Thankful Thursday

A Thankful Thursday Tail.....

Now there was I last Thursday, taking a snooze as one does when the weight of the days chores weigh heavy upon your  shoulders, when I heard a knocking on the Palace drawbridge.

Strange I thought to myself, Cream deliveries are on Tuesday and Nip wine is always on a Friday. So being the good all round egg I am, I delegated the duty of answering to the staff, and carried on working at my nap.

I know what you're thinking, and you'd be right, that is a mighty selfless act on my part. They all need the exercise and it is incumbent on me as head of everything to see to it that I take every opportunity to help them achieve their goal.

Some time later the house keeper, Mrs Hudson, brought up this really large package for me. Well it's thirty flights of stairs to the Pink Suite, but for an octogenarian she veritably sprinted along with the parcel on her head. Thank heavens the stairlift had been serviced, is all I can say MOL

Anyways, after using my vast powers of deliberation observation and cogitation, inspecting the package and post mark I surmised that this was in fact safe to open. OK it did say on the top 'This package is from Bionic Basil and is safe to open' but one can never be too certain, it could have been a bill from the Inland Revenue!

After breaking the seal, cutting the strings, disabling the various security booby traps the B Team had placed on the parcel, I enter the secret 5 digit code that Basil had sent me by pigeon the previous day, and the box sprung into life and distributed an array of pink packages around my bed.

I'd have been happy with just the pink packages covered in that tissue wrap, but these had delights within, too.

"Well, Mrs Hudson," I said "this is a two nip pipe dilemma and no mistake. Which one shall I open first?"

So being the Princess I am, I did the only thing I could do, and that was have a wash.

"Start small, Princess," my mom always said to me, "and work up to being great." Great ladycat, my mum,  full of wise advice and sayings. Though I think she might just have been giving me the facts about growing up?


So there I was surrounded by these packages so I followed moms advice and Mrs Hudson and I worked our way up the sizes.

Well let me tell you that this was an Epically Epic prize and so many wonderful things. Our first two smaller packages had two boxes of packs of treats. Nice one Basil just what I need for Christmas, though they may not last that long MOL

But which one to open next? Decisions decisions, time for another pitstop I think....

This one smelled nice, maybe that was the one Basil, or Smoochie wrapped?

Hmm or maybe it should be these?

I think I can smell mice in this one, maybe nip too!

Well after a while there was clearly nothing else for it but to just get stuck in. I had loads of fun with the pink tissue wrap, and Mrs Hudson got to play in the box too. Strange woman, but hey I cant knock it as I like the occasional bit of dusting, and knitting too MOL

When everything was unwrapped we had WON the epically epic 'Basil, The Bionic Cat' book,  the mouse mat, a mug for my morning nip coffee, a magnetic calendar, a pair of really fun Kraken tentacles for me to tease the peep with late at night, and a set of 3 mice (not the real ones). Just so the peep wasn't left out of it, we also got an awesome colouring book and two sets of crayons. Nice to see that Basil got the peep's age group spot on (3+ it says) MOL And one of those neck bands to attache the spectacles too when windsurfing or snowboarding. I think that should maybe have come with some accident insurance too, just in case the peep gets ideas MOL

Thank You Basil, the B Team and your PA for such a wonderful selection of prizes, we truly have a LOT to be thankful for.

We are joining Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop..... To see the other hoppers, please click the links below......

War and Peace

Four thousand nine hundred and ninety eight........

Four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine........

Five thousand.

Finished!

Five thousand words!

Well I'm sure Google can't complain about that. If they like a long blog for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) purposes then I think I can safely say I have it covered.

I think quite probably it's the best piece of work I've done to date, since my Rescued submission, and I reckon Tolstoy would have been proud, though by his standards I'm only five hundred and eighty-two thousand, two hundred and eighty-seven adrift. Still I don't want to put people off.

Whats that peep? What do you mean he's dead?

Tolstoy?

Tolstoy is DEAD! Wow that was sudden, I was only just reading his blog on the Kindle, last night!

Poor man, I best send some nip flowers and a selection of cream cheeses to his wife and family. Oh and send a missive to Napoleonic Ambassador in London, that unless they cease hostilities I'll impose a trade embargo on that smelly cheese of theirs and not buy any more.

