I'm going to have to stop referring to my mother's house as Grimmauld Place. Since she stopped drinking, recovered from the cirrhosis and became a grandmother, she's gone from strength to strength. She's cleaned the house from top to bottom (with only minimal help from me), and she's also repainted and replaced all the nasty old carpet, and if the ( Read more... )

Bang Out Of Order

MoreLet's hope something comes of this. They're still banging away out there - not close enough or sustained enough to be a real problem Spike-wise, but it startled him a few times on the way back from Grimmauld Place this evening ( Read more... )

I be havin' a sentimental moment last night, inspired by a bad thin' what happened t' a matey`s dogs what required me t' concentrate on good intentions fer the'r safety. Thoughts like this always make me feel th' love I be havin' fer me own dogs e'en more keenly. I knelt on th' deck an' hugged Cap'n Spike t' me, his hade pressed against me chest, ( Read more... )

Feeling slightly better. I let the kittens play in and on the old dog couch for a few hours while I took cute pictures of them (and Spike) popping in and out of the cat-hole, then I shut them all in the bedroom and hauled the damn thing out of the flat. Shiny-Headed Cheerful Neighbour earned himself a few Brownie points by helping me get it down ( Read more... )

Oh shit. Blade Ninja Kitten just managed to get inside the dog couch while I was in the toilet. That couch is going to have to go (assuming I can get the damn cat out of it). I have an identical one in the bedroom in much better shape without handy cat-holes in it.

( cut for a lot of whining and grumbling and moaning )

Got back from Grimmauld Place. The toilet was leaking and is fixed. Spike and Squish had a blast playing in Mum's jungley overgrown garden - so much fun that for a moment I wondered if keeping them in an apartment is cruelty after all ( Read more... )

(Arachnophobes may want to avoid link-clickage in this post)

Just found one of these on my morning dogwalk. I didn't notice the zigzag web thing, I was too entranced by her amazing pop-art stripes and colours. Will take the camera with me later and see if I can get my very own pic of her. She was stunning ( Read more... )

me vs. the Grimmauld Place fridge: death cage grudge match, this afternoon.

I won. But not easily and not without a price.

I don't think I'll ever be able to look a prawn in the face again as long as I live.

*shudder*

( Dog pics. May include cat. )

Phone call from my mother. She's been at sister T's for what, a week ( Read more... )