Life with cats, and other things…
"Well," said Mr White-throat, from his safe perch. "It started out alright..." "then the morning meal went to hell..." "How dare you come to breakfast looking such a disgrace!" yelled senior Cowbird "Steady on", said his wife, "must you shout?" "It's just not good enough! You've put me off my meal!" "Oh good!" said Sparrow, … Continue reading Show-off
3rd May 2022 As previously mentioned, wild strawberries are terribly invasive, throttling other plants with their roots and runners. So I have been relocating as many as I could. But it's not so easy when they have pretty faces! This very tiny flower, according to Plantnet is called "Herb of grace". I suspect it was … Continue reading Wild things
1st May, 2022 Headache or no, it was too fine a day to spend languishing indoors, so we took a scenic route to Greenwich yesterday. Grant likes to find new routes, though it's often hard to remember where we have been because the scenery differs vastly with the seasons. There may only be four official … Continue reading Lining up
"No-one with any intelligence does not believe in God!" ...retorted Sister Mary Immaculate, looking even more fierce than usual. This was her response when I went to tell her that I did not wish to sit the Religious studies mock O-level exam. "What made you think I was going to allow you to?" As I … Continue reading Being tested
28th April 2022. Route 22 Cambridge A chill wind still glazes the bird baths at night, even as the world slows wakes. This is Spring the way I like it, advancing in baby steps. Last year's corn stalks give definition to an empty field. Everything is fresh. The sky seems painted. Just as well our … Continue reading Fowl story
1204/27th April 2022 Rattle a carrier door and instantly we are a non-cat house. Not a cat to be seen. But no, that's not quite right, because there's Lily... Lily is always up for an adventure. We'll get all set up, with the carrier door open for the quick shoving-in of whoever the unlucky pet … Continue reading Star cats
1933/25th April 2022 As the day draws in, I always keep an eye on developments outside my window. Often I'll catch sight of deer or turkeys, though we seem to be off their beaten route currently. Perhaps they heard rumors about a bear! Sometimes, though, the sky seems alive. This was the case two nights … Continue reading Sound effects
After receiving my second Covid booster yesterday, we went off once more to Greenwich, passing the horses and other creatures I always call out to. The horse pasture is adjacent to a barn that is in advanced stages of falling down. Sadly, just one of the hundreds we see. Grant muttered about my decision to … Continue reading Booster
25th April 2022 Forty-two years ago, the crisis of the moment (at least as far as 'the West' was concerned) was the taking of 52 hostages in Iran. The hostages, US diplomats and citizens, were seized on November 4th, 1979. The Shah had been deposed and had come to the USA for cancer treatments. The … Continue reading Mysteries
0802/24th April 2022 This morning's sky was "wavy". Like a soft lid being weighed down. How different the world seems under a clear sky. Then I asked myself, does it feel different? Surely it should? Previously I wrote that it is impossible not to feel happy under a clear blue sky. Which was a rather … Continue reading Questions
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