And I have just had the most appalling experience on Flickr. Once again they are changing the 'experience' and it is even worse than the vile one they have been using for the past few months. They have asked for feedback and everyone is yelling 'change it back' and everyone is, as usual, being ignored. The beta has a complete loss of ( Read more... )

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After taking Quillan in to the vet hospital this morning, to have this horrible sore lump removed from his mouth (and to hear the great news that Scott thinks Xolo may be able to come home on Monday!) we took Draco down to Roding Meadows which is only a half mile or so from the vets' place.

And there was spring! Catkins in the newly-laid hedge.


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Scott-the-vet phoned this pm for permission to go ahead with the operation to try to close up the skin on Xolo's belly, the dead skin having sloughed off under attention of a four-hour change of dressing. She is apparently well in herself. Hope to see her tomorrow when we take Quill in.

It occurred to me during highly serious and high-minded conversations (wine? what's that?) with some members of my flist last night that perhaps I should do a quick introduction to the current feline members of the household. Just because some of you have seen pictures of all my cats - or met them - does not mean that all, or even most, of you ( Read more... )

To drive the nasty taste out of my mouth, at least, here is my beautiful Quillan (Grand Premier Inazuma Heslet Quillan.)


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Casino is our oldest cat, and the first one we acquired (with his litter sister) after umpety-ump catless years... Here he is with Quillan, showing nothing of his long-term illness or his thirteen years...


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We had a very mixed Maidstone and Medway Cat show (including interesting experiences with the satnav that my colleague Paul had lent to us to find our way through the backstreets of Rochester and Chatham) but the main and most important news is that the cat in my default userpic, Premier Inazuma Heslet Quillan (aka Quillan the Villain aka Quill) ( Read more... )

On Saturday we took three Singapuras - Quillan, Kero (Duberville Purcilla Andrez - don't blame me, I didn't name her) and Zara to the Singapura Cat Club Show at the Ken Marriott Centre in Rugby, a venue and time the club shares with four other breed shows from the Foreign group, so the place was full of Rexes of all kinds, including La Perms, for ( Read more... )