Life with cats, and other things…
1806/18th October 2025 2025 was always going to be chaotic, even if last year's election had gone differently, though that would have led to other sorts of chaos. Humanity has got itself into a fever pitch of angst that it desperately wants to express. Individuals discharge their fury in a whole variety of ways. I … Continue reading The Common Good
Drenched! 1106/3rd December 2023 A ray of sun, a dusting of snow transform a scene. The cleanliness of the windshield too. After my friend Tim moved to Brooklyn years ago, I often visited him there. It was as close to city driving as I ever wanted to get. . At each street corner you were … Continue reading Cards and letters
1552/5th August 2023 August 6th is a day that cannot slip by unnoticed. I was not alive to experience that day in 1945 and it is not possible to imagine how I might have felt. Strangely, I never asked my parents about it, never heard them speak of it. . Six years of world war … Continue reading August 6th
21st October 2022 It's already late and I haven't got a thing done. Periodically I have insomnia. Often it's more a matter of cat disturbances but last night the brain said: "No! Not sleeping." Instead it sent messages to my legs: "Things are crawling on you...." Restless leg syndrome. When it's bad, there is no … Continue reading Not conceding
1935/23rd August 2021 1944/23rd August 2021 Rainbows are becoming a daily event in these parts but it's always the light that follows which is so amazing and last night was particularly dazzling, otherworldly almost. A surprisingly and much welcomed good night's sleep helped motivate me to attempt a little light gardening this morning, before the … Continue reading Resentful!
For once a dove got first dibs on breakfast and she was not about to share, flapping her wings at the squirrel She did allow a sparrow to share. "What's poor squirrel to do, missus?" "Carrots aren't my thing." Don't worry. He won't starve. And neither will they! Everyone knows I feed the birds and … Continue reading Can’t we just share?
"Check up time? Really?" It's that time of year. Cat check,-up time. Moan. Lucy got a mostly good report except for two things. She has one eye and the doc. seemed just a bit concerned that it's not quite right. Lucy declined the suggestion of complicated investigations. We are to keep an eye on it. … Continue reading Ticked off
12th January 2021 Bleak, a good way to describe the way I felt yesterday. As hard as the sun struggled to brighten the day... ...grey cloud came to swallow it up... ...and my mood sank with it... ...not quite to despair, but certainly to tears and gloom. Returning to bed was an option, to wrap … Continue reading Bleak
These days she is mostly kept concealed, but it wasn’t always so. Inside me somewhere resides a nasty little bitch. (Related to: http://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/catsincambridge.net/1933) It doesn’t make me feel good to admit it and I had hoped that perhaps she had left me, but recently when I suddenly found myself once more floundering in a black … Continue reading Keeping the bitch at bay