I have inadvertently become one of those people who keep their vinyl LPs in plastic sleeves. This is not because I am precious about my small collection. I have always looked after records, or tried to, but have never been distraught if the sleeves got a bit tatty. Admittedly vinyl costs so much now that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Pets'
False Alarm
April 9th, 2019 · Comments Off on False Alarm · Life
Over the weekend our Jack Russell had us worried. He was having trouble eating, looking like he was choking when he had food or a treat. Although he can be a bit of a drama queen it was very disconcerting because that is exactly how I felt last year and that turned out to be […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·Pets
A cat food question
July 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on A cat food question · Life
I was feeding the cats this evening when something occurred to me. This is not an attempt at Michael McIntyre-style observational comedy, but a genuine question. Cat food comes in various flavours: beef, duck, lamb, turkey, salmon, chicken, tuna. None of this is part of a cat’s natural diet and the obvious question is why […]
The cat soap opera: a conclusion of sorts
July 3rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
It looks like the ginger cat I saw twice in our garden the other day was not the elusive Boots after all.  By coincidence, and several weeks since doing a runner from here, Boots turned up back at Jayne’s sister’s place 5 miles away – a bit skinny and bruised. The cat I saw here […]
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The cat soap opera continues
June 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on The cat soap opera continues · Life
The story so far: After we moved house we found that there are a couple of big aggressive cats in the road who pick fights with our two (not very streetwise) cats. These cats got more and more aggressive to the point of following our cats through the cat flap into the house. At the […]
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Flipping heck
November 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Technology
My Flip arrived today – the new 8GB HD model, and very nice it is too. It is willfully bereft of features as it is based on the design concept of just doing one thing, doing it well and making it easy for you to make it do that thing. I had read good things […]
More gratuitous cat photos
May 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on More gratuitous cat photos · Life
Just because it’s Monday.
Leaders’ debate lack of interest
April 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics
I have to admit I wasn’t paying full attention to the second leaders’ debate on Sky News. This was partly due to Sky’s even-worse-than-ITV production, partly due to the blatant bias towards Cameron, but mostly due to having this sort of thing going on at the same time… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser […]
Meet Diego
April 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Life
At last the new kitten is old enough to leave his mother and has come to fill our house with squeeks. I have a 76-page election manifesto to read, understand, and familiarise myself with so may not be able to take the 200 photographs I want to take tonight, but I’m sure I will be […]
Furry friend
March 25th, 2010 · Comments Off on Furry friend · Life
It has been quite a cat-oriented evening today. As soon as I got home I had to take Chiquita to the vets for a scheduled check-up to make sure her scar is healing properly. Considering she ripped the stitches out within minutes of having the collar removed at the weekend, she is doing fine. The […]
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