Now and ThenZ is babysitting by sleeping next to the baby in its little caged enclosure. The baby is amusing itself by pulling at his chest hairs. It is hard to picture a more idyllic family scene ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to those that celebrates it, and happy time off work with nice telly to those that don't. Z and I fall into the latter category and have taken to not rising from our bed before at least 1 pm. Well not officially rising in any case. There are of course the toilet trips, and the letting in and out of cats and the getting up to bring ( Read more... )

Operations Raspeberry Leaf Tea and Clary Sage Massage Oil are All Systems Go ( Read more... )

One of these days when I figure out how to use YouTube I am going to start making and posting lots of videos of the cats. Because the cats, they are delightful and full of quirks that make me laugh. Like the way the tiny midget that is Zelda has to make her legs rigid and brace herself whenever she's being fluffed and stroked to try and hold ( Read more... )

Ah, life, it has such a sense of humour. We all knew that right? And how nice it is to get reminders. So let me regale you with retelling the series of cosmic pranks which Z and I have been living with since Friday ( Read more... )

Wednesday was my last day of work. Originally I wasn't meant to go on leave until the second week of December but the amounts of pain I was in made me collate all my annual leave and just take off early ( Read more... )

My mother's tenants may well be the thing that finally buys me a one-way ticket to insanity. But let us not dwell on that! Or on the enrmous amounts of physical pain that I am in and how thousand and one tiny stresses from my work and my course are conspiring to make me feel like crying ( Read more... )

Among his other perversions, First Cat has developed a bathroom fetish. Many is the time when he has been caught attempting to drink out of the toilet bowl (needless to say he has a perfectly fresh and lovely bowl of water in the kitchen, but clearly it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi), he accompanies my bathtimes by either perching on the edge of ( Read more... )

General NewsGenerally speaking, Tuesday is my favourite day of the week. I don't usually have to work today, and until I go to my course in the evening my time is usually my own. On Tuesdays I tend to at least attempt to counteract my natural lethargic tendencies to lounge about in my pyjamas until it's time to leave by getting up and doing ( Read more... )

Although this is not a position I expected to take, I am starting to ( Read more... )