It’s one of those weekends where a lot of good things happened on the same day. The day started well with possibly the hottest day of the year so far. Papers were saying we were hotter than Barbados! Maybe… it was only 26 degrees here! The cats went in for their regular wash-and-blow-dry and whilst …
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Category:Cats
Cats in – Sunglasses out!
Today was the day we took the cats it for their normal six-monthly ‘service’ – we postponed it from yesterday, because we were busy with wedding stuff and Patsy needed to drive to Bournemouth to rescue some abandoned cats – all 17 of them! David and Val popped round for lunch. We had Italian cheese …
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Another manic Saturday
Here we go then… deep breath… 7. 45am – Lee to the local Parcels office to pick up mystery parcel. CHECK 10.00am – Front path and side path pressure washed. CHECK 11.15am – OCA Magazine final design, final proof read and signed-off for printing. CHECK 12.00 noon – Truckloads of little jobs to sort relating …
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Bank Holiday Weekend with Ian and Sharon
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr The day began early – earlier than planned – Neil rang to say that the M11 was closed in both directions, so we left around 7.30. Lee is cat-sitting for us and looking after the numerous ironing duties – thanks Lee! The plan was to drop into Mum’s, …
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Cats in… Shorts and Carnuba Wax out!
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr What a glorious day! it has to be the warmest day of the year so far – 23/24 degrees C! So, after Ann and Lee dropped off the Biscuit and Bon-Bon for their six-weekly spit-and-polish with Patsy, it was time to …
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The Maiming of the Shrew
…or a vole…or a dormouse*. At around 9pm, Biscuit and Bon-Bon had been in the back-garden as normal, exercising their routine Gaddafi-like control over the local residents there. Their reign-of-terror generally includes holding some of the locals hostage and controlling the size of the population through their zero-tolerance policy to foreign visitors. Previously, their most …
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The Cats are 6 today
Last year, at this time, we mentioned that Biscuit had finally ventured into territories unknown – my lap! Since then, although it’s not been a regular thing, she does snuggle-down every so often. Not so Bon-Bon – or so we thought! Back in September, for no reason at all, she suddenly decided to try my …
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Persian: Lap Record
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Even if you’re not a cat-lover, you probably know that there are two types of cat. There’s the type that sit on your lap… and there’s the type that don’t. Bon-Bon has been firmly in the second category (except for the time last September, where she managed 15 …
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Cats in/Phone down/Humans out!
CATS IN – Time for the cats, Biscuit and Bon-Bon, to have their six-weekly ‘service’, courtesy of Patsy, What made it different on this occasion, was that Ann had to wrestle the two fluff-bundles into the cat carriers on her own, as I was already out. Cue lots of scratching, fighting and aggressive behaviour? Well, …
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Lunch with Antony and Sue – and Lee
A while back, in a galaxy far, far away, Sainsbury’s restructured, and some of their long-servers sought other homes, whilst a few, through a variety of circumstances, stayed-put. Ann headed for pastures new, Antony, her closest work-colleague, chose ‘option b’. He and his wife, Sue came to lunch today. We haven’t seen them since we …
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Turning our wet room into err, a Wet-Room!
For a while now, having tried to swing a cat in the shower room – we found we couldn’t! – either we (or the cats) are getting larger or the room is shrinking, whatever is it, there just doesn’t seem to be enough room in there anymore. Add to that, the fact that it never …
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Hairy Mammoth (sort of)
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Imagine a hairy mammoth…err, a fiftieth of the size…smaller feet…a different colour…without tusks…sleeps on a bed and is definitely not extinct – and you have Bon-Bon our white Chinchilla (I’m beginning to think the mammoth analogy wasn’t the best choice!). She’s a …
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Pussy Patrol
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Yes, it’s that time again where we attempt to get Biscuit and Bon-Bon into the cat carriers for their journey over to Rushden and their six-weekly ‘wash-and-brush-up’ with Patsy. It’ll be a stressful event, with fur-flying and Elastoplast at the ready, …
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Cats in
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Yes, it’s that time again – time to dig out the protective eye-wear, arm-wear, gooley-wear, and virtually every other ‘wear’, as we attempt to get the cats – Biscuit and Bon-Bon – into their cat carriers for their regular trip to the ‘pussy-parlour’ for their wash and brush-up. …
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Cats
We popped down to Jo and Janet’s to give Jo her birthday present. We couldn’t help noticing how much their ‘kittens’, Wilf and Oscar have grown! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in …
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Fat. Cat. Lap!
