Life with cats, and other things…
Another Himalayan. Georgy (note: the photo is reversed) Moving to the town home, I'd found a new vet, largely because Annie got car sick and I didn't want to subject her to long journeys. When we moved yet again, it was only a short distance which was fortunate because the new veterinary clinic, run by … Continue reading Adoptions
MapQuest provided an image of my major complication, changed a bit since we left. Volunteering with cat rescues had been rather a flop, but I wasn't prepared to give up the idea. All my life I'd planned to help animals when I retired and that's what I was determined to do even if it could … Continue reading What came next
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
18th April. One of my favourite bucolic scenes That day I wished I was a bird that could sail into that wonderfully clear, impossibly blue sky. To perch in the trees, just now coming alive. Days like that it is impossible not to feel good. My mother's funeral was on such a day. As we … Continue reading The contract
Please pardon the pause, which was due to persistent pussycat problems. I think they call that "alliteration", though if you have been following the story of my patchy (to use another "p") education, you will realize that I ended up knowing a little bit about a lot of things and not a lot about about … Continue reading “Catache”