I have agreed with Grannymar that the policy of using blogs to open up topics for discussion is a good one, and suggested that the lively discussion that is taking place on this post is proof enough. What is discordant about it?

I have used Grannymar’s blog to visit other bloggers who comment here and have gained from their blogs and I think, they from mine by exchanging comments on each other’s blogs. I just wanted to know your URL to do the same. Would you not want that to happen in your blog? I would in mine. What is discordant about that?

I have no intentions of seeing you off from this or any other blog. It is not up to me any way. I would really welcome you to my blog posts to comment and would like to visit yours if you have one. That is how many of us commenting here have grown the community here.

Ramana - a discordant note has slipped into your response to me. Remember that I complimented Grannymar on her generosity of allowing lively discussion “on the playground” of her blog. I have been seen off a couple of blogs which only encourage fawning of each other. Fluffy is not my style; by virtue of my daily reading matter and what I do, I ask questions: Not all of them comfortable, neither are they meant to offend.

As to cats, Grannymar: I nearly ran one over when moving into this neighbourhood (can you imagine my popularity rating if it had all gone up heaven?); and yes, many a time I asked my son’s now dead cat whether she had a death wish: After all what do you expect sitting in the middle of the road? She too was not up for discussions of a philosophical, indeed practical, nature. In the end she paid THE price.

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Ursula, it will be nice if you could give us your URL so that we could visit your blog and see what you write about. That is how this little community has grown.

Magpie – You have an answer for everything.

Maynard – ‘Grannymar has me shaking with guilt!’ You must be joking, I am a little mouse!

Conrad – I think there is an invisible sign saying ‘Leave your mark here’, at my garden because up to a dozen different cats visit and ignore me on a daily basis. Why don’t owners teach their cats to ‘go’ before leaving home, like we taught our young children!!

Brighid – see my comment to Conrad.

Baino – If people keep animals, they should have them under control AT ALL TIMES!

K8 – That is the quickest Paté I have come across! I am sure to land in hell now.!

Marianna – My thoughts were on Elly and the tasks ahead.

Ashok – I hope so!

Mayo – A sheep walked out into the road in front of my car yesterday. Thankfully I was moving slowly and there were no other cars about.

Alice – The LBC is a lovely and challenging idea, I for one, have accepted topics that otherwise I would never attempt.

Ursula – I am sorry about your cat. I didn’t set out to kill any animal, but cats are wild animals and do as they please. I had Elly to think of, she certainly didn’t need to lose two parents in three days!

Ursula, Jody & Magpie – I don’t see blogging as a form of confessional, but rather a means of opening up topics for discussion.

Judy – No way.

Jean – I remember someone telling me about some injured animal that they cared for before releasing it into the wild. The animal ran back across a road where she watched a car run over and kill it. As Brighid said above “Mother Earth takes care of her own”!

Nick – That was my first and only offence while on the road.