Calling all Zebras!! Calling all Zebras!! (nearly came up as "culling all Zebras" oh no...)

[Katinka46]

My lovely friend who has sent me countless Zebras — my Avatar was from her — has just sent me this card.

Reminds me of my cartoon of Zebra having gone through the wash and coming out pink and black...

Lovely day here. More and more of the hills appearing as the last of the leaves come down.

Hope your weekends are doing all that a weekend should do.

Love and hugs

Kate xxxx

[sassy59]

That’s brilliant Kate, what a thoughtful friend.

Brightened up nicely here but only have a view of other houses. Not complaining though. Hoping for dry weather for Halloween but not looking very promising.

Love to zebras everywhere, have a great day. Xxxxxxx😘👻👻👻👻👻

[Katinka46 in reply to sassy59]

We have no children nearby now. ☹️ No treats.... No tricks... just us in Out dotage... 🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️

[Ergendl in reply to Katinka46]

Ah, but what a good excuse to buy a big tub of Swizzles ha'penny sweets just in case the unlikely happens... Keeps me going 'til nearly Christmas and the chocolate onslaught.

[Hacienda]

This is so lovely Kate, Your Zebra picture is a Cute one.(I never washed one for it to Run LOL). We also have Beautiful Sunshine today though quite Chilly, been watching my Wild Friends all Morning in my garden munching on the Pumpkin. Have a Great Sunday. Love n Hugs xxxx

[Katinka46 in reply to Hacienda]

We were supposed to in the Lakes with our youngest and her family but my chest infection put a stop to that. They are going to Beatrix Potter Gallery. I have asked them to get me a BP teacosy and some fudge.

[skischool in reply to Katinka46]

The last of your leaves.having blown over your hill are filling my driveway nicely dear Kate,almost enough to make a cosy bed for a Zebra.Is fudge toffee for dentally challenged people?i must consider it for the future.Your Yorkshire tea will feel lovingly embraced by your BP cosy,pray save me a cup of that warming brew on this sunny and chilly day.

Ski's and the Scruffy one. xx

[Katinka46 in reply to skischool]

You’re very welcome if you feel brave enough to venture into hostile territory.

Love to you both

Kate xxxx🦓🐈🧟‍♀️🧛‍♂️🍂

[wheezyof]

Hello lovely Zebra,

The card is great.

I'm glad you called us and didn't cull us : I'm working hard at staying alive as it is.

Sending love xx

[Katinka46]

Damn predictive text will be the end of us all. Grrr...

Kate xxxx 🦓🦓🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to Katinka46]

Predictive text can be wonderful especially when it writes all those long words for me. But other times it really makes me wonder... like it changes things as of after they’re written. Sometimes I see something I’ve written and can’t even work out what I was trying to say. The worst is writing in a language other than English which my iPad and phone default to. One time I wrote a paragraph full of pouty elephants. 🐘

I’d actually written peut-être but my iPad clearly felt I was mistaken and wanted to talk about pouty elephants instead. I suppose it’s better to have a depressed elephant than a culled zebra 😳

[Katinka46 in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Love it. Pouty elephants and culled Zebras...

Thanks

Kate xxx

[Ergendl in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Wonderful post! Thanks for a brilliant laugh this morning.

[Caspiana]

Culling.... 😂😂😂😂😂 xx 😊💕

[Katinka46 in reply to Caspiana]

No, darling, NO culling. Some of us feel half culled as it is.

Love

Kate xxxx 🦓🦓🦓🦓🍁🍂

[Caspiana in reply to Katinka46]

😂😂😂

[Izb1]

How thoughtful of your friend to send such a lovely funny card, but no culling please. Such good banter puts a bright start to my day x

[Susan1200]

It's lovely to have a great friend ,and so thoughtful of her to send you this lovely card 😁 have a lovely day 🐞

[Katinka46 in reply to Susan1200]

Thanks. She has given Safari-park-loads of Zebras over the years since I got my very own one in my rib cage (rare disease). Scarves, cards, cushion covers, squeaky ones, knitted ones. She keeps promising no more and then she finds the perfect card....

K x

[Susan1200]

I find it very uplifting 😁

[Katinka46]

Me too. 💕

[Sharp5Flat13]

Reminded me of a medical expression a veterinarian once taught me. “Watch out for the zebra.” Which is a medical case in which all the symptoms point to the common case, yet the true etiological agent is entirely different.

[Katinka46 in reply to Sharp5Flat13]

How interesting. Zebras are rare diseases, and doctors are scared of them. They don’t want to look like naive junior doctors desperate to find a rarity. There is a list of cognitive biases that doctors are prone to and one of them is called “Zebra retreat.” I much prefer your vet’s advice: which is presumably to keep an open mind and not automatically rule out Zebras.

Hmmm... perhaps I should have gone to the vets? Maybe it wouldn’t have taken eight years to get my Zebra diagnosed?

I posted some of my cartoons here illustrating my going to the Royal Brompton Hospital, with my Zebra. One of them shows my Zebra, Paddington fashion, on the platform at Kings Cross with a label reading: “Please do not ignore this Zebra.”

Thanks for your comment.

Kate x

[Sharp5Flat13]

Looking for the rest of your cartoons, Kate. Very uplifting for our compromised breathing.

Jimmy

[Katinka46 in reply to Sharp5Flat13]

Scroll down in my profile, there are a lot! Some of them relate to members who are no longer on the forum. My consultant posts the ones that are about me and my zebra on his WhatsApp group of respiratory consultants. Don't like to think what they make of it. "Well, Paul, you've got a right one there, Bet she's a bit of a handful. Glad she's not my patient."