Cats
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A Victorian New Year Card
A friend I made at a local history group very kindly gave me this original Victorian New Year’s card as a gift. She commented that the kitten looked like our cat Saphy. Here…
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Mouse and dressing gown
This morning the three of us were playing a computer game (we do that quite a lot) when R heard a squeaking noise from his bedroom. On investigation, Saphy was staring intently at…
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Cats and keyboards
Why do cats like keyboards so much? It has got to be just that they like stopping people working so that they can have their slaves’ full attention. Amber had a go at…
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First Snow
Today was our first experience of snow here on the east coast – unlike areas a bit north of here we only had a few centimetres. Here was the house in the snow…
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Twelfth Day of Mousemas – R’s birthday
Today was the last day of Mousemas and R’s birthday. Tomorrow the tree and decorations will come down, the last of the rich food will be bagged up for the food bank and…
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Eleventh Day of Mousemas – Closing scenes
Amber again. Mousemas is nearly over for another year. Tomorrow is R’s birthday which brings things to a close and the day after, M will take the decorations down. It is funny because…
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Tenth Day of Mousemas – A nasty surprise
Today started well, as just when we thought it would never happen, the intruders left. First the strange red car departed (hopefully not to return) followed by R and M in the usual…
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Ninth Day of Mousemas – Boxing Day
Saphy here again. The humans had great hilarity this afternoon playing a game called “Railway Rivals”. This is apparently a game they bought in the dim mists of prehistory when there were sabre-toothed…
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Eighth Day of Mousemas – Christmas Day
Saphy here. It has been chaos today. People, presents, paper, singing, endless music and then pointless games for hours and hours. Amber went off in the sulks – she managed to hide so…
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Seventh Day of Mousemas – Christmas Eve
Amber again. This is what the humans call Christmas Eve. Someone was born a long time ago and is supposed to be coming back some time but hasn’t yet. Most humans including R…
