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
30th September 2025 September came and went in a flash. Time certainly speeds up as you age but right now it feels as if we are in over-speed or doing double time. Long gone are the childhood days when waiting for summer holidays seemed endless! . On Tuesday we were on the road again. In … Continue reading Liberation
5th April 2025 . A drab Saturday didn't have much to offer but the red maples coming into leaf added colour to the grey landscape. It's a rather pleasing blend - for me. . What do colour choices say about us? Psychology Today offers a guideline, but I think such things put us in boxes … Continue reading Psych 101
0740/16th March 2025 . A blustery March morning. As the outdoor temperature rises, I seem to feel more cold indoors, as was always the case, nonsensical as that may be. . Maintaining a comfortable body temperature has been a challenge to me all my adult life, always at least a degree too warm or too … Continue reading Discomfort
1st March, 20225 . In black times, I have always turned to music, more than to any other source of comfort. Music, comes from whatever God is. It is the stuff of the Universe. . It seems to me that composers have a special link to the vibrations of the Universe. Some of what passes … Continue reading Healer
14th February 2025 . The prospect of abandoning the anti-depression and anti-anxiety medications I'd been prescribed for many years did not in itself trouble me. Indeed, I welcomed the idea of severing my dependence on drugs which I likely would not have agreed to in the first place, if I'd had any notion of becoming … Continue reading Anxiety relief
1644/27th January 2025 . Everyone, I think knows the expression that things go in threes. In my experience this certainly holds true, though sometimes it's more like fours or fives. . When we collected Lily from the vet last Friday, blood test results were outstanding and there was the possibility of a further test and … Continue reading Rescued?
10th January 2025 . A beep woke me at 5.45 this morning. I thought it had come from my clock which had not been commanded to do any such thing, so I thumped it and had almost dropped off again when a second beep occurred. The phone. Really? Abandoning the idea of sleep, since now … Continue reading WhatsApp Birthday
0704/19th November 2024 . It was early when we started out on Tuesday, the sun only just rising as I took a shot of "bad haircut hill". That's what Grant calls it. I rather like being able to see the contour beneath the naked trees. . It's always good to know what lies beneath. It … Continue reading Things to be glad for
30th September 2024 . Heading off for the non-medical appointment at a much later hour than on Monday, the horizon was clear. It was one of those stunningly lovely Fall days. . In my book, they are unmatchable. . Although this was not a medical appointment, it took place in the same clinic where I … Continue reading Hope!