Cats
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Christmas Tree(s)
Our real Christmas tree came from Caulders the local garden centre today. I got a real 8′ one because with ceilings this high I felt we needed the grandeur of a big tree.…
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Tapestry Cats
This is Saphy on a beautiful Victorian footstool. The panel on it is quite delicate and I am always nervous that Saphy will start one of her claw projects on it, so one…
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In which Saphy does cute again
I have never known a cat like Saphy for lying paws upwards like this. Some cats do this because either they want tickles or they want to claw the shit out of you…
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My Fur Lady
After the remarks I made the other day about the cats and their new radiator bed there has been a bit of change of opinion about it from Saphy, who has now been…
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The radiator bed
Saphy has not made herself popular with R today. Firstly she brought a live vole into his bedroom and let it go behind a very heavy wardrobe. Recently she has taken to bringing…
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Supervision
I went out to clear what was left of the leaves this afternoon. They are all gone, apart from bizarrely, a single red apple bravely clinging on. I had almost finished when the…
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Biting the bullet
R is (amongst other things) a professional conference speaker. At one he attended recently, everyone was given a Nerf gun as part of their conference pack, and were encouraged to shoot speakers with…
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Cat Door Mark 2 – the saga continueth….
So after the failure of the first cat door (failure as a means of keeping Saphy in at night that is – it looked nice), I built another one. Art board was replaced…
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Cat and mushrooms
We have a fantastic crop of mushrooms at the moment – not only this huge one, but others on the front lawn in more or less the traditional “fairy ring” formation. I keep…
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A nice day – but…
This morning R and I went for a walk along the side of the River Eden. It is a particularly pretty bit called the “Orchard Walk” with lots of fruit trees (the fruit…
