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[hope_24]

Found the missing kitty!!! She was up a tree not a few yards from the house the whole time!

Many thanks to everyone who sent good wishes in the thread.

Thanks also to St Jude, St Gertrude and St Antony - to whom I've been praying like crazy.

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[catherinecookmn]

Hooray!

[hope_24]

Hee! Well wishers should join me in the eating of celebratory chocolate. :)

[hope_24]

I'm just relieved she's back. No more gallivanting at night. :)

I didn't know that about St Anthony...I'll need to think of a generous gesture to perform.

Also, please join in the celebratory chocolate eating. :)

[camillo1978]

Hello! Glad you've found the cat! Guess what. I have come here from snapedom with a Scottish question for you.

If Minerva MacGonagall was tipsy and a bit peeved, what expression would she use for 'taking the piss'? At the moment, she says, “He always took the piss out of me! A man in his thirties is not supposed to be able to make a lady in her seventies feel like a dithering idiot!”

I partially blame Maggie Smith but I hear MacGonagall as an Edinburgh poshy. Does this vocab work okay?

Cheers
Camillo

[hope_24]

I would imagine an Edinburgh poshy like MacGonagall (so that's where Miss Brodie went when she left Marcia Blaine) to say something like:

"He was always taking the rise out of me!" or "He was always getting a rise out of me!" The rest of it sounds fine to me.

Really enjoying 'Get A Life' by the way.

Hope that helps
Hope

[camillo1978]

Thanks for this, "getting a rise out of me" sounds good. She's drunk and making excuses for herself, so she'll call him a bastard in the next sentence though!

Glad you're liking the WIP... there is another chapter that just needs polishing but writing is going slow at the moment and the Exchange fic has to be taken care of first 'cos of the deadline!

[hope_24]

Glad it was of use.

I am really liking the WIP. I love Snape in Africa, and the idea of him going back to basics. The descriptions of the landscape, weather, etc are wonderfully vivid.