Mister Miles is not making himself popular at present ( Read more... )

Shansu's a strange cat ( Read more... )

What's the best thing ever for a cat who (a) loves crawling into any bag left unattended for more than 30 seconds, and (b) delights in being carried around the house with me when I'm doing random stuff?

A Kitty Bag!

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So I've emerged from my nice warm bath. I probably would have stayed in a while longer yet, but Miss Shansu had things to say about it. Things like Haven't you been in there for quite long enough? It's all wet and icky! Why on earth would you stay in there when you could be in a nice warm bed? Come on, bed's much nicer, you know it is! Etc etc etc ( Read more... )

Rather than doing a blow-by-blow catchup of everything that's happened lately, I'll just mention a few highlights and top it off with several photos. I've two more posts planned, one focussing on craftstuff that I've been doing lately, and another on a Tall Ship cruise I went on last week. This one's getting all the bits that are left over ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning and found our old blind cat Flame in a pretty bad way. Took him immediately to the vet; turns out he had a stroke overnight. Vet advised euthanasia; this was performed ( Read more... )

One of our cats, Flame, who is the currently-most-ancient of the batch (since Scroffie died a month or two ago) has taken a bit of a turn for the worst today. Specifically, he's suddenly gone totally stone blind ( Read more... )

What I woke up to find this morning:
* a puddle of pee on the loungeroom floor, even though the usual culprit (the dog) was outside all night;
* someone feline had thrown up comprehensively on the dining room floor;
* a special kind of mess in the laundry, where probably several cats had crapped just behind the closed door such that opening the ( Read more... )

Remember a few weeks ago when Shansu stole a ball of sock yarn and did macrame up and down the house with it? Well, today she did it again. Under my bed. With eight balls of yarn. Including the ball of rather expensive Noro Kureyon Sock yarn that was sitting all brand new with the label still around it. *sigh ( Read more... )

I just found out exactly how much yarn is in a 200 gram ball of sock yarn. Lots. *sigh ( Read more... )