Life with cats, and other things…
07:54. 4th November 2026 At long last it is raining. A good thing since although there has been no mention locally of drought, water courses have been looking on the dry side for some time now. The ten day forecast suggests that we will get several more wet days and continuing unseasonably mild temperatures, though … Continue reading A change in the weather
30th October 2026 Re-reading what I wrote the other day, I realise how often I mention cowardice. Two names I never wanted to be called: Liar or Coward. To not be a liar is a matter of choice, something I can decide for myself. With all honesty I can declare myself not to be one. … Continue reading Coward
07:40. 27th October 2026 Many things may be learned from reading, though admittedly not everything should be accepted as gospel truth. Sometimes, though, you discover verifiable facts that you feel you ought to have known but somehow never did. World War Two had been over for three years when I was born, but we lived … Continue reading Muddled
22nd October . Another glorious day, Another car trip. Getting accepted as a patient by a new primary care physician required an updated blood test, so I attended to this first thing on Tuesday morning. Voting is very much more important, but I had done that some time ago. Although my new physician works at … Continue reading Common sense?
08:15. 29th October 2026 When making appointments, I request an early one, but in accepting 7 am on Thursday, I was forgetting that by the end of October it would still be dark at that hour. In the absence of street lighting, our roads are blacker than pitch, but the clinic is in Greenwich, so … Continue reading No complaints
Sorting through my latest downloads on Saturday - Halloween - I was surprised to come upon the above which I had not intentionally taken. I'd not even noticed the witch. . No doubt living up to my reputation of sobering influence, I am always glad when Halloween is over and the tacky decorations are removed. … Continue reading Return to childhood
07:42 26th October 2026 As I was saying, - the view of dawn from our porch is not bad. It's a view of sunset we are lacking, the house sitting as it does below the rim of an east-facing hill. . The day after our pre-dawn dash to nowhere, we were entertained from the comfort … Continue reading The soft age
21st October 2026 Hearing that the snow geese had arrived at Dead Creek, we decided to take a run up there and we did indeed catch sight of a flock of about 200 birds, but they were grazing in a distant field, too far away to see properly even with the zoom lens or Grant's … Continue reading We’ll see
19th October 2026 As our approaching Fall appeared to offer promise, we had made vague plans to maximise our appreciation. In Vermont the leaves turn a little sooner than here in New York, for example. Back in the Spring we'd driven south into Massachusetts and found ourselves admiring the Tachonic Ridge and planning to view … Continue reading The Show
18th October 2026. Danby Mountain Road, Vermont. As a much younger woman, when I was (more or less) able-bodied, I loved to travel and using my airline benefits, I managed a few very wonderful trips, but there was never enough time. Or money, for that matter. Cheap air tickets provided transport and if you were … Continue reading Rupert