Many many moons ago, bekitty said to me "take lots of photos of your cat, you'll regret it if you don't."

She was right, of course, as she often is on many things.  I didn't take many photos of my cat of the time, Finn, and when he eventually decided to up and go live somewhere else, that was it. He was gone.

I don't want to do the same with Cypher, but I ( Read more... )

Cypher discovered last night that my laptop gets warm when I'm using the CD/DVD drive ( Read more... )

If you were to hear a faint and infrequent popping and sputtering noise from the motor of one's refrigerator, you'd assume there was something wrong with the fridge itself, wouldn't you ( Read more... )

Okay, right - that was a big long post about politics. Enough of that, time to balance it out with one about cats. 'Cos that's how the interweb rolls, you mothers.

Cypher's four and a bit years old now, which means he's in the prime of life. If you're like me and have owned / lived with many cats over your life will know that its at this age that ( Read more... )

Oh?  Is this a second cat post in a row?  I'm afraid so...

When I got home last night one of my neighbours was out washing her car, and I saw what seemed to be my black cat sitting nearby.  This puzzled me a bit as my cat tends to avoid other humans; it was only when the cat moved slightly that I realised it wasn't Cypher, but a different black cat ( Read more... )

I am **yawwnnnnn** teh tired, despite getting to bed early to have a nice long sleep.

Because my dear little black cat, bless 'im and 'is furry little feet brought in a grand total of three mice into the bedroom over the course of the night.   Each mouse involves the following routine.

1. Get awoke by some loudish noise as the cat proceeds to play* ( Read more... )

(Caution.  Language may offend some of youse fuckers ( Read more... )

I had another moment last night when I realised how much of a child substitute a pet can be ( Read more... )

Anyone else deliberately crashed a rental car ( Read more... )

Last night I was making up my bed. I'd dumped the duvet on the floor, and turned around to straighten up the sheet.

When I turned back around to pick the duvet back up again, guess what I saw?


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