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr 2.17pm: Amazing! Bon-Bon, our no-lap cat, decided today, for the first time, to sit on my lap! She stayed there for almost 15 minutes!!! Cats ehh! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my …
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Cat’s In – Plasters out!
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr It’s that time again, where we take our life in our hands and attempt to get the cats – Biscuit and Bon-Bon, in their cat carriers and off to Patsy for their six-weekly wash-and brush-up. Actually, this time they weren’t too bad, Bon-Bon was hunted down and dropped-in …
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‘Biscuit’ goes walkabout…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr I was working from home all day today, and Biscuit kept coming into the office and whingeing – and that’s unusual. I gave her a cuddle and seemed to quieten her down, but an hour later, she was at it again. At around 4.30, just when I decided …
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Test Blog using Zemanta plug-in beta for WLW 2010 Beta
For those, who blog, or maybe are thinking of starting, I’d recommend a plugin for Windows Live Writer (and many other blogging platforms) called ZEMANTA. In short, this plugin will scour the text content of your blog and suggest (via a side panel) links to various related content from around the web-o-sphere. It even provided …
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Wilf!
We popped down to Jo and Janet’s primarily to wish Jan a happy birthday. That’s when we ran into their two gorgeous kittens – ‘Wilf’ and ‘Oscar’. What a couple of sweeties (in spite of them both using my leg as a climbing frame! – ouch!!!) Wilf Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in …
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Cat Service and Stoops to Conquer
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr The day started with us taking the cats over the Patsy’s for their six-weekly bath and grooming session. It’s always a challenge – they just seem to know when it’s that date, making the ‘capture process’ shall we say, a little more challenging! I’m still not sure which …
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Lumix G2 – First photos
This is hardly scientific – I just wanted to ‘bang-off’ a few shots without too much consideration for settings, lighting, subject etc. The interesting part for me was that all the interior shots didn’t require the flash to be used. I’m very satisfied with these, but I’ll get a chance to try some more considered …
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Lunch with Sally B (Not!)
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr I was due to meet Sally B at Brown’s in Cambridge today for our three-monthly catch-up. But things didn’t quite work out. Lee (who’d rung to say she wasn’t feeling too well) had invited Mum down for lunch (as I was going to be out), and I agreed …
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Roger, Jane and Oliver stopover
We woke late – that’s good! Oliver’s on the prowl – that’s bad! 🙂 I got up and made a drink just as the calmness and stillness of the morning was interrupted by Oliver jumping into bed with Ann and playing ‘Mr Wriggler’ where, apparently, the game is to move about as much as possible …
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Bon-Bon
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr We’ve noticed over the past few weeks that a number of cuts and scabs have been appearing on Bon-Bon’s ears and surrounding area. The strange thing is that they don’t appear to be healing-up – in fact they seem to be getting worse! So we popped her down …
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A Brush with the…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr …cats. Biscuit and Bo-Bon went over to Patsy today for their regular ‘Tum-Bum-Claws ‘n’ Wash’ service. As usual, they played ‘catch-us-if-you-can’ once they got sight of the cat baskets. Bon-Bon attempted to hang onto my throat (ouch!) whilst I carried her downstairs, and Biscuit concealed herself behind one …
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Rat up a Drain-pipe
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Well, not quite! I went into the garden to get Biscuit in and couldn’t see her. Then I noticed she was on TOP of the pergola!!!! That’s about 5 metres from the ground – and there was no obvious way for her to climb the structure, as all …
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The Cats are 5 today!
It’s official, Biscuit IS a lap-cat!!! ..but only under specific conditions: 1. Only if one of us is sitting on the settee, not on a chair, not in the kitchen….just the settee and the front-room 2. Only if it’s on the right hand side. 3. Only if she feels like it Cats huh! Bon-Bon meanwhile …
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Cats in…Back out…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Lucky pussies ehh! Ann dropped them over to Patsy‘s for their regular bath, blow dry and comb-out – as always, they put a tremendous fight when we tried to get them into the cat carriers! Patsy had pulled her back, so we were only expecting her to comb …
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Nicki here for the weekend
Nicki joined us tonight – she’s been on holiday this week and staying ’til late Saturday night and then driving home. I’d quite forgotten that we hadn’t ‘done’ Christmas pressies with her (as we didn’t see her over the Christmas period) and it felt really strange doing this in February! She also bought us some …
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