Life with cats, and other things…
0638/23rd November 2025 Perhaps we should have expected it. Perhaps we did, but we were not ready for it to happen so suddenly. Early this morning we lost another beloved little friend. . Sophia 21st October 2025 Our sweet, shy Sophia left us before 8 o'clock this morning and we buried her on the hill … Continue reading Sad Sunday
0842/17th November 2025 Most of the leaves are gone but how beautiful is the autumn sky? . And its muted light? Not everyone will agree, I know. . Even I would prefer it didn't get dark quite so early. And these days I am more bothered than usual by the cold, though not nearly as … Continue reading Shedding the armor
0708/2nd September 2025. Sunrise Sunrise and sunset, my favourite times of day. 12 hours later, a very different view of the same tree. Next day - yesterday, dawned clear and cool, but not yet cold. . Generally, I prefer a sky that is a little broken, but for a cloudless day, this one provided some … Continue reading No demerits
0639/25th June 2025 . After the winter equinox, as days began to lengthen, my dawn wake-up call came earlier as time went on because with first light, Muffin needed to be fed. In her old age she returned to the needs of kitten-hood, requiring food every two hours to keep her failing body going. For … Continue reading A long goodbye
A few months, maybe a year or so ago, I came across a website called: thisiscolossal.com It is basically dedicated to art but every day brings something of interest such as the story I am attaching about snowy owls at Boston's Logan Airport. They are wonderful birds and it is nice to see someone dedicated … Continue reading Colossal
28th April 2025 .0 Two steps forward and one step back. Which isn't as bad as two forward and three back, so one must be grateful. Heaven knows, I've had that happen! Consulting a help site on YouTube, I was able to beat my uncooperative printer into submission this morning, obtaining the necessary copies of … Continue reading Unwelcome news
9th April 2025 . Though I could not remember taking them, I knew from downloading my camera that I'd captured a range of photos on the way home from Albany last Wednesday, yet when I wished to post them yesterday, I was surprised to find they were not nearly as numerous as I'd thought. . … Continue reading Doing – or not…
4th April 2025 . When Pancho's people moved away, I half expected them to leave their cat and as strange as this may seem, I was rather sorry that they did not. Sorry?! I do not approve of people abandoning their pets and this young lad was a menace to our wildlife, so despite his … Continue reading The bargain
1719/26th March 2025 . "Where's Sophia?" I was asked anxiously when she was not in either of her two boxes at breakfast. As Grant grovelled to look under the sofa, her only other normal refuge, I went to check another possibility... . ...and found her curled up in a bed beneath the front window where … Continue reading Bittersweet
1910/17th march 2025. . For every recent photograph I've taken of a cat, there are a hundred in my archive and 90% deserve to be deleted but I can seldom bring myself to make the key strokes, as if to do so would be to say goodbye forever. It's my biggest emotional weakness. A story … Continue reading Simon and Lady Gray