Cats etc.
Bloody hell it is a long time since I updated.
We went to see the rescue cat and liked her so much we brought her home the next day. She's now thoroughly at home, by which I mean she ignores her bed and sleeps on ours and tries to eat off our plates. It is lovely to have a pet again though. I would upload some pictures but am having various computer problems at the moment and I'm trying to gather up the patience to sort them out.
Spent the weekend at a family reunion for my husband's side of the family, all good fun, ate far too much and presumably drank too much given my headache this morning. I did meet some relatives who only live 5 miles from us, even better than that - they were very nice. I didn't know they existed before, apparently there was some falling out during WWII over allegations of black market dealings.
The reading is going in fits and starts, but I have now finished With the Old Breed (preferred Leckie's book, but liked this for the detail of day-to-day life) and Engleby which I found very interesting, if rather depressing. That the book manages to make you sympathise with him to some extent at least is quite an achievement. A bit like the length of this post given the difficulty I'm having with the tiny keyboard on this laptop.
We went to see the rescue cat and liked her so much we brought her home the next day. She's now thoroughly at home, by which I mean she ignores her bed and sleeps on ours and tries to eat off our plates. It is lovely to have a pet again though. I would upload some pictures but am having various computer problems at the moment and I'm trying to gather up the patience to sort them out.
Spent the weekend at a family reunion for my husband's side of the family, all good fun, ate far too much and presumably drank too much given my headache this morning. I did meet some relatives who only live 5 miles from us, even better than that - they were very nice. I didn't know they existed before, apparently there was some falling out during WWII over allegations of black market dealings.
The reading is going in fits and starts, but I have now finished With the Old Breed (preferred Leckie's book, but liked this for the detail of day-to-day life) and Engleby which I found very interesting, if rather depressing. That the book manages to make you sympathise with him to some extent at least is quite an achievement. A bit like the length of this post given the difficulty I'm having with the tiny keyboard on this laptop.