rikita, you are right. I love cats but having a cat in the house is simply not possible.
At our last house there was a cat that came and miaowed pathettically at us every day all through the fine weather - maybe six months. We never fed it, didn't encourage it, but it couldn't believe our hearts wouldn't melt. When autumn came it vanished. But all that time we had to keep the doors closed or it would have been in the house.
I think we'll be OK here leaving thr door open.
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Post by happytraveller on Oct 11, 2009 14:17:38 GMT
On the plus side Mme Fradin has said we can help ourselves to some of her walnuts. And in less than 3 weeks we are on bisou terms with her. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 9:05:02 GMT
I think the other cats probably chewed through the internet cable that the original cat was protecting.
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. I just saw him in the "Packing list" thread down yonder.