OK so I admit I don't actually buy any, but should I buy some in future I won't, and I'll demand a refund too, in triplicate. That will teach 'em!

Anyways back to the matter at paw.

When they say five thousand words for SEO on Google, maybe its like the changing of the century, and it's not a new century until you get the thousand and oneth. Maybe what I need to do is add one extra one word, after all I don't want to ruin the ship or my Google ranking for a Ha'p'orth of tar, now do I!

Mind you, this isn't a ship, and whilst we do have a moat, I don't think the Kraken will be happy me going around shoving tar in all her nooks, crannies and along her split seams!

On second thoughts I'll add another two words, the second can keep the first company, or in case the first gets lost. You can never quite tell where some of those words disappear to. Many a time I've hit the ESC button and things vanish.

What's that ol' wobbly peep o' mine?

Really? Well no wonder things keep vanishing if they put an ESCape key on the keyboard.

There was me thinking ESC stood for Erin's Special Cream! No wonder it never turned up. I best send an email to Apple to cancel my last ten missives of complaint about missing words..... and then I can send another complaining that there's no key to order cream!

Right best add the two words, but what could I use? 'The End' is too final and it surely isn't the end of the blog. 'To be continued' is a favourite but that really gets over used these days, especially in the movies.

I'll add 'Cream Cheese', that will get the old taste buds going and add to the flavour of the post.

So, what's five thousand plus one more and another one? That makes..... ah..... hmmm..... er..... I've got it! Five thousand and eleven!

That still doesn't seem a lot, I mean that's less than one per cent margin of error, not that I make any but we do need to be accurate in our leeways! I best check the exchange rate and see if when I change it to pence, rather than cents, it looks any better.

Eeek! That's even worse! According to the exchange rates at the moment, those five thousand words in US are only worth three thousand seven hundred and eighty two and point seven four in the UK!

That means I'm well short of what I need for UK Google. And what of the parts of words? I hadn't figured on a 'point seven four' of a word.

What to do, what to do indeed?

Hmm, well I could add an extra twelve hundred and seventeen words, and a few abbreviations like y'all and ol' bean, that should do it.

But maybe that's too much of a margin. I definitely don't want to ruin the blog by over egging the custard. Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind over creaming things but too many eggs is not on. No ma'am, that would never do and have the hens in uproar about wastage and they'd threaten a stand up strike!

I think I have it! I could make the words bigger, thus take up more word space. That way they'll still be five thousand and eleven US words but in UK they'll expand and fill up the page despite the conversion rate. I could put it down to market forces and inflation.

What's that ol' peep of mine? You think this is too long for a blog?

I'll have you know that this is the very latest way to get noticed on the web, having a BIG SEO is right up there at the top of the page of things to do...... in fact as the blog title it IS right at the top of the page!

Now the tile's done I can work on the Facebook and Twitter post too.

Whats that peep? Twitters one hundred and forty characters you say? Really? Would that be a hundred and forty characters less than five thousand?

It isn't, huh?

Hmm do you think I could maybe just squeeze this one down to very small print? Or maybe they have a leeway.... of about four thousand eight hundred and sixty?

They don't, huh?

Botheration.... Ok so maybe five thousand and eleven words is more of a dawn chorus than a tweet, but still it's not very sociable of them. I shall send them a missive complaining and asking them to up there tweets to five thousand.... and eleven.



Oh well I really do need to get on with the blog post itself, but so far all I've come up with is;- How I wrote the perfect SEO heading for Google. I mean whose going to read that, it's barely enough for a title let alone a post!


                                       ~~~~~ The End ~~~~~

And now for a Sunday Selfie......

I am joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the fantastic Kitties Blue: XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, and Cooper Murphy, from The Cat on My Head blog 

The Sunday Selfies is a wonderful weekly celebration of blogs and bloggers from across the world, and shares stories and pictures for others to enjoy. 

Why not join the fun by adding the code from our hosts, (a link is on their page) and posting your own selfie. It really is that easy....

After a really hectic few days chasing mice and stocktaking the cream cellars, I thought I would settle down and finish the week with some paper work. 

Alas the complexity of the sudoku accounts meant I had to do some very deep sleeping thinking.... Do you think I should put in for some overtime?

To see what all our pals have been up to this week, please click the links/images below, and enjoy the HOP!