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More Furniture

Today the furniture arrived from Norfolk.  This was basically most of the contents of the house in Norfolk where J grew up.  Compared to the stuff R and I brought…

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12 June 2025
Travel

MANN and catacombs

Today we went to the Archaeological Museum of Naples, in my opinion one of the greatest museums in the world.  Amongst other things, it holds the finest of the artifacts…

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24 January 2026
House, Renovation

Kitchen – Stage two

We got the new floor in our kitchen today. I would have loved real encaustic tiles but they are excruciatingly expensive, so we went for the unauthentic option and bought…

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5 August 2025
House

You know you have arrived when

You have the ultimate expression of Victorian respectability – an Aspidistra. This is ours in pride of place in our drawing room window. The main reason that these plants were…

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6 July 2025
Moving

An uncomfortable night

Today Pickford’s took a big proportion of our life, put it in a van and drove away with it. This sounds melodramatic, but in fact it genuinely was a bit…

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2 June 2025
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    Eleventh Day of Mousemas – Closing scenes

    / 28 December 2025

    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

    / 27 December 2025

    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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  • Cats,  House

    Ninth Day of Mousemas – Boxing Day

    / 26 December 2025

    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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  • Cats

    Eighth Day of Mousemas – Christmas Day

    / 25 December 2025

    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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  • Creative,  Other

    Big Ted at Christmas

    / 25 December 2025

    This is another story about Big Ted the bear from my childhood which I wrote for my family at Christmas. Lots of illustrations (done with the help of AI as it would have…

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  • Cats,  House,  Other

    Seventh Day of Mousemas – Christmas Eve

    / 24 December 2025

    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…

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  • Cats,  Food

    Sixth Day of Mousemas – A visitor

    / 23 December 2025

    Amber here.  R’s sister V came today.  She is very scary because she has two dogs and (I have to be blunt here) she smells of them.  Also, she is just scary because…

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  • Cats

    Fifth Day of Mousemas – Stranger Danger

    / 22 December 2025

    Saphy here.  I am only informed of this second hand – but R at least is a reasonably reliable source (wouldn’t trust M as far as I could claw her).  Apparently when he…

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  • Cats,  House

    Fourth day of Mousemas – a new bed

    / 21 December 2025

    Amber here.  I must say I am very impressed with our humans today.  I have mentioned that R got us (well me actually but Saphy steals it sometimes) a little bed for near…

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  • Cats,  Cupar

    Third day of Mousemas – some churches

    / 20 December 2025

    Saphy here again. M and J went on a “walk to the manger” today.  This involved going into different churches around town and singing Christmas carols.  As a slight digression – I believe…